Harper Wellness

WELLNESS RESOURCES

• 988: An easy-to-remember way for people to connect with help and support during a mental health, substance use, or suicide crisis. People can call or text 988 or chat online (988lifeline.org) to be connected to trained counselors.
• Know Your Rights: Reproductive Health Care: Reproductive health care, including access to birth control and safe and legal abortion care, is an essential part of your health and well-being. While Roe v. Wade was overturned, abortion remains legal in many states [including Illinois], and other reproductive health care services remain protected by law. Learn more about your reproductive rights. 
• Coping with Race-Related Stress (resources and information provided by University of Illinois)
• Crisis Text Line: Crisis Text Line serves anyone, in any type of crisis, providing access to free, 24/7 support via mediums people already use and trust.
• Financial Aid and Scholarships: Information for Harper students on how to pay for college.
• Find Mental Health Resources: No matter what you’re facing, you deserve to be connected to help. Use the FIND HELP Tool to locate free or reduced cost counseling and other mental health resources
  in your community. Select the level of care you’re looking for and enter your zip code.
• Harper Happenings: Stay up-to-date on various monthly events and programs that are happening across campus.
• Hawks Care Resource Center: Whether you are looking for food pantries, local housing programs, or need help finding other community resources for medical and mental health care, Hawks Care can help.
• How to Cope with Traumatic Events: How you feel about and respond to traumatic events may differ, but it’s important to know that it can have a very real impact on your mental health and well-being. And there are things you can do to cope and move through it. You deserve that support, and it will help.
• In-Person Group Exercise Classes at Harper College
• National Suicide Prevention Line
• PACE Bus Route: Pace is Back! A new bus route is arriving at Harper College on August 8. Pace will pilot a new route between the Northwest Transportation Center in Schaumburg an Harper's main campus starting August 8. Route 697 will make stops around Woodfield Mall nad along Meacham and Algonquin roads. The route will operate every 40 minutes each weekday, running from 6:49am - 7:22 p.m. One-way fares range from $1 to $2.25. Pace also has a Campus Connection pass for college students.
• Report a Concern at Harper College
• Resiliency and Well-Being Resources
• Student Insurance Options and Plans
• The JED Foundation: Tips to Manage Stress and Worries
• ULifeline Screening Tool: Complete a self-evaluation tool (depression, anxiety, eating disorders, alcohol and substance use) to better understand resources and how to seek help. 
• WellTrack: WellTrack Boost is a free resource that is available to all Harper students! WellTrack is a self-guided and interactive way to manage your mental well-being. It is an online tool designed to help you understand your feelings of stress, anxiety, or depression. WellTrack is confidential, anonymous, and secure.

What is well-being?

There are varying definitions for the term well-being. However, to put it simply, Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines well-being as, “the state of being happy, healthy, or prosperous.”

Striving to be well and creating a sense of well-being is a lifelong and iterative process. There is no definitive endpoint. Maintaining or striving for positive well-being is the culmination of small things we can do over time to help improve or maintain our overall sense of happiness, health and resiliency.

This doesn’t mean that we can never be sick or have a bad day. Instead, when we experience those difficult moments in life, we have developed a variety of skills, knowledge and behaviors that make it easier to bounce back and manage those moments. To learn more, see our Wellness Dimensions page.