Live Well UNG

Reflect, Engage, Thrive

Well-being is the state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy. It includes the presence of positive emotions, satisfaction with life, and positive functioning. We believe an environment that encourages healthy behaviors and well-being is essential to the academic success and holistic well-being that persist through out your life.

Your well-being is your responsibility, but we are here to help you along the way! Live Well UNG brings together the best UNG has to offer in giving you the skills, knowledge, and perspective to live a healthy, balanced life! Find the balance in your life by exploring the dimensions of well-being. 

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Well-being Dimensions

At UNG, well-being encompasses eight dimensions including career, environmental, financial, intellectual, mental, physical, social, and spiritual well-being. Find more resources for each dimension link.

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Environmental

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Intellectual

Mental

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spiritual well-being

Spiritual

Training Opportunities

Guided suicide prevention training that teaches how to Question, Persuade, and Refer (QPR) someone who may be suicidal. UNG offers free certification courses to current student, faculty and staff. Register for this 1.5 hour course.

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) teaches the risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns, strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations. This course is free and certifications last for three years. Details will be provided when courses are available.

988 is a national three-digit line that connects individuals with suicide prevention and mental health crisis resources. The 30-minute training provides an overview of 988 and equips attendees to support someone in need. Learn more and register.

Upcoming Live Well Events

Aug 25
Stop the Bleed Training- Dahlonega Campus
Launched in October of 2015 by the White House, Stop the Bleed is a national awareness campaign and a call to action. Stop the Bleed is intended to cultivate grassroots efforts that encourage bystanders to become trained, equipped, and empowered to help in a bleeding emergency before professional help
Aug 25
Heart-Saver CPR & AED Training- Dahlonega Campus
Heart Saver CPR AED is a video-based, instructor-led course that teaches adult and child CPR and AED use, infant CPR, and how to relieve choking in adults, children, and infants. This course teaches skills with the AHA's research-proven practice-while-watching technique, which allows instructors to observe
Aug 27
Stop the Bleed Training- Gainesville Campus
Launched in October of 2015 by the White House, Stop the Bleed is a national awareness campaign and a call to action. Stop the Bleed is intended to cultivate grassroots efforts that encourage bystanders to become trained, equipped, and empowered to help in a bleeding emergency before professional help
Aug 27
Heart-Saver CPR & AED - Gainesville Campus
Heartsaver CPR AED is a video-based, instructor-led course that teachesadult and child CPR and AED use, infant CPR, and how to relieve chokingin adults, children, and infants. This course teaches skills with the AHA'sresearch-proven practice-while-watching technique, which allowsinstructors to observe
Sep 3
BLS (Basic Life Support) Training - Dahlonega Campus
Basic Life Support, or BLS, generally refers to the type of care that first-responders, healthcare providers and public safety professionals provide to anyone who is experiencing cardiac arrest, respiratory distress or an obstructed airway.The AHA’s BLS Course is designed for healthcare professionals
Sep 9
Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events (C.R.A.S.E) -Gainesville Campus
The Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events (CRASE) course is a free seminar designed and built on the Avoid, Deny, Defend strategy developed by ALERRT in 2004. CRASE provides strategies, guidance, and a proven plan for surviving an active shooter event. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) considers
Sep 11
Heart-Saver First Aid CPR & AED - Oconee Campus
The AHA’s Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED course trains participants to provide first aid, CPR, and use an automated external defibrillator (AED) in a safe, timely, and effective manner. Reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular
Sep 11
Stop the Bleed Training- Oconee Campus
Launched in October of 2015 by the White House, Stop the Bleed is a national awareness campaign and a call to action. Stop the Bleed is intended to cultivate grassroots efforts that encourage bystanders to become trained, equipped, and empowered to help in a bleeding emergency before professional help
Sep 16
BLS (Basic Life Support) Training - Blue Ridge Campus
Basic Life Support, or BLS, generally refers to the type of care that first-responders, healthcare providers and public safety professionals provide to anyone who is experiencing cardiac arrest, respiratory distress or an obstructed airway.The AHA’s BLS Course is designed for healthcare professionals
Sep 17
Heart-Saver CPR & AED - Cumming Campus
Heartsaver CPR AED is a video-based, instructor-led course that teachesadult and child CPR and AED use, infant CPR, and how to relieve chokingin adults, children, and infants. This course teaches skills with the AHA'sresearch-proven practice-while-watching technique, which allowsinstructors to observe
Sep 30
Heart-Saver CPR & AED - Gainesville Campus
Heartsaver CPR AED is a video-based, instructor-led course that teachesadult and child CPR and AED use, infant CPR, and how to relieve chokingin adults, children, and infants. This course teaches skills with the AHA'sresearch-proven practice-while-watching technique, which allowsinstructors to observe
Oct 1
BLS (Basic Life Support) - Gainesville Campus
The AHA’s BLS Course is designed for healthcare professionals and other personnel who need to know how to perform CPR and other basic cardiovascular life support skills in a wide variety of in-facility and prehospital settings.The course instruction is free, but if attendees want a certification card,
Oct 15
Stop the Bleed Training- Dahlonega Campus
Launched in October of 2015 by the White House, Stop the Bleed is a national awareness campaign and a call to action. Stop the Bleed is intended to cultivate grassroots efforts that encourage bystanders to become trained, equipped, and empowered to help in a bleeding emergency before professional help
Oct 15
Heart-Saver CPR & AED Training- Dahlonega Campus
Heart Saver CPR AED is a video-based, instructor-led course that teaches adult and child CPR and AED use, infant CPR, and how to relieve choking in adults, children, and infants. This course teaches skills with the AHA's research-proven practice-while-watching technique, which allows instructors to observe
Oct 23
Stop the Bleed Training- Oconee Campus
Launched in October of 2015 by the White House, Stop the Bleed is a national awareness campaign and a call to action. Stop the Bleed is intended to cultivate grassroots efforts that encourage bystanders to become trained, equipped, and empowered to help in a bleeding emergency before professional help