Empower

Furman Counseling Center is located in Hewitt, First Floor: 212-854-2092.

The Furman Counseling Center promotes the social and emotional development of Barnard students to facilitate their richest experience of college life.  The center offers therapy, groups, workshops, and medication to assist students in maintaining emotional and mental health.  Furman supports the College’s commitment to diversity, raising awareness of systems of oppression and unequal access to resources, and work to promote social justice. 

Well Woman is located in 119 Reid Hall (first floor of the Quad): 212-854-3063. 

The mission of Barnard’s Well Woman Health Promotion Program is to promote the health and wellness of the Barnard student body through peer education, educational programming, individual health behavior consultation, campus-wide health campaigns, community outreach, and advocacy. Well Woman supports wellness as an integral component of learning. Their programs aim to help students achieve their academic and developmental potential while at Barnard, and to prepare them to make positive health decisions throughout their lives so they can fully engage in the world.

Well Woman hosts open staff and peer educator office hours, weekly programs, and special events. Please view the Well Woman page for further information.  

Being Barnard is located at 122 Reid Hall: 212-853-0145.  

Being Barnard is the College’s ongoing sexual violence awareness initiative, created with the input of students and staff. Through a comprehensive array of programs offered by Being Barnard staff and numerous campus partners, students can learn skills, engage in discussion, and gain insight & support in the following important social areas: wellness, relationships, intervention, social identities & social power, and violence education. For more information on each of these areas, please view the Being Barnard page.  

Sexual Violence Response & the Rape Crisis/Anti-Violence Support Center (SVR) at Columbia University works to provide direct services and support to survivors and co-survivors of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and other forms of gender-based violence, as well as prevention programming to members of the campus community.  Please view their web-page for additional information regarding their prevention and programming efforts.

Violence Against Women – It’s a Men’s Issue

Domestic violence and sexual abuse are often called "women’s issues.” But in this bold, blunt talk, Jackson Katz points out that these are intrinsically men’s issues — and shows how these violent behaviors are tied to definitions of manhood. A clarion call for us all — women and men — to call out unacceptable behavior and be leaders of change.

Find Your Voice Against Gender Violence

This talk begins with a personal story of sexual violence that may be difficult to listen to. But that’s the point, says citizen journalist Meera Vijayann: Speaking out on tough, taboo topics is the spark for change. Vijayann uses digital media to speak honestly about her experience of gender violence in her home country of India — and calls on others to speak out too.

Love Is Respect - The Line

Where is the line between love and control? student created PSA.  

One Student is a non-provide organization that provides students and their allies with programs, resources, and opportunities to address sexual violence.  Visit their website for blogs and videos created by students for students.

Give and expect respect.  Visit the National Domestic Violence Hotline project, loveisrespect.org, described as the ultimate resource to engage, educate and empower youth and young adults to prevent and end abusive relationships.   

Learn more about IPV behaviors:  www.loveisrespect.org/is-this-abuse/power-and-control-wheel