Rainbow Heights Club is the first and only government-funded support and advocacy program that provides direct services to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender mental health consumers in New York State. We are located in Brooklyn, and our club program is currently open to our 350 members on weekdays Monday thru Friday from 12:30 PM to 5:30PM. Rainbow Heights also offers training and education for health-care providers on cultural competency with LGBT people living with mental illness, free of charge.

If you're a mental health consumer who is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, two-spirit, same-gender-loving, or you're questioning your sexuality or gender identity, find out how to join the club and enjoy the support and acceptance that we provide.  All of our services are provided entirely free of charge.

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Rainbow Heights is now open LATE! Join us until 8pm Thursday and Friday evenings beginning August 7th! We'll have games, movies, karaoke and much more!! Check out our events calendar for more details.                              Hope to see you there!

  Rainbow Heights Xpress    Summer Issue: August

For a complete listing of our Events and Activities please check out our monthly RHC Xpress. Click here for the RHC Xpress in pdf.

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Rainbow Heights Club

featured on NY1!

Please take a moment and take a look at a feature story about Rainbow Heights Club that is currently running on NY1 on TimeWarner Cable throughout the city of NY!

We’re thrilled that NY1 will be featuring the Rainbow Heights Club Story and that of some of our members all week as part of their LGBT Pride Week celebration of LGBT life and culture in the big apple!

Click Here to View the FULL story on NY1.

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Rainbow Heights Club Goes National: USPRA Conference, Chicago 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Featured in photo from left to right: Sharon Drosos, CPRP, Triple R Behavioral Health, Phoenix AZ; Lisa Razzano, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, Center on Mental Health Services Research & Policy, Chicago, IL & USPRA Conference Co-Chair; Nicholas Love, CPRP, DiversiT, Manicopa, AZ; Parker, MSW, Outreach and Education Coordinator, Rainbow Heights Club; Marie Hamilton, LCSW, MPH; Kathleen O'Donnell, USPRA Member; Christian Huygen, PhD, Executive Director of the Rainbow Heights Club)

 

In June 2008, Christian Huygen and Parker of the Rainbow Heights Club were chosen to present at the United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association's 33rd Annual Conference held in Chicago, Illinois. The conference lasting from Monday, June 16th-Thursday, June 19th offered representatives from the Rainbow Heights Club to interface with mental health professionals from across the nation with the hopes of spreading the word about the Rainbow Heights Club. On Tuesday, June 17th Christian and Parker presented a 90 minute workshop entitled: Start Where You Are:  Building Support Services on a Shoestring for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Persons in Recovery.  Parker and Christian used the development of Rainbow Heights Club as an example of how agencies can develop services to meet the needs of marginalized populations.

 

Parker received scholarships from USPRA as well as sections of NYAPRS which made our participation in this years conference possible. We would like to extend special appreciation to USPRA's Multicultural Committee and the LGBT Sub-Committee for making our time spent in Chicago memorable. For a full article about the events of the USPRA Conference check out next month's Rainbow Heights Club Xpress coming in JULY!

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History is Made: LGBT Mental Health Issues Addressed in Local

Government Plan

For the first time, New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has acknowledged the significant disparities Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) people experience in mental health care relative to our heterosexual counterparts.

 Find out more.

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We are extremely grateful to New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the New York State Assembly, numerous foundations, and individual donors for their support.  We are currently working to diversify our funding streams, expand our board, enlarge our volunteer program, and build staffing so that we can continue to provide essential support and advocacy to one of the most vulnerable and underserved groups of people in New York City.  As you can see from our members' success stories, we are currently helping over 300 people stay out of the hospital and in the community...  and we are saving New York taxpayers millions of dollars in the process.  Ninety-one percent of people who attend Rainbow Heights Club remain free of hospitalization each year.  To find out how to support Rainbow Heights Club, click the "donate now" button or send us an e-mail.