What is Behavioral Risk?
- Behavior that is disruptive, intimidating, threatening or violent.
- This includes, but is not limited to, actions or statements by students, faculty, professional staff, or members of the community that express an intent to harm individuals or campus property and assets.
- Concerns from faculty, professional staff, and students come through many campus departments and programs.
Emergency Numbers
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From campus: Ext. 366
From anywhere: (207) 283-0176
Crisis Response
An off-campus resource, available 24 hours/day: 1 (888) 568-1112
If you are a Portland or Biddeford campus-affiliated student and are currently experiencing a mental health crisis, you can reach UNE鈥檚 on-call counselor by calling (207) 602-2549 and then pressing 6.
Situations Assessed by the CARE Team
Situations involving personal and interpersonal violence; threats against oneself and/or another person/group likely to result in harm, injury, or death; and threats that might imperil the mission of the University, such as the following:
- Physical or verbal abuse
- Physical assaults, injuries
- Sexual assault, including rape and sexual crimes
- Harassment, stalking
- Coercion, affronts to human dignity
- Acts of violence
- Accidents
- Hate crimes, including ethno-violence and gay bashing
- Threats
- Follow-up to an incident, including suicide and homicide
- Outbursts in class
- Disruptive behavior
If you deem an individual to be an imminent threat, call Security at (207) 283-0176, or extension 366.
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The committee is made up of representatives from the Student Counseling Center, Student Affairs, Health Services, Safety and Security, Human Resources, Housing and Residential/Commuter Life, Community Life, Experiential Education, and the deans of UNE's colleges.
Committee chairs are responsible for assessing each situation and determining whether or not the full committee needs to be convened. Otherwise, they handle individual cases with existing systems.
Please feel free to contact any of the CARE Team members to report issues. If you deem an individual to be an imminent threat, call security at (207) 283-0176, or extension 366.
Chairs
Biddeford Campus Members
- Hahna D. Patterson, Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs (Co-Chair)
- Jeffrey J. Greene, Director of Safety and Security (Co-Chair)
- Chad Stevens, Associate Director, Safety and Security
- Anthony Montalbano, Director of Student Resolutions
- Denise Nelson, Director, Housing and Residential/Commuter Life
- Bernice Mills, Associate Dean, Clinical and Student Affairs
- Angela Shambarger, Senior Director of the Office of Title IX and Civil Rights Compliance
- Amy Keirstead, Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
- Heather Davis, Director of Athletics
- Laurie Cyr-Martel, Director, Counseling Center
- Ava Emery, Senior Assistant to the Dean, College of Business
Portland Campus Members
- Hahna D. Patterson, Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs (Co-Chair)
- Jeffrey J. Greene, Director, Safety and Security (Co-Chair)
- Chad Stevens, Associate Director, Safety and Security
- Ray Handy, Associate Dean of Students
- Travis Erickson, Assistant Dean, Dental Professional Program
- Bernice Mills, Associate Dean, Clinical and Student Affairs
- Laurie Cyr-Martel, Director, Counseling Center
- Angela Shambarger, Senior Director of the Office of Title IX and Civil Rights Compliance
- Jessica Gagne, Assistant Dean, COM