Wellness Committee
Mission: To promote student, faculty, staff, and institutional community wellbeing, across the physical, emotional, academic, and social spectrums.
Goals:
- To promote health lifestyles for students’ future careers as thriving physicians
- To help destigmatize mental health issues, prevent burnout, and promote self-care
- To initiate and support wellness programs and activities, of an intra and extracurricular nature
- To model current and future endeavors around feedback from ongoing community needs assessments
- To offer a plethora of resources tailored for individual issues, but applicable to all members of the community, based on situational realities of each person.
Resources
Health Advocate
Touro University provides a 24/7 Student Assistance Program: Health Advocate - Up to three free sessions with licensed provider and referrals for subsequent care, along with resource connections for a variety of school, life, and personal issues.
Call 1-855-384-1800 or Click Here
What Health Advocate provides:
- 24/7 Crisis Intervention Services
- Licensed professional counselors available to provide up to three free sessions
- Referrals for long term mental health treatment
- Assistance with connecting to resources for a variety of school/life issues such as, but not limited to housing, financial, legal, elder care, and child care
Mental Health and Wellness Counselor:
Michelle Vallie, LAC, LCPC, PhD
Email mvallie@touro.edu for appointments or schedule an appt on Calendly with the QR code: