I am a postdoc...
Confidential
The offices listed below are confidential offices. This means that they are required to keep all communications with them confidential and have no reporting requirements, other than concerns regarding imminent physical harm.
Faculty Staff Help Center
The Faculty Staff Help Center offers professional and confidential counseling for individuals, couples and families, including bilingual counseling. It also offers workshops, discussion groups, consultation, departmental training and facilitation services for difficult conversations.
The Help Center's support services
Offices of the Ombuds
The Ombuds Offices are confidential resources that provide coaching, informal mediation, group facilitation, workshops and consultations around navigating conflict.They also provide information on formal reporting and complaint processes. There are two Ombuds Offices. One serves the SOM exclusively and the other serves the remaining Stanford schools and centers.
Office for Religious & Spiritual Life (ORSL)
The ORSL’s chaplains and deans offer confidential, spiritual care and counseling to all students, staff, and faculty regardless of religious identity. The office also offer a variety of programs for spiritual wellness.
Limited confidentiality
The resources below will handle your information with sensitivity and discretion and will take reasonable steps to maintain confidentiality to the extent possible. Examples of situations where confidentiality cannot be maintained include circumstances when the law or Stanford policy requires disclosure of information (for example in situations of alleged sexual harassment or discrimination) and/or when disclosure by the university is necessary to protect the safety of others.
Dean of Students
Staff in the Dean of Students Office, Residential Education, and Graduate Life Office provide support to students on a wide range of issues, and can help students understand the support resources that are available to them. If you are concerned about a student you can reach out to consult with the Graduate Life Office (for graduate students) Residential Education (for undergraduate students) or the Dean of Students generally.
Office of Postdoctoral Affairs (OPA)
OPA is the hub for all postdoctoral appointments at Stanford, and it supports postdocs in all aspects of their training as they develop their independent careers. It also offers support, consultation and conflict resolution for postdocs and their mentors.
Reach out to OPA for support
SHARE Title IX and Title VI Office
If you, or someone you know, has experienced sexual and/or relationship violence, stalking, sexual harassment, and/or gender-based discrimination, there are a variety of resources at Stanford available to assist you.
Get Help