Welcome again, Ravens! The Office of Student Affairs (OSA) is worked up to welcome you all again to our beautiful campus!
It is a time of many new experiences and alternatives so that you can hunt down and join with friends! With a lot happening, we thought it was essential to share with you some details about the Umbrella Project harm reduction strategy and a few helps that is likely to be useful to you!
At Carleton, we promote the idea of substance use well being. Much like psychological well being, your relationship with substances can affect and is impacted by different elements of your bodily, social and psychological wellness. Being conscious in regards to the decisions we make round utilizing substances will help result in higher total wellness and scale back threat of hurt.
Harm discount is a method we will obtain this! It is an umbrella time period for measures, practices, and approaches that intention to cut back the harms to individuals, households and communities attributable to substance use. Harm discount can be seen in additional on a regular basis actions like sporting a seat belt, bike helmet, or making use of sunscreen earlier than a day on the seaside. It includes being conscious of the dangers our actions might need and taking steps to be safer. When we speak about substance use, hurt discount can appear to be ensuring to remain hydrated, avoiding utilizing substances alone, or ensuring to start out gradual when utilizing a substance for the primary time.
For extra data about substance use well being, the Umbrella Project, and a few straightforward to implement hurt discount methods please visit the newly updated Wellness website.
Before we log out we wish to share two essential assets right here on campus for college students questioning or struggling to keep up optimistic substance use well being.
All People All Pathways (APAP) is our weekly peer support meeting for college students. The pupil conferences take place Thursdays from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. via Zoom. These conferences are facilitated by volunteers with private expertise with substance use and dependancy. APAP is drop in, confidential and doesn’t require abstinence to take part. It is open to of us who could also be questing their use, seeking to make a change, or experiencing problematic use. It can also be open to individuals supporting a good friend or member of the family with substance use challenges and supplies a non-judgmental, secure setting for these searching for assist to ask questions, free from stigma, alienation or discrimination.
It can also be essential spotlight the overdose prevention efforts right here on campus. Concentrated types of opioids akin to fentanyl and carfentanil have been discovered within the Ottawa drug provide and incidents of overdose have been on the rise throughout Covid-19. Naloxone is a probably life saving intervention that’s low threat and might quickly reverse the results of an opioid overdose. Carleton has partnered with NaloxoneCare to supply free digital Naloxone coaching to college students and employees, after which individuals can obtain a Narcan equipment within the mail. The subsequent coaching session is at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, September 19. Register for the Naloxone training session here.
For extra details about Carleton’s overdoes prevention efforts, together with the placement of our Naloxone emergency bins on campus please visit our opioid information page.
We hope you might be having fun with your time on campus and preserve a watch out right here and on @carletonwellness Instagram for extra tips and assets!
Thursday, September 8, 2022 in Campus Life, News, Wellness
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