Healthy Huskies: Making wellness visible and accessible to the UW

www.dailyuw.com - RSS Results in news,news/* of type article The new Healthy Huskies Initiative creates collaborative opportunities to promote comprehensive wellness to both the individual Husky and the UW community. Launched Feb. 17, the initiative is a collaborative effort between various departments and RSOs on campus to support the accessibility of wellness resources for all UW students.“Healthy Huskies essentially brings together what is already on campus,” student ambassador Ali Cho said. “We’re here to make sure that health resources are visible and accessible to the students.”
Since the launch, the team has been looking for ways to reach out to students, staff, and faculty so that everyone in the UW community is aware of the existence of Healthy Huskies.“Our ultimate goal is to be a culture shift — to kind of step away from the stigma surrounding asking for help and making sure that students feel like they are supported and have the space to ask for the help they need, have the resources, and know where to get those resources,” Cho said.RSOs and community programs such as Peer Health Education (PHE) and ASUW are currently involved with the initiative. PHE is a group of students who help the UW community through educational workshops and health-related events and programs.“[Healthy Huskies] is working with us on our ‘It’s on us’ campaign,” PHE Director Micia Vergara said. “It’s our campus-wide sexual assault awareness campaign and so they have been super helpful in getting us the resources and funding we need to make our project grow and be successful.”Healthy Huskies primarily focuses on social and emotional health, including suicide prevention, sexual assault prevention, and alcohol education. “It goes without saying that wellness is something that everyone regardless of experience goes through on a daily basis, and to pretend otherwise is kind of counterintuitive and counterproductive,” Vergara said. “Healthy Huskies has made wellness visible by being upfront ...


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