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AMAAD Institute
AMAAD facilitates personalized individual access to programs and services that foster safe and supportive healthy environments for people to live, learn and develop to their fullest potential. They provide essential and support services, community support, resources and referrals centered around specialized strength-based management services and leadership development with a focus among LGBTQ people of color. AMAAD is committed to highlighting and celebrating healthy living and affirming Black people and other men and women of color.
Location: South LA
Services: Sexual Health, Mental Health, Youth Services, Substance Abuse Prevention, Housing, Re-entry Program
APAIT
APAIT has held a distinctive record of providing high quality programming through its vision – to advocate, educate, and achieve optimal health and well-being for vulnerable communities. APAIT’s mission is to positively impact the quality of life for vulnerable communities experiencing behavioral health challenges, housing insecurity, and at-risk for HIV/AIDS. APAIT is grounded by its core values of compassion, commitment, communication, empowerment, integrity, mentorship, respect, and teamwork.
Location: Metro LA
Services: Sexual Health, Mental Health, Housing, Transgender Programs and Services, Advocacy & Outreach, Substance Abuse Prevention
APLA Health
APLA Health is a Federally Qualified Health Center dedicated to health equity and promoting well-being for LGBT and other underserved communities and people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. They have a number of clinics that provide primary care, sexual health and wellness, dentistry, and host community resources services and programs for LGBTQ+ folks of color.
Location: Metro LA, South LA, South Bay
Services: Sexual Health, Transgender Programs and Services, Older Adult Program, Housing, Medical Services, Dental Services, Mental Health
Bienestar
Bienestar is a community-based social services organization serving Greater Los Angeles. Their focus is on identifying and addressing emerging health issues faced by Latinx and LGBTQ+ populations. Bienestar reaches these unique populations through innovative and compassionate peer-to-peer modeling that is 100% culturally relevant to the communities they serve.
Location: East LA, Metro LA, South Bay, South LA, San Gabriel Valley, San Fernando Valley
Services: Sexual Health, Transgender Programs and Services, Mental Health, Youth Services, Substance Abuse Prevention, Housing
CA LGBTQ+ Health & Human Services Network
The California LGBTQ Health & Human Services Network is an LGBTQ-specific program of Health Access, bringing together more than 60 non-profit providers, community centers, and researchers to advocate collectively for state level policies and resources that will advance LGBTQ health. Founded in 2007, the Network provides coordinated leadership about LGBTQ health policy in a proactive, responsive manner that promotes health and well-being as part of the movement for LGBTQ equality, and ensures that there is a distinct LGBTQ voice in health policy decision-making venues.
Services: Advocacy & Outreach
Cedars-Sinai Cancer Community Outreach and Engagement
Cedars-Sinai Cancer’s Community Outreach and Engagement (COE) team reaches out to the LGBTQ+ community throughout Los Angeles County providing education on tobacco prevention and cessation. The COE team identifies LGBTQ+ tobacco users and refers them to the state quitline and cessation support groups with the goal of creating a tobacco free LGBTQ+ community.
Location: West LA
Services: Tobacco Cessation
Gender Justice LA
Gender Justice LA is a grassroots organization building the power of the transgender and gender non-conforming community here in LA. They use community organizing and leadership development to make concrete changes in the lives of all TGNC people, especially low-income trans people of color. They seek to build our community’s power to fight for racial, social, cultural, and economic justice.
Location: Metro LA
Services: Advocacy & Outreach
LA LGBT Center
Since 1969, the Los Angeles LGBT Center has cared for, championed, and celebrated LGBTQ individuals and families in Los Angeles and beyond. Today, the Center’s nearly 800 employees provide services for more queer and trans people than any other organization in the world—offering programs, services, and global advocacy that span four broad categories: Health, Social Services and Housing, Culture and Education, and Leadership and Advocacy.
Location: Metro LA, South LA, East LA
Services: Sexual Health, Legal Services, Transgender Programs and Services, Mental Health, Violence Prevention, Older Adult Program, Youth Services, Substance Abuse Prevention, Housing, Advocacy & Outreach, Medical Services
Latino Equality Alliance
The mission of Latino Equality Alliance (LEA), a project of Community Partners, is to advocate for safety, equity, and wellness for the Latinx Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer + community. The organization strongly focuses on youth empowerment, family acceptance, educational equity, public health, and civic engagement. Through coalitions, they strive to build power to elevate the LGBTQ+ voices in Boyle Heights and the greater eastside communities of Los Angeles.
Location: East LA
Services: Youth Services, Substance Abuse Prevention
LGBTQ Center Long Beach
The Center began in 1977 as living room gatherings to discuss issues important to the LGBTQ community. The Center was officially incorporated in 1980 and has been providing a variety of health, social, advocacy, legal, and service programs to the LGBTQ community in the Greater Long Beach area for three decades. Today, we serve over 25,000 people a year and include an array of services including support groups, workshops and seminars, youth services, free HIV & STI testing, legal assistance, domestic violence services, employment referrals, mental health counseling, cultural and social activities including the QFilms Festival, educational forums, and a thriving volunteer program with an active database of over 300 volunteers.
Location: South Bay
Services: Sexual Health, Legal Services, Mental Health, Violence Prevention, Older Adult Program, Youth Services
Somos Familia Valle
Somos Familia Valle is a local LGBTQ+ community organization dedicated to support, empower, and mobilize families, and allies for racial, gender, and economic justice in the San Fernando Valley. They organize for intersectional LGBTQ+ liberation through transformative dialogue, advocacy, and civic engagement. Somos Familia Valle promotes LGBTQ+-affirming homes, safer schools, and healthier communities through their values: a commitment to being our authentic selves, education, empowerment, and wellness.
Location: San Fernando Valley
Services: Youth Services, Advocacy & Outreach, Mental Health, Transgender Programs and Services
South Bay LGBTQ Center
Located in Torrance, the South Bay LGBTQ Center's mission is to create spaces where all LGBTQ+/Queer people can thrive though cultural awareness, community building, community service, and learning opportunities. The South Bay LGBTQ Center hopes to foster greater inclusion as well as understanding of the LGBTQ+/Queer and other intersecting communities in the South Los Angeles and South Bay area.
Location: South Bay, South LA
Services: Transgender Programs and Services, Youth Services, Advocacy & Outreach, Mental Health
St. John’s Community Health
St. John’s Community Health offers comprehensive, affirmative services to LGBTQ+ community members. The Prime Specialty Clinic focuses on patients along the HIV continuum of care, including testing, linkage to care, and treatment. The St. John’s Well Child and Family Center’s Transgender Health Program (THP) provides trans-specific and affirming services and is committed to protecting and improving the health of all transgender people in our communities. Services include primary and preventative medical care, hormone therapy, a community social group, referrals for gender affirming surgery, among others.
Location: South LA, Metro LA
Services: Sexual Health, Transgender Programs and Services, Mental Health, Violence Prevention, Substance Abuse Prevention, Housing, Re-entry Program, Advocacy & Outreach, Medical Services, Dental Services
Still Bisexual
The mission of Still Bisexual is to foster public acceptance, awareness and understanding of bisexual, pansexual, fluid, and queer identities and the challenges they face; develop and promote self-acceptance, personal empowerment and visibility among bisexual, pansexual, fluid, and queer people; and to foster inclusivity and acceptance for bisexual, pansexual, fluid and queer people among the larger LGBTQIA+ community.
Location: Metro LA
Services: Advocacy & Outreach
The Wall/Las Memorias
The Wall Las Memorias (TWLM) is a community health and wellness organization dedicated to serving Latino, LGBTQ, and other under-served populations through advocacy, education, and building the next generation of leadership. The Wall Las Memorias serves communities throughout Los Angeles by educating community members on the importance of HIV and AIDS, substance abuse prevention, mental health stigma reduction for LGBTQI2-S transitional-aged youth (TAY), transgender women’s health and wellness, non-binary health and wellness, and community building in the marginalized communities. The organization has helped eradicate stigma and bigotry and created a safer place in our communities for dialogue, community building, and education.
Location: East LA, Metro LA
Services: Sexual Health, Transgender Programs and Services, Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention
TransLatin@ Coalition
The TransLatin@ Coalition (TLC) was founded in 2009 by a group of Transgender and Gender nonconforming and Intersex (TGI) immigrant women in Los Angeles, California, as a grassroots response to address the specific needs of TGI Latin@ immigrants who live in the United States.
Since then, the agency has become a nationally recognized organization with representation in 10 different states across the U.S. and provides direct services to TGI individuals in Los Angeles. In 2015, The TransLatin@ Coalition identified the urgent need to provide direct services to empower TGI people in response to structural, institutional, and interpersonal violence, and the Center for Violence Prevention and Transgender Wellness was born. TLC’s primary focus is to change the landscape of access to services for TGI people and provide access to comprehensive resource and services that will improve the quality of life of TGI people.
Location: Metro LA, San Gabriel Valley
Services: Sexual Health, Legal Services, Transgender Programs and Services, Violence Prevention, Housing, Re-entry Program, Advocacy & Outreach
Unique Women’s Coalition
Unique Woman’s Coalition (UWC) is dedicated to being a collective voice centering on the narratives and needs of Black Trans culture. They’re committed to fostering the next generation of black trans leadership from within the community through mentorship, scholarship, and community care engagement work.
Location: Metro LA
Services: Legal Services, Transgender Programs and Services, Violence Prevention, Youth Services, Advocacy & Outreach
Via Care Community Health Center
Via Care is a federally qualified health center dedicated to providing quality healthcare and treatment for its lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/non-conforming community members in the East Los Angeles area. All of their locations are a safe, inclusive space for people to receive compassionate, accurate, non-judgmental, and culturally competent care.
Location: East LA
Services: Sexual Health, Mental Health, Youth Services, Medical Services, Dental Services