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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