The Ali Forney Center (AFC) in New York City, is the nation's largest and most comprehensive organization dedicated to homeless LGBT youth.
In NYC about 40% of homeless youth are LGBT. Many often face homophobic violence and harassment in the youth shelter system and turn to the streets of NYC instead.
The Ali Forney Center offers LGBT youth, ages 16-24, emergency and transitional housing and support so that these young adults can escape a life on the streets and begin to live healthy and independent lives.
AFC offers an innovative range of services that provide a nurturing, caring and supportive environment. These services include the AFC Day Center, which offers street outreach, referral to the housing programs, case management, primary medical care, HIV testing, mental health assessment and treatment, food, showers, and an employment assistance program.
AFC also provides scattered-site emergency and longer-term housing with locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn. In addition, AFC offers a family outreach program which works to support and strengthen families by offering counseling, education and outreach services.
AFC is named in honor of Ali Forney, a gay youth who was homeless on the streets of NYC from the age of 13 until his death at 22. Despite his own situation, Ali was dedicated to the safety and welfare of other homeless youth and was a committed HIV prevention peer educator. In 1997 Ali was murdered on the streets of Harlem, but his killer was never found. Ali was an inspiration to all those who knew him and continues to inspire the work of the center today.
www.aliforneycenter.org
Housing Works 1st Annual LGB&T Celebrating Diversity & Change
Join us for a discussion about the LGBT communities.
Topics include: Advocacy, harm reduction, healthcare, HIV/AIDS, housing, legal issues, mental health, spirituality and substance use. RSVP at 718-827-8700 x130 or email Guaylupo@housingworks.org Location: 2640 Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11208 Take the A train to Euclid Ave. Site is between Crystal & Fountain
It’s not too late you still have time to apply The Youth Action Institute is a training for young advocates that are involved in the HIV/AIDS field that want to learn how to work on issues in their own communities. The training will definitely give them the tools and network.
At YAI, participants discover how they can join in the fight against the epidemic from experienced activists living with HIV/AIDS, network with other young people from around the country, and learn the basics of AIDS advocacy from grassroots organizing to lobbying to direct action (i.e. protests and demonstrations!).
When Chakena "C.C." Conway, 21, applied for YAI, she didn’t know what to expect. Conway, who was prenatally infected with HIV, had long volunteered in schools, teaching about safer sex. But YAI taught Conway that AIDS activism is more than just prevention and education. "YAI stirred up a lot of passion in me," said Conway, who participated in her first-ever protest "Trick or Treat" protest in Philadelphia, and has since participated in the protest in Myrtle Beach and a HASA for All rally in New York.
..TR> Do you want to work to end HIV/AIDS as an epidemic, but aren’t quite sure how? Are you between the ages of 16 and 26?
Are you available from June 25 to 29?
If you answered yes to all three questions, then listen closely to these three words that could change your life: Youth Action Institute.
Just send in an application ASAP and you could be headed to Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the Youth Action Institute, the jump-off for an incredible summer-long journey to AIDS activism.
Conway became a full-fledged AIDS activist after YAI
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But Conway’s biggest accomplishment was her YAI project.YAI participants also plan an eight-week project to work on once the June session is over. The goal of the project is to work with a local AIDS organizat
Ali Forney Rules!!!! I just wanted to come by your page and say THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for putting this together. If everyone that comes into the program takes it seriously then they will be able to add stability to their lives. Not only do I have a safe and WARM environment to lay my head at but I get to save money, go to school and prepare for the "real world" HOPEFULLY I won't have to find another organization like this one in the future!
im glad that organizations like this exist to help us out who have no one else hopefully we can expand and places like this can come over to el paso,texas cause omg its bad at times
