The Jeanne Clery Internship is designed to support Barnard students who would like to participate in meaningful gender-based violence prevention work experiences and may not otherwise be able to do so without funding.
Being Barnard
Being Barnard offers a holistic approach to defining and pursuing healthy relationships. This is a brave space that embraces affirmative consent, boundaries, informed dating practices, sexual respect, violence prevention education, and more.
We provide one-on-one confidential consultations, campus-wide campaigns, educational programming, community building, outreach, advocacy, and intervention.
Confidential Advising
Being Barnard full-time staff are a confidential resource at Barnard. They are able to provide one-on-one support on a full range of questions, concerns, and ideas related to healthy relationships — and also general questions about overlapping well-being topics (make an appointment here).
106A LeFrak Center (Mental Well-Being Suite)
Mondays - Friday 9 - 5 pm.
Open Office Hours Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from 12-4 pm
beingbarnard@barnard.edu*
* Please note that this email is not meant for emergency use and is not monitored 24/7.
Being Barnard offers an empowering and holistic approach to defining and pursuing healthy relationships. This is a brave space that embraces sexual health and wellness, affirmative consent and boundaries, safe dating, violence prevention education, and more. We provide one-on-one confidential consultations, campus-wide campaigns, educational programming, community building, outreach, advocacy, and intervention.
This initiative is a showcase of the College’s commitment to going above and beyond the requirements of New York State’s Enough Is Enough law and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. That commitment extends beyond compliance through Barnard’s continued engagement with violence prevention advocacy, including the Clery Internship inspired by the work of Constance Clery ’66 and Howard Clery.
It is our hope that by addressing a multitude of interwoven topics like affirmative consent, personal boundaries, self-care, bystander intervention, sexual violence education and prevention, and social identities and power, we may both promote the skills and knowledge necessary for healthy relationships. This is vitally important in the context of a women's college — to find joy and connection in healthy relationships with others. Additionally, sexual assault and interpersonal violence affect students of all genders, identities, and backgrounds, and are widely recognized as not being isolated issues but part of a much larger societal picture. We aim to advance the project of reducing and one day eliminating sexual assault and violence from our campus and global communities.
Questions about accessing resources through Being Barnard? Email beingbarnard@barnard.edu.
Ways to Get Involved
Established in Spring 2018, the Student Advisory Team for Violence Prevention is a volunteer opportunity that empowers students to actively engage in violence prevention initiatives at Barnard College.
In the Relationship Well-Being Certificate Program, students are equipped with foundational skills to build, maintain, and navigate interpersonal relationships with confidence, both in-person and online.
Learn about upcoming events, resources, and programs by following us @beingbarnard
Are you interested in having a Being Barnard workshop facilitated for your class, residents, student organization, or department? Workshop topics range from affirmative consent, building and maintaining healthy relationships, bystander intervention, and ways to support those who have experienced violence.
Barnard strives to provide numerous health, wellness, violence prevention, and survivor support resources for our students. To learn more about our confidential and non-confidential campus resources as well as valuable off-campus resources and online resources, click the link above.