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Resources for LGBTQIA+: Youth Organizations

Organizations

Youth Organizations

  • ​The Center
    Supports the fostering and celebrating the LGBT community of New York City. The Center offers very extensive services, resources and programs to the community at large and has very rich resources and services for LGBT youth.​
  • Ali-Forney Center
    The mission of the Ali Forney Center is to protect LGBTQ youths from the harms of homelessness and empower them with the tools needed to live independently.
  • Health Outreach to Teens – Callen-Lorde
    Health Outreach To Teens is a welcoming, non-judgmental, confidential program designed specifically to meet the medical and mental health needs of LGBTQ adolescents and young adults ages 13-24, as well as other young people in need. These services are offered both at a youth-only medical suite at Callen-Lorde as well as a mobile medical unit that travels to areas throughout the five boroughs to meet people where they feel comfortable.
  • Hetrick-Martin Institute
    Hetrick-Martin creates this environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth between the ages of 13 and 24 and their families.
  • New Alternatives
    New Alternatives increases the self-sufficiency of LGBTQ+ homeless youth by enabling them to transition out of the shelter system to stable adult lives.
  • The Treavor 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.