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BTW: Bridge to Wellness Peer Educators

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BTW 2021-2022 Team

Creating a campus culture that prioritizes individual well-being and community health

BTW peer leaders educate and empower students to prioritize well-being and practice healthy decision making around substance use, stress management, nutrition, fitness, body image, mental health, and social connectedness. BTW works to increase access and strengthen connections between students and campus resources. Through workshops, training and communications, BTW strives to enhance the student experience at Brandeis for all.

Meet the BTW Peer educators

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BTW Workshops & Tabling Programs

BTW offers the following workshops and tabling programs:

Peer-led Workshops

Watch Your BAC
This workshop covers important alcohol information and safety strategies.

Cannabis
This workshop covers important cannabis information and safety strategies.

Managing Stress
This workshop covers important stress management information and strategies.

Sleep
This workshop covers important sleep information and strategies.

Building Healthy Group Bonds
This workshop covers important information about healthy group bonding. This workshop is recommended for clubs, teams, and Greek chapters looking to develop positive bonds.

Tabling Programs

What is a Standard Drink?
This BTW tabling program invites participants to try pouring a standard drink of wine, beer, and liquor.

Cannabis Trivia
This BTW tabling program invites participants to answer trivia questions about cannabis.

Mindfulness
This BTW tabling program gives participants information about mindfulness and includes giveaways.

Sleep Consultations
This BTW tabling program invites participants to take a personalized sleep assessment and includes giveaways.

Request a Program

How to request a BTW workshop:

BTW peer educators offer workshops and programming for residents, clubs and orgs, athletic teams, and other undergraduate student groups.

In order to make sure BTW can plan appropriately, please submit your request 2 weeks in advance.

Request a BTW Program

BTW Subcommittees

BTW is organized into three subcommittees.

Physical Wellness Team

This team focuses on physical wellness topics including sleep, nutrition, fitness, alcohol and other drug safety, COVID-19 and cold & flu prevention.

Team Contacts: Emily Zhu, Averill Yang, Karen Girsang

Social Emotional Wellness Team

This team focuses on social and emotional wellness topics including loneliness and social connection, belonging, group bonding and hazing prevention, health equity, inclusion, and anti-racism in health and wellness stress management, self-compassion, body positivity, and coping strategies for anxiety, depression, and substance misuse.

Team Contacts: Isabella Doulas, Leah Goldstein, Dariel Jimenez

Media Team

This team focuses on producing educational social media content for multiple platforms and assisting the other two committees with their topic areas.

Team Contacts: Nathalie Vieux-Gresham, Monica Alfaro, Thabang Matona

Apply to become a BTW peer educator

Applications for the 2023-2024 academic year are now open!

Job information

BTW is a paid student leadership position supervised by the Office of Health and Wellness Promotion (HAWP). BTW peer educators complete approximately 40 hours of training each fall. During the academic year, they work 4-6 hours per week. View the job description. For more information, contact Leah Berkenwald at leahb@brandeis.edu.

To apply

Applicants will hear from us in late January/early February, 2023.