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Services & Resources

Education

Presentations & Workshops

The Women’s Center offers presentations and workshops by request.

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Reading & Writing Consultation Sessions

At the Women’s Center & LGBTQ+ Services (C-220), the Center for Reading and Writing (CRW) offers one-to-one satellite consultation sessions in reading and writing to students on all academic levels. Sessions are available weekly on Tuesdays from 1 pm – 3 pm from September 9 through December 2. To make an appointment, click the button below. Select a consultant in the Women’s Center and indicate the date and time within the available hours. You will then receive a confirmation email with your appointment details. If you have any questions, contact Susan Auger at sauger@ramapo.edu.

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Safe Zone Training

The purpose of Safe Zone Training is to reduce homophobia, transphobia, biphobia, heterosexism, and heteronormativity on the Ramapo College campus through LGBTQ+ inclusive education with the goal of making our campus a safer environment for all members of our community, especially people of marginalized sexualities and genders. Safe Zone Training prepares Ramapo’s faculty, staff, and students to serve as resources on LGBTQ+ issues and representatives of the Safe Zone program.

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Events

Upcoming Events

Throughout the year, the Women’s Center & LGBTQ+ Services organizes educational and social events to enrich the student college experience. Signature events include observations of Queer & Trans History Month, Trans Days of Remembrance and Self-Care, World AIDS Day, Women’s Herstory Month, and Pride Month. In the fall, we host Pride Fest and, in the spring, we present The Vagina Monologues and hold our Lavender Ceremony for graduating LGBTQ+ students. We also offer Zine Nights and a Feminist Book Club. Our event flyers are posted around campus and on Instagram. Events are also listed on Archway.

Event Listings on Archway

Gender Based Violence

Violence Prevention

The Ramapo College Office of Violence Prevention (OVP), through educating and sharing resources, promotes awareness of the realities of dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and other forms of interpersonal violence. OVP programs provide evidence-based literacy and training through innovative prevention strategies in an effort to create a community that fosters a culture of respect, affirmative consent and encourages bystander intervention.

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Sexual Misconduct

The Office of Title IX supports Ramapo College’s mission by ensuring a campus culture free from discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, and pregnancy. The Office of Title IX provides resources, support, and information to all community members impacted by sexual misconduct:

Gender Nonconforming Students

Trans@Ramapo

The Women’s Center & LGBTQ+ Services is dedicated to supporting the wellness of our transgender and gender nonconforming community members by providing on-campus resources and services as well as suggesting local assistance options.

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Mental Wellness

Drop-In Hours with Elena

Every Wednesday during the semester from 2-3 pm, Elena Yee, LPC, holds Drop-In Hours in C-217 (across from the Women’s Center). Elena is the LGBTQIA+ liaison for the campus. A Psychological Counselor with Ramapo’s Counseling Services, she is passionate about increasing access to counseling for LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and other marginalized populations. Sessions are:

  • free for Ramapo College students
  • offered first-come, first-served (no appointment necessary)
  • typically about 20-25 minutes in length
  • informal, and not a substitute for counseling
  • not appropriate for urgent concerns or mental health emergencies.

Please email Elena at eyee@ramapo.edu with any questions.

Lifelines

The Trevor Project

Counselors trained to provide free, confidential, and secure crisis care for LGBTQ+ young people struggling with issues such as coming out, identity, depression, and suicide.

Hours: 24/7

  • Call (866) 488-7386
  • Text 678-678

Trans Lifeline

Hours: Monday – Friday, 1 PM – 9 PM (Eastern)

Run by and for the trans community, Trans Lifeline connects trans people to the direct emotional and financial support necessary to survive and thrive.

  • Call or Text (877) 565-8860

Our Space

Lounge

With our space (Room C-220), we seek to cultivate an inclusive safer space rooted in practices of vulnerability, authenticity, and care — a place where all students, and especially those who are multiply marginalized, feel comfortable being their whole selves.

During open hours, Ramapo students, staff, and faculty are welcome to stop by Room C-220 hang out, socialize, study, and/or enjoy a hot beverage in the lounge area, which features comfortable seating for relaxing as well as a coffee maker, refrigerator, and microwave.

Our space also includes a We Care Satellite Food Pantry stocked with ready-to-eat items like microwave soups and meals, granola and/or breakfast bars, and protein shakes. 

Library

The Women’s Center offers a growing library containing over 100 books, including autobiographies, memoirs, biographies, fiction, and nonfiction. Our collection explores topics related to feminism, women, gender, and sexuality including: 

  • Black, Women of Color, and Third World Women’s feminisms
  • Body image and beauty culture
  • Feminist activists, theorists, and history
  • LGBTQ+ lives, issues, and history
  • Masculinities
  • Sex, sexuality, and reproductive justice
  • And more

You may use books from the collection while in the center or you may sign-up for a patron account and check them out for two weeks with the option to renew. Search our online catalog and/or visit us in Room C-220 to peruse our shelves.

Creativity Corner

Crafting is a feminist practice — an outlet for expression, care, and resistance. We offer supplies for creativity and relaxation, including:

  • Zine making materials (paper, pens, magazines, glue, staplers, etc.)
  • Bracelet-making beads
  • Collaging materials
  • Coloring pages and art supplies
  • Paint and brushes
  • Air-dry clay

Reproductive Health & Justice

Safer Sex Supplies & Period Products

The Women’s Center promotes responsible intimacy, safer sex, and menstrual equity. We offer free:

  • Condoms
  • Dental damns
  • Personal lubricants
  • Pregnancy tests
  • Disposable period pads
  • Tampons

You may take up to five free products each time you visit us in Room C-220.

Emergency Contraception

If you’ve had unprotected sex or experienced a birth control failure, emergency contraception (EC) can help prevent pregnancy if taken or used promptly. There are three types of emergency contraception:

Levonorgestrel Pill

  • Brand names: Plan B, My Way, Julie, and EContra
  • Available over the counter
  • Most effective when taken within 72 hours (3 days) after intercourse

Ulipristal Acetate Pill

  • Brand name: ella
  • Available by prescription only
  • Most effective when taken within 120 hours (5 days) after intercourse

Copper IUD

  • The most effective form of emergency contraception
  • Must be inserted within 5 days of unprotected sex
  • Available through Planned Parenthood or a local gynecological provider

Health Services at Ramapo College offers free Plan B (while supplies last), with or without an appointment, between the hours of 9 am – 3:30 pm Monday – Friday. ella is available by prescription only, through walk-in appointments or scheduled appointments, and can only be dispensed to the person for whom it is prescribed. Health Services is located near the campus South Gate entrance at the corner of Route 202 and Hornbeam Road. To make an appointment, call (201) 684-7536.

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Abortion Care

Local Medication Abortion Providers
Medication abortions (abortion pill) are available at the following locations:

Local Procedural Abortion Providers
Procedural abortions (in clinic) are available at the following locations:

Online Resources
Get abortion pills by mail in every state:

Find a brick and mortar clinic:

Judgement-free all options counseling:

Funding for your abortion:

Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Testing

Testing for Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) including HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, and trichomoniasis is available at Ramapo’s Health Services, by appointment, daily. Health Services can also provide counseling on whether or not students should have other testing performed based on individual risk factors. Health Services is located near the campus South Gate entrance at the corner of Route 202 and Hornbeam Road. To make an appointment, call (201) 684-7536.

Pregnant & Parenting Students

Lactation/Pumping Space Available

Breastfeeding students, faculty, and staff may request access to a private space on campus to express breast milk. You may reserve the room by contacting Johnie Burton at (201) 684-7230 or jburton@ramapo.edu. A small refrigerator reserved for the specific storage of breast milk is available. Any breast milk stored in the refrigerator must be labeled with your name and the date of expressing the breast milk. Any nonconforming products stored in the refrigerator may be disposed. Those storing milk in the refrigerator assume all responsibility for the safety of the milk and the risk of harm for any reason, including improper storage, refrigeration, and tampering.

Title IX

Title IX protects pregnant and parenting students. For more information, to request pregnancy-related accommodations, or to report pregnancy-related discrimination please click below. Alternatively, please contact Kat McGee at (201) 684-7220 or kmcgee@ramapo.edu.

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Ramapo College of New Jersey (RCNJ) and the Center for Student Involvement (CSI) make no guarantees about the external resources or organizations listed as assistance options. While CSI has done initial vetting related to resources listed, RCNJ and CSI are not responsible for the quality, accuracy, safety, or outcomes of services provided by these external organizations. It is the responsibility of students to research and evaluate the integrity of any organization or resource they choose to utilize. Students are advised to exercise caution and good judgment when engaging with external resources.

For additional support or information, please contact the Center for Student Involvement.