Community, Assistance and Resources for Engineering Students
Community, Assistance and Resources for Engineering Students
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Students’ mental health and well-being are a priority for the College of Engineering at Purdue. Following the world-wide pandemic and the negative impact it had on their stress levels and collective mental health, the 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 Dean Raman and the College of Engineering, their dream has come to fruition with a brand-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 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."
Introducing Purdue CARES Hub
The new Purdue CARES (Community, Assistance and Resources for Engineering Students) Hub is located on the first floor of the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering in the former Minority Engineering Program space, ARMS 1261.
These pages are regularly updated with additional resources and upcoming events.
The Purdue College of Engineering CARES Hub is Seeking Advisory Council Members!
The Community, Assistance and Resources for Engineering Students (CARES) Hub is seeking applications for membership on the CARES Hub Advisory Council for the 2024-2025 school year. Interested applicants should complete the Qualtrics form link below by Friday, June 14, 2024, for priority consideration.
The purpose of the council is to assist in the creation and growth of the CARES Hub vision and mission by identifying and implementing services, supports, and activities to enhance the well-being of Purdue engineering students.
Members will be responsible for attending monthly meetings and volunteering their time on a rotating basis at various CARES Hub community events throughout the school year. Engineering students, staff, and faculty are encouraged to apply as are mental health professionals and other interested persons from the Purdue community.
Questions? Please contact CARES Hub Director, Dr. Kristy Eaton, at kmeaton@purdue.edu
CARES Hub Advisory Council Membership Application for 2024-2025
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 a period of ten 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?
Schedule of Events - Fall 2024
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