We're NUTS about Health! Are you?

Mission: Our mission is to educate and enlighten you and your Johnnie|Bennie peers, faculty, and staff about health and wellness right here at SJU by empowering you to live a lighter, fuller, and longer life through accomplishing your goals, encouraging you about fitness, and hopefully initiating you to become nuts about health, just as much as we are!

Who we are: St. John's University (SJU) Health Initiative is a multi-strategized and multi-promotional effort directed to improving the everyday health-conscious life issues that affect all of our individual lives and communal quality of living. Our focus is on college-aged men primarily, but often co-sponsor co-ed activities and events with the College of St. Benedict (CSB) Health Advocates, who are directed to college-aged women. By working together, the SJU Health Initiatives and CSB Health Advocates strive to improve the health and wellness of both campuses, as we are all apart of the same catholic liberal arts college community.

What we do: SJU Health Initiative is a peer-divised health and wellness based educational and promotional team. As a team of SJU students and administrators, we plan, develop, and implement innovative health promoting strategies into the lives of CSB|SJU students, faculty, and staff. We primarily focus on promoting messages that target SJU students. SJU Health Initiative utilizes creativity, energy, time-management, commitment, knowledge and promotion of health to provide you with a variety of helpful, effective, and efficient health-realted materials.

2008-2009 events sponsored by SJU Health Initiative include:

Orientation Alcohol and Consent Facilitated Discussions, First-year student info bags, Welcome back Bagels & Juice at Sexton Bus stop, Sexton in the City, Wellness Fest, Get-Up and Move (G.U.A.M), Beer for Bread fundraiser (donations go to Feed My Starving Children), National Smoke-Out Day, Nutrition table Tent promotionals in the Refectory (Reef) during Nutrition Month, Stress/Anxiety Awareness week, Sexual Assault Awareness month, Safe Spring Break, STI Awareness & Education, and we also co-sponsor Night to Fight Cancer and Sleepless in St. Joe with the CSB Health Advocates.

Disclaimer!:The SJU Health Initiatives are student employees. Due to the nature of our backgrounds we DO NOT offer any medical assistance or advice of any sort. Any health concerns you may have should be directed to a licensed primary health professional.

Suggestions, Questions, or Comments? Please e-mail SJU Health Initiative