WELLNESS COMMUNITY CENTRE
Helpline: 04422578521 (Wellness Centre 9-5PM), 04448136222 (YourDost 24/7), 04422579999 (Security, 24/7), 04422578888 (Hospital, 24/7)
Upcoming Events
February, 2022
Digital Wellness Campaign
Through a series of events and workshops, " Digital Wellness Campaign" will help students take a necessary break from social media and engaging with their daily lives. Various aspects of Digital Wellness like controlling social media usage, healthy online presence, maintaining one's mental health amidst the bombardment of information from the social media, averting health risks from use of digital media and protecting yourself from digital fraud will be covered. Experts in this field will be conducting sessions and workshops for the students.
Mitr Campus Drive
Mitr campus drive initiative is taken by Mitr volunteers in the month of January. This program is going on through the month of February too.
Multiple planned initiatives are taken to reach each student in campus.
January, 2022
Mitr Campus Drive
The Mitr students are organizing a campus drive in the month of January, 2022. The agenda of the drive is to create awareness among the students who have just arrived the campus.
During the drive, posters containing information of MiTR, SAATHI, the Wellness Centre will be sticked in to different areas of the campus.
MiTR will also share posters with each department.
The aim of the drive is to reach each students in the campus and educate them the mental health facilities available in the IIT Madras.
Past Events
Mental Health Survey Phase III
MITR has conducted the Mental Health Survey Phase III among the IITM Students.
Interactive sessions with psychologists will be organised based on the survey report by the end of the month.
SAATHI in collaboration with the Wellness centre is organising a series of talk for the fresher PG students.
The topics are, handling difficult home situation, dealing with inferiority complex, and dealing with loneliness.
November, 2021
PG Mentorship Program
Webinar on "Keeping up a healthy lifestyle in quarantine
The Wellness Centre welcome students to the campus.To make the students psychologically ready the Wellness Centre has organised webinars on 'Keeping up a halthy lifestyle in quarantine' in collaboration with 'YourDOST'.
Please find the recorded webinar here.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OTLxyOb_UPQYXjryfO2N1FiV92uqDMvn/view?usp=drive_web
Barefoot training
MiTR, in collaboration with the wellness centre is organising barefoot counselling training for the new MiTR volunteer students across the month.
UG SAATHI Mentorship Program
Recruiting Department Heads and Student Mentors for the upcoming freshman batch of 2021. Conducting an orientation session for mentors through the Wellness Center
December, 2021
Breaking away from the monotonous routine of online lectures, SAATHI presents interactive Art Therapy Sessions from 3rd to 9th October, to help students distress and unwind through an artistic medium.
To know details, please contact at saathi_core@smail.iitm.ac.in
Student Summit on Wellness
SAATHI is organising a platform for student wellness bodies from various leading technical institutes in the country to exchange their experiences and create shared value that each of them can tailor to the needs of the students in their institute.
To know details, please contact at saathi_core@smail.iitm.ac.in
Art Therapy Sessions
Breaking away from the monotonous routine of online lectures, SAATHI presents interactive Art Therapy Sessions from 3rd to 9th October, to help students distress and unwind through an artistic medium.
To know details, please contact at saathi_core@smail.iitm.ac.in
Student Summit on Wellness
SAATHI is organising a platform for student wellness bodies from various leading technical institutes in the country to exchange their experiences and create shared value that each of them can tailor to the needs of the students in their institute.
To know details, please contact at saathi_core@smail.iitm.ac.in
All the MiTR faculty volunteers and advisors of MiTr, and the Wellness Centre team would get together and discuss how to strengthen the mental health care system at IITM and would brainstorm different ways and means to enhance the reach of mental health resources among the student population.
Mental Health Day Celebration
The Wellness Centre is celebrating Mental Health month with interactive sessions by the Wellness Centre professionals, on themes surrounding the "SELF" such as, self exploration, self care and self confidence.
To know details, please contact at asstmgr_wellness@smail.iitm.ac.in
All the MiTR faculty volunteers and advisors of MiTr, and the Wellness Centre team would get together and discuss how to strengthen the mental health care system at IITM and would brainstorm different ways and means to enhance the reach of mental health resources among the student population.
MITR Faculty Quarterly Meet Autumn