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Core Content Areas

Student Health Promotion supports its mission by providing primary prevention services, events, and programs in the physical, psychological, spiritual, and social dimensions of health. Specifically, DSHP provides services, events, and programs across FIVE (5) core areas of health: 1) alcohol, tobacco, other drug prevention; 2) health and safety; 3) healthy nutrition; 4) healthy sexuality; and 5) violence prevention.

• Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Prevention: includes interactive health promotion programs related to substance use and misuse and abuse; it also includes the participation in National and local awareness events such as National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week, Safer Break Week, MADD Strides for Change, Great American Smoke Out, and National Alcohol Screening Day
• Health and Safety: includes interactive health promotion programs on topics such as pedestrian and driver safety, cancer prevention, illness prevention, personal hygiene, sleep, and other general wellness topics; also includes the participation in National and local awareness events such as Click-it or Ticket, Pedestrian Safety Week, Health and Wellness Week, Komen for the Cure, Love Your Body Week, and health fairs. DSHP also provides free, confidential HIV testing services.
• Healthy Nutrition: includes interactive health promotion programs on topics such as healthy eating habits, healthy snacks, eating on a college budget, and food safety; also includes the participation in National and local awareness events such as Have a Heart Day, Wellness on Wheels (WOW), and National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (NEDAW).
• Healthy Sexuality: includes interactive health promotion programs on topics such as safer sex, sexually transmittable infections, contraception, sexuality, and family planning; also includes the participation in National and local awareness events such as World AIDS Day, Safer Sex Week, National HIV Testing Day, Day of Silence, and National Coming Out Day. DSHP also provides free, confidential HIV testing services.
• Violence Prevention: includes interactive health promotion programs on topics such as anger management, violence prevention, sexual assault, and domestic violence (including Man-to-Man “safe” talk programs on domestic violence);  also includes the participation in national and local awareness events such as Rape Awareness Week, National Violence Prevention Day, and Take Back the Night.