Health and Wellness

Yale’s Mental Health and Counseling is committed to addressing students’ psychological concerns in an effort to help them achieve their intellectual and personal goals while at Yale. The department offers counseling for areas including, but not limited to academic stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, loss and grief.

Connect to Care (C2C)

We know how important mental health and well-being is and there are numerous resources in the Yale ecosystem currently available. Connect to Care (C2C) is a new tool to help you self-reflect on your current mental well-being, while directing you to available resources and next steps that best fit your needs. Looking for a drop-in meditation session? Talk to a wellness coach? Join a virtual support or therapy group? C2C can help navigate that search.
 

The Drug-Free School and Communities Act Amendments of 1989 require institutions of higher education to certify that they have adopted and implemented a program to prevent unlawful possession, use, or distribution of illegal drugs and alcohol by students and employees. Please take a few moments to read through Yale’s Drug and Alcohol Prevention Policy.

Payne Whitney Gym is a 14-story building with 12 acres of indoor space that houses exercise rooms, dance studios, swimming pools, and much, much more! Graduate and Professional students are welcome to sign-up for a membership as well as their spouses. There are a plethora of fitness programs to choose from, from yoga and dance, to spinning and martial arts.

The philosophy of the Graduate-Professional Intramural Sports program is to provide activities for recreation, social interaction, and enjoyment,with acommitment to open participation for all students. Sports activities are offered during the four seasons and often include leagues with competitive and recreational divisions. The Evans-Fischer Cup, which symbolizes overall excellence, is awarded annually to the school that accumulates the greatest number of championship points. 

A commitment to sustainability drives our work at YSE on all fronts, from the knowledge generated in our research, the learning in our classrooms, and the decisions we make in operating our facilities. Our School, situated in a University that is more than 300 years old, offers a plethora of opportunities for evaluating long-standing ways of managing things, and considering new, more sustainable pathways for the future. As students at YSE preparing to take on prominent environmental leadership roles, we challenge you to actively engage in this exciting work during your time with us at Yale.

Yale has a vibrant community of faculty, staff and students engaged in sustainability work—both formally and informally—who will welcome your partnership. The Yale Office of Sustainability is the organizing body for campus-wide sustainability activities. The university has had Sustainability Strategic Plans in place since 2010, with the current plan extending through 2025.

YSE strives to provide leadership for sustainability through engagement with a wide range of partners, from the local to the international. We seek to explore new ideas and strategies, and in our YSE Strategic Plan we state that we strive to be a model school at the university, serving as a living laboratory for research, teaching and engagement for sustainability. The Sustainability Committee, a collaborative group of paid student research assistants, faculty and staff, leads YSE Sustainability work. This group works to implement the YSE Sustainability Action Plan through projects in collaboration with the broader university. If you are interested in engaging with sustainability work at YSE, please reach out to Melanie Quigley to learn more.

On a practical level, YSE has a proud tradition of encouraging its community members to bring their own containers to YSE events to reduce the use of single-use items. Starting with orientation in August and continuing during your time at YSE, please remember to bring your own reusable containers to campus (e.g., water bottles, mugs, cutlery, food storage containers with a lid, etc.). Sinks and refrigerators are located in YSE’s buildings to help with cleaning and for storing leftovers. Thank you for your partnership with this effort!