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AIDS Center of Queens County
www.acqc.homestead.com
97-45 Queens Blvd, 12th Floor
Rego Park, N.Y. 11374
Phone: (718) 896-2500
Fax: (718) 275-2094
ACQC@aol.com
ACQC provides comprehensive services for individuals infected AND affected with HIV/AIDS including the following: Case Management, Mental Health, Support Groups, Legal Assistance, Peer Education & Outreach Programs, Food and Clothing Pantry, Housing Assistance and Independent Living Skills Programs, Permanency Planning, Scattered Site Housing, and Harm Reduction programs.

Argus Community, Inc. - Access Program
www.arguscommunity.org/access.html
760 East 160th Street
Bronx, NY 10456
Phone: (718) 401-5733
Fax: (718) 993-9662
The Argus Community Access Program provides intensive case management, support, and advocacy to HIV+ persons with or without Medicaid. Additionally, the Argus Community provides several other programs including a residential drug treatment program devoted to mentally ill chemical abusers, and work, GED, and high school programs for adolescents.

AIDS Service Center

www.ascnyc.org
41 East 11th Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY  10003
Phone: (212) 645-0875
Fax: (212) 645-0705
Through pioneering peer education programs, and a comprehensive range of innovative services, AIDS Service Center NYC (ASC) helps New York City's most vulnerable individuals and families maintain the best possible quality of life and health in the face of HIV/AIDS.  Founded in 1990, ASC fulfills its mission of  "helping many, one by one" by building community, connection and stability for the thousands of New Yorkers we serve each year.


Better Brooklyn Community Center
www.bbccenter.org
408, Jay Street, Suite 500
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11217
Phone: (718) 624-1992
Fax: (718) 624-1833
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.

Body Positive

www.bodypos.org
19 Fulton Street, #308-B
New York, NY 10038
Information/Helpline: (800) 566-6599
Phone: (212) 566-7333
Fax: (212) 566-4539
Body Positive provides peer-led education and support groups, magazines and other publications, and public education forums and conferences.

Brooklyn AIDS Task Force
www.batf.net
502 Bergen Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Phone: (718) 622-2910
Fax: (718) 623-1158
Brooklyn AIDS task force is a multi-service HIV/AIDS services organizations that provides case management, behavior management, education, harm reduction, and treatment adherence services. Their mission is to provide HIV infected and affected residents of Brooklyn with culturally sensitive HIV/AIDS prevention, education, comprehensive social services, and extensive community advocacy.

Brooklyn Plaza Medical Center, Inc.
www.brooklynplaza.com
650 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Phone: (718) 596-9800
Fax: (718) 855-5628
Brooklyn Plaza Medical Center is a comprehensive health care facility providing HIV/AIDS prevention and education services on off-site counseling and testing. The Center also provides advocacy and support to persons living with HIV/AIDS, substance abuse counseling, and housing referrals, as well as assistance in obtaining medical insurance, and facilitates support groups.

Brownsville Community Development Corporation
444 Thomas Boyland Street
Brooklyn, NY 11212
Phone: (718) 485-3820
Fax: (718) 485-5410
Brownsville Community Development Corp. provides comprehensice case management, advocacy, and comprehensive medical services.

Callen-Lorde Community Health Center
www.callen-lorde.org
356 West 18th Street
New York, NY 10011
Phone: (212) 271-7208
Fax: (212) 271-8111
Callen-Lorde Community Health Center is a primary care clinic dedicated to the needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered HIV/AIDS community. Callen-Lorde also maintains a Health Education Resource Center that is open to the general public.

The Consumer Information and Conflict Resolution Program (CICRP)
http://cidronline.com
PO BOX 41, Cooper Station
New York, NY 10276
Phone: (212) 387-0824
arbiter@aidsnyc.org
C.I.D.R. provides advocacy, ombudsman, mediation and facilitation services, and transitional housing resources for people with disabilities.

Exponents/ARRIVE
www.exponents.org/programs

151 West 26th Street
New York, New York 10001
Phone: (212) 243-3434
Fax: (212) 243-3586
The mission of Exponents/ARRIVE to assist individuals and families through difficult transitions - from addiction to recovery, from incarceration to civilian life; from HIV negative to HIV positive, and from welfare to work. Eponents/ARRIVE peer-based programs create a sense of community among substance users to provide outreach, education and support. Exponents/ARRIVE advocates that former users play a role in the fight against AIDS and drug abuse.

Harlem United Community AIDS Center
www.harlemunited.org
123-125 West 124th Street
New York, NY 10027
Phone: (212) 531-1300
Fax: (212) 531-0140 or 41
Harlem United offers a variety of services at various sites for HIV positive adults. Services include HIV-related health education, medication management, urgent medical visits, substance use counseling services, recreational services including physical training, art and music therapy, and support groups.

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 Guild for the Blind
AIDS Case Management Services

www.jgb.org
15 West 65th Street
New York, NY  10021
Phone: (212) 769-6256
Fax: (212) 769-7869

Supportive counseling through telephone support groups specifically for persons with vision-loss and HIV/AIDS who may be unable to use more traditional group settings and benefit from receiving services from their homes. Groups are led by trained and licensed staff who work with HIV/AIDS clients.

Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center
www.leshrc.org
25 Allen Street
New York, NY 10002
Phone: (212) 226-6333
Fax: (212) 343-8005
Email: info@leshrc.org
The Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center provides case management services, mental health service, support groups acupuncture holistic services, crisis counseling, health education, peer education, and health counseling.

New York Harm Reduction Educators
www.nyhre.org
903 Dawson Street
Bronx, NY 10459
Phone: (718) 842-6050
Fax: (718) 842-7001
New York Harm Reduction Educators provides harm reduction education, needle exchange, acupuncture, counseling, referral, transitional case management, and support group services.

St. Mary's Episcopal Center: Adult Day Health Care
512 West 126th Street
New York, NY 10027
Phone: (212) 665-5992
Fax: (212) 665-5892
St. Mary's Adult Day Treatment Program is a health related program co-located with the Residential facility, which provides supportive counseling and ancillary health care services to adults who are living with HIV/AIDS and are symptomatic. Services offered include ancillary medical, psychiatric, and nursing services, case coordination and case management, food and nutritional services. Social services offered include individual psychotherapy, supportive counseling, substance abuse counseling, harm reduction counseling (for at-risk behaviors), psycho-educational groups, support groups, physical therapy, acupuncture, pastoral counseling, and meditation. Assistance with activities of daily living as appropriate, and a complete recreation program including recreation therapy, music therapy, socialization activities and outside trips are also offered.

Settlement Health
212 East 106th Street
New York, NY 10029
Phone: (212) 360-2684
Fax: (212) 360-2696
Settlement Health provides a variety of AIDS-related services including adult primary care, case management for HIV+ individuals and their significant others/families, support groups, nutritional and health behavioral counseling, HIV primary and secondary prevention education, harm/risk reduction education, HIV counseling and testing, community street outreach, and community-based agency-client education.

Staten Island AIDS Task Force
www.aidsinfonyc.org/siatf
42 Richmond Terrace
Staten Island, NY 10301
Phone: (718) 981-3366
Fax: (718) 981-3629
HELPLINE: (718) HIV-CALL
(Education and Outreach Department is located at 25 Hyatt Street, Staten Island, NY 10301)
SIATF services are designed to assist people living with HIV and their families in obtaining and coordinating the various services available to them. Service includes referrals for medical care, social security, public assistance, health insurance, drug assistance, legal assistance, transportation and nutrition services. The Task Force also offers a variety of training programs, support groups, and volunteer opportunities.

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