At UC Berkeley, different resources can assist you based on your campus affiliation (whether you're a student, staff, faculty, alumnus, or unaffiliated but you were harmed by someone who is affiliated).
Important Note: Complainants are free to seek out legal assistance or representation.
Undergraduate & graduate student resources
Confidential Resources
- Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) at University Health Services (UHS)
- Phone: (510) 642-9494
- Tang Center, 2222 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
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CAPS offers short term counseling for academic, career, and personal issues and also offers psychiatry services for circumstances when medication can help with counseling. There is no charge to get started, and all registered students can access services regardless of their insurance plan. For after-hours emergency consultation with a counselor or crisis resource referrals, students may call 855-817-5667. Please be aware that although counseling sessions are confidential, records may be subpoenaed in the event of a court case.
- Information for Visiting Scholars and Postdoctoral Appointees
- CAPS offers a broad range of services, including:
- Social Services at University Health Services (UHS)
- Phone: (510) 642-6074
- Tang Center, 2222 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
- Social Services offers topic-specific confidential counseling services aim to help students strengthen coping skills, problem-solve, and identify resources.
- Ombuds Office for Students and Postdoctoral Appointees
- Phone: (510) 642-5754
- The Ombuds Office is a confidential space where survivors can get help navigating informal and formal options and receive referrals to campus resources. The ombuds provides clarification on policy and procedures, assistance with academic accommodations, mediation and coaching on difficult situations. Visitors are empowered with information to make choices that best fit their needs.
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Student Advocate's Office, ASUC
- Phone: (510) 642-6912
- Email: help@berkeleysao.org
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The Student Advocate’s Office provides free, confidential, student-to-student casework services for undergraduate and graduate student survivors. Caseworkers are not responsible employees or mandated reporters, and can help survivors understand the resources and options they have available to them so they can make the best decisions for themselves. Casework services might include helping survivors report sexual harassment or sexual violence to the police or the Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination (OPHD), attending meetings and advocating for students, helping students file formal grievances, or connecting students to campus resources such as PATH to Care or counseling.
Please be aware Student Advocate's Office staff are not Responsible Employees, however they do not have evidentiary privilege, and therefore may be compelled to reveal information by a court of law.
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- Phone: (510) 664-7487
- Advises currently registered UC Berkeley students regarding their legal questions, rights, and obligations.
Non-Confidential Resources
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Center for Support and Intervention
- Phone: (510) 664-4250
- The Center for Support and Intervention addresses prevention and intervention for harm and violence on campus, and provides support to students experiencing or causing distress in the campus community.
- Division of Equity and Inclusion
- Phone: (510) 642-7294
- Email: vcei@berkeley.edu
- The Division of Equity & Inclusion provides leadership, accountability & inspiration to the UC Berkeley campus in integrating equity, inclusion, and diversity into all aspects of university life. Through programs and campus partnerships, the Division of Equity and Inclusion provides programs and services to all campus community members.
- E&I Community Support, Spaces & Resources for Student, Staff, and Faculty
- E&I Program and Services that Equity and Inclusion
- Centers for Educational Justice & Community Engagement in E&I
- The Centers for Educational Justice & Community Engagement website provides resources and information about options if you become the target of, or witness, a hate crime or hate-motivated act.
- Gender Equity Resource Center (GenEq)
- Phone: (510) 642-4786
- A space for the Cal community to connect with resources and campus activites, explore issues of social justice, and form a community that values and welcomes difference. GenEq serves an entry point to access resources and/or report incidents of sexual, relationship, and hate violence.
- Student Parent Resource Center
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The core services of the Student Parent Center emerged as part of the Women's Resource Center in the mid 1980's. Visionary and advocate, Alice Jordan, spearheaded the development of supportive campus policies, programs and resources at the University of California, Berkeley. Until her retirement in 2013, she devoted her entire career to advocacy for the educational and childcare needs of parents and the expansion of access to higher education as a route out of poverty for low-income families. To this day, The Student Parent Center is unique in the UC system, and one of only a handful in the country.
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- Cal Veteran Resource Center
- The Cal Veteran Services Center at UC Berkeley expands access and empowers veteran and active duty service member engagement within this public research university. We increase student veteran enrollment, support academic and co-curricular experiences, and facilitate preparation for goals beyond graduation. Our work engages individuals and the broader community to facilitate a transformational higher education experience for veterans.
- Disabled Students' Program (DSP)
- Voice: (510) 642-0518 | TTY: (510) 642-6376
- DSP promotes an inclusive environment for students with disabilities and equips disabled students with appropriate accommodations and services to achieve their individual academic goals.
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- Lower level of MLK Student Union (BNorth), Suite 72
- Provides prevention, education & emergency relief programs in the core areas of basic needs: food security, housing security & financial stability.