NATIONAL HOTLINES
LGBT National Hotline:
The LGBT National Help Center serves gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning people by providing free and confidential peer support and local resources. For additional information call: 1-888-843-4564.
Love is Respect: National Teen Dating Abuse Hotline:
Love is Respect offers information, support, and advocacy to young people who have questions or concerns about their dating relationships. For additional information call: 1-866-331-9474 or text 22522.
National Domestic Violence Hotline:
24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, the National Domestic Violence Hotline provides essential tools and support to help survivors of domestic violence so they can live their lives free of abuse. For additional information: call 1-800-799-7233. Contacts to the Hotline can expect highly-trained, expert advocates to offer free, confidential, and compassionate support, crisis intervention information, education, and referral services in over 200 languages.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline:
988 is confidential, free, and available 24/7/365, connecting those experiencing a mental health, substance use, or suicidal crisis with trained crisis counselors. For additional information call: 1-800-273-8255 Crisis Line.
StrongHearts Native Helpline:
The StrongHearts Native Helpline is a safe, anonymous, and confidential service for Native Americans experiencing domestic violence and dating violence. For additional information call: 1-844-762-8483
WomensLaw Email Hotline:
The WomensLaw online helpline provides basic legal information, referrals, and emotional support for victims of abuse.
LOCAL RESOURCES WHERE THE ANNUAL MEETING IS HELD
Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Resources
Sanctuary for Families: Call 1-212-349-6009
Sanctuary for Families is New York’s leading service provider and advocate for survivors of domestic violence, sex trafficking, and related forms of gender violence. Every year, we empower thousands of adults and children to move from fear and abuse to safety and stability, transforming lives through a range of comprehensive services and advocacy. Sanctuary for Families is dedicated to the safety, healing, and self-determination of victims of domestic violence and related forms of gender violence. Through comprehensive services for our clients and their children, and through outreach, education, and advocacy, we strive to create a world in which freedom from gender violence is a basic human right.
Crime Victims Treatment Center NYC: Call 1-212-523-4728
Since 1977, the Crime Victims Treatment Center has been helping survivors of interpersonal violence heal. Our support comes in the forms of crisis intervention, individual and group trauma-focused therapy, legal advocacy, complementary therapy, psychiatric consultation, prevention training, and community education. Services available in English and Spanish.
CVTCNYC Partner Hospitals Nearest to SSSP Conference:
- Mount Sinai West, 58th St. and 10th Ave: 1.9 miles from Westin NY at Times Square
- Northwell Greenwich Village Hospital, 13th St. and 7th Ave: 2.1 miles from Westin NY at Times Square
NYC 24-Hour Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-621-4673 (HOPE)
Domestic Violence Services (DVS), in the New York City Human Resources Administration/Department of Social Services (DSS) oversees the largest network of domestic violence services in the country (hotline managed by Safe Horizon). These New York State-mandated shelter and community-based programs provide prevention and intervention services, crisis counseling, advocacy, and legal services to help families and individuals impacted by domestic violence. Multi-lingual services available.
Safe Horizon: Call 1-800-621-4673 (HOPE)
Safe Horizon offers immediate and practical support like a hot meal, someone to talk to, and a safe place to sleep, as well as deep, ongoing services such as mental health counseling, help finding a place to live and to work, and assistance navigating oppressive and often racist systems. Safe Horizon believes that everyone deserves to feel safe in their communities, homes, bodies, and minds. Because safety is a human right. Multi-lingual services available.
New York Domestic & Sexual Violence Hotline: Call 1-800-942-6906 or Text 1-844-997-2121
The Domestic & Sexual Violence Hotline provides crisis safety planning and referrals to legal advocacy, counseling, emotional support, information and referral services, transitional housing, emergency shelter, and assistance with appointments to court or the hospital for a forensic rape exam.
Urban Resource Institute NYC:
The nation’s largest provider of domestic violence shelter and support services. Every day, we help survivors of intimate partner violence find safety, heal from trauma, and build stable, independent futures for themselves and their families (including pet-inclusive shelters). URI’s survivor-centered, trauma-informed approach goes beyond emergency housing to address the full reality of domestic violence—its immediate danger, its long-term impacts, and the systems that too often make safety harder to reach.
Womankind: Call 1-888-888-7702
Womankind provides multilingual, culturally-responsive services to help survivors of domestic violence, human trafficking, and sexual violence. "Through our programs, we offer a wide variety of services in 18+ Asian languages and dialects, including: a toll-free 24/7 multilingual helpline, safe and confidential emergency housing, culturally-informed counseling, family law and immigration legal assistance, wellness activities, creative arts therapy, support groups, and economic empowerment workshops. We are an expert in serving Asian communities, yet our services are valuable and available to all. Whether in our services or in our increasing advocacy and policy work, Womankind first centers the survivor by uplifting them to control their own lives and narratives."
Arab American Family Support Center (AAFSC): Call 1-800-980-6114
AAFSC provides culturally and linguistically competent services to all immigrants and refugees. They have an anti-violence helpline and serve survivors of domestic and gender-based violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and trafficking. Their Case Managers help survivors process emotions and build safety plans. AAFSC also provides legal advocacy, court accompaniments, translation services, and assistance with Orders of Protection. Eligibility: Open to all immigrants and refugees.
Legal Services
Legal Aid New York City: Call 212.577.3300
Legal Aid promotes access to justice for economically disadvantaged residents of all five boroughs of New York City.
New York Legal Assistance Group: Call 212-613-5000
NYLAG works with survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, including sexual assault, stalking, and trafficking, within all communities, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation. Services include creating safety plans, obtaining & enforcing orders of protection, orders for child and spousal support, child custody and visitation, child protection, working to obtain legal status for migrants, etc.
Immigration Law and Justice NY: Call 212-870-3785
With offices in NYC and Long Island, Immigration Law and Justice NY offers consultations and legal representation for low-income immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers.
New York Immigration Coalition:
Provides community resources for immigrants in NYC, including “Know Your Rights” wallet cards in 19 languages, a “Know Your Rights” curriculum, immigration detention support, family preparedness guides, etc. They do NOT provide legal services. For legal assistance, contact the New Americans Hotline at 1-800-566-7636.
Her Justice:
Her Justice advocates for and with women and other gender diverse New Yorkers as they seek autonomy and safety through the civil justice system. Since 1993, they’ve provided life-changing free legal help to over 45,000 women and children. They pursue policies that improve the experiences and outcomes for hundreds of thousands more. Her Justice is committed to creating a more fair and functional civil justice system for women in New York City, so they can build safer, freer futures for themselves, their families, and their communities.
LGBTQ+ Resources
Anti-Violence Project: Call 212-714-1141
AVP empowers lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and HIV-affected communities and allies to end all forms of violence through organizing and education, and supports survivors through counseling and advocacy. AVP envisions a world in which all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and HIV-affected people are safe, respected, and live free from violence. Their free, bilingual (English/Spanish), 24-hour, 365-day-a-year crisis intervention hotline is staffed by trained volunteers, and their professional counselor/advocates offer support to LGBTQ & HIV-affected survivors of any type of violence, as well as to those who love and support survivors, including those who have lost a loved one to violence. Callers receive immediate crisis counseling and safety planning, as well as access to ongoing counseling, advocacy, and onsite legal services.
The Center:
For more than 40 years The Center has been at the core of New York's LGBTQ+ community. As a direct service provider, a leading LGBTQ+ advocate, and an affirming safe space, The Center stands as a vital pillar of support, activism, and community building for LGBTQ+ New Yorkers.
NY LGBT Network:
Since 1993, the NY LGBT Network has been building safe, affirming, and connected communities where we all thrive together. The NY LGBT Network operates LGBT community centers throughout the expansive Long Island and Queens region to reach and serve as many LGBT people and their families as possible. More than 30,000 visits are made annually to access the NY LGBT Network’s expansive offerings of social, cultural, health, support, and other programs.
Westchester Jewish Community Services:
Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS) is a comprehensive human services organization that helps people of all ages and backgrounds overcome emotional, social, educational, vocational, disability, and spiritual challenges so they can lead lives with strength, resilience, and confidence. WJCS is driven by the spirit of “tikkun olam”–repairing the world. By providing care and support, we work to help Westchester residents of all ages and backgrounds who are struggling to heal, develop skills, build resilience, and lead their best lives. WJCS staff provide evidence-based mental health and trauma treatment, 24/7 care to disabled adults, supportive programming for LGBTQ+ youth and families, cultural, educational, counseling, and spiritual programming for the Jewish community, and much more.
From Bluestockings Cooperative:
General
- The Door, Youth Center (ages 12-24) offers free membership for services including reproductive health care and education, mental health counseling and crisis assistance, legal assistance, GED and ESOL classes, tutoring and homework help, college preparation services, career development, job training and placement, supportive housing, sports and recreational activities, arts, and meals.
- Find Help allows you to search for food assistance, bill-paying assistance, and other free or reduced cost programs by zip code.
- Henry Street Settlement offers over 50 social services, arts, and health care programs offered in English, Chinese, Spanish, including housing support, senior services, food programs, wellness initiatives, benefits screenings, legal services, financial services, health insurance, and family support.
- The LGBT Center offers the LGBTQ communities of NYC advocacy, health and wellness programs; arts, entertainment and cultural events; recovery, parenthood and family support services.
- Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline and microgrants 501(c)(3) non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community. Hotline: (877) 565-8860
- University Settlement offers a wide array of programs for folks of all ages, including housing, education, and support for the aging.
Education
- Asian American Feminist Collective engages in intersectional feminist politics grounded within our communities, including those whose backgrounds encompass East, Southeast, and South Asian, Pacific Islander, multi-ethnic and diasporic Asian identities. Through public events and resources, we seek to provide spaces for identity exploration, political education, community building, and advocacy. Get Involved/Email: aafcollective@gmail.com
- Chinatown YMCA - Hester Street Community Center offers ESOL classes and after school programming for children.
- edX offers free university courses from schools such as Harvard and MIT
- Fireweed Collective offers mental health education, support groups, and mutual aid through a Healing Justice lens. They help support the emotional wellness of all people, and center the needs of those most marginalized by our society. Their work seeks to disrupt the harm of systems of abuse and oppression,often reproduced by the mental health system.
- Henry Street Settlement offers a variety of childhood education programs as well as beginner-level ESOL classes and a ESOL-Job Readiness Program.
- NYSED Application for Vocational Rehabilitation Services Adult Career and Continuing Education Services- Vocational Rehabilitation (ACCES-VR) services are for individuals with disabilities that interfere with getting or keeping a job or who have difficulty advancing at their job. VR services may only be provided if your goal is employment.
- University Settlement offers early childhood and youth education programs. They also offer an adult literacy program, as well as more advanced courses and workshops.
Food
Health Care for All and Support for Disabled/Chronically Ill People
- Callen-Lorde Community Health Center provides sensitive, quality health care and related services targeted to New York’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities — in all their diversity — regardless of ability to pay.
- GMHC is the world’s first and leading provider of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and advocacy. Building on decades of dedication and expertise, we understand the reality of HIV/AIDS and empower a healthy life for all.
- Henry Street Settlement offers assistance enrolling in affordable health care coverage, provides mental health care onsite and in several satellite clinics, operates a primary care clinic for adults, offers vocational training, parenting classes and benefits screenings, as well as free legal and financial counseling.
- Keith D. Cylar Community Health Center offers primary and specialty medical care, substance use treatment, mental health treatment, and other supportive social services. Case managers are available to help connect HIV-positive individuals with resources and information. They also offer a re-entry program, free legal services, and housing support. Finally, it's a good place to go if you just need a space to rest for a little!
- Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center provides services for those struggling with substance use or HIV/AIDS, including medical and mental health referrals, food, housing, and employment assistance. They offer harm reduction services, syringe exchange, free sterile injecting equipment and safer sex supplies, free Narcan/Naloxone overdose prevention meds, and rapid HIV and hepatitis C testing.
- Manhattan Alternative is a network of therapeutic service providers in New York City who are sex-positive, affirmative, and have expertise related to issues that kink, poly, consensually non-monogamous, trans, gender non-conforming, and/or LGBQ-identified individuals face.
- NADAP helps New Yorkers become self-sufficient through healthcare and employment services
- National Harm Reduction Coalition Resource Center is a nationwide advocate and ally for people who use drugs. @HarmReduction on Twitter!
- National Urban Survivor’s Union is a national drug user union! So, What does this mean? Well, it means that drug users, both former and active, have come together, just like a labor union to fight for rights that we currently do not have. The government declared war on drugs, and when they did this they declared war on drug users. NO MORE! @National_usu on Twitter!
- New York Abortion Access Fund (NYAAF) supports anyone who is unable to pay fully for an abortion and is living in or traveling to New York State by providing financial assistance and connections to other resources. Email: info@nyaaf.org and Hotline number: 212-252-4757
- NextDistro is an online and mail-based harm reduction platform designed to reduce opioid overdose death, prevent injection-related disease transmission, and improve the lives of people who use drugs.
- NYC Queer Mental Health Initiative (QMHI) Resource List is a Google doc gathering mental health resources for LGBTQ individuals in New York City.
- Project LETS builds peer-led communities of support, education & advocacy for folks with lived experience of mental illness, trauma, Disability, and/or neurodivergence. We believe that principles of Disability Justice are key components to supporting collective healing and our human rights. Staff of Project LETS are always available! Please give us a week to respond to any non-crisis related e-mail (use contact form here)
- Q Clinic is a free primary health clinic run by Columbia medical students that provides affirming, trauma-informed care to all. Their services are tailored to fit the needs of the LGBTQI+ population of NYC. They are open for walk-in appointments every Wednesday from 6-7:30 pm; you do not need to bring any insurance, ID, proof of citizenship, or payment method. Text/call at 347-565-5042 or email at qclinic@columbia.edu.
- Queer Healers is a team of queer people who love queer healers who believe queer people need an easy way to find healers who relate to their lived experience.
- SWANS program from SWOP Los Angeles is an abortion support access program to provide financial aid and trauma-informed peer support for those seeking an abortion. Aid looks like but is not limited to: flights, hotels, meals, assistance booking and scheduling appointments and travel. They will prioritize the needs of current or former sex workers seeking abortions. You do not have to live in California to receive aid. Program application is available in English and Spanish. They have a text line to answer questions at (657) 549-4556 or you can email us at swoplaswans@proton.me.
- Trans Needle Exchange is a non-profit mail-based service providing free HRT needle supplies for trans folk who cannot access or afford their own. We send a month’s worth of supplies to people all around the country. Trans Needle Exchange ships out over 150 packages a month.
- University Settlement offers a variety of mental health and wellness programs
Housing
Incarcerated People/Prisoner Solidarity Work
- Books Through Bars NYC is an all volunteer-run group that sends free, donated books to incarcerated people across the nation! To contact us, email info@booksthroughbarsnyc.org
- People's Bail Out NYC is a New York City bail fund.
- Prison Library Support Network is an information-based collective founded in 2016 to support incarcerated people by organizing networks for sharing resources and building community around prison abolition in libraries, archives, and other knowledge-based institutions. @plsn_nyc on Instagram.
- Survived & Punished NY an all-volunteer organization that includes community organizers, survivor advocates, legal experts, and policy advocates including currently and formerly incarcerated survivors. @survivepunishNY on Twitter.
Sex Worker Safety & Support
- COIN clinic at Callen-Lorde is a free, affirming physical healthcare program for sex workers.
- The Colectivo TRANSgrediendo is a social orgswoplaswans@proton.meanization, which works on the empowerment of human rights, access and comprehensive health care, of TransGNB people, strengthening the social and cultural expression of diverse gender identities in New York City, in order to guarantee our well-being and the right to a life free of all types of violence. Located at 3763 83rd St, Suite #1B Jackson Heights, NY 11372, office number is 347-738-6989, Trans Line Whatsapp number is (917) 702- 8419 and email: contact@ourvoicesarefree.org or hello@ourvoicesarefree.org
- GLITS, Inc. addresses health care and health resilience for transgender sex workers. They also work on housing since so many in our G.L.I.T.S.’ communities are without stable housing, deepening the cycle of disenfranchisement. G.L.I.T.S. also advocates and educates to ensure health, wellness and inclusion of transgender people in our society and to address the stigmatization and criminalization of trans people because of anti-prostitution/anti-sex work laws. Intake form: https://www.glitsinc.org/contact-us and toll-free SWOP-USA/GLITS Community Support Line at (877) 776-2004 (ext. 212)
- Hacking//Hustling is a collective of sex workers and allies working at the intersection of technology and social justice formed in response to SESTA-FOSTA (The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act and Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act). They provide doxing prevention and harm reduction trainings and other tech resources and activism.
- Lysistrata Mutual Care Collective & Emergency Fund is an online based, community run sex worker mutual care collective. As people in the industry, we understand how exploitation plays into our field, like any other job, because sex work is WORK!
- Red Canary Song is a grassroots collective of Asian sex workers & allies for migrant justice. Labor rights not police raids. Full decriminalization & anti-trafficking. @RedCanarySong on Twitter.
- Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center engages in legal and social services, advocacy, education, media, and organizing to build a movement to protect the human rights of sex workers. SWP does not receive walk-in clients or inquiries. Please call our helpline at 646-602-5617.
- The Support Ho(s)e Collective is a small Leftist formation of sex workers (current and former) and trusted co-conspirators based in Chicago and New York City. Theyaim to build radical community for all sex workers through political education and public agitation. @supporthosechi on Twitter
- Sex Workers’ Abortion Navigation Services program from SWOP Los Angeles is an abortion support access program to provide financial aid and trauma-informed peer support for those seeking an abortion. Aid looks like but is not limited to: flights, hotels, meals, assistance booking and scheduling appointments and travel. They will prioritize the needs of current or former sex workers seeking abortions. You do not have to live in California to receive aid. Program application is available in English and Spanish. They have a text line to answer questions at (657) 549-4556 or you can email us at swoplaswans@proton.me.
Survivors of Abuse & Sexual Violence Resources
- Anti-Violence Project empowers LGBTQ and HIV-affected communities and allies to end all forms of violence
- Crime Victims Treatment Center (CVTC) is a non-for-profit organization committed to helping people heal from violent crime. CVTC can help in a crisis. Our state-certified volunteer rape crisis and domestic violence advocates are available to help survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence who visit our three emergency departments during overnight hours and on weekends, and our specially trained sexual assault forensic examiners (SAFEs) are available 24 hours a day. (212) 523-4728
- Love is Respect is an advocacy group for prevention and ending abusive relationships. If you fear your internet usage is monitored, they can be reached at 866-331-9474.
- New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault is a non-governmental organization. NYSCASA is a private, non-profit coalition of community-based rape crisis programs located throughout New York State. You can contact NYSCASA as follows: NYSCASA, 28 Essex Street, Albany, NY 12206; Phone: 518-482-4222; Fax: 518-482-4248.
- NY Anti-Trafficking Network leverages collective expertise as lawyers, social workers, and policy advocates to change law and policy on trafficking. NYATN has provided direct legal and social services to several thousand survivors of human trafficking since 2002. Email: nycantitrafficking@gmail.com / @NYATN on Twitter
- NYC Transformative Justice Hub serves three main purposes: Provide political education for anyone interested in transformative justice and community accountability. Provide a space for people actively engaged in the work to process, and get consultations and support. Provide more connectivity and visibility across groups doing TJ and CA work.
- TransformHarm.Org is a resource hub about ending violence, not an organization. This site offers an introduction to transformative justice. Created by Mariame Kaba and designed by Lu Design Studio, the site includes selected articles, audio-visual resources, curricula, and more.