This is a list of the CIY Skill Shop Descriptions:

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• Sense of Belonging - This session helps students recognize the institutional barriers that often cause first generation and underrepresented minority students feel displaced in an institutional setting. We build an understanding of those barriers, give students a positive outlook on their academic career, make a plan to address specific barriers that have been troublesome for them and help them to recognize the benefits they provide to the university in order to bolster a sense that they belong here.

• Sexual Health - There are 2 parts to this workshop - both topics are presented in a gender neutral trans inclusive format

• Birth Control - This session will discuss the different options someone has for birth control and help them figure out the next step to getting it, as well as communication tactics for talking to partners about barrier methods.

• STI/STD Info - This session discusses STI/STD harm reduction practices, testing/screening options, and communication tactics for talking to partners about barrier methods. It also includes information on reducing stigma about STIs and pleasure based sex after a diagnosis.

• Friendships/Romantic Relationships - This session teaches non-violent communication strategies to help students handle conflict in romantic relationships or platonic relationships. It also includes a discussion of enthusiastic consent, and consent culture in all kinds of relationships.

• Relationship to Food/Body - There are 2 parts to this workshop

• Nutrition and Food Education - This is a basic introduction to building a healthy relationship to food and eating. Students will evaluate eating habits and identify feelings about food. They will learn about portion size, and how to understand basic point of sale nutrition facts.

• Self Love - This sessions helps students lay a foundation for a better relationship with their bodies. It teaches about how to identify negative influences on our relationship with our bodies and gain tools on how to combat those thoughts.

• Motivation - In this session students learn about how motivation works, they identify places in their life where they lack motivation and energy, recognize the role of guilt in stemming motivation, and make an action plan to stay motivated.

• Making Friends - In this session the student will learn about how normal it is to have trouble making friends, some of the things to avoid when trying to make a connection, practice talking to new people, develop a plan to go to an event/club meeting based off of interests.

• Alcohol & Other Drugs/Humboldt Haze - two parts

• Self/Harm Reduction: In this session students learn about how to recognize misuse issues, the campus policies around drugs and alcohol, how to help someone in an emergency, and harm reduction strategies if they choose to use alcohol or other drugs.

• Helping a friend: In this session students learn about how to recognize misuse issues, the campus policies around drugs and alcohol, how to help someone in an emergency, how to reach out to someone whose use is affecting the community, and when to refer to resources.

• Sleep - In this session students learn basic sleep science, debunk sleep myths, and make a plan to change sleep habits.

• Trouble Relaxing - In this session students learn about stress good and bad, they identify things that help ground and focus them, are given new mindfulness tools to practice, and make a plan to do strategic self care.

• Financial Wellness - In this session students learn about what part of their finances they can control and how to let go of the stress of what they can’t. They will also learn basic budgeting skills, grocery shopping skills, and saving skills.