Peer Health

Sign-up to volunteer with Peer Health for the Winter 2026 term!

Thinking about volunteering? Peer Health is a peer-led group dedicated to promoting well-being and addressing the challenges students face.

Click HERE to sign up!

Questions? Reach out to peer.health@usask.ca or come and visit us at the USask Community Centre, located in Marquis 104 (next to Tim Hortons, across from the USask Bookstore).

 

Peer Health is a peer-led program run by USask students who are dedicated to promoting health and well-being across all campuses. Volunteers and student leaders are passionate about the issues that impact student wellness and work within the Be Well Strategy framework. Peer Health is an initiative of the Student Wellness Centre.

Below are the teams and groups that make up Peer Health:

 

Healthy Mind

Focus: Mental health, emotional well-being, and reducing stigma.

The Healthy Mind team works to keep students mentally well through stress-management education, anxiety support, and initiatives centered on men’s mental health. This group uses presentations, campaigns, personal student blogs, and social opportunities to address loneliness and promote connection.

Invisible Disabilities

Focus: Awareness, education, and community for students with invisible disabilities.

This team works to destigmatize invisible disabilities by discussing how they show up in everyday life, how they affect students, and what supports exist on campus. They create content through information posts, panel discussions, blogs, podcasts, and student-led support groups. Peer Health partners closely with the Access and Equity Centre. Students do not need lived experience to join, though many participate because they have found community here.

Peer Listener Support

(Also referred to as Drop-in Peer Support)

Focus: Peer-to-peer emotional support in a safe, confidential space.

Peer Listener Support provides a free, confidential, non-judgmental space for students to talk with trained peer volunteers. Volunteers are equipped in active listening, validation, and sharing relevant campus resources.

For more information or hours, contact peer.health@usask.ca

Healthy Body

Focus: Physical wellness, healthy habits, and lifestyle support.

This team covers physical well-being, including healthy eating, sleep, harm reduction, vaccinations, social connection, and fitness. Volunteers create supports especially for students new to university life, helping them build balanced routines. Past activities include game nights, meetups, virtual cook-alongs, and cooking competitions.

Harm Reduction

Focus: Safer substance use, alcohol moderation, and reducing substance-related harms.

This team uses a non-judgmental, harm-reduction approach to support students in making informed choices. They share tools like Canada’s Low-Risk Drinking Guidelines, naloxone training, and stress-management alternatives. Past campaigns include Thinking About My Drinking, and Beyond The Buzz.

 

Healthy Life

Focus: Relationships, sexual wellness, consent, and personal safety.

This team promotes healthy relationships with partners, friends, roommates, family, and oneself. They provide education on STI prevention, contraception, and consent culture, and support campus observances such as Sexual Assault Awareness Week, Eating Disorder Awareness Week, and Sexual Reproductive Health Week.

 

Cultural Wellness

Focus: Health outreach and advocacy for students of the global majority, international students, and Indigenous students.

This team creates culturally relevant wellness resources, shares information, and facilitates discussions that affirm identity and create community. The goal is to ensure all USask students feel supported, represented, and empowered.

Prince Albert Community

Volunteers on the Prince Albert campus promote health and wellness initiatives tailored to PA students through campaigns, outreach, and community-building activities.

 

Other Peer Health Groups

Paws Your Stress Therapy Dogs

This beloved program partners with St. John Ambulance Therapy Dogs to promote mental wellness through biweekly dog-visits on campus. Volunteers help with event set-up, outreach, and resource sharing.

Parents on Campus

This group provides support, community, and resources for student parents. Volunteers help maintain the Parent/Family Room, organize clothing swaps, create family-friendly events, and offer parent study hall supports. Volunteers do not need to be parents to join.

 

... and more!

Peer Health is welcoming to all students.  And so when students have an idea that supports the Health and wellness of students, Peer Health listens. 

 

• Promote a better and safer quality of life by helping students develop health knowledge and skills
• Provide evidence based promotion programs built around current science, research, and practices
• Enhance student leadership, development, and personal growth

Encouraging and supporting healthy decisions and lifestyle

• Creating and sharing social media posts on health topics
• Developing hallway displays and infographics
• Making videos, writing blogs, and organizing podcasts
• Having conversations with other students
• Through presentations, webinars, and panels
• Sharing evidence-based health information and resources
• Offer campaigns, incentives, and give-a-ways 

Encouraging community

• Providing a safe place for students to visit and connect
• Organizing meet-up events and games nights that encourage socialization
• Collaborating with other campus teams on events and initiatives

Through advocating for and supporting students

• Providing a place for student parents to meet, share, and learn
• Organize panels and information sessions to help students understand their own or other disability
• Attempts to be a voice for all student health concerns to the greater campus
• Supporting student diversity with programs for select groups such as student parents 

Develop leadership skills

• Providing and promoting student trainings and opportunities
• Providing opportunities and supports to organize, develop, and create events, campaigns, and other initiatives
• Providing opportunities to reflect on personal leadership

Need someone to talk through a concern or a dissappointment? Trained Peer Health volunteers are available for confidential, non-judgemental listening and support.   

Looking for supports on campus but not sure where to go, or how to access them?  Peer Health volunteers can accompany you.

Looking for a safe place to ask questions?  Drop-in student volunteers will help you find the answers.

Visit during drop-in hours or email peerhealthdropin@gmail.com

Location:  Usask Community Centre across from the University Bookstore in Marquis Hall

Self-care resources

As a Peer Health volunteer, you will learn about student health issues, meet new people, develop friendships, feel part of a greater campus community, and gain hands-on experience and skill development.

Expectations of our volunteers

• Available to volunteer for 2 hours a week
• Complete online orientation
• Participate in weekly Peer Health meetings 
• Contribute to Peer Health programming through health promotion group planning, research, resource creation, and peer-to-peer outreach

Orientation

Orientation will be held several times at the beginning of each term, and is typically 45-60 minutes over Zoom. When you fill out the volunteer application, you will be sent options for dates to join the orientation. 

Additional Training 

Peer Health provides basic volunteer training at the beginning of each term. Volunteers then choose a team that supports them in practical training. Most Peer Health training is "on-the-job" practical experience. Some teams, however, will have other training opportunities. 

Volunteering with the Peer Health Volunteer Program

We are located in USask Community Centre. You can find us in Marquis 104, next to the Tim Hortons and across from the USask bookstore. Come by and visit our space!

Health Education Coordinator

• Ida Belete, Student Wellness Centre

Student Staff Coordinators

• Faris, Communications Coordinator
• Alex, Social Media Coordinator
• Kashika, Healthy Life Team Facilitator
• Yash, Healthy Body Team Facilitator
• Emily, Healthy Mind Team Facilitator
• Sophia, Cultural Wellness
• Angelina, Peer Listener Support
• Kyle, Peer Listener Support
• Kristine, Invisible Disabilities Support Group Facilitator
• Nawshin, Harm Reduction Facilitator
• Blade, Prince Albert Facilitator
• Soleh, Prince Albert Facilitator