BAY AREA LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDRED RESOURCE DIRECTORY

RELATED YOUTH CENTER

Outlet (Mountain View Community Awareness Council)

Address: 711 Church St., Mountain View, Ca 94041

Telephone: (650) 965-2020 ext. 22

Outlet offers a safe, supportive, confidential drop-in support and social group for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth on Mondays, from 7-9 p.m.

LYRIC (Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center)

Address: 127 Collingwood St., San Francisco, CA 94114-2411

Telephone: (415) 703-6150

LYRIC is a community center, which offers comprehensive services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth 23 and under.

COLAGE (Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere)

Address: 1550 Bryant St. suit 830 San Francisco, CA 94103

Telephone: (415) 861-5437

COLAGE’s mission is to engage, connect, and empower people to make the world a better place for children of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender parents and families.

Billy De Frank - LGBTQ Community Center

Address: 938 The Alameda, San Jose, Ca 95126

Telephone: (408) 293-3040; Fax: 9408) 298-8986

Billy De Frank Center offers a wide variety of free or low-cost social activities, groups, counseling services, senior, adult, youth and family programs.

COMMUNITY SOCIAL AND SUPPORT GROUPS

PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)

Meetings take place at United Church of Christ located on 1980 Hamilton Ave, San Jose, CA on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7:30pm.

PFLAG is a monthly support group open to parents, spouses, siblings, friends, lesbians, and gay men.

Bay Area Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) Network

Statewide Office address: 1550 Bryant St., Suite 800, San Francisco, CA 94103

Telephone: 415.552.4229, fax: 415.552.4729

The Bay Area GSA Network is a youth-led organization that connects school-based GSA’s to each other and to community resources.

GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network)

Los Angeles Chapter address: 1125 McCadden Place, Suite 150
Los Angeles, CA 90038-1212
Telephone: 323-460-4573; Fax: 323-480-7491

GLSEN is an educational advocacy organization that works to make schools safer and more inclusive for LGBT students and staff.

LACY (Legal Advocates for Children and Youth)

Mailing address: 111 W. St. John St. suit 315, San Jose, CA 95113

Telephone: (408) 293-4790

Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

LACY, as this service is referred to, provides legal and related social services to any youth under 18 years of age.

HOUSING AND COUNSELING

Bill Wilson Center

Address: 3490 The Alameda, Santa Clara, CA 95050

Telephone: (408) 243-0222

Bill Wilson has an emergency drop-in housing for youth, ages 11-17. Outpatient counseling is also offered if the person qualifies for this service.

Emergency Housing Consortium (EHC)

Address: 31 north 1st Street, SJ, CA 95112

Telephone: (408) 298-2660 -- 24-hour hotlines for housing referrals; call collect if needed.

Contact: Shelly Barbieri, assistant director.

Hours: Drop in center: Monday-Friday, 2-8 p.m.; Saturday & Sunday, 4-8 p.m. Overnight Shelter: Monday-Friday, 8 p.m. – 8 a.m.; Saturday & Sunday, 8 p.m.–9 a.m.

Alum Rock Counseling Center

Address: 1245 E. Santa Clara Street, San Jose, CA 95116

Telephone: (408) 294-0500

24-hour Crisis Hot Line: (408) 294-0579

Contact: Patricia Chiapellone, Executive Director.

Hours: Monday – Thursday: 9 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Friday: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Community Solutions

Address: 16264 Church Street, suit 103, Morgan Hill, Ca 95037

Telephone: (408) 779-2113

Hours: Monday – Friday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Some of the services provided are mental health, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

Family & Children’s Services

Address: 950 Julian Street, San Jose, CA 95126

Telephone: (408) 292-9353

Family & Children Services is a private, non-profit human service agency serving individuals, couples, and families throughout San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. The agency offers a wide variety of comprehensive, affordable counseling, education, and prevention programs and has collaborations with local schools, community-based organizations, county providers, and corporations.

SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES

The Crane Center

Address: 976 Lenzen Avenue, Rm. 1800, San Jose, CA 95126

Telephone: (408) 792-3720

The Crane Center is a Santa Clara County unit that provides free HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases testing (parental consent is not needed if age 12 or older by appointment only

Planned Parenthood

Telephone: (408) 277-0777

By calling this number information is provided as to the services and locations available in this program. Planned Parenthood health centers offer high-quality sexual and reproductive health care, including family planning, gynecological care, STI/STD testing and treatment, pregnancy testing, and abortion services

HOTLINE NUMBERS

Alum Rock Counseling Center Crisis Line – 24 –hours: (408) 294-0579

Billy De Frank Lesbian and Gay Community Center - (408) 293-2429

Monday – Friday, 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Bill Wilson Center – 24-Hours: (408) 840-6125

California Youth Crisis Line – 1-800-222-3463

Child Abuse – 24-Hours: (408) 299-2071

Contact Crisis Line – (408) 279-8228 – 24-Hour services is provided whenever personal is available.

Emergency Housing Consortium – 24-Hour: (408) 298-2660

Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence – 24-Hours: (408) 279-2962

Suicide and Crisis Services – 24-Hours: (408) 279-3312

The Support Network for Battered Women – 24-Hours: (800) 572-2782

EMQ Children and Family Services Program – (408) 379-9085

24-Hour Child and Adolescent Mobile Crisis Center-Crisis Line-operating 24/7

LOCAL YOUTH TALKLINE NUMBERS

Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender National Youth Hotline

Telephone: (888) 246-7743

CASA SAY

Telephone: (650) 961-2622

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