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Counseling Take care of yourself Ithaca Academic Cornell

Cornell offers a variety of counseling, prevention, and wellness programs and services for students. These include:

• Campus Life - 255-5511, 2336 S. Balch Hall, residence units live-in professionals and paraprofessionals provide crisis intervention and creative problem-solving through counseling, information, and referrals.
• Contraception, Gynecology, and Sexuality Services - Gannett: Cornell University Health Services, 255-3978, offers confidential counseling and medical services for contraception, emergency contraception, gynecological problems, pap smears, yearly exams, sexually transmissible disease.
• Cornell Police - Emergency, call 911, Nonemergency, 255-1111, 255-1113 (TDD), G2 Barton Hall; Lost and Found unit: 255-7197,Crime Prevention unit: 255-7404, provides 24-hour police, security-related and emergency services within the Cornell community.
• Cornell United Religious Work - 255-4214, 118 Anabel Taylor Hall, offers help from religious staff and denominational advisors.
• Fraternity and Sorority Affairs - 255-2310, 5th floor of Willard Straight Hall, greeks@cornell.edu, provides administrative support, advisement, and various training workshops for undergraduates and alumni.
• Nutrition Resources - groups and information for healthy eating.
• Office of Minority Educational Affairs Committee on Special Educational Projects (COSEP) - 255-3841, 100 Barnes Hall, provides information, advocacy, short-term counseling, and referral services for minority students.
• Smoking Cessation - can help you quit

In the Ithaca community, these services are available:

• Ithaca Rape Crisis, Crime Victims Assistance Program, 24-hour crisis hotline - 408 W. State St. 277-5000 - 24 hour hotline
• Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service, 24-hour crisis line (anonymous and confidential - 272-1616, 272-1505, postvention and education programs, telephone counseling, information and referral, and assessment of suicide risk; traumatic-death postvention services.
• Tompkins County Task Force for Battered Women / Child Sexual Abuse Project , 24-hour crisis hotline - 277-5000 - 24 hr hotline

Cornell offers many Academic Services to students, including:

• College of Arts and Sciences Advising - 255-5004, 55 Goldwin Smith Hall
• Cornell Career Services - 255-5221, 103 Barnes Hall, provides a range of services and resources to help students reach decisions on majors and careers, pursue internships and summer and full-time positions, and apply for admission to graduate and professional school. Each college also has a Career Center.
• Cornell in Washington
• Hotel School Offices of Student Services - 255-3076, 180 Statler Hall
• Sexual Harassment policy and procedure
• Student Disability Services - Arranges for the provision of auxiliary aids, assistive technology, and reasonable accommodations for all qualified students with documented disabilities. 254-4545, 420 CCC, Garden Ave.
• The Learning Strategies Center - Provides students with tutoring and supplemental courses in math and sciences, and assistance in improving general study skills. 255-6310, 420 CCC, Garden Avenue Extension.
• Writing Workshop Walk-In Service - 255-6349, 174 Rockefeller Hall, 320 Noyes Center, 222 Robert Purcell Union.

In the wider Cornell community, there are services to help faculty and staff. These include:

• Human Resources - helps with questions about retirement, benefits, and quality of life issues.
• The Office of Workforce Diversity, Equity and Life Quality - The Office of Workforce Diversity, Equity and Life Quality was established in January 2000 to provide leadership to the Cornell community in the areas of equal opportunity, affirmative action, diversity, and the 'balance'' between work and personal life. The office serves as a liaison to local community organizations that address the employment interests of individuals from traditionally underrepresented groups.