health, Safety & Wellbeing

NYU Silver is committed to building a community where every person is valued, welcomed and supported by campus-wide collaborative efforts that advance diversity, equity, and inclusion.

In the event students do experience harm as a result of identity-based bias, discrimination, harassment, and/or retaliation, our Office of Silver Student Experience, in collaboration with Silver students, faculty, staff, alumni; our Social Justice Praxis Committee; and NYU’s Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) and Office of Global Inclusion (OGI), has developed a Silver Climate Support Protocol for Students. It is designed to empower the person who has been targeted by facilitating community care and restorative resolution, providing support in reporting to NYU’s Bias Response Line as well as offering peer assistance in navigating both the University- and School-level processes.

While we are continuing to develop and seek resources to support similar School-level protocols for Silver faculty and staff, we have detailed the university- and school-level reporting procedures for Silver faculty and staff who believe that they have been subjected to identity-based bias, discrimination, harrassment, and/or retaliation should follow.

Counseling and Wellness Resources Available for Students

• Counseling and Wellness Services (CWS) can help with any mental health concerns you might experience, including stress, anxiety, alcohol or drugs, eating, depression, family issues, suicidal thoughts, and more. They offer individual counseling, group counseling, wellness workshops, referrals to long-term services in the community, and long-term psychiatric medication services on-site. Except for psychiatry services, all counseling services are provided at no cost.
  
  

• No problem is too big or too small: Call, chat, make an appointment – or meet with a counselor in a same-day Urgent Counseling session.

• Counseling appointments are available in person and virtually. If you need a private space for a CWS counseling session, they've got you covered!
  
  Please do not visit in person without an appointment. If you need Urgent Counseling, please contact the NYU Wellness Exchange by phone at (212) 443-9999, via email at wellness.exchange@nyu.edu, or via the Wellness Exchange App.

Bias and Harassment

If You Are Experiencing Bias or Harassment

• Report it to the NYU Bias Response Line via bias.response@nyu.edu, (212) 998-2277, or by completing the Bias Response form.

• NYU Silver has a Climate Support Protocol for Students, separate from and complementary to NYU’s Bias Response Line, which is designed to provide a support system for students who have experienced harm based on their identity(ies).

• Students can also discuss their experience directly with Director of Student Impact and Innovation Dr. Richeleen Dashield at rad9975@nyu.edu.

Reporting Sexual Misconduct

Through the NYU Wellness Exchange, students can access confidential support in response to incidents of sexual misconduct, relationship violence, and stalking. Crisis Response Counselors (CRCs) are accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week through the Wellness Exchange Sexual Assault Support Line at (212) 443-9999.

Note: If the incident occurred at a Practicum placement, you must report it to Dr. Anne Dempsey, Assistant Dean for Practicum Education & Community Partnerships at anne.dempsey@nyu.edu.