On-Campus Resources

Photo by Pete Mauney ’93 MFA ’00

This page contains health, counseling, and wellness resources and services that can be found on the Bard college campus.

On-Campus Resources

Emergency and Crisis Services

Counseling Emergencies

Counseling Emergency Services
BRAVE

BRAVE is available 24/7 to the Bard College campus community in Annandale, including to students who are enrolled on the Annandale campus but live off campus. To contact a BRAVE counselor, call Security at 845-758-7777 and ask to speak to a BRAVE counselor.

Recovery and Substance Abuse

On-Campus Resources

Please contact the Wellness Department ([email protected]) for more information on the most up-to-date recovery and substance abuse programs available. Past program offerings have included:

Bard's Harm Reduction and Recovery Committee
Peer-to-Peer Harm Reduction Group
Peer-to-Peer Recovery Group
Narcan Training
A Safe Space: peer-to-peer support for students who are affected by someone else's drinking or drug use

Visit the Off-Campus Resources page for remote resources, recovery websites, as well as local and regional inpatient and outpatient treatment programs.
Off-Campus Resources

Academic Support

Bard Learning Commons

Learning Commons

The Bard Learning Commons provides tutoring and other forms of academic support to all Bard students in all subject areas taught at the College.

Contact: Jim Keller, Director, 845-758-7051, 845-758-7812, [email protected]

Bard Learning Commons
Student Accessibility Services

Student Disability Services

Bard College is committed to providing otherwise qualified individuals with disabilities equal access to the College's academic courses, programs, and activities.

Contact: Amy Shein, Coordinator, 845-758-7532, [email protected]

Student Accessibility Services

Gender Equity and Sexual Assault/Misconduct

Office of Title IX and Nondiscrimination

Office of Title IX and Nondiscrimination

The Office of Title IX and Nondiscrimination is dedicated to preventing, responding to, and remedying any incidents of discrimination and harassment including gender-based misconduct throughout Bard and its affiliated programs. The Office ensures that fair, timely, and impartial processes are in place to address all complaints of discrimination and harassment. All members of the Bard community are encouraged to report incidents of discrimination and harassment including gender-based misconduct.

Title IX Coordinator
Lauren Gretina, J.D.
Title IX and Civil Rights Coordinator
845-758-7542
[email protected]
Sottery Hall 107

Reporting Options Reporting Form
BRAVE

BRAVE

BRAVE is a professionally directed student-service organization whose members provide anonymous and confidential crisis intervention, supportive counseling, advocacy, and ongoing education to the Bard community. Although BRAVE staff members receive particular training in issues relating to sexual assault, sexual harassment, relationship violence, and sexuality, BRAVE counselors also receive training in eating disorders, depression and suicide, sexual orientation, loneliness, isolation, anxiety, and social and academic issues.

BRAVE Website

General Wellness

Peer Health Educators

Peer Health Educators

Peer health educators are a group of 12–15 students—trained by a nurse practicer and lead by Anastasia Sielski—that facilitates conversations and events about body positivity, sexual health, contraception, safe sex, navigating relationships, and sex positivity. Invite an educator to your dorm or home to discuss relationship health and sexual health over dinner or tea.
The Dimestore

The Dimestore

The Dimestore offers free contraception (condoms, dental dams, and lube) to any and all students delivered discreetly in a brown paper bag to your campus mailbox. Graduate students can make other arrangements. Order forms are available at the Campus Post Office, or fill and submit the form online.

DETAILS AND ORDER FORM

Nutrition and Eating Disorders

Nutrition Resources

Nutrition Counseling

Ilyse Simon RD, CDN, Bard's consulting nutritionist, is available to meet with students. To schedule an appointment simply call Health and Counseling Services at 845-758-7433.
Contact: Ilyse Simon RD, CDN, 845-758-7433
Nutrition Resources
Bard EATS Website

Bard EATS

Bard EATS (Education, Advocacy, Transparency, and Sustainability) is a collaborative partnership among Bard students, dining services, faculty, and staff committed to increasing food purchasing transparency, reducing waste, decreasing the College’s carbon footprint, promoting food access, and supporting local farms and sustainable products.
Bard EATS Website

Student Clubs

Planned Parenthood Generation Action (PPGEN)

Planned Parenthood Generation Action (PPGEN)

PPGEN at Bard College fosters an engaging environment for student discussions on reproductive justice and sex education. We empower the community to actively participate in related initiatives, celebrating the legacy of Black women through practices of intersectionality, anti-racism, LGBTQ+ liberation, and abolition feminism. Contact: [email protected]
CodeRed

CodeRed

CodeRed aims to address the need for free and available period products for all. We provide tampons and pads in the bathrooms of most of campus and are working towards providing more environmentally sustainable products for free as well.

Club Heads: Maya Ellers [email protected]; Yein Kim [email protected]
Instagram: @bardcodered
Trans+

Trans+

Trans+ is an affinity group here at Bard created to make a safe space for students that identify as transgender, non-binary, or other gender-non-conforming identities. This student run club will focus on creating a community at Bard for trans students, as well as making Bard a safer place for trans students based on demonstrated needs.

Club Heads: Parker Brelsford [email protected]; McKenna Reeves [email protected]
Wellness Club

Wellness Club

The Bard Wellness Club is a group of student wellness warriors striving to improve campus life. Wellness Club hosts a variety of events at Bard designed to improve physical and emotional health, such as animal therapy, smoothie making, and care packages. Follow them on Instagram @bardwellnessclub.
QPOC (Queer People of Color)

QPOC (Queer People of Color)

This club is a space created to center the lives and experiences of the queer and gender-nonconforming people of color both on Bard's campus and beyond. It's a place for conversation and action. It's a place that recognizes and affirms the lives of those whose lives are too often forgotten and erased. Though it was made intentionally to elevate the voices of QTPOC, allies and accomplices are welcome, but only with the understanding that your voices will not be centered and that you are there to learn and support.

Club Heads: Danielle Dean [email protected]; Dana Debro [email protected]; Nicaya Johncharles [email protected]; Sammie Rosa [email protected]; Lowell Thomas [email protected]

Transportation

Campus Shuttle

Campus Shuttle

The Bard College Shuttle is intended to offer safe and reliable transportation to/from campus for students residing off campus in the neighboring villages of Tivoli and Red Hook so that they may attend class and engage in the academic life of the college.

Shuttle Schedules
Medical Transportation
Medical Transportation

Please remember that Bard is located in a rural setting. The shuttle goes into Red Hook and Tivoli daily. However, most medical providers, especially specialists, are located in Rhinebeck (10-25 mins away), Kingston (20-40 mins), Poughkeepsie (45-60 mins) and Albany (90+mins). Bard College does not routinely provide transportation to scheduled off-campus medical or psychiatric appointments, and students will need to make their own arrangements.

Options:
- Call 911
- Private car or Friends with cars
- The shuttle and local bus schedules can be found on the Bard Transportation Blog
- Community Appointment Transportation Service (CATS) run by the Bard Student Resource Group provides Bard students with free, confidential transportation to off campus health appointments
- Uber or Lyft
- Taxis :
  
  Horseless Carriage: 800-836-5466 (takes credit cards)
  
  Red Hook Taxi Service: 845-758-1478 (takes credit cards)
  
  Rhinebeck Taxi: 845-876-TAXI (cash only)

Ellen Herlihy ’25 at the ribbon cutting for ACCESS vending machine located in the Bertelsmann Campus Center. Photo by Diego Santos

ACCESS Vending Machine

Ellen Herlihy ’25 is a human rights major and executive director of the Bard Planned Parenthood Generation Action Chapter Club. A recent project of the club has been advocating for the ACCESS vending machine that has just been put up in the campus center. The club worked with a multitude of different on-campus departments, including student government and Code Red, and off-campus organizations including the Planned Parenthood of Greater New York, EC4EC/Emergency Contraception for Every Campus, and the New York State Department of Health to provide a single location for a range of resources that are in high demand on a college campus.

On-Campus Resources

On-Campus Resources

Emergency and Crisis Services

Recovery and Substance Abuse

Academic Support

Learning Commons

Student Disability Services

Gender Equity and Sexual Assault/Misconduct

Office of Title IX and Nondiscrimination

BRAVE

General Wellness

Peer Health Educators

The Dimestore

Nutrition and Eating Disorders

Nutrition Counseling

Bard EATS

Student Clubs

Planned Parenthood Generation Action (PPGEN)

CodeRed

Trans+

Wellness Club

QPOC (Queer People of Color)

Transportation

Campus Shuttle

Medical Transportation

ACCESS Vending Machine

ACCESS Vending Machine

Related Offices and Programs