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Adolescent AIDS Program
www.adolescentaids.org
Montefiore Medical Center
111 East 210th Street
Bronx, NY 10467
Phone: (718) 882-0232
Fax:(718) 882-0432
The Adolescent AIDS Program (AAP) of Montefiore Medical Center offers comprehensive clinical care and research opportunities to HIV-positive and at-risk youth (including confidential HIV counseling and testing, medical and psychosocial care, and case management). AAP also provides community outreach and training to providers regarding HIV/AIDS and gay and lesbian adolescent health and mental health issues.

AIDS Health Services
Jersey City Medical Center, Floor 10C
50 Baldwin Ave.
Jersey City, NJ 07304
Phone: (201) 915-2295
Fax: (201) 915-2213
JCMC's AIDS Health Services include an Early Intervention Program with primary inpatient medical services, adult case management, an outpatient clinic, education, counseling, and psychiatric treatment. This organization also provides anonymous and confidential HIV testing (free of charge); MICA intensive case management; pediatric and adolescent services; as well as a Women's Clinic offering all services in a women-centered environment.

Bellevue Hospital Center HIV Services
462 First Avenue, Room 12E12
New York, NY 10016
Phone: (212) 562-3906
Fax: (212) 562-3916 Bellevue Satellite at Roberto Clemente Center
540 East 13th Street (between Aves. A and B)
New York, NY 10009
Phone: (212) 387-7400
Fax: (212) 387-7432
Bellevue Hospital Center HIV Services provides comprehensive medical care to all people with HIV/AIDS. We have an interdisciplinary team including primary and specialty medical care, clinical trials, nutrition, treatment adherence, harm reduction, case management, health education, and mental health services. An HIV satellite clinic with a focus on the Gay and Transgender communities is located on the Lower East Side.

Better Brooklyn Community Center
www.bbccenter.org
408, Jay Street, Suite 500
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11217
Phone: (718) 624-1992
Fax: (718) 624-1833
E-mail: info@bbccenter.org
The HIV/AIDS Prevention and Support Project provides community prevention and information, targeted outreach to individuals at risk, and services to those infected. Referrals are provided to drug and alcohol programs, sexually transmitted disease clinics, test sites, and general health and mental care facilities. The Youth Project provides services for youth 13 - 24 who are HIV/AIDS infected or at risk.

Birch Family Camp
http://users.aol.com/birchcamp/index.html
275 Seventh Ave., 19th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Phone: (212) 741-6522
Fax: (212) 741-6739
E-mail: birchcamp@aol.com
Herbert G. Birch Services, a not-for-profit agency in the metropolitan New York area, has provided life-enhancing support for developmentally disabled people and families of children with AIDS since 1975. Through special residential,educational, respite and family programs, Birch Services enables those children and adults to achieve their highest potential and live their lives with dignity, joy, and respect.

The Family Center
www.thefamilycenter.org
Box AS, 66 Reade Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10007
Fax: (212) 766-1696
The mission of The Family Center is to strengthen children and their families as they move through the transitions caused by the loss of a parent to AIDS.

HEAT Program
http://www.downstate.edu/HEAT
Kings County Hospital Center
451 Clarkson Avenue, U Building, Rm. 421
Brooklyn, NY 11203
phone: (718) 245-3460
fax: (718) 467-1718
The Health and Education Alternatives for Teens (HEAT) Program is located in Kings County Hospital Center (KCHC) in Brooklyn and provides comprehensive medical care programs for HIV-infected and at-risk youth aged 13 to 24. For fourteen years, HEAT has provided age-appropriate and culturally competent care for heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender minority youth. HEAT provides comprehensive medical care for HIV+ youth, case management, HIV Treatment Adherence, HIV Counseling and Testing (C/T), mental health care, STD diagnosis and treatment, gynecological services, pregnancy testing and family planning, outreach, support services and access to research to high-risk and HIV-infected youth. These services are provided on-site at KCHC under a "one-stop shopping" philosophy where all services are provided in one "youth friendly" clinic setting. All services are free and confidential. HEAT also services a leadership role in strengthening the network of youth-oriented providers in the metropolitan area and heightening public awareness about the HIV/AIDS epidemic on adolescents.

Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services
AIDS Family Volunteer Program
57 Willoughby Street
Lower Level
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Phone: (718) 722-5215
Fax: (718) 797-3806
AFVP, funded by Ryan White Title I, provides Big Brothers and Big Sisters to families affected by HIV/AIDS. AFVP volunteers are positive role models, a source of emotional support and recreation for the child. AFVP services children between the ages of 4 and 16 throughout New York City.

LIFEbeat, Inc.
www.lifebeat.org
630 Ninth Avenue, Suite 1010
New York, NY 10036-3708
Phone: (212) 459-2590 or (800) AIDS-411
Fax: (212) 459-2892
Email: info@lifebeat.org
Working in conjunction with AIDS service organizations across the country, LIFEbeat provides HIV/AIDS prevention materials and referrals to testing and counseling services to young people through the organization's work on tours, at concert venues and in clubs.

Love Heals, the Alison Gertz Foundation for AIDS Education
2 Fifth Avenue, #2Q
New York, NY 10011
Phone: (212) 529-7935
Fax: (212) 529-7932
Email: info@loveheals.org
Love Heals, the Alison Gertz Foundation for AIDS Education was founded in 1992 with a mission to educate young people about HIV/AIDS enabling them to make information choices that can save their lives. Love Heals operates a speakers bureau composed of a diverse roster of trained health educators and people of all ages living with HIV and conducts presentations in a wide variety of settings.

New York Council on Adoptable Children (COAC)/AIDS Orphans Program
www.coac.org
589 8th Avenue, 15th Floor
New York, NY 10018
Phone: (212) 475-0222
Fax: (212) 714-2838
COAC's AIDS Orphans Program provides comprehensive services to families affected and infected by HIV/AIDS. Services include: permanency planning; adoptive parent recruitment and matching; family support services; individual and family support counseling, support groups; legal and benefits assistance; caregiver support includes: counseling, support groups. Therapeutic services for all family members include in-home family therapy, onsite parent, caregiver and children support groups. All services are free and confidential and are offered in English, Spanish, and French-Creole.

The Orphan Project
www.aidsinfonyc.org/orphan
350 Fifth Avenue, 23rd floor
New York, NY 10118
The Orphan Project was established to explore policy options to meet the needs of the entire spectrum of children affected by the AIDS epidemic -- from dying infants to healthy adolescents.

Positively Kinds, Inc.
http://www.aidsinfonyc.org/posikids
PO BOX 4512
Queensbury, NY 12804
Phone: (518)798-0915
Fax: (518) 798-8940
Positively Kids, Inc. is an organization dedicated to education and support services for families, friends and service providers of children and adolescents living with HIV/AIDS.

YouthBASE, Inc.
www.youthbase.org
131 Livingston Street, Room 623
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Phone: (718) 935-5606
Fax: (718) 935-5197
The mission of YouthBASE is to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS among New York City's adolescents and young adults. YouthBASE works with young people, community-based organizations, and the New York City Department of Education to train and empower students, teachers, and parents through effective youth-focused HIV/AIDS prevention strategies.

YouthWEB Online
www.youthwebonline.com
A site with resources for young people and adults to fight bias, bigotry and prejudice. Review an online dictionary of bias definitions and terms, get information about school violence and human rights, or report hate-related incidents. Also contains an Activity Sharing section for teachers seeking to eliminate bias and prejudice in their classrooms.

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