Student Well-Being and Resilience
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Our emotional health is a critical component of overall wellness. Listen to our SIUE SOP students share a powerful message to raise awareness and decrease stigma! We encourage you to continue the conversation: https://youtu.be/Bz-lpMnzdJE
Embrace the Promotion of Well-Being and Enhance Resiliency (ePower)
Well-being is an important aspect of everyone’s lives and is strongly linked to physical health, happiness, and life satisfaction! Well-being integrates both mental and physical wellness, allowing for a more balanced life. SIUE School of Pharmacy is committed to the mental wellness and overall well-being of our pharmacy community.
We recognize that the demands of pharmacy education and work as a health professional can be stressful and challenging at times, but also that high amounts of stress can lead to problems including anxiety and burnout. Sometimes it may be difficult to prioritize self-care. Our hope is that the Embrace the Promotion of Well-Being and Enhance Resiliency (ePower) initiative offers the SIUE pharmacy community many different opportunities to grow and strengthen wellness, allowing you to become more self-aware and versatile pharmacy professionals. The Wellness Event Calendar (to be released the end of August) lists events to promote wellness, reduce anxiety, or are just nice events to reduce stress and take a break from school or work.
Wellness Wednesdays are events that promote wellness, reduce anxiety, or just provide an outlet to reduce stress and take a break from school/work. Each Wellness Wednesday event is hosted by a Student Organization. Wellness Wednesdays are scheduled during common hour on the 3rd Wednesday (typically) of each month. Click here to view the Wellness Wednesday schedule.
Curriculum
The SIUE School of Pharmacy has incorporated Mental Health First Aid into our curriculum. Mental Health First Aid is a skills-based training course that teaches participants about mental health and substance-use issues.
Resources
SIUE Counseling Services offers a variety of virtual mental health and teletherapy options, including individual and group sessions.
TAO is a self-directed, free-access program for SIUE students that is focused on managing emotional well-being.
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 
The SIUE School of Pharmacy Wellness and Resiliance Committee is committed to your personal success. Please seek us out, talk to us, and let us know how you promote well-being. We hope that you will join us in our journey to prioritize wellness in our busy lives!
The following faculty and staff have a vested interest in the mental health and well-being of our students at SIUE SOP. They welcome you to contact them if you would like to further explore your personal wellness. We created the video below to share what we do to maintain our own wellness.
Faculty & Staff
Pictured: Misty Gonzalez, Joe Schober, Jenny Rosselli-Lynch, Tessa Keys, Brad Whetzel, Julie McGinley, Kelly Gable
Not Pictured: McKenzie Ferguson, Lisa Lubsch, Kate Newman, Beth Cady, Jess Kerr, Stephanie Hunziker, Monica Kempland, Courtney Boddie
Students
Pictured: Mackenzie O'Donohue, Allyx Roher, Alyson Gwaltney, Stephanie Korte, Hannah Dietiker and Alex Boulware
