Student Leadership Opportunities
Gator Health and Well-Being provides tools and resources to support you in making choices that lead to a healthy, successful and fulfilling life—while also offering opportunities to develop your leadership and foster a culture of wellness within the community.
As a student leader, you can:
- Facilitate workshops
- Deliver presentations
- Develop new programs
- Lead marketing campaigns
- Support health and wellness activities
- And more
See below for more information about our leadership opportunities.
The Ambassador Program
The Ambassador Program is a student volunteer program that provides opportunities for SFSU students to be involved in health and wellness activities on campus.
- Resume building
- Volunteer hours
- Professional development
- Meet new people
- Learn about health and wellness topics
- Ambassador Certification
- Becoming a campus leader
- Assisting with social media campaigns, photoshoots and IG reels
- Helping out and/or participatating in GHW workshops
- Setting up and take down for events like Wags for Wellness
- Outreach activities and events
- Supporting and/or attending events such as art nights, game nights and more
- Assisting with campus partners' activities and SFSU events
- Assisting with office tasks such as administrative work and programming preparations
- Leading tabling events and promoting health and wellness resources
- DIY Volunteer Activities
The GHW Volunteer Ambassador application is now closed. Please contact us at if you have any questions.
To join the Ambassador Program, you must:
- Be a current SFSU student
- Attend one mandatory orientation
- Participate for a minimum of four hours per month during the semester
- Submit an application to join the Ambassador Program
Active Minds
Active Minds at SFSU is a student-run chapter of Active Minds, Inc., focused on mental health awareness, suicide prevention, education, and advocacy on campus.
By promoting awareness and education, we aim to remove the stigma that surrounds mental illness and create an open environment for discussion of mental health issues.
Our goals:
- Increase awareness of mental health and mental health illnesses
- Provide information and resources regarding mental health and mental illness
- Encourage students to seek help as soon as it is needed
- Serve as a liaison between students and the mental health community
Active Minds is committed to providing programming and outreach services to underserved and underrepresented campus communities such as culturally diverse, LGBTQ, students with disabilities, first generation college students, low income, international students, veterans, student leaders and more.
Active Minds is open to all members of the SFSU community, including students and faculty.
If you’re interested in joining, we welcome you to attend a general meeting. For more information, please contact Active Minds officers at sfstateactiveminds@gmail.com.
To join Active Minds as an Active Member, you must:
- Register with the President and Secretary for attendance and quorum purposes
- Sign up through OrgSync
- Attend at least three meetings
- Assist in planning at least one event per semester
To join Active Minds as a Participant, you must:
- Register with the President and Secretary for attendance and quorum purposes
- Sign up through OrgSync
As a participant, you will be added to the listserv and receive email updates about upcoming events.
Student Health Advisory Committee (SHAC)
SHAC is a committee of students, staff and faculty that advise the University on the delivery of health programs and services on campus with the goal of enhancing student health and wellness.
- Improve health and wellness on campus through collaboration with SFSU administration, faculty and health providers
- Learn about the inside workings of a university health system that impact effective service delivery
- Share student experiences and perspectives on health and wellness at SFSU
- Meet other students interested in health and wellness
- Enhance your resume!
- Be ready to share student voice and needs in discussions about student health programs
- Have suggestions for how to improve student access to health programs
- Be motivated to work with an interdisciplinary team to make suggestions for enhancing the use of the Student Health Services Fee
- Be willing to advocate for these changes within the campus community
- Student members must be in good standing with the University and will need to commit to two to four hours a month to attend committee meetings and complete work in support of the committee’s goals
The SHAC members include students, staff from the student health service fee-funded units, one faculty member, a designee of the Vice President of SAEM and the three-student health service fee-funded Directors (who are non-voting members).
- Dai To, Associate Vice President of Disability Access and Student Well-being
- Stephen Chen, Director for Counseling and Mental Health Services at Gator Health and Well-being
- Charisse Fuller, Director for Medical Health Services at Gator Health and Well-being
- Louise Marie N. Monterola, Health Service Associate for Medical Health Services at Gator Health and Well-being
- Mina Hernandez, Health Communications Specialist for Gator Health and Well-being
Student members will have the opportunity to make policy recommendations that help ensure SFSU student health and wellness services support academic success, review and make recommendations on the Student Health Services Fee budget and recommend policy that promotes equitable and fair access to health programs.
To join SHAC, or if you have questions: Email Associate Vice President Dai To at daito@sfsu.edu, Telephone: (415) 338-2916