Bethel Uni­ver­sity Well­ness Cen­ter Spon­sors Sup­port Group 

MISHAWAKA- In pre­vi­ous years, Bethel Uni­ver­sity has of­fered a cam­pus sup­port group for women who have ex­pe­ri­enced sex­ual vi­o­lence. This year, Bethel Uni­ver­si­ty’s Well­ness Cen­ter has part­nered with the Fam­ily Jus­tice Cen­ter to bring back this sup­port. 

Meet­ings will be held at the Fam­ily Jus­tice Cen­ter on Thurs­days at 3:00 p.m. Stu­dents who are in­ter­ested in at­tend­ing this group should reach out to RJ Jen­nings, as­so­ci­ate di­rec­tor of coun­sel­ing ser­vices at Bethel Uni­ver­sity, for dates and in­for­ma­tion about free trans­porta­tion. The group is de­signed to be a ten-week pro­gram; how­ever, stu­dents are not re­quired to com­mit to all ten weeks. 

“They need to know that they are not mar­gin­al­ized be­cause of some­thing that hap­pened to them,” Jen­nings said. “They get to be out­side of that.” 

Ac­cord­ing to Jen­nings, the part­ner­ship with the Fam­ily Jus­tice Cen­ter will help con­nect stu­dents to ex­perts who can also pro­vide ad­di­tional con­sult­ing or le­gal ad­vice. Stu­dents who want more in­for­ma­tion can con­tact Rj.Jen­nings@bethelu­ni­ver­ity.edu or visit the Well­ness Cen­ter on cam­pus. 

“Sur­viv­ing is em­pow­er­ing,” Jen­nings said. “What was taken from you now gets put back in your hands.”