• You are concerned about a student or employee’s mental health.
• To report a concerning behavior or possible threat to campus safety.
• You want to link CSU community members to campus resources.
• You want support navigating a classroom or work disruption or concern

No concern is too little or not important enough! Tell Someone staff are available 8 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday. We can consult to help decide if Tell Someone referral is the next best step.

Referrals to the Tell Someone Program give staff an opportunity to problem solve and respond. Tell Someone is designed to help CSU community members, not to punish them.

It depends…

• If you have a relationship with the person of concern, it is often best to offer “informed compassion” in the moment. Be curious. Ask questions. Hold boundaries when appropriate. Remember, this is another human so try to relate to them as a fellow human.
• If you do not feel confident you can support the person of concern or the situation is unsafe, submit a Tell Someone Referral and we can help decide next steps. Call the police if necessary and then submit a report. 
• Let the person of concern to know that you will be submitting a Tell Someone Report and why. We find people of concern are more likely to be open to support when they are expecting an outreach.

For tips on how to help someone in distress, see Support and Safety Assessments Five Dos and Don’ts.

We trust your intuition on behavior to report. When in doubt, submit a report! Your report could supplement information we may already have on a person of concern. 

Tell Someone Coordinators are trained to triage information, connect people to appropriate support offices, and refer threats to campus safety to appropriate campus safety authorities. This assessment and response does not replace a police response, but works in tandem with it.

When submitting a Tell Someone report, you may request to receive a confirmation that the report has been received. Staff may follow up with you to gather more information.

While we cannot guarantee anonymity in all cases, we handle each Tell Someone with a high amount of sensitivity to all people involved. You may request to remain anonymous when reporting through the Tell Someone online-form, and may request to remain anonymous when calling; however, it’s strongly encouraged to leave contact information to allow us to be able to follow up with you to clarify information or get more detailed inforamtion.

Tell Someone is available to all people who have concerns for a CSU community member. This includes and is not limited to students, parents, faculty, staff, and friends.