Be Safe Resources
FOR URGENT SAFETY ISSUES, STUDENTS SHOULD CALL HARVARD UNIVERSITY POLICE DEPARTMENT AT 617.495.1212. FOR A LIFE-THREATENING HEALTH PROBLEM, STUDENTS SHOULD CALL 911 (OR 9-911 FROM A CAMPUS PHONE) OR GO TO THE NEAREST HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM.
ON CAMPUS RESOURCES
(skip down to Off Campus Resources)
5 Linden Street
Monday-Friday: 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
www.bsc.harvard.edu
617.495.2581
The Bureau of Study Counsel is a resource to help students thrive in educational and personal development at Harvard. Services include: academic and personal counseling; groups/workshops on issues related to student life and learning; peer tutoring in specific courses; and the Harvard Course in Reading and Study Strategies. Students are invited to visit the Bureau of Study Counsel website for more information, or call for an appointment with a counselor.
Office of the Dean of Harvard College
University Hall, 1st Floor
617.495.1558 for more information
The College Safety Committee meets monthly throughout the academic year to address student concerns about campus safety. The Committee creates monthly campus safety campaigns and conducts an annual safety walk across campus to identify poor lighting, monitor blue light locations, and make recommendations for designated pathways. Students are encouraged to give feedback about any campus safety issue to their Undergraduate Council representative who will bring these comments to the full Committee. Students interested in serving on the College Safety Committee should contact the Undergraduate Council or the number listed.
7 Linden Street
www.huhs.harvard.edu/AODS
617.496.0133
Drug & Alcohol Peer Advisors (DAPAs) are a select group of student-leaders who have been trained to respond to questions about alcohol and other drug issues at Harvard. DAPAs provide an invaluable service to the University as health opinion leaders, resources to their peers, and ambassadors to the Office of Alcohol & Other Drug Services (AODS). They help to inform and implement programs, policies, and other prevention strategies overseen by AODS.
Sunday-Thursday: 10:30 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.
Friday and Saturday: 10:30 p.m. to 3:00 a.m.
www.hupd.harvard.edu/prevention_hucep.php
617.384.8237 (38HUCEP)
The Harvard University Campus Escort Program (HUCEP) is a campus safety program developed by Harvard College in partnership with the Harvard University Police Department. HUCEP teams, who are trained and supervised by the Harvard University Police Department, provide walking escorts to students, faculty, and staff seven nights a week during the academic year and cover the Yard, River, and Quad areas. Teams are made up of two undergraduate and/or graduate students and are identified by their brightly colored vests, labeled HUCEP. Escorts respond to both calls for service through the HUCEP hotline and by being flagged down by students, faculty, and staff in need of an escort. Escort teams are also encouraged to ask solo walkers if they would like an escort to their destination. If you are interested in serving as an escort for the HUCEP program, contact the Harvard University Police Department or the Office of the Dean of the College at the number above. Hours are flexible.
75 Mount Auburn Street, 5th Floor
Nights, Weekends, and Holidays-24 hours a day
www.huhs.harvard.edu
617.495.5711
Clinicians are available to provide advice and treatment of urgent health problems whenever the other health services are closed, including weekends and holidays, 365 days a year. The after-hours entrance is midway down the ramp that runs underneath Holyoke Center between Dunster Street and Holyoke Street, near the Mt. Auburn Street end of the block.
75 Mt. Auburn Street, 4th Floor
Monday and Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday: 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Summer hours vary
(After Hours Urgent Care on the 5th floor)
www.huhs.harvard.edu
617.495.2042
HUHS Mental Health Service maintains a staff of professionals ready to help with counseling and support for victims of sexual assault or rape. HUHS Mental Health Service provides individual, couples, and group therapies, including biofeedback, stress management, conflict resolution, and medication management. They address a wide range of student life issues (eating and identity concerns, problems with roommates, family, academics, sexual assault, etc.). Counseling is confidential and documentation is kept separate from your main medical record.
75 Mount Auburn Street, 3rd Floor
Monday-Friday: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(After Hours Urgent Care Clinic: Nights, Weekends, and Holidays)
www.huhs.harvard.edu
617.495.5711
HUHS primary care department will provide you with medical treatment and support in the aftermath of a rape or assault. When contacting HUHS for treatment, be sure to specify that you need immediate medical attention. HUHS Primary Care provides the initial point of contact offering acute medical and emotional care, emergency contraception, STD tests and treatment, and routine gynecologic care. All records are confidential.
1033 Massachusetts Avenue
24 hours a day, 365 days a year
www.hupd.harvard.edu/about_hupd.php
617.495.1212 (Emergency)
617.495.1215 (Non-emergency)
The mission of the HUPD is to maintain the safety and security of all students, faculty, staff and visitors of the University. Some core functions of the Department are responding to criminal incidents; checking on the well-being of students, faculty, and staff; responding to disturbances; providing escorts; taking reports of lost and stolen property; responding to lockouts; investigating suspicious activity; responding to alarms; and investigating trespassers or unwanted guests. All officers are trained to respond sensitively to reports of sexual assault and rape.
Times and locations vary; Schedules available at:
www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/shu.shtml
617.495.0400
The Shuttle Bus is designed to provide students and staff with safe, convenient transportation on the Cambridge and Allston campuses throughout the academic year, except during recesses. The service is free to members of the Harvard community. During the academic year, scheduled service includes: weekdays from 5:45 am to 4 am, weekends from 7:30 am to 1 am (Friday and Saturday night the service operates until 5 am). Pocket-sized schedules are available throughout the campuses, including the Information Center located in the Holyoke Center arcade, House offices, libraries, dining halls, registrars’ offices, and passenger transport vehicles.
7 Linden Street
Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and by appointment
www.huhs.harvard.edu/AODS
617.496.0133
The Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services (AODS) functions as a multidimensional resource for students, faculty, staff and members of the larger Harvard University community. AODS offers a wide range of programs and services that seek to meet the needs of the Harvard community through prevention, education, intervention, policy development and treatment. The Director of AODS also recruits and trains student-leaders to serve as Drug & Alcohol Peer Advisors (DAPAs), who, in turn, serve as resources to their peers on alcohol and drug-related issues at Harvard.
340 Holyoke Center
Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
www.fas.harvard.edu/~osapr/
617.495.9100 (Information and support line operates 24 hours a day)
The Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response provides confidential, 24-hour assistance and support for students who have experienced sexual assault, harassment, or relationship abuse, as well as for friends, partners, and roommates. The office provides options and information— you make the choice about what you want to do next.
Lowell House Basement, E-013
Every night: 9:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m.
www.hcs.harvard.edu/~response
617.495.9600
Response is a peer counseling organization staffed by women undergraduates to respond to issues of rape, acquaintance rape, sexual harassment, and relationship violence. The staff has been trained to provide confidential counseling and information on issues of rape, incest, abuse, and harassment, both psychological and physical. Response welcomes people who are concerned about these issues to drop by and talk and/or browse through the Response library.
Thayer Basement, Harvard Yard
Every Night: 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.
www.hcs.harvad.edu/~room13
617.495.4969
Room 13 is a confidential peer counseling group composed of students who are available nightly for counseling on any topic or just to talk. A male and female student are available each night.
www.fas.harvard.edu/~osapr/SASH
These advisers are specially trained tutors and proctors available for informal advice and information related to issues of sexual assault and harassment, and are residents within each of the Houses and in the Yard.
To reach the SASH Adviser who lives in your House or Yard dorm, contact the following:
In the Yard- Elm Yard (Canaday, Matthews, and Weld): elm-sash@fas.harvard.edu
- Ivy Yard (Apley, Hollis, Holworthy, Lionel, Massachusetts Hall, Mower, Stoughton, Straus, and Thayer): ivy-sash@fas.harvard.edu
- Crimson Yard (Grays, Greenough, Hurlbut, Pennypacker, and Wigglesworth): crimson-sash@fas.harvard.edu
- Adams: adams-sash@fas.harvard.edu
- Cabot: cabot-sash@fas.harvard.edu
- Currier: currier-sash@fas.harvard.edu
- Dudley: dudley-sash@fas.harvard.edu
- Dunster: dunster-sash@fas.harvard.edu
- Eliot: eliot-sash@fas.harvard.edu
- Kirkland: kirkland-sash@fas.harvard.edu
- Leverett: leverett-sash@fas.harvard.edu
- Lowell: lowell-sash@fas.harvard.edu
- Mather: mather-sash@fas.harvard.edu
- Pforzheimer: pfoho-sash@fas.harvard.edu
- Quincy: quincy-sash@fas.harvard.edu
- Winthrop: winthrop-sash@fas.harvard.edu
54 Dunster Street
617.495.4348 (direct, private line)
Contact: Julia Fox at jfox@fas.harvard.edu
The Sexual Harrassment Hearing Officer for the College is available to students who have experienced harassment and can offer assistance in choosing a course of action.
Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
www.ministry.harvard.edu
617.495.5529
Chaplains are available to meet and talk about spiritual concerns, and ethical and personal matters.
OFF CAMPUS RESOURCES
99 Bishop Allen Drive, Cambridge (Central Square)
Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
www.barcc.org
617.492.8306
24 Hour Hotline: 617.492.7273
BARCC provides free counseling, medical advocacy, and legal advice to survivors of rape and sexual assault, their friends and family, regardless of sex, race, physical/developmental disabilities, income, ethnicity, class, age, religion, or sexual orientation. The BARCC multicultural staff welcomes teens and adults from diverse communities throughout the greater Boston area. They are able to provide services in English, Spanish, Haitian/Creole and French.
Center for Violence Prevention and Recovery
www.bidmc.harvard.edu/display.asp?node_id=5659&leaf_id=9619
617.667.8141
The Rape Crisis Intervention Program, founded in 1974, was one of the first hospital-based rape crisis centers in the country. They provide services for survivors of sexual assault, their families, and friends. They also offer consultation to community organizations and public education.
Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Unit
617.349.3371
Investigates sexual crimes such as rape, indecent assault, indecent exposure, and peeping & spying.
www.challiance.org/departments_ii/victimsofviolence.htm
617.591.6360
The Victims of Violence (VOV) program has provided services for individuals and communities who have experienced crime, violence, or trauma. Their goal is to empower people who have suffered trauma by helping them understand their experiences and their responses.
Adult Sexual Assault Unit
McGrath Highway, Somerville
617.591.7740
Contact the DA's office to explore the possibility of prosecuting a sexual assault or rape. There is no pressure to proceed with a case after consulting with the district attorney, and your confidentiality is assured.