Resources from NAMI

 

LQBTQIA+ Resources

• CenterLink, an international nonprofit organization and association of LGBTQ centers and other LGBTQ organizations serving their local and regional communities, offers a “CenterLink LGBT Community Center Member Directory” where you can find your nearest LGBTQ center.

 

• The LGBT National Help Center offers confidential peer support connections for LGBT youth, adults, and seniors, including phone, text and online chat.

 

• The American Psychological Association (APA)provides educational and support resources on a range of LGBTQ topics.

 

• The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association’s Provider Directory offers a search tool to locate an LGBTQ-inclusive health care provider.

 

• The Trevor Project is a support network for LGBTQ youth providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention, including a 24-hour text line (text “START” to 678678).

 

• SAGE is a national advocacy and services organization serving LGBTQ+ elders; they offer SAGE National LGBT Elder Hotline to connect LGBTQ+ older people with friendly responders who are ready to listen 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in English and Spanish.

 

• Depression Looks Like Me is a program – sponsored by the Johnson & Johnson Company and supported by an alliance of other partners – that aims to educate and empower LGBTQ+ people with depression.

 

• Society for Sexual, Affectional, Intersex, and Gender Expansive Identities (SAIGE) provides educational and support resources for LGBTQ individuals, as well as promotes competency on LGBTQ issues for counseling professionals.

 

• Trans Lifeline is a nonprofit trans community-led organization that offers emotional support to trans people in crisis.

 

• The National Center for Transgender Equality offers resources for transgender individuals, including information on the right to access health care.

 

• National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) is a federation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander (AAPI) organizations.

 

• Asian Pride Project is a nonprofit organization that celebrates the journeys, triumphs and struggles of LGBTQ individuals and Asian and Pacific Islander (API) families and communities through the use of arts — film, video, photography and the written word — as a medium for social justice and advocacy.

 

• GAPIMNY is a nonprofit organization that empowers queer and trans Asian Pacific Islanders.

 

Resources provided and compiled by NAMI.

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