Crisis Response Team

Crisis Response Team hours will be available at the start of Fall 2024 semester.

Crisis Response Team does not operate during university breaks or holidays.

No.  In order for the BGSU Crisis Response Team to come to a student, the student must be located on BGSU's campus at the time of the call & be a currently enrolled BGSU student.

Calls can be made through the BGSU Police Department.  The number to access them is (419) 372-2346.  BGSU PD will then be sent out to evaluate the situation. Upon determination of the situation, the Crisis Response Team will go out for a mental health crisis co-response. 

Any communication to Crisis Clinicians via email WILL NOT receive a response and may not be viewed.

A substitute for ongoing therapy services and not available to non-enrolled BGSU students.

Conversations with the Crisis Response Team Clinicians are confidential, with rare exceptions.  These include when it is necessary to share information when a student is experiencing an emergency and is an immediate threat of harm to self or others.  The Crisis Team Clinicians by law must report when a minor, elderly person, or someone otherwise incapacitated and unable to act on his/her own behalf is being abused, when an animal is being abused, or if court ordered to do so.

Conversations with BGSU Police Department (PD), or shared in the presence of PD is not kept confidential. BGSU PD document their interactions with students and this information may be shared with various BGSU staff to ensure a community of care for students.  Such BGSU staff who may know are members of the Office of the Dean of Students. 

BGSU Crisis Response Team is staffed by 2 Graduate Assistants (GA) enrolled through the Master's degree Social Work program. These GAs are under the supervision of designated BGSU Counseling Center licensed staff.