Organization Details
The GMHC Hotline: responds to over 35,000 phone calls and Internet requests yearly in both Spanish and English with accurate information, emotional support, and an expansive referral service that includes over 10,000 service providers. You can contact the Hotline via our local number, 1-800 number, or email address six days a week.
The A-Team: is a one-of-a-kind face-to-face on-site crisis intervention service available on a walk-in basis, five days a week, nine hours a day.
The David Geffen Center for HIV Prevention and Health Education: combines a highly successful HIV, Syphillis, and Hepatitis C testing and counseling program with follow-up and immediate connection to care. The Geffen Testing Center's services are available during walk-in hours or by appointment. HIV tests are blood or saliva based, offered free of charge, and results are available after twenty minutes or the more traditional week-long waiting period. For HIV-positive clients, The Geffen Center also offers ways to maximize health and well-being through accurate and up-to-date treatment information, an extensive on-site library, one-on-one adherence support, nutrition counseling, and complementary therapies like reiki and acupuncture.
Women and Family Services: addresses the full range of issues facing women and families at risk for, or living with, HIV and AIDS. Services include substance use counseling, nutritional and legal workshops, support groups, crisis intervention, a food pantry, and child sitting.
Lesbian AIDS Project: provides support services, peer education, and HIV prevention for lesbians living with HIV and AIDS in both Spanish and English.
The Institute for Gay Men's Health: uses ground-breaking community-specific outreach to connect gay and bisexual men with safer sex education, substance use counseling, and social support. Peer HIV prevention and outreach groups for gay men, Latinos, black men, young men, and transgendered youth are available.
Group and Mental Health Services: are available for HIV-positive clients as well as their caregivers and partners in long-term group settings or in shorter-term assessments for outside referral.
Meals Program: GMHC's most popular service provides over 300 nutritious and delicious meals five days a week in the spacious and friendly Peter Krueger Dining Room.
Legal Services: addressing issues of discrimination, employment, bankruptcy, housing, family law, child placement, immigration, and accessing benefits and entitlements are available during walk-in hours on-site and at satellite locations around New York City.
Client Advocacy: assists clients in navigating their HIV public benefits and health insurance.
Terry K Watanabe Volunteer and Work Center: trains and supports thousands of volunteers and interns in the fight against AIDS. The Center also assists never-, under-, or un-employed clients transition into work.
Public Policy: advocates for fair and effective AIDS policies at all levels of government and provides numerous opportunities for grassroots activism.
Treatment and Prevention Advocacy: focuses the agency's advocacy efforts on the development of new, better, and less expensive methods for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of HIV and AIDS. It also publishes an internationally-recognized monthly newsletter, Treatment Issues, which reports on the latest medical and scientific information in HIV and AIDS policy and care.
(212) 367-1011
andrewf@gmhc.org
New York, NY 10011
(212) 367-1011
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