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Month of Virtual Events!
We release an event calendar every month. Check out all the different ways you can be well virtually all month long!
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The Hidden Cost of Anxiety on Academic Success
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TeleMental Health Benefits
Increased access, convenience, and decreased stigma just to name a few! Learn about telemental health and how to use it!
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Coronavirus Updates
Our COVID webpage has been updated with our new testing data dashboard, health information, mental health resources, testing info, and more. Many of our regular services are open again and appointments are available.
COVID Testing
Surveillance Testing
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- For On-Campus Residential Halls: Testing required 2 times a week.
- For Off Campus UC Berkeley Affiliate Housing (Greek housing, BSC Cooperative Housing, and Bowles Hall): Testing recommended twice a week.
Your testing site is the Rec Sports Facility (RSF) and it is open 8:30am-3pm on testing days. How to book appointments and find your appointment barcode available on our
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Clinical Testing: For students with symptoms or who have been in close contact with a case.
- Schedule a COVID test on eTang or if you are significantly ill, requiring assessment, stop by the Durant side of Tang 7 days/week 10am-4pm (closed for lunch 11:45am-12:30pm) or go directly to the nearest emergency room.
- You are always encouraged to call the UHS Advice Line 24/7 at (510) 643-7197 if you are ill and are unsure if you need to be seen.*
- Students do NOT need to be enrolled in SHIP to get tested or be assessed or tested at UHS. All medical insurance is required by law to cover the costs.
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Bears Protect Bears
We're all in this together. Continue practicing preventative measures! Please socially distance, stay in your social bubbles, wear a mask, and wash your hands frequently.
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Health Tip Live
Join UHS Health Workers for a virtual roundtable of health tips!
Health Tip Lives will cover various health topics and will include an interactive presentation discussion/Q&A, and an optional 1x1 peer health advising.
Upcoming Health Tip Lives:
- Is it Cool to Juul?
- Cultivating Consistent Sleep in an Inconsistent World
- Radical Self-Care
- Online Civic Engagement for Your Health
- Reducing Stress when Sharing your Living Space
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Free Counseling Services
Virtual Let's Talk - Virtual Consultations
Not sure where to start or what mental health services are out there? The Let's Talk program provides easy access to informal, brief, drop-in consultations with CAPS counselors. Counselors are available Monday-Fridays during various hours! Check out the full Let's Talk Schedule! Some consultations are even designed to support specific populations such as Black and African American students, Undocumented students, API students, and more.
- Career Planning: Surviving and Thriving at UC Berkeley
- Heart Wisdom: BIPOC Meditation and Healing Community
- AAPI - Community. Voice.
- The Ripple Effect: Fostering Positive Connections in the Age of Corona
- Self-Criticism to Kindness
Mental Health Workshops & Events
During unique times like these, it is important to take extra time to take care of ourselves. Our counselors are providing various free virtual mental health workshops to help students adapt to current events.
Upcoming Workshops:
- The Hidden Cost of Anxiety on Academic Success: Wednesday, September 23, 3:15-4:30pm
- Estamos Unidxs: Latinx Self and Community Care for Optimal Wellbeing and Performance: Friday, September 25, 11:15am-12:15pm
- Support Connecting to an Off-Campus Provider: Tuesdays, Sept 1- Sept 29, and Nov 3 - Dec 8, 4:15-5pm
- More coming in October!
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Relationships can sometimes be tricky to navigate. Add a pandemic to the situation and it could potentially get complicated. There might be some challenges during this time. With honest, open, and healthy communication, you and your partner(s) can make it through the pandemic and possibly even strengthen your relationship! The Sexual Health Education Program (SHEP) has put together a handout to help you navigate dating during COVID.
What about sex during COVID? What's safe and what isn't? Are you touch-starved? What's a normal sexual experience during COVID? The SHEP Team has put together a handout on Sex & COVID-19 to help answer these questions.
Have any sexual health questions you want to ask? Sexperts are available to talk 1x1 during Sexpert Education Clinic on Fridays from 12-3pm. Sessions are free and Sexperts are available to discuss sexual decision-making, sexual communication, safer sex, and contraceptive options.
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Bears in the Kitchen: Virtual Cook Along!
Learn different fun, cheap, and easy ways to cook with the food at the Food Pantry. Feel free to sit back and watch it like a cooking show or cook along with us! Recipe and grocery list will be posted closer to the date of the cook along. Free ingredient bag pick ups will also be available at the Food Pantry.
Upcoming Bears in the Kitchen events:
- Tuesday, October 6, 5-6pm
- Friday October 23, 5-6pm
Have you been busy in the kitchen lately? Do you need new recipe ideas? Our Nutrition team has a whole page of healthy and easy recipes you can try! DM us on social with photos of anything you make or use #bewellcal!
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