Wellness & Well-Being
University of Detroit Mercy is proud to focus its efforts on creating an environment that enables wellness and well-being and promotes health as a basic human right for every member of our University community.
Through outreach and education, our Detroit Mercy community can empower, strengthen and promote the care of one another.
The Wellness & Well-Being website brings awareness to the deeper-rooted topics affecting one’s health and provides actionable information and resources for nourishing individual and collective well-being.
The University defines Wellness as healthy physical behaviors.
Feelings and experiences that improve quality of life, ability to realize your full potential, and cope with the stressors of life.
Liking what you do and being motivated to work toward your goals and utilize continuous improvement.
Your relationships, the support you give and receive, and how you connect with those who impact you, including friends, family, peers and colleagues.
How you manage, spend, and relate to money, as well as reducing finance-related stress.
Feeling pride in where you work and live, and making meaningful connections and contributions in your community.
The feeling we have when we experience a meaningful connection with something larger than ourselves.
Peer Wellness Educators
Peer wellness educators are student leaders hired for their enthusiastic and dedicated interest in the areas of wellness and well-being that impact on our University community. You might think of them as wellness and well-being ambassadors.
These students are housed on campus and work closely with the Wellness Center and Student Life Office.
Our peer wellness educators utilize traditional health promotion to address improvements in physiological and psychological conditions, as well as behavioral health promotion to encourage the reduction of harmful behaviors. Through programming, campaigns and tabling events, these educators encourage all aspects of health for Detroit Mercy students and employees.
Have questions? Please email us at peerwellness@udmercy.edu. If you would like to make a request for a wellness or well-being program, please complete the Peer Wellness Educators Programming Request Form.