Wellness encompasses many components of life satisfaction.
At Spectrum Center, we focus on three in particular: mental/emotional wellness, physical wellness, and sexual wellness.
Our wellness services support:
- We have a small station of cosmetic items, facial masculinization and feminization with makeup guides, and new undergarments to support your gender identity and expression. Most of the makeup has been donated by community members. Any used cosmetics have been properly sanitized and cleaned for students to pick up.
- We offer a gender affirming clothing closet program once a semester. Students are able to come and browse a selection of donated clothing items that will enable them in alignment with their gender. There is no cost for students, all clothing is free to take.
- We also connect students to chest binders and gender-affirming undergarments.
We want students to thrive at the university. A massive barrier to thriving includes struggling to meet basic needs. Spectrum offers basic hygiene products like soap, deodorant, tooth brushes, menstrual products etc. to help meet those needs.
We also work in partnership with—and are ready to connect students to—other units on campus, including Maize & Blue Cupboard, for wrap-around support.
We believe that sexual health and wellness is incredibly important.
- The center offers free safer sex items like condoms, dental dams, and lube.
- We strive to host events about healthy relationships, consent, and safer sex that include and respect asexual and aromantic people.
- We provide access to free HIV/STI testing with our partners at Unified/Vivent.
Learn more about sexual health, wellness, and testing.
STUDENT SUPPORT
Get involved and support this work
If you are interested in helping support wellness for students, please consider donating. Donations can be dropped off at Spectrum Center in Suite 3020 of the Michigan Union, 530 South State Street, Ann Arbor.
Please donate
- New hygiene items
- New cosmetics
- New undergarments in package
- Accessories that can be sanitized
- Clean, gently used chest binders
During our semesterly clothing drive only, we will also accept clean, gently used clothing.
Please do not donate
- Unclean clothing or clothing with stains, rips, holes, profanity, slurs
- Previously worn/used undergarments
- Any opened cosmetics or hygiene products