‘Promoting the physical, mental, emotional, and social health of men, and attitudes and behaviors that will benefit everyone.’
An event to help men find a sense of community on the UO campus that promotes healthy lifestyles. We use this programming to increase campus awareness about our organization’s mission and services. This is an ideal way to recruit members and engage campus men to promote positive masculinity.
An event to promote awareness and prevention of interpersonal violence (IPV). Men represent the majority of IPV perpetration, and one way to prevent the intergenerational cycle of violence is for men to serve as role models for other men and advocate for IPV survivors. We offer this event in partnership with community organizations, and UO students, faculty, and staff.
A psychoeducational class for male students who have committed conduct violations. The goals of this class include creating awareness of how male socialization and role expectation might encourage conduct violations, increasing strategies to cope with stress and encouraging male help seeking. The class was first offered in Spring quarter of 2006 and for the last two years have been offered every quarter of the academic year.
This new program is a joint effort with the Holden Leadership Center and Greek Life aimed to promote positive masculinity in the UO Fraternity system. This will include a UO class offering leadership training to fraternity leaders to increase their awareness of how their male socialization might contribute to their leadership style and how to motivate fraternity men to honor the chapter’s values.
The UOMC provides training to undergraduate and graduate students in the social services though volunteer, practicum and internship involvement, training workshops, and leadership/intervention opportunities to develop and implement innovative treatment strategies with college men.