UAB Resources
UAB offers an array of resources for individual and collective wellness. The Office of Wellness has compiled and organized these based on our five dimensions of wellness:
Emotional: Resources to help cope effectively with life’s stresses, create satisfying relationships, and develop the ability to adapt to change and difficult times
UAB Employee Assistance & Counseling Center: offers free, confidential support services to all UAB employees and their immediate household. Includes 15 free counseling and life coaching sessions
UAB Medicine Office of Wellness: Ph.D. and M.D. wellness champions offer conversations for growth & wellbeing. Available to faculty, physicians, Advanced Practice Providers, medical residents, medical students, biomedical graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows
Hopeful Healing: monthly support group for coping with chronic illnesses, offered through EACC
Coping Conversations: monthly virtual discussion to provide tools for coping with life’s stresses, offered through EACC
Physical: Resources to help take care of one’s body for optimal health and functioning
UAB Employee Wellness: provides resources and opportunities to help employees live well
eMedicine: offers on-demand, virtual healthcare
Urgent Care: offers quick, convenient access to healthcare for non-life threatening illnesses and injuries
UAB Medicine Addiction Recovery: offers individual, group, and an Intensive Outpatient Program for alcohol and substance use disorders. Classes and events, as well as recovery resources are also available
Sleep/Wake Disorders Center: provides advanced testing, diagnosis, and treatment of sleep disorders
University Rec Center: offers gym memberships, outdoor rentals, group classes, personal training, and intramural sports
UAB Walking Trails: eight routes offering a variety of distances all over the medical and academic campus
Weight Loss Medicine: offers services to individuals looking to lose weight and keep it off
Tobacco Cessation: offers individual and group coaching, as well as online resources, to help quit smoking
Intellectual: Resources to help recognize one’s creative abilities and expand knowledge and skills
UAB Learning & Development: offers opportunities to enhance professional development for UAB faculty and staff
LinkedIn Learning: online learning resource platform that helps employees learn business, technology, and creative skills. UAB offers free membership to benefit-eligible UAB employees.
Art Therapy: monthly virtual art group, hosted by EACC
The Common Thread: explore inclusivity through practical educational modules
Spiritual: Resources to help one find and expand sense of purpose and meaning in life
Selfcare Studio: regular sessions to enhance creativity and focus on personal wellness
Pastoral Care: Chaplains are available (regardless of faith) for emergency visits, office/patient room visits, or home visits
Commission of the Status of Women: promotes gender inclusion and equity by supporting and improving options and opportunities for women
Alliance for LBGTQ Equality: provides advocacy, support, and networking for all members that identity as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and allies
African American Faculty Association: provides faculty with support and mentoring for professional development, advocacy, and networking for African Americans
Occupational: Resources to help one find a sense of satisfaction and enrichment with work that allows for meeting current and future financial obligations
UAB Ombuds: provides confidential, impartial conflict resolution assistance to UAB faculty, staff, mentored graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows for University related conflicts
Financial Wellness Program: offers personalized counseling, educational seminars and additional resources designed to help employees cope with financial stressors, build financial skills and feel confident about their future
UAB Incident Reporting: report car accidents, on-the-job injuries, property damage or hospital/clinic incidents
Additional Resources
Take 5 Tuesday Wellness Email: weekly newsletter that highlights 5 wellness resources (internal and external) to UAB.
MyHealthRewards: earn up to $350 for healthy behaviors. Available to all benefit-eligible employees that are enrolled in a medical plan
UAB Employee Perks Program: allows UAB faculty and staff to save money (real estate, travel, retail, electronics, etc.)
BWell App: explore wellness events on campus and UAB resources. App offers a customizable self-care plan, habit tracker, and a section for “finding calm” that includes breathing techniques, yoga and more.
myStrength app: provides access to web and mobile tools for increased emotional health and wellbeing