The Brook Center utilizes proactive, evidence-based strategies, primary prevention programming, and best practices to assist students in creating healthy relationships with themselves and others to cultivate an ethic of wellbeing. We create an environment where students can focus on their academic, personal, spiritual, and social growth in a community that encourages individual drive toward growth. Through open dialogue and critical analysis, we empower students to explore their own identities, socialization, and health behaviors to develop agency and authenticity. The Center seeks the holistic development of all students in our Marianist community which values the dignity of each person, so that they may succeed, thrive, and contribute to their communities through positive social change.

“I am like a brook that makes no effort to overcome obstacles in its way. All the obstacles can do is hold me up for a while, as a brook is held up; but during that time it grows broader and deeper and after a while it overflows the obstruction and flows along again. This is how I am going to work.”

~Fr. William Joseph Chaminade