Below are resources for you and your family to take advantage of during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to alleviate anxiety, stay connected and manage your well-being across all dimensions of wellness. We will continue to populate this page as we learn about additional resources or more come available!
For the most up-to-date information regarding the coronavirus pandemic, visit your state's Department of Health or visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For the Ohio State community, visit the Wexner Medical Center.
For ways to keep you and your family well and strong, visit the stay safe, remain active and keep well page.
Wellness Programming
Join Buckeye Wellness for 60-minute workouts during the week. All classes will be held on a virtual platform.
Focus on the strategies and best practices you need to rejuvenate and refresh after a difficult 18 months.
Stay Calm and Well Series
This eight-week online series will help you build knowledge and skills to sustain well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This six-week series will help equip you with evidence-based strategies to build important skills to sustain well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This six-week series will help adopt evidence-based strategies and practice skills to beat the winter blues.
Learn strategies and practice skills to improve your overall health and well-being as we begin to transition into the spring and summer months.
(45 Minutes) Allaying Anxiety in Your Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Recorded Webinars
(25 Minutes) Learn how to manage working from home and the isolation of quarantine.
(25 Minutes) Quick tips on how to stay calm during this stressful time.
(18 Minutes) Learn the signs of anxiety, how to manage thought patterns and find resources to help.
Coping Strategies
The Stress, Trauma And Resilience (STAR) program is offering healthcare professionals free, daily, virtual support groups.
Utilize stress management and self-care strategies to help you cope.
An outbreak like this can be traumatizing. Learn tips and strategies for overcoming trauma.
Six tips for coping with the pandemic and helping to prevent the spread of the virus.
Coping strategies in the moment to get you through. Learn how to become aware of the signs of stress.
General Stress Reduction Strategies
Learn about why breathing matters, how to take healing breaths, practice techniques and more.
The World Health Organization outlines potential concerns for health care providers, caregivers, people in isolation and others.
Tips for what to do and how to obtain support for medical center employees.
Learn how mindfulness might be able to ease your fear as well as 10 practical tips to cope.
Mindfulness Practices During COVID-19
Download to your phone or computer for a quick and easy way to relax no matter where you are.
This guided 15-minute practice will help you get started in the daily practice of mindful walking.
Resources for your Family
Help yourself and others cope to make your community stronger
This tip sheet describes feelings and thoughts you may have during and after social distancing, quarantine and isolation.
Learn how to ease their anxiety in your children during this stressful situation and teach them how to properly wear a mask.
Visit the CDC resource center to learn about the facts for expecting mothers and the coronavirus.
Ohio State Faculty and Staff
For additional resources available to all benefits-eligible faculty and staff through Ohio State's Employee Assistance Program, please visit our website.
