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Belonging is Everyone’s Work

The Well-Being Collective brings students, staff, and faculty together to strengthen belonging and well-being through relationships, identity awareness, and collaborative systems change—so our community feels seen, supported, and able to thrive.

Find Your Community

Care, Connection, and Belonging

A cross-campus relational network strengthening belonging through practice, partnership, and student-led systems insight.

Relational Practice

Belonging grows through relationships, care-based facilitation, and identity-aware collaboration. 

Student-Led Inquiry

Students surface lived experience, map systems, and co-design improvements through WeLAB. 

Network Weaving

We connect people, units, and campuses to strengthen navigation, support, and shared responsibility. 

Ethos

The Well-Being Collective strengthens belonging and well-being across UConn by centering lived experience, honoring identity, and cultivating collaborative systems change. We support a relational campus culture where care is operational, navigation is clear, and students, staff, and faculty share responsibility for building a connected, thriving university.

Belonging is not a single program. It is a practice—a way of being in relationship with one another inside a large institution that often.


Community Connections

The Well-Being Collective is not a department—it’s a network. Here are some of the ways community members experience connection, leadership, and shared care within the ecosystem.

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WeLAB

A student-led research and design lab where students investigate belonging, surface identity-centered insight, and prototype improvements that shape real institutional change.

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Caring Community Pop-Ups

Relational gatherings where staff, faculty, and students build trust, practice grounding and facilitation tools, and strengthen the everyday relationships that sustain belonging.

See Caring Community Pop-Ups
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Mutual Aid Network

A solidarity-based care network connecting community members through shared needs and offers—reducing isolation, strengthening navigation, and making support feel human, not transactional.

Explore the Mutual Aid Network
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The Welcome Quilt

A community-building initiative that weaves university and local partners together through creative collaboration, care, and shared storytelling—reminding new members they are welcomed, held, and part of something larger.

Discover the Welcome Quilt
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Upcoming Events

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Our Legacy

Built by the community,
for the community.

The Well-Being Collective exists because of the students, staff, faculty, and community members whose insight, care, relational labor, networks, and courage shape the experience of belonging at UConn. Our work is a reflection of their brilliance, honesty, resilience, and hope. 

Land Acknowledgement

We would like to begin by acknowledging that the land on which we gather is the territory of the Eastern Pequot, Golden Hill Paugussett, Lenape, Mashantucket Pequot, Mohegan, Nipmuc and Schaghticoke Peoples who have stewarded this land throughout the generations. We thank them for their strength and resilience in protecting this land, and aspire to uphold our responsibilities according to their example.