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Health Center at Auraria

A tri-institutional department that provides medical, mental health and outreach services to all stu

09/23/2025

The Phoenix Center does amazing work on campus, and on this beautiful but rainy day, their efforts truly shine. Thank you for highlighting the impact that relationship violence has on our Auraria Campus community.

We are available for crisis walk-ins during all our normal business hours and are located in the Plaza building, which these red flags are placed around.

Additional resources:
24/7 Crisis Line
Mental Health and Victim Assistance Crisis Line: 303-615-9911 or text TALK to 38255

The Phoenix Center at Auraria Help Line 303-556-2255 (303-556-CALL) Information for survivors and concerned others related to interpersonal violence, referrals, options, and next steps

The Health Center has a formalized agreement with Denver Health that provides all students on the Auraria campus direct access to a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) who is trained to perform medical forensic examinations.
The Health Center at Auraria is available to coordinate and pay for transportation to Denver Health for the SANE exam, if this is requested.

Students who access a SANE for a medical forensic examination are NOT required to participate with law enforcement investigations or any criminal justice response.

09/22/2025

Toilet paper is offered for free. Why aren’t pads and tampons? 🩸

Period products should be freely accessible in all public restrooms on our campus.

In collaboration with the Student Advisory Committee to the Auraria Board (SACAB) we are working to address period poverty and stigma on campus.
• 86% of ci-women reportedly started their period in public without the supplies they needed.
• 1 in 5 menstruating students have missed school because of a lack of period supplies and resources.

Period products (i.e. pads and tampons) are a crucial and a constant hygiene need similar to toilet paper and yet menstrual health is a topic that is often stigmatized or ignored. Supporting students with high-quality, freely accessible products improves the educational experience and alleviates the financial burden and stress from when a sudden need arises.

Take our survey linked in our bio to support the period movement! 🩸

So far we have installed 3 free period product dispensers!
- Women’s restroom by Turnhalle
- Women’s restroom in JSSB first floor
- Women’s restroom of CCD Comfluence

09/15/2025

Making time to do things you enjoy can seem impossible, especially when you are a college student. But this semester students are prioritizing their mental through art therapy by Coloring with Compassion ☀️. Only a few weeks into this semester, and you all have decorated over 50 bags! That is over 350 meals that you helped deliver to folks with chronic disease in Colorado. YOU are bringing joy to others, and at the same time doing something to center yourself and put your mind at ease by take a break from the worries and stress of school and life. Come by the Auraria Library today to keep this good work going, and also take a mental health break for yourself! 🧠💅

09/12/2025

Free lunch + life hacks = the perfect study break 🙌🍎🥤
Join us for the Lunch N Learn Series: From Fueling to Festivities and pick up tips to power your brain, boost your metabolism, and survive holiday treats without the guilt 🎉✨

📅 Save the dates:
🧠 Sept 17 – Fueling Focus: Brain Power
⚡ Oct 15 – Mastering Your Metabolism
🎄 Nov 13 – Nutrition Hacks for the Holidays

📍 Senate Chambers, Tivoli Room 329 | 12–1 PM
✨ Did we mention there’s FREE lunch?!

👉 Use the link in bio to register now!

07/08/2025

Meet your provider!

Ike Wheeler - PMHNP-BC, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Where are you from:

I’m from all over. I was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and lived there until I moved to Colorado when I was 11. I lived in Colorado until I went to college in Massachusetts when I was 19. I lived in Connecticut for a job one summer and spent a lot of time in Rhode Island before moving to Knoxville, Tennessee, after college. After 3 years in Knoxville, I came back to Colorado for a couple years before moving to Oberlin, Ohio. I lived in Oberlin for 10 years – living in one home longer than at any other time in my life - before moving back to Colorado in late 2024.

Favorite thing to do:

I enjoy spending time with my family most of all. I also enjoying being outside, pretty much anywhere, in any weather (though I prefer dry to humid); reading (fiction mostly, some poetry and creative nonfiction); and playing games of all kinds.

Advice to students in college:
· Cultivate curiosity
· Follow your interests
· Spend time with people who are different from you
· Ask for help if you need it

Advice to younger self:

I’m not sure I’d want to give my younger self any advice. I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to learn and grow, including from mistakes and missteps I’ve made along the way, and I wouldn’t want to trade those for knowing better without such experience.

Mythbuster:

I don’t know about a mythbuster, but a random and curious fact - blue birds aren’t blue. More specifically, they lack blue pigmentation, in contrast to yellow and red birds which produce pigmentation in these colors. The blue color we see in blue birds is related to the interaction between light waves and the structural composition of the birds’ feathers. A bit more information about this phenomenon can be found on this webpage maintained by the Smithsonian:

https://www.si.edu/stories/when-blue-bird-not-blue.

06/20/2025

YOU decorated roughly 300 Project Angel Heart bags this semester!! We just picked up about 300 more! 😱😱
Why should you decorate a bag?
• You have a chance to bring joy to those receiving medically tailored meals in these bags
• You get to practice Art Therapy
◦ Setting time aside to get creative is a wonderful way to practice self-care.
◦ Art therapy can help you cope with the ongoing stressors of life & school. Drawing, doodling, painting can be a great way to express difficult feelings.
• You can make it a social hour! Bring a friend from class, meet a stranger. Strangers are just friends you haven’t met yet.
• Also there is something so special about giving back to your community, it can also promote resilience in your everyday life!
More info about these bags
• Have fun being creative! Draw cheerful designs, pictures, scenery, animals, or whatever comes to mind. If you make a mistake, create something new out of it!
• Wash your hands or use hand sanitizer before decorating.
• Decorate one side only.
• Feel free to write your first name and age on the bags

06/17/2025

has always been more than a holiday. Juneteenth has become not only a time to commemorate Black liberation from the institution of slavery, but also an acknowledgment of resilience, solidarity, and culture of the Black community. Juneteenth allows us all to join together to celebrate the freedoms and lives that generations before have fought bravely to secure.
To commemorate Juneteenth, the Health Center will be closed this Thursday. We also wanted to take a moment to share with you our staff pics for our Reading List for Juneteenth. All of which can be found in our personal DEI library. 📚
• The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
◦ If you believe that talking about race is impolite, or that “colorblindness” is the preferred approach, you must read this book! Read away to debunk the most pervasive myths today.
• The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
◦ If you are interested in learning about how you can practice anti-racism in your everyday life, this is the book for you!
• Medical Apartheid, by Harriet A. Washington
◦ This book recounts the first full history of black America’s shocking mistreatment. While the information is difficult to read, the story should still be told.
• Race Talk, by Derald Wing Sue
◦ If you are interested in understanding and facilitating difficult dialogues on race, this book is for you!

05/05/2025

Take a study break 😎Join us for a peaceful guided stroll designed to help you slow down, reconnect with nature, and find a moment of calm in your day. We plan on meeting at the Auraria Campus Starbucks at 11:30 to start our stroll around campus together with light refreshments!
⏰Monday | May 5th, (Today)
⏰Tuesday | May 6th
⏰Monday | May 12th
⏰Tuesday | May 13th

04/25/2025

Do you recognize this? 👀
If you don’t, please take a second to read. While overdose deaths are down from record highs, too many young lives are still at risk from fake prescription pills made with fentanyl. Pictured here is Narcan, a life-saving medicine that anyone can carry with them to save a life. Join us & CU Wellness for Fentanyl Awareness Day on Monday, April 28th, from 1:30pm-4 pm in the tavern space of Turnhall to learn about the different resources we have on campus to fight again the fentanyl epidemic. 💪💪Pick up Narcan, Fentanyl testing strips, and life-saving facts!

04/22/2025

🐾🐶 PET THERAPY = BEST THERAPY 🐾🐱
Finals stress? Cured (temporarily) by cuddles. 🥹💕
Huge thanks to our furry friends and their humans for bringing all the calm, comfort, and tail wags today! Whether you stopped by for a snuggle or just smiled from afar — we hope it brought a little joy to your day. 🐕✨
Already counting down to the next one… 🐾

02/07/2025

Love Your Body Week: February 10th-14th
This February, celebrate body positivity and empowerment with Love Your Body Week, a tri-institutional celebration hosted by CU Denver’s Health Promotion team! Join us for a variety of events designed to inspire confidence, challenge body image norms, and promote self-love. From fitness classes to a powerful “Smash the Self-Doubt” plate-shattering event, we’ll have activities all week long to help you embrace your unique self while creating new social connections.

Highlighted Events:
✨ Body Empowerment Fitness Classes
✨ Advocating for Women’s Health Panel
✨ Collage & Bracelet-Making Empowerment Event
✨ Smash the Self-Doubt Plate-Shattering Experience

Get involved and show yourself some love this Valentine’s week!

01/24/2025

The Health Center at Auraria loves our entire Auraria campus community! We are committed to monitoring policy changes and staying educated about our rights and the rights of our students, faculty, and staff.

Our clinic celebrates all facets of our client's identities, including their names and pronouns. Some of the services we offer to uplift and support our LGBTQ+ community are:
-Transgender and gender expansive care
-Emergency mental health services
-Family planning support
-DEIA training for our clinicians
(Of course, all of these services and supports are available and beneficial to all our clients, not just LGTBQ+ folks! No one likes being called the wrong name, after all. 🤗)

We love our diverse campus, and we know that for our immigrant and undocumented students have a safe, successful, and fun time on campus is critical for our community to thrive. We want you here! The Health Center at Auraria provides care to patients in a private and confidential setting. You do not need to be insured to see us! You do not have to be documented to see us! If you have questions about cost, please call us at 1-303-615-9999.

You can also visit our website to learn more about our policies regarding confidentiality, privacy, and insurance management. A Notice of Privacy Practices is provided to all patients when completing the registration paperwork, but we are happy to schedule time to discuss your rights with you if you have additional questions.

We hope you feel safe to come to us with your questions and concerns. We are on campus tabling every week, and many of us are students as well as employees! We are here for each other and stronger together. ❤️

[Alt Text: There are three pictures in this post:
The first is a group of student employees and full-time staff sitting on blankets in green grass on a sunny day. They are smiling at the camera and enjoying a picnic.

The second is a group of student employees and full-time staff standing in a line, locking arms and smiling.

The third is a group of student employees holding a rainbow flag and gender expansive care pamphlets in front of a sign for the Auraria Health Center.]

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Denver, CO
80204

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 3pm

Telephone

+13036159999

Website

http://www.healthcenter1.com/

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