Coordinator, Trauma Services

Position Overview

The Trauma Services Coordinator serves as a content expert on sexual violence in collegiate populations. This role serves as a trauma specialist and coordinates trauma care within SMH&C and serves as a liaison to key campus programs and partners. The coordinator will also be tasked with developing and leading a multidisciplinary team of clinicians who will develop and hone expertise in treating the emotional and psychological needs of students who are involved in or directly affected by incidents that are of a traumatic nature.

Under the Trauma Services Coordinator’s leadership, the team offers individual and group work that is holistic, culturally responsive, and empirically based.

Reports to:

Associate Chief, SMH&C.

Coordinator responsibilities include leading team meetings, implementing a culturally responsive empirically based clinical care model, collaborating with campus partners such as IDHR and MIT Police involved in critical incidents to manage care for individuals or groups, and coordinating implementation of trauma support groups, educational workshops, and community building retreats.

Types of traumas treated include interpersonal trauma, sexual assault, racial trauma, and community violence. In cases of community violence, the team may provide aftercare services (postvention) or outreach for individuals or groups affected by a traumatic incident who request it and would benefit.

The Trauma Services Coordinator offers clinical consultation to colleagues throughout Student Mental Health and Counseling Services and MIT Health and provides direct clinical services to students affected by sexual assault, intimate partner violence, stalking, childhood sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and/or other forms of significant trauma. The clinician also provides diagnostic assessment, on‑call crisis intervention and management, brief psychotherapy, risk assessments/mandated risk assessments, and long‑term community counseling referrals.

They develop and deliver psycho‑educational programs that address the psychological impact of IPV and sexual violence, and participate in institute‑wide committees and collaborate with administrators, faculty, and students on initiatives and programs related to campus climate and other campus issues.

The coordinator is well‑versed in issues associated with the Clery Act, Title IX, and Campus SaVe Act and partners with MIT’s Title IX, VPR, and other related college offices on campus charged with coordinating sexual violence education, prevention, and response.

• Designs and maintains student‑focused, data‑informed programming for collegiate students by consulting and partnering with campus content experts and collaborators to develop appropriate programming and coordinate activities on campus focused on undergraduate and graduate student populations.
• Develops, recruits, screens, promotes, implements, and evaluates trauma outreach and mental health promotion efforts and curriculum for a variety of group offerings, including prevention activities on campus, focusing on undergraduate and graduate student populations.
• Coordinates and manages said trauma intervention and prevention programming provided by counseling service staff to the university community.
• Continually conducts needs assessment via incoming requests, student survey data, and partnership with key stakeholders to determine opportunities for educational program enhancements, striving to educate the community about resources for survivors and reduce stigma through a robust program benchmarked against other collegiate mental health programs.
• Participates in national dialogue on best practices and standards in trauma treatment and prevention programming in university settings.
• Provides individual and group counseling to survivors of sexual assault, sexual harassment, dating violence, intimate partner abuse, stalking, and student‑patients presenting with general mental health concerns, making appropriate treatment plan decisions regarding level of care, type and longevity of treatment, and campus vs. community setting.
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