READY Center

The mission of the READY Center is to promote the wellbeing of students through holistic and proactive educational programming.

On campus the READY Center offers a space for students to seek educational resources on different health and wellness topics. It is also a place to relax and restore during our busy days! The center is run by the Director of READY Programs, and offers students access to a multitude of resources, conversation, curiosity, a place to unwind, and a listening ear.

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The Wellies

Who are the Wellies?

Our Wellness Advocates, affectionately known as Wellies, are peer-educators and advocates at Emma, focusing on health and wellbeing! With support from the READY Center, Health Center, and Counseling Center, we work to promote the wellbeing of the community by developing creative and responsive programming (such as workshops, outreach, and events) to support students’ journeys towards making informed and healthy lifestyle choices.

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The Wellie Program

With the opening of the READY Center in 2017, the Peer-ed program evolved to become the Emma Wellness Advocates (Wellies) in order to support campus leadership around health and wellness. The Wellie program has updated how we train, how we engage with the topics of health and wellness, how we deliver material, and how we engage with the community. Instead of being responsible for a particular hall or group, the Wellies work together and with the the READY Center to serve the entire Emma Willard community.

The Wellies serve the Emma community to promote the practice of empowering students to live a healthy life. These students go through comprehensive and continuous training in consultation with the Health Center, READY Center and the faculty/staff advisors. They work to promote the wellbeing of the community by developing creative and appropriate programming (such as workshops, outreach, and events) to support our students’ journeys towards making informed and healthy lifestyle choices. Students will gain an enhanced understanding of health and wellness topics and techniques for educating and engaging effectively with their community.

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READY Seminar

In order to be ready to serve and shape their world, our students must learn to practice care and understand purpose for themselves, then envision and enact those skills in their communities and the broader world. The READY Program is a four-year curriculum designed to support this learning by creating a thoughtful and experiential practice on what it means to be human.

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