Social Services, a unit within University Health Services, provides students with specialized counseling in several areas, including SVSH. Social Services works with survivors in one-on-one and group settings, and offers counseling, support with academic adjustment requests, and referrals. Counselors also provide support and psycho-education to students who are respondents in a case and/or are concerned they have caused harm and wish to work towards positive behavioral change.
In 2022-23, Social Services provided individual counseling for 107 survivors and 6 respondents. Individual appointments for those clients totaled to more than 484 hours. On average, survivors had 4 appointments with a Social Services counselor, while respondents had an average of 6.5 appointments. The Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 peer groups for survivors had 8 and 6 people, respectively.
As shown in Figure 23, the most common type of SVSH for which clients sought services from Social Services in 2022-23 was sexual assault (53%), followed by interpersonal violence (22.7%). “Sexual Violence” is a category used by Social Services that includes sexual harassment, other related behaviors, and reasons that were unknown to the counselor. This category made up 15.2% of the clients; stalking made up 9.1%. Because the same client may seek counseling from Social Services due to multiple forms of harm, the total number of types of harm in Figure 23 (N=132) is higher than the total number of clients served.
