If you think you or someone you know has experienced harassment, there is a variety of support options available to both students and staff.
Internal:
- Report + Support: Students and staff can disclose how they have been affected by harassment using the University’s Report + Support system. You can choose to do this anonymously, request support from an advisor or make a referral for someone else. If you choose to talk to an advisor, they will be able to talk through the reporting options and support available to you, in confidence.
- Student Wellbeing Services: From confidential one-to-one counselling to motivational and self-development group workshops, the Student Wellbeing Service is here to help and support you.
- Spectrum.Life – our Student Assistance Programme: SAP is a confidential in the moment support service that provides support to university students. The SAP service is available 24/7, 365 days a year covering numerous topics such as: Stress, Anxiety, Low mood, Financial worries, Loss & Grief, Relationship problems, Substance abuse issues and much more. You can access through a confidential, freephone telephone line, an online chat function through the platform or by requesting a call back.
- Students' Union: The Greenwich Students' Union (GSU) is independent from the above support services within the university. If you wish to speak to an advisor about an issue related to hate incident/crime, please contact the GSU Advice Team.
External:
- Victim Support: Provides free, confidential services for anyone in England and Wales who has been affected by crime, regardless of whether the crime has been reported or how long ago it happened. Tel: 0808 168 9111
- Protection Against Stalking: A national charity raising awareness of stalking and harassment and supporting victims and their families.
- Suzy Lamplugh Trust: The Suzy Lamplugh Trust is a charity that provides training, advice and campaigns for personal safety and stalking awareness. It runs the National Stalking Helpline and supports victims of stalking.
- National Stalking Helpline: Offers practical help for anyone who has been affected by stalking or harassment and has an online tool that can help you identify whether you're being stalked. (0808 8020 300)
- Paladin Service: Provides trained Independent Stalking Advocacy Caseworkers (ISACs) who can offer specialist support and advice to victims of stalking. They will help work with the victim and the police throughout an investigation, and give support to the victim during the court process. Victims can get support from an ISAC even if they haven’t reported to the police yet. Paladin also has ISACs who work with young people (aged 16 and above) who have been victims of stalking.
- Alice Ruggles Trust: Raises awareness of coercive control, harassment and cyber stalking and offers guidance on accessing help.
- Report a Stalker: Information and advice on how to report a stalker.
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