Care Team

IF YOU WITNESS AN EMERGENCY, CONTACT Rutgers University Police Department. 

If you have noticed student behavior which is not an emergency, but which you are concerned about contact the CARE Team. The team may be contacted in several ways.

The CARE Team will do its best to keep your information private. If you prefer that your name not be revealed to the student you are concerned about, it will be kept confidential. In some cases, the information you provide will only be known to you and so the student you are concerned about may know its source. The Team will always discuss this matter with you before taking any action that would make your identity known. The CARE Team’s responsibility is to provide help for a student who may need it while providing support for faculty, students or staff who have come forward with their concerns. Please note that the CARE Team is not a confidential resource. Two of the confidential resources on campus are the Counseling Center and Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance (VPVA).

The CARE Team includes a staff member from the Counseling Center. Reporting your concerns to the CARE Team ensures that your concern will be immediately directed to a qualified person, who will be able to determine the next best course of action to help a student in need of assistance, whether that means Counseling or another campus resource.

The CARE Team will confirm that we have responded to your concern in some way. In order to protect the privacy of the student you are concerned about, we will not provide you with detailed information regarding our findings or actions in a given situation unless it is necessary. We ask that you recognize our requirement to maintain student privacy and that you follow-up with us again if your concern persists. Each time that you contact The CARE Team, you share important perspectives that we would not know about unless you provide them. We address every concern and take each report seriously.

The CARE Team is not an emergency resource. If you witness an emergency, contact Rutgers Police at 973. 353. 5111.

Yes, students may send concerns about their peers to the CARE Team. If you are aware of or have witnessed an incident involving a friend or classmate that concerns you, fill out the concern form and the CARE Team will follow up with the concern.

Based on the type of incident or concern you report, the CARE Team will contact you in order to get additional information and/or other crucial details. From there, the Team will determine the most appropriate course of action to take using the information you have shared and any other information that has been gathered. The CARE Team’s role is to determine the level of urgency and recommend support resources.

The student that you report will be given the support and assistance they require by the CARE Team and other University and/or community resources. The primary purpose of the Team is to provide help to students who are in a state of crisis. When you report a student that you are concerned about, you are ensuring that they will receive the best possible assistance from qualified staff members.