Long Island Crisis Center Inc

Programs: Pride for youth (pfy) was established in 1993 to serve long islands lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning/queer (lgbtq) youth and their families. Pfy delivers a cadre of free services: individual, family and group counseling (through age 30); weekly support groups; sexual health services providing education on hiv/stds (including testing); prep/pep and specialized health services for young gay/bisexual men (through age 45); youth leadership opportunities; mpowerment, a nationally-recognized program that provides hiv/aids and hepatitis c prevention through community outreach and education to gay/bisexual men of color up to 30 years of age; and the coffeehouse, a weekly, friday evening drop-in center for lgbtq youth and their straight allies.

long island crisis center was established in 1971 and has existed since then as a 24 hours-a-day/7 days-a-week/365 days-a-year suicide prevention and crisis intervention hotline. In its forty-seven years, it has grown from one hotline to seven. It is staffed round-the-clock by volunteer counselors who undergo nine months of intensive training. In 2017, they responded to more than 14,000 calls on its phone hotlines and on-line live chat site. In 2015, long island crisis center also initiated a groundbreaking professional evaluation of its crisis services. Ongoing new initiatives include: saving our long island veterans; young latinas at risk; later life issues; and translation services.

building healthy lives through education brings workshops to schools for both students and professional staff. In 2017 more than 33,000 attended. These workshops encompass topics that respond to emerging health problems and emotional dilemmas that threaten young people and present challenging behaviors for classroom teachers. Topics for students currently include: suicide awareness and prevention; anger management; understanding self-injury; cyber bullying awareness; understanding homophobia; understanding transphobia; and facilitating gay/straight alliances. School faculty is offered adolescent suicide prevention, making schools safer for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth (lgbtq), adolescent self-injury and adolescent eating disorders.