HPW Internship: Interra Health

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HPW Student Internship Experience – Analese Grimm 16′ Interning at Interra Health was an interesting experience because I got to delve into a few different areas of the company. My time was split between in office projects and conducting on site health screens at our clients’ locations. The health screening process involved traveling to various […]

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HPW Internship: Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center

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HPW Student Internship Experience – Matt Gerber 16′ Dress up dance parties, white water rafting, canoeing, kayaking, high ropes course, rock wall, rock climbing, and adaptive cycling. Interning at the Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center (BOEC) will have you adapting all these activities and tailoring them to groups of individuals with disabilities. Since June I have […]

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HPW Internship: Plover Fire and Rescue

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HPW Student Internship Experience – Mitch Fromm 16′ The Plover Fire Department (PFD) is an internship ripe with opportunity to test new ideas, learn about the emergency services, and work directly with many members of the community. Some of the ongoing programs include the American Red Cross smoke detector drive, fire inspections, and fire safety […]

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HPW Internship: Oneida County Health Department

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Overall Goal of Internship At completion of this internship, the intern will gain an excellent understanding and knowledge of how Oneida County Health Department provides a variety of health and wellness programs to employees/community-sponsored events. The intern will gain experience in behavior change facilitation including Health Risk Assessment, intervention, and reassessment, and will create promotional […]

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HPW Internship: Central Rivers Farmshed

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HPW Student Internship Experience – Brody VanDeventer 16′ Interning at Central Rivers Farmshed has been both an exciting and rewarding experience. Working with Farmshed I have been able to meet and talk with so many community members and business, such as the National Wellness Institute (NWI) and Sentry. During the first few weeks I did […]

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Welcome Back

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My fellow Pointers, First things first: Sorry for such a delay in blogging! It’s been a pretty hectic winter break and start to the semester. Next: I hope you all had an amazing and safe holiday season and that your semester is off to a good start. Third: Here’s what happened to me over break […]

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Back from break

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It’s been a long and busy two weeks getting back into the swing of things after a relaxing winter break. I was anticipating my new classes after finally declaring my new major in communication, so this will be my final blog for CPS. I am in four communication classes this semester and no I cannot […]

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Motivational Interviewing Workshop with Laura Saunders

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More than 100 attendees–including students, faculty, staff and local health care professionals–learned motivational interviewing skills from expert speaker Laura Saunders, MSSW, at the first of three motivational coaching workshops Friday, Feb. 5 at UW-Stevens Point. [View Photos] Saunders discussed concepts and skills in motivational interviewing, a goal-oriented, client-centered counseling style with workshop attendees and introduced concepts […]

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When Netflix doesn’t cut it

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Welcome back everybody! I hope that all of you had a wonderful winter break and that you are ready to take on this new semester. I got to stay here and work with the Pointers women’s basketball team as the athletic trainer, and I had a problem. I would come home, park my butt on […]

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Part-time

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Balancing more than one job as a full-time student can be challenging, but very rewarding. I am employed on campus in the Health Enhancement Center (HEC) athletic laundry room, and also off campus at SentryWorld as a volleyball official. Working as a student, I believe, provides much more than money. I learn time management and […]

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