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DESI LGBTQ+ Helpline for ​South Asians

Telephone 1
908-367-3374
About this Organization
Email
deqh.info@gmail.com

What is DeQH?

  • Trained South Asian LGBQ/TGNB+ peer support volunteers

  • Call or write with questions, concerns, struggles, and hopes

  • ​It's always free — and 100% confidential

DeQH can help with…

  • questions on gender, identity, coming out

  • dealing with family, culture, or faith

  • trying to find community in your area

  • advice for a friend or family member

  • listening as you work through things

 

 DeQH serves people of South Asian heritage, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Tibet, as well as from South Asian communities in diaspora, such as Fiji and the Caribbean.

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Trained volunteers are available to talk between:

  • Thursdays, 8-10 PM Eastern (5-7 PM Pacific)
  • Sundays, 8-10 PM Eastern (5-7 PM Pacific)

 

https://www.deqh.org/contact-us.html 

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LGBT National Help Center

Telephone 1
415-355-0003
About this Organization
Email
help@LGBThotline.org

"The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) National Help Center, founded in 1996, is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization that provides vital peer-support, community connections and resource information to people with questions regarding sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Utilizing a diverse group of LGBT volunteers, we operate three national hotlines, the LGBT National Hotline, the LGBT National Youth Talkline, and the LGBT National Senior Hotline as well as private, volunteer one-to-one online chat, that helps both youth and adults with coming-out issues, safer-sex information, school bullying, family concerns, relationship problems and a lot more.

We run weekly moderated chat rooms for LGBT youth and teens to find support, acceptance and community.

We also maintain the largest collection of resources for the LGBT community in the United States, with over 17,000 local resources for cities and towns across the country."

 

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LGBT National Help Center
2261 Market Street,  #296
San Francisco, CA  94114

 

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) National Hotline:
1-888-843-4564

LGBT National Youth Talkline:
1-800-246-PRIDE (1-800-246-7743)

LGBT National Senior Talkline: 
1-888-234-7243

LGBT Switchboard of New York: 
212-989-0999

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The Trevor Project

Telephone 1
(212) 695-8650
About this Organization
Email
info@thetrevorproject.org

The Trevor Project is an American nonprofit organization founded in 1998 focused on suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth. Through a toll-free telephone number, it operates The Trevor Lifeline, a confidential service that offers trained counselors.

Founded: March 25, 1998

Headquarters: West Hollywood, CA

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The Trevor Project
PO Box 69232
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Click We’re here for you Now – The Trevor Project to reach a counselor.

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Sexual Violence Prevention Association - SVPA

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Telephone 1
5083675080
About this Organization

The Sexual Violence Prevention Association (SVPA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing sexual violence systemically by revolutionizing policy, research, and institutions. 

 

SVPA Score

The SVPA Score assesses universities' policies, programs, and procedures regarding sexual violence prevention and survivor support. As the only national bench-mark for campus sexual violence practices, the SVPA Score provides critical standardization and transparency. The SVPA Score will soon be a factor included in ranking and comparison systems such as USNews and Niche. Within five years, the SVPA plans to expand the score to evaluate the practices of companies and other institutions.

 

Data & Research

The SVPA maintains the largest and most extensive database for sexual violence prevention data. This data is the foundation for machine learning algorithms, big-data analytics, and statistical evaluation that expand the research for effective prevention strategies. These insights are imperative to the future of sexual violence prevention on campuses, within companies, and throughout all institutions including legislative policy.

 

Policy Activism

As the only national organization dedicated to preventing sexual violence systemically, the SVPA is committed to dismantling the social structures that uphold and encourage sexual violence. This includes advocating for and analyzing public policy at the local, state, and national levels. Our activism is directly informed by the insights from our data and research. Our strategy is based on the empowerment model and grassroots community organizing.

 

Activist Training

The SVPA Activist Training is an experiential curriculum for organizations, unions, clubs, organizers, student activists, and other groups. The training empowers groups to advocate for sexual violence prevention with direct institutional action and systemic objectives. Our curriculum is tailored to the goals and scope of each group. This includes campus and workplace action as well as policy advocacy at a local, state, and national level. 

 

SVPA Campus Membership 

The SVPA Campus Membership provides products, materials, insights, and a community of engagement. The membership directly addresses the siloed nature of sexual violence prevention. The SVPA Campus Membership increases efficiency and coordination between and amongst university administrators, students, advocacy organizations, support services, researchers, and policymakers.

 

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Black Women's Blueprint

About this Organization

Black Women's Blueprint works to place Black women and girls’ lives as well as their particular struggles squarely within the context of the larger racial justice concerns of Black communities and are committed to building movements where gender matters in broader social justice organizing so that all members of our communities gain social, political and economic equity. We engage in progressive research, historical documentation, policy advocacy and organizing steeped in the struggles of Black women within their diverse communities and within dominant culture.

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National Organization of Asians & Pacific Islanders in Solidarity (NAPIESV)

About this Organization

The National Organization of Asians and Pacific Islanders Ending Sexual Violence (NAPIESV) is a program under Monsoon Asians & Pacific Islanders in Solidarity, with a mission to support local and international community-based programs and governmental organizations in enhancing their services to victims of sexual violence from the Asian and Pacific Islander communities in the U.S., U.S. Territories in the Pacific, and the Asia.

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Stop Sexual Assault in Schools

About this Organization

We proactively address the epidemic of traumatic sexual violence/harassment impacting our nation’s students. We provide students, K-12 schools, and organizations resources so that the right to an equal education is not compromised by sexual harassment, sexual assault, and gender-based discrimination.

They also  are affiliated with the Students Against Sexual Harassment (SASH Club) project, which has its own website at: https://sashclub.org

Contact Information

https://stopsexualassaultinschools.org

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The Breathe Network

About this Organization

The Breathe Network: Building Resilience through Embodied Approaches To Healing, is a resource, referral and training network connecting survivors of sexual violence with holistic healing arts practitioners. All of the practitioners and organizations affiliated with our organization commit to offering sliding-scale, trauma-informed care. We provide training for holistic healing arts practitioners across a range of disciplines to ground them in a nuanced understanding of sexual violence, its mind, body and soul impacts, and offer them modality specific tools they can integrate within their practice.

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UN Women

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Phone:
Telephone 1
646-781-4400
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Fax:
Telephone 2
646-781-4444
About this Organization

UN Women is the UN organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide.

Mailing Address:
405 East 42nd St.
New York, NY 10017

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Just Detention International

About this Organization

JDI advocates for the safety and well-being of all inmates, whether they are confined in federal, state, or local facilities -- both private and public -- including prisons, jails, juvenile facilities, immigration detention centers, halfway houses, and police lock-ups. JDI works to: hold government officials accountable for prisoner rape; promote public attitudes that value the dignity and safety of inmates; and ensure that survivors of this violence have access to the help they need.

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