Confidential Advocacy: What You Need to Know
Confidential Advocacy at the Center for Student Health & Counseling (SHAC) provides trauma-informed support and resources to address sexual violence at PSU. We advocate for best practices in campus response efforts.
If you are a student experiencing dating or intimate partner violence, sexual harassment, sexual assault, stalking, or other forms of sexual violence, you have the right to access confidential advocacy and support under Oregon law.
Advocates are Confidential
Confidential advocates are both privileged and confidential. This means your disclosures of sexual violence will not be reported to other university officials and will not trigger a PSU investigation into an incident without your consent.
Most Employees, Faculty, and Staff Are Required to Share Information
While you may feel comfortable with your professors, your campus employment supervisor, or your Resident Assistant, employees of the University are required to report any disclosure of sexual or relationship violence to the administration, except for the following: confidential advocates, medical staff, and counselors at Student Health and Counseling, and lawyers at Student Legal Services.