Student Well-being Champion Badge

Health Promotion

Become a Student Well-being Champion!

The Student Well-being Champion Badge (Levels 1 & 2) equips learners with the knowledge, skills, and resources to support students’ mental health and well-being from crisis to resolution. Participants build foundational and advanced understanding of individual, interpersonal, and community well-being concerns, including substance use, relationships, and supporting survivors of interpersonal violence, and learn how to respond effectively to students’ unique needs.

Micro-Credential & Badge Process

Participants can earn a Level 1 & Level 2 Student Well-being Champion Badge. 

  • Level 1
    • All participants will complete Mental Health First Aid. 
    • To build upon participant learning in Mental Health First Aid, participants will complete two additional 1-hour workshops: Understanding Student Well-being and Community of Care: Overview of Campus Resources
    • To earn the Micro-Credential and Badge participants must submit a written reflection
  • Level 2
    • All participants who complete Level 1 are eligible to enroll in Level 2.
    • Level 2 requires participants to complete 8-10 hours of additional workshops that supplement Level 1's offerings. Workshops available for Level 2 include topics such as: responding to suicidal ideation and students in ongoing crisis, men’s well-being, navigating substance use conversations, bystander intervention, supporting a survivor, and others to be added later
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Learning Outcomes

Why should you earn this badge?

  1. Identify and respond appropriately to students experiencing distress or crisis by recognizing key warning signs, engaging in supportive conversations, and connecting students to relevant campus and community resources.
  2. Recognize the interconnected factors that shape holistic student well-being, including mental health, substance use, social determinants of health, identity, and campus climate, and their impact on student success, persistence, and retention.
  3. Apply harm reduction and trauma-informed practices when engaging students around sensitive topics such as substance use, mental health concerns, and experiences of violence.
  4. Navigate and utilize campus systems of care by accurately referring students to appropriate resources and making effective warm handoffs.
  5. Integrate at least one sustainable well-being practice into their professional role and articulate how that practice supports student well-being and reduces barriers for marginalized or vulnerable students.

Upcoming Workshops

Level 1 Workshops

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Questions?

For questions, reach out to the Thrive Health Promotion team at hcc.thrive@du.edu