Pennsylvania Highlands Community College will offer and implement appropriate and reasonable supportive measures to the Parties upon Notice of alleged discrimination, harassment, and/or retaliation. Supportive measures are non-disciplinary, non-punitive individualized services offered as appropriate and reasonably available. They are offered, without fee or charge to the Parties, to restore or preserve access to Pennsylvania Highlands Community College’s education program or activity, including measures designed to protect the safety of all Parties and/or Pennsylvania Highlands Community College’s educational environment and/or to deter discrimination, harassment, and/or retaliation.
The Title IX Coordinator promptly makes supportive measures available to the Parties upon receiving Notice/Knowledge or a Complaint. At the time that supportive measures are offered, if a Complaint has not been filed, Pennsylvania Highlands Community College will inform the Complainant, in writing, that they may file a Complaint with Pennsylvania Highlands Community College either at that time or in the future. The Title IX Coordinator will work with a party to ensure that their wishes are considered with respect to any planned and implemented supportive measures.
Pennsylvania Highlands Community College will maintain the confidentiality of the supportive measures, provided that confidentiality does not impair Pennsylvania Highlands Community College’s ability to provide those supportive measures. Pennsylvania Highlands Community College will act to ensure as minimal an academic/occupational impact on the Parties as possible. Pennsylvania Highlands Community College will implement measures in a way that does not unreasonably burden any party.
These supportive measures may include, but are not limited to:
- Referral to counseling, medical, and/or other healthcare services
- Referral to the Employee Assistance Program
- Referral to community-based service providers
- Student financial aid counseling
- Altering work arrangements for employees or student-employees
- Safety planning
- Providing campus safety escorts
- Implementing contact limitations (no contact orders) between the Parties
- Academic support, extensions of deadlines, or other course/program-related adjustments
- Trespass, Persona Non Grata (PNG), or Be-On-the-Lookout (BOLO) orders
- Timely warnings
- Class schedule modifications, withdrawals, or leaves of absence
- Increased security and monitoring of certain areas of the campus
- Any other actions deemed appropriate by the Title IX Coordinator
Violations of no contact orders or other restrictions may be referred to appropriate student or employee conduct processes for enforcement or added as collateral misconduct allegations to an ongoing Complaint under this Policy.
The Parties are provided with a timely opportunity to seek modification or reversal of Pennsylvania Highlands Community College’s decision to provide, deny, modify, or terminate supportive measures applicable to them. A request to do so should be made in writing to the Title IX Coordinator. An impartial employee other than the employee who implemented the supportive measures, who has authority to modify or reverse the decision, will determine whether to provide, deny, modify, or terminate the supportive measures if they are inconsistent with the definition of supportive measures in § 106.2 of the federal Title IX Regulations. Pennsylvania Highlands Community College will also provide the Parties with the opportunity to seek additional modification or termination of supportive measures applicable to them if circumstances change materially. Pennsylvania Highlands Community College typically renders decisions on supportive measures within seven (7) business days of receiving a request and provides a written determination to the impacted party(ies) and the Title IX Coordinator.