On Campus Resources

Counseling and Mental Health Services
The Counseling Center staff provide counseling and support for students. Being sexually assaulted is usually a highly traumatic experience. Survivors often find professional counseling helps them understand, cope, and recover from effects of the trauma. All contacts are confidential.
Ph: 617-627-3360

Counselor on-Call
Campus police will anonymously page the counselor on call for you. A Counselor is on call for after hours emergencies when CMHS is closed. The on call counselor is a trained professional who can provide you with confidential emotional support and assist you in getting help you need. You just need to call TUPD and say, "I need to speak to a counselor on call," and you don't have to give the police your name.
Ph: 617-627-3030

Sexual Assault Clinician (SAC)
The SAC is one of our mental health clinicians who is available to confidentially assist any student who has experienced sexual assault or relationship violence. Her name is Sue Mahoney and she is generally available during regular office hours. Her office is at Health Services.
Ph: 617-627-3350

Health Service
Health Service is a good resource for students who have experienced sexual assault. When Health Service is open, the clinicians can provide medication to prevent pregnancy, and to reduce the risk of sexually transmitted disease (except for HIV prevention, and staff can direct you to these resources locally). Staff at the Health Service are not able to do the official evidence collection exam after a sexual assault but they can discuss your options with you, help you decide what you want to do and help you access the other services you might need. For information on the evidence collection kit click visit the SANE website. All treatment at Health Service is confidential, and nobody, including the parents or guardians, the police or university administrators will be contacted without your permission. There is no charge for care at Health Service.
Visit the Health Service website for hours.
Ph: 617-627-3350.

Seeking Medical Treatment
The risk of sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy can be greatly reduced if you seek medical care as soon as possible. Students usually go to Health Service or to Beth Israel Deaconess (BIDMC) Emergency Room for medical evaluation following a sexual assault. Staff at the Emergency room are able to provide treatment for HIV prevention. Additionally, a survivor is able to have an evidence collection kit done by a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner at BIDMC and automatically, they will page an advocate from the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC) to come and provide support during your treatment there. Health Service can help you get to the Emergency Room and advise you about supports available on campus. You will not be charged for the care in either the ER or at Health Service.

Sexual Assault Policy
Sexual Assault is a crime of violence that is never acceptable and will not be tolerated at Tufts University. The University is dedicated to the elimination of sexual assault within the Tufts community. Accordingly, the University takes all allegations of sexual assault seriously, and is committed to providing information, resources, and clear direction to the members of the Tufts community so that together we can help prevent and respond to sexual assault. The University affirms the right of survivors to decide how they may best use university and other support systems and processes to address crimes of sexual assault. Retaliation against anyone who brings forward a complaint of sexual assault is strictly prohibited. Anyone responsible for retaliation, whether that person is the accused party or someone affiliated with the accused, will be subject to disciplinary action by the University.

Sexual Assault / Misconduct Adjudication Process
The revised version of the Sexual Assault Adjudication Policy is as of 9/1/11. If you have any questions, please contact Bruce Reitman, Dean of Students.

Health Education
The Department of Health Education is a non-confidential program that provides students with information about issues surrounding sexual and relational violence, stalking, and student-to-student harassment. Health Education can educate students regarding resources and services available both on and off campus. Health Education is located on the lower level of the Health Service.

Tufts University Campus Police Department
You can contact the campus police by activating one of the blue light phones. The Tufts Police can help with the following: transportation to the hospital, safe housing on campus, reporting the assault if you wish to do so, and obtaining a restraining order.
Ph: 617-627-6911 or x 66911 (emergency)
Main number: 617-627-3030

Safety Escort Services
For your personal safety, the Tufts University Police provides vehicle and walking escorts twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, between campus locations, to nearby transit stations, as well as neighborhoods surrounding campus. Students should contact the University Police by using the non-emergency number listed below. If there was underage drinking involved in a sexually violent situation or threat, NO punitive action will be taken. You will NOT be penalized. Your safety is what counts.
Ph: 617-627-3030 or from campus phone at x73030

Dean of Students Office
Bruce Reitman, Dean of Student Affairs, and Veronica Carter, Judicial Affairs Officer
The Dean of Students office can help arrange for safe housing, stay-away orders, and can facilitate disciplinary action, should you want to pursue it.
Ph: 617-627-3158

The LGBT Center
Tom Bourdon, Director
The programs and services of The LGBT Center support the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, faculty, staff and alumni of Tufts University. The Center is available to anyone on campus interested in learning more about LGBT-related subjects or issues of sexual and gender identity. The Center is committed to maintaining LGBT visibility on campus and providing campus-wide education on sexual and gender identity and the effects of homophobia and transphobia. Tom can help connect you with any services relevant to LGBT needs as they relate to sexual harassment and assault.
Ph: 617.627.5770

Women's Center
Steph Gauchel, Director
The Women's Center mission is to advance the personal growth and intellectual development of all students, and especially women, particularly on issues related to women and gender. We are committed to fostering student leadership and helping students identify and understand societal structures that relate to issues of power, privilege, and oppression as well as providing resources to graduate students, faculty and staff, alumni, and parents. In this pursuit, the center offers programming, advising, information, and resources about women, men, and gender that are informed by other aspects of identity such as race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and socioeconomic class.
Ph: 617-627-4640

Group of Six
The Group of Six are six culture centers that may be able to connect you to ethnically relevant, identity specific relevant resources and support if you should need them. You can also contact the Sexual Violence Resource Coordinator (SVRC) to help you as well. The group of six consists of: The Africana, Asian-American, Latino, International, LGBT and Women's Centers. The Director of each center can help guide you. Learn more >

If there are students with particular cultural concerns, please contact the sexual violence resource coordinator for a referral at 617-627-3752.

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