Community, Assistance and Resources for Engineering Students
Community, Assistance and Resources for Engineering Students (CARES) Hub
Students’ mental health and well-being are a priority for the College of Engineering at Purdue. Following the worldwide pandemic and the negative impact it had on stress levels and collective mental health, Purdue Engineering Student Council (PESC) members began to envision a concrete space for engineering students to relax, study, connect with fellow engineering students, and, most importantly, find low-barrier, high-access support for their mental health and well-being needs through on-site therapy, peer mentoring, wellness education and community building activities.
With the full support of Arvind Raman, the John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering, and the College of Engineering, their dream came to fruition with a new well-being center called the CARES Hub – Community, Assistance and Resources for Engineering Students. The CARES Hub space is in the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering on the first floor (1261) and includes a multipurpose space, a peer mentoring space, a therapy space and office space.
The mission of the CARES Hub is to build Boilermaker engineers by developing awareness, well-being and community for students through outreach, direct access to mental health resources and community-building programs designed to equip students with the skills and mindset needed to be thriving students and thriving future engineers.
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These pages are regularly updated with additional resources and upcoming events.
Gratitude and the science of happiness
Did you know that researchers at several universities including the University of California, the University of Miami and the University of Pennsylvania have discovered that when adults took time to write down three things in which they were grateful for each day for 10 weeks, those people were more optimistic and felt better about their lives than the control group who wrote about their stressors? By writing what we are grateful for, we learn to be more mindful and look for things that make us smile! Gratitude promotes happiness.
Gratitude can come in the form of life’s simplest pleasures – a cup of perfectly brewed coffee, an enjoyable conversation or the sound of birds chirping on a sunny spring day.
"So it is not happiness that makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy.” - Monk David Steindl-Rast
Are you using mindfulness to aid in your expression of gratitude? What are you grateful for today?