Programs

2025-2026 

Boost Your Balance: Mindfulness

Join the Mental Health Peer Educators for a 15-30 minute mindfulness session designed to calm the mind and inspire creativity. In this session, you’ll explore the basics of mindfulness, grounding breathing techniques, and complete a watercolor painting activity.

Boost Your Balance: Gratitude

Gratitude is a mindset and self-care practice with powerful benefits, including reduced symptoms of depression and improved sleep quality. In this interactive session, students will learn about these benefits while decorating their own personal gratitude journal. It’s a creative, hands-on way to reflect and reset.
Cycling Through Consent
Harm Reduction 101

Brief Presentations: “Fit in 15”

A limited number of 15-minute presentations are available to groups looking for information and resources. Topics include fitness, nutrition, interpersonal violence prevention, and alcohol risk reduction. Our Program Coordinator can talk with you about content specific for your group.

Generation Rx

You’ve heard about prescription drug misuse, but what are the facts and myths? This discussion-based program addresses questions and issues students have about polysubstance use, stimulants including ADHD medications, depressants, opioids, and more.

Flourish - Positive Psychology

Based on positive psychology, Flourish guides students to the daily habits that improve overall mental well-being. We share campus and community resources and encouragement for everyone who wants to Flourish and thrive in their Miami experience!

Mindset Reset: Practical Coping Skills for Everyday Challenges

College life brings new challenges and transitions—and that can get overwhelming. This interactive workshop introduces a variety of coping strategies and guides you in creating your own personalized plan for navigating stress in a healthy way that works for you.

QPR Gatekeeper Training (Question, Persuade, Refer Suicide Prevention)

Just as CPR helps anyone save a life in a medical emergency, QPR is a simple educational program that teaches students how to recognize a mental health emergency and get a person at-risk the help they need. In these trainings, certified QPR Gatekeeper Instructors teach the three steps anyone can learn to help prevent suicide: Question, Persuade, and Refer. In just 90 minutes, you can learn to save a life.

The more people trained in QPR, the more lives are saved. This is a bystander-intervention program delivered peer to peer. Note: Limit is 35 participants per session. Larger groups can run concurrent small groups. Goals of QPR Gatekeeper Training include:

• Educating participants on the myths and facts associated with suicide
• The warning signs of suicide and contributing causes
• How to Question, Persuade, and Refer someone who may be suicidal
• Sharing resources available to help someone in crisis

Sex in the Basement

A popular sexual health program, especially with first year students, including a review of high-risk and low-risk sexual activities, how to put on a condom, an introduction to contraceptives and STIs, a discussion on the importance of consent and sexual assault, what may happen when sex and alcohol mix, and the safety of abstinence. Furthermore, students learn about valuable on- and off-campus sexual health resources.

Sexual Assault Awareness and Consent Education 101

The program revolves around the definition of consent and sexual assault. 

Step Up! Bystander Awareness

Bystander intervention gives students the tools they need to assist in a variety of situations.

The Science of Mental Health

Ever wonder why you feel anxious or overwhelmed? This workshop breaks down the brain science behind stress, anxiety, and depression—and helps you apply that knowledge to support your own mental health!

Up in Smoke: Cannabis, Vaping, and Zyns

Let’s talk about the changing face of cannabis as well as trends with vaping and use of oral nicotine like Zyns. We’ll address ways to stay healthier, what to consider in making choices about substances, and the changing face of state vs federal laws.

What is a Healthy Relationship?

Help students celebrate their identity by establishing healthy, fulfilling relationships with partners, friends, and family. This program includes how to use effective communication to maintain healthy relationships and how to recognize warning signs of unhealthy relationships.

Peer Health Educators are always open to new ideas for programs!