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Health & Wellness
Accessing health and wellness resources is an important part of supporting your success during graduate school. Yale provides physical healthcare and mental healthcare, both through Yale Health and embedded within the graduate school of arts and sciences. There are also wellness resources available in the form of various offices and services around campus.
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Good Life Center
https://goodlifecenteratyale.com/
The Good Life Center offers free wellness-focused programming for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Through evidence-backed programming on mindfulness, gratitude, social connection, exercise, sleep, acts of kindness, time in nature, play, and time affluence, the Good Life Center encourages students to slow down and figure out just what wellness means for them personally.
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GSAS Embedded Mental Health Services
GSAS students have access to a variety of free mental health services and programming through the GSAS Embedded Mental Health program.
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Health Award
The Graduate School provides Yale Health Basic Coverage at no cost to all students (Master's and PhD) who are enrolled at least half-time in degree-seeking programs. In addition, all PhD students registered at least half-time receive a Health Fellowship Award that covers the cost of Yale Health Hospitalization/Specialty Care Coverage.
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International SOS Global Travel Assistance
https://ogc.yale.edu/erm/ISOS
ISOS provides international and domestic emergency medical, security, and travel assistance services anywhere in the world.
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Leaves of Absence
The Graduate School offers leaves of absence for students who wish to pause their studies temporarily. There are three categories of leave: medical leave of absence, personal leave of absence, and parental leave of absence.
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Yale Mental Health and Counseling
https://yalehealth.yale.edu/directory/departments/mental-health-counseling
Yale Mental Health and Counseling provides a full range of free mental health services to Yale Students. To access individual therapy, medication management, and/or group therapy, students should call Yale Mental Health and Counseling at 203-432-0290 and schedule an intake appointment. Students in urgent need can call 24/7 to speak with an on-call clinician.
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Payne Whitney Gym
https://sportsandrecreation.yale.edu/payne-whitney-gym-pwg-hours-operation
Payne Whitney Gym provides free year-round gym membership for full-time, degree-seeking students.
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PhD Student Travel Health Fellowship
If you are a PhD student traveling for dissertation research, the Graduate School provides a Travel Health Fellowship to cover the cost of required immunizations and prescription drugs at Yale Health.
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SHARE Center
https://sharecenter.yale.edu/
SHARE provides crisis support, advocacy, and referral to on-going care for all members of the Yale community dealing with sexual misconduct of any kind, including sexual assault, sexual harassment, stalking, intimate partner violence, and more. SHARE also offers on-going counseling for students (undergraduate, graduate, and professional) focused on processing issues related to sexual misconduct.
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Student Accessibility Services (SAS)
https://sas.yale.edu/students
Student Accessibility Services (SAS) works with Yale students with acute or ongoing disabilities to provide appropriate accommodations, auxiliary aids, and services through an interactive process. The Graduate School's liaison in SAS is Jordan Colbert.