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Soc Services - LGBTQ Services

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LGBTQ Services - Social Services 

 

[Updated with changes in hours and services due to the Coronavirus Crisis where relevant.]

 

City of Newark

 

African American Office of Gay Concerns (AAOGC)

http://www.aaogc.org/home/

https://www.facebook.com/gpwaaogc/

877 Broad Street, Suite 211

Newark, NJ 07102

973-639-0700

brother@aaogc.org

The AAOGC provides HIV/AIDS prevention services that has been designed to target and appeal to MSM, their friends and their partners, promoting leadership, community service and accountability in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. 

 

Newark LGBT Community Center

https://newarklgbtqcenter.org/

89 Market St., Floor 2 Newark, NJ 07102

Mailing Address:

PO Box 200434

Newark, NJ 07102

973-474-4677

Organization committed to providing safe space, programs, and services that support the well-being of the LGBTQ community and our allies in the Newark, New Jersey area

 

Essex County

 

Essex County LGBT RAIN Foundation

http://essexlgbthousing.org/

info@essexlgbthousing.org

973-675-6780

Our mission is to help young adults in between the age 18-26 by providing emergency shelter, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing services to address the emergent need of LGBTQ individuals experiencing crisis leading to homelessness.

 

New Jersey

 

Queer Detainee Empowerment Project

http://www.qdep.org/

347-645-9339

The Queer Detainee Empowerment Project assists folks coming out of immigration detention in securing structural, health/wellness, educational, legal, and emotional support and services. We work to organize around the structural barriers and state violence that LGBTQIA TS & GNC detainee/undocumented folks face related to their immigration status, race, sexuality, and gender expression/ identity. (Eligibility for services at QDEP includes Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, Gender Nonconforming, Two-Spirit and/or HIV+)

 

National (United States)

 

Gay Men's Health Crisis Hotline

http://www.gmhc.org/

212-367-1000

GMHC is the world's leading provider of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and advocacy. 

 

Trans Health Project

 

https://transhealthproject.org/resources/trans-health-care-providers/

Compiled by the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, this is a directory for those seeking "trans-competent health care providers."

 

National Suicide Prevention Hotline

https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

800-273-8255

National network of local crisis centers that provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24/7. The National Suicide Prevention Hotline is committed to improving crisis services and advancing suicide prevention by empowering individuals, advancing professional best practices, and building awareness. 

 

RAD Remedy

https://radremedy.org/

RAD Remedy's mission is to connect trans, gender non-conforming, intersex, and queer folks to accurate, safe, respectful, and comprehensive care in order to improve individual and community health.

 

Trans Lifeline

https://www.translifeline.org/ 

877-565-8860

Trans Lifeline is a national organization dedicated to improving the quality of trans lives by responding to the critical needs of the community with direct services, material support, advocacy, and education. 

 

Transgender Law Center

https://transgenderlawcenter.org

Founded in 2002, Transgender Law Center (TLC) has grown into the largest trans-specific, trans-led organization in the United States. Our advocacy and precedent-setting litigation victories—in areas including employment, prison conditions, education, immigration, and healthcare—protect and advance the rights of transgender and gender nonconforming people across the country. Through our organizing and movement-building programs, TLC assists, informs, and empowers thousands of individual community members a year and builds towards a long-term, national, trans-led movement for liberation.

COVID-19 Update: https://transgenderlawcenter.org/resources/covid19

 

Trans Health Project

https://transhealthproject.org/resources/trans-health-care-providers/

Compiled by the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, this is a directory for those seeking "trans-competent health care providers."

 

The Trevor Project

http://www.thetrevorproject.org/

866-488-7386

The 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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