Healthy Cats Officer & Peer Educator
Healthy Cats Peer Educators are student leaders dedicated to promoting health education and wellness throughout the Texas State campus and the surrounding community through presentations and community outreach. Topics addressed include sexual health, drugs and alcohol use, stress, mental health, nutrition, and more! Joining the Healthy Cats team has many benefits. It provides you with a chance to increase your knowledge about health-related issues, gain self-confidence, improve your communication skills, and to provide a needed service on your campus.
Basic Requirements:
- Be an undergraduate student enrolled full-time at Texas State
- Maintain a minimum 2.5 GPA
- Attend majority of Healthy Cats meetings (Tuesdays, 5-6 PM)
- Attend majority of officer meetings
- Attend majority of outreach events
- Hold office hours each week
- Must have attended at least 1 Healthy Cats meeting or staffed at least 1 Healthy Cats event
Healthy Cats Officers/Peer Educators will:
- Plan, implement, and lead Healthy Cats weekly meetings and programming
- Conduct health presentations for Texas State students
- Assist with health-related marketing and educational campaigns for University Health Services (UHS)
- Coordinate logistics of the Healthy Cats student organization including logging incentive points, tracking member attendance, adding interested students to Canvas site, etc.
- Assist with entering health presentation and attendance data
- Complete other duties as assigned or as adapted to COVID-19 circumstances