Student Wellness and Health Promotions

The Student Wellness and Health Promotions office enhances the health and well-being of students, within an integrative wellness model, by providing high-quality resources and education. Our main goal is to make each students' time at Lynn University happy, healthy and memorable. We are a partnership of people, programs, services and policies working together to help students make healthy lifestyle choices for the mind, body and spirit.

We focus on a broad wellness model, which identifies dimensions of wellness and promotes a holistic approach to the development of our campus and students.

• Well-being of learning: Engaging in stimulating mental activity, recognizing creative ability, and expanding knowledge and skills while learning and enhancing your abilities and talents to find joy every day.
• Well-being of relationships: Development of a sense of belonging as well as a support system that promotes positive relationships in your life.
• Well-being of self: Effectively managing you. Awareness, acceptance, and coping of emotions, feelings, and thoughts in a healthy and adaptive manner. Learning and developing a core belief system that helps guide decision making.
• Well-being of community: A feeling of connection with others as a result of sharing common interests, goals and viewpoints that lead to the development of the self you present to the world.

Our office uses an integrative and holistic wellness model to promote and enhance the health and well-being of students through support and education on a variety of aspects of well-being. Through health education, prevention programs, crisis support and strategies to thrive, our department helps students live a well-balanced life.

We provide support to promote wellness through:

• Prevention education and support, including information on self-care and how to incorporate it into the daily routine
• Wellness partnerships in the local community
• Programs pertaining to a healthy and satisfying lifestyle and overall well-being of mind, body and spirit
• Assistance to students through referrals to on- and off-campus resources and appropriate specialists
• Wellness-related dialogue and ideation

Get involved and provide quality, innovative and inclusive programs and events to challenge others to make responsible decisions regarding health. Wellness Educators offer in-class sessions on substance use awareness, healthy relationships, and emotional and physical wellness, which includes diet and nutrition, as well as information on safe sex and sexually transmitted infections.

Wellness Educators are selected at the end of each academic year through an application and interview process. To learn more about becoming a Wellness Educator, visit or contact the Student Wellness and Health Promotions office.