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Adolescent & Youth-Focused
Healthcare Resources
Please click on the agency name to be taken to their website. For adolescent and youth-focused healthcare resources around the United States, please click here.
the Ali Forney Center
The Ali Forney Center offers programs for homeless youth, including: street outreach, case management, primary medical care, HIV testing, mental health assessment and treatment, food and showers, an employment assistance program, and referral to housing programs.
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Community Counseling and Meditation
Community Counseling and Meditation (CCM) works to improve the lives of at-risk children and families through innovative behavioral health, supportive housing, education, and youth services. Their expanding network of licensed outpatient mental health and chemical dependence clinics, award-winning housing facilities, HIV and hepatitis prevention and care coordination, and after-school and child-welfare programs, utilize evidence-based, culturally competent practices to achieve positive outcomes and keep families together.
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The Door
The Door provides a wide range of services to NYC youth, including reproductive health care and education, mental health counseling and crisis assistance, legal assistance, GED and ESOL classes, tutoring and homework help, college preparation services, career development, job training and placement, supportive housing, sports and recreational activities, arts, and nutritious meals - all for free and completely confidentially. In addition to health, legal, education, counseling and career services, The Door provides a wide range of programs and services geared towards LGBTQ members.
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Health Education alternatives for Teens (HEAT)
Health Education Alternatives for Teens (HEAT) provides confidential, comprehensive health care focused on the special needs of teenagers at risk for or living with HIV. They are committed to providing age-appropriate and culturally competent care for all youths - straight, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender non-conforming, from all ethnic backgrounds. They offer a "one-stop-shop" of comprehensive services for high-risk and HIV-infected youth including medical, case management, HIV counseling and testing, mental health care, treatment adherence, outreach, support services, and access to research.
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Health Outreach To Teens (HOTT)
Health Outreach To Teens (HOTT) is a welcoming, non-judgmental, confidential program designed specifically to meet the medical and mental health needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning adolescents and young adults ages 13-24, as well as homeless youth, runaways, sex workers, squatters, and other street-oriented youth. These services are offered both at a youth-only medical suite at Callen-Lorde, and on HOTT's medical van, which travels to areas throughout Manhattan in the afternoons and evenings where youth are known to hang out. All of HOTT's services are provided free of charge or at low cost (insurance is also accepted).
HOUSING WORKS COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE
Housing Works Community Healthcare fosters good health and positive social change through empowerment, innovation, and collaboration. They provide high-quality integrated medical care and other essentials that improve individual and overall community well-being. As a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), they are able to provide more affordable care to underserved populations. Their clinical services include primary care, wellness & prevention, behavioral health & substance use, dental care, youth and prevention services, AIDS adult day community healthcare, and case management.
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You can fill out an online contact form here. You can find all of their Community Healthcare locations here.
Contact information:
You can fill out an online contact form here. You can find all of their Community Healthcare locations here.
montefiore children's hospital - adolescent aids
program
The Adolescent AIDS Program (AAP) at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore is a leader in the field of HIV/AIDS among adolescents. The APP serves as a local and national resource for those living with HIV/AIDS; adolescents who are at risk for HIV infection; healthcare providers who treat adolescents living with or at risk for HIV infection; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning adolescents, their families, and caregivers.
Contact information:
The AAP operates in multiple locations; contact them at 718-882-0023 to get more information and/or make an appointment.
Contact information:
The AAP operates in multiple locations; contact them at 718-882-0023 to get more information and/or make an appointment.
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AAP Clinic
Children's Hospital at Montefiore, 4th Floor Bainbridge Avenue and Gun Hill Road Bronx, NY 10467 |
mount sinai adolescent health centER - Project
IMPACT
The Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center provides confidential, comprehensive medical, mental health, family planning, and health education services to young people between the ages of 10 and 22 years. Project IMPACT is a section of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center that focuses specifically on free, confidential medical and mental health services for youth living with HIV ages 13 to 24 years.
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Planned parenthood
Planned Parenthood delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of people worldwide.
You can search for a health center near you here , or by calling 1-800-230-PLAN.
You can search for a health center near you here , or by calling 1-800-230-PLAN.
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25.
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Free and confidential Trevor Lifeline is available 24/7 at 1-866-488-7386
New York office phone: 212-695-8650
info@thetrevorproject.org
New York office phone: 212-695-8650
info@thetrevorproject.org