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Health Services will be hosting a special day for vaccination review & Gardasil vaccination

Vaccination & testing events

Health Services has three special events in March to bring accessible vaccination and testing to the Concordia community:

March 9: Vaccine review blitz! Book an appointment to check if your routine vaccines are up-to-date.
March 16: Pee to see, swab to know - Mobile STI-testing is back in the EV-atrium.
March 30: Gardasil on-the-spot - HPV vaccination pop-up in the EV-atrium.

Upcoming workshops for students

CWSS team members will be hosting workshops for graduate students in collaboration with GradProSkills:
March 15: Staying on top of your sleep with Dr. Jewel Perlin & Gaby Szabo
March 29: Everything you need to know about women’s health with Louise Carline & Gaby Szabo
March 10, 17 & 24: After a popular first-session, the time management series with Brad Aeon continues, in collaboration with the Zen Dens and GradProSkills.
March 21: Wellness Counsellor Camila Velez will host a workshop about navigating transitions and change through self-compassion in collaboration with the Concordia Undergraduate Psychology Association (CUPA).
March 23: For ACSD students, Charles Altman and Librarian Katharine Hall will host "Essay Boost." Students will submit essay topics in advance, and the hosts will demonstrate how to search through Concordia library databases and other online resources to develop those topics. They will also cover free or low-cost accessible writing technologies, revision techniques, automated citation and writing templates.
March 31: To prepare for the finals crunch, Charles Altman, Dr. Jewel Perlin and Gaby Szabo will host another Thriving! through exams discussion.

Sew your own pad workshop, part of the Menstrual Equity project

Stress Reset

In February, the Zen Dens/CPS wellness team hosted their Stress Reset fair, with increased participation at events and positive feedback and engagement from students.

In addition to recurring programming, new workshops were also well-received, including counsellor Dr. Jessica Tutino's managing anxiety workshop with over 70 participants, and an emotional literacy workshop developed by the Peer Wellness Ambassadors and supported by the counselling team.

Accessibility outreach and collaboration

In February, Anna Barrafato and colleagues from York University and the University of Toronto facilitated a roundtable discussion through CACUSS entitled, “Future of accommodations and our work - Conversations in post-secondary disability support.”
Alison Rollins welcomed Dr. Richard Koestner & Dr. Pascale Dubois from the McGill Motivation Lab to host a workshop for the ACSD academic coaches. ACSD coaches were given the opportunity to discuss ways to address motivational challenges that they encounter when working with students.
Tudor Crisan and Russ Cooper will attend an outreach event with Marianopolis College where they will connect with prospective Concordia students to address any accessibility-related questions they may have about their transition to university.

New staff welcome

We're excited to welcome new staff members to the CWSS team!

Sraddha Bista (Exam Coordinator) and Yasamin Ebrahimi (Assistant Exam Coordinator) joined the ACSD exams team
Camila Velez (Counsellor) joined the Zen Dens wellness team

Time management with Brad Aeon

March 10, 7 - 8:30 p.m.

Part two of four - Structure

Thriving! through exams

March 31, 3 - 4 p.m.

with Charles Altman, Dr. Jewel Perlin & Gaby Szabo

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