The Health Education Action Team (HEAT) is a team of peer health educators that provide peer-to-peer health and wellness education for students. Since 2015 HEAT has served students through educational workshops, presentations, and collaborative workshops on topics like:
- Sleep
- Sexual health
- Healthy relationships
- Alcohol and substance use
- Stress management
- Mental and emotional wellness
- Bystander intervention
HEAT can also help connect students to health and wellness resources on campus and in the community. Find us in Lincoln Park Student Center Suite 302 or follow us on Instagram and Twitter @HealthyDePaul.
If you have any questions or would like more information about HEAT
please email the Office of Health Promotion and Wellness.
2022-2023 Health Education Action Team
2021-2022 Health Education Action Team
Peter Wild Crea My experience as a HEAT Peer Health Educator (PHE) provided me with a really unique opportunity to not only learn skills that have prepared me for a career in public health and medicine but to also apply those skills every day to help promote health and wellbeing in my community. While I’ve learned a great deal about many different areas of health and wellness, being on the alcohol and other drugs committee has given me the opportunity to specialize in an area that really interests me on a physiologic, psychologic and social level. In this role, I have been able to be the lead facilitator for our CHOICES workshops and develop events and programs for students who are in recovery from substance use such as study drugs. In addition to gaining really valuable and directly applicable skills as a PHE, I’ve come to be good friends with all of my coworkers, and they’ve made coming to work each day something I look forward to and enjoy.
Join HPW by becoming a Health Ambassador
Our Health Ambassadors are an important part of our office. They help us share the message of our Take Care DePaul culture: Take Care of Yourself, Take Care of Each Other and Take Care DePaul. They are social media enthusiasts and event volunteers that care deeply about creating a culture of health and wellness and empowering their peers to actively care for their holistic selves on a daily basis. Applications to be a Health Ambassador with HPW are accepted on a rolling basis. You may submit your application here, during anytime of the year. Once you submit your application, please email hpw@depaul.edu to let us know that you have submitted your application so we can respond ASAP.
I want to become a HPW Health Ambassador