UConn Students Helping to Achieve Positive Esteem (SHAPE) is a peer educator group, through Student Health and Wellness, that strives to promote accepting attitudes towards all body shapes and sizes while helping to encourage self-esteem and positive body image. SHAPE also fosters awareness about disordered eating and eating disorders, the warning signs, and the resources available for support on campus. Some previous involvements of SHAPE have included hosting a Plate Smash event, distributing compliment cards in the Student Union, providing informational presentations for student groups on campus, and participating in SHaW’s Health and Wellness Fairs.
If you are interested in spreading body inclusivity and becoming a peer educator for UConn SHAPE, please fill out this interest form:
https://forms.gle/fZtfTCzKLVpg6zL89
SHAPE meets weekly 5:30 to 6:30 pm at the Cordial House (the white Recovery Community Center building near Whitney) but meeting attendance is not required to get involved. Members of any level of experience are welcome to join!
For more information, contact: UConn SHAPE at ShaW-SHAPE@uconn.edu