Wellness Programs

Wellness Programs

MOM returns to NAU!
Monday, May 19, 2025, 8 am – 4:30 pm
Skydome Parking Lot (P66)

Simon Med brings the Mobile Onsite Mammography (MOM) back to the NAU campus. To book your appointment, visit the MOM online scheduler link or call 480-967-3767. Please have ready your insurance card, health care provider’s name and address, and location of your previous mammograms.

Please note: if you have received a screening with MOM in the past 9 months, you are not eligible for this screening.

Earn 500 HIP points for recording your mammogram on the HIP/Personify Health platform.

Mini Health Screening with Healthwaves
Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 8 – 11 am
Health and Learning Center room 2405 (2^nd floor of the HLC, not at Campus Health Services)

The screening includes:

-an 8-hour fasting blood draw to measure total cholesterol, HDL, LDL, VLDL, triglycerides, and blood glucose (non-fasting test also available),
-blood pressure,
-height, weight and body mass index, and waist circumference.

Additional/optional screenings include:

-Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA),
-Hemoglobin A1C, for people with diabetes and for people at high risk for diabetes, and,
-Osteoporosis/Bone Density screening, for men and women over 40 years, and post-menopausal women under 40 years.

This screening takes about 20 minutes to complete, and your results will be mailed to you in approximately 10 business days and you will be automatically awarded 1000 HIP points for this screening within 30 days.

To schedule your appointment, visit the Mini health screen scheduler or call 480-968-1886.

Talking with Your Kids and Teens about Sexuality
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 12 – 1:15 pm
Facilitated by Rachel Billowitz, MPH, Teaching Professor in the Department of Health Sciences

Many parents want to talk with their kids about bodies, birth, boundaries, puberty, dating, sex, and sexuality, but feel they may not know the “right” thing to say. This workshop is designed to empower parents of kids and teens of all ages to have open and honest conversations. Participants will learn how to send age-appropriate and positive messages about sexuality, start conversations, answer questions, and access resources for more guidance.

Talking with Your Kids Zoom registration link

Cancer Support Group for NAU Employees (by Zoom)
The first Monday of each month, through May 5, 2025, 12 – 1 pm
Facilitated by Heather Rist, LPC, EAW Counselor

When the “C” word enters your life, everything turns upside down. Thrown head-first into medical jargon, tests, procedures, all while your head shocked and fuzzy from this life altering word. Of course, I’m talking about cancer. Studies indicate that cancer rates are on the rise globally and it’s being diagnosed in younger people. Luckily, treatments are better, and people are living longer, cancer-free lives after medical intervention. The impacts of cancer are life-long, even when in healthy survivorship anxiety lingers on the backburner.

Since coming to NAU in 2019, I (Heather Rist) have counseled more people impacted by cancer than ever before in my career. I am facilitating this group with the intention of gaining mutual support, developing coping skills, and cultivating post-traumatic growth and resilience.

If you are interested in attending this group, please contact Heather.Rist@nau.edu.

Northern Arizona University is committed to providing universal access to our programs and services. Please contact EAW at 928-523-1552 to request disability related accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for accessibility needs.