Job Description

Located in Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University is a bold, innovative, inclusive, and dynamic teaching and research university where staff, faculty, and students alike are challenged to make an enduring contribution to the betterment of humanity. Cornell University is one of the largest and most diverse institutions in the Ivy League. We are a community of 22,000 students and more than 10,000 faculty and staff members representing more than 80 countries and hundreds of disciplines—global cultures, backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and ideas.The Division of Public Safety (DPS) is a group of public safety units that work collaboratively with our community to keep Cornell a safe and secure campus to learn and live. It is comprised of the Public Safety 911 Communications Center, the Cornell University Police Department, the Office of Emergency Management, the Clery Compliance Office, the Access Control Program, the Community Response Team, and the Public Safety Ambassadors. The Community Response Team is a unit housed alongside other first response resources within the Division of Public Safety. This team works in concert with emergency response resources such as Cornell Emergency Management Services, Cornell Environment Health & Safety, Cornell EMS, Cornell Public Safety Communications Center, and the Cornell University Police.What you will do:You will lead a team of coordinators who provide behavioral health services of a non-clinical nature and facilitate resource connection in partnership with individuals in crisis or those in need of mental health support on Cornell’s Ithaca campus. The team works in concert with other emergency response and supportive resources such as Cornell EMS, Cornell EH&S, Cornell Public Safety Communications, the Office of Human Resources, and the Cornell University Police Department to respond to calls for service, conduct mental health assessments, make appropriate referrals and handoffs to appropriate wraparound university, city, and county services, and provide short term case management at the direction of the Cornell University Care and Crisis Services team. The Community Response Team plays a key role across Cornell’s health and safety crisis response infrastructure of prioritizing the diversion of individuals in crisis or those in need of mental health support from punitive harm and facilitating their connection to supportive resources.