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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