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What's New

New York Blade covers Rainbow Heights Club's advocacy efforts, and the inclusion of LGBT mental health needs in the 2008 Local Government Plan for Mental Health Services.  Check it out!

New free downloadable toolkit of best practices information! Enhancing Cultural Competence: Welcoming Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Clients in Mental Health Services. Click here.

New PRIDE Training Program offers LGBT cultural competency training to care providers and consumers in New York City, free of charge. Find out more.

New Groups!

Back by popular demand we have our weekly music appreciation group as well as Karaoke Fridays! Check out our new additions!

Send your love and good wishes to friends and family with Rainbow Heights Club merchandise!!!  Visit our store today...



Read Dr. Christian Huygen's feedback on the 2006 DOHMH Local Plan for Mental Health Services and his feedback on the 2006-2010 Statewide Comprehensive Plan for Mental Health Services.

Alicia Lucksted, PhD releases her report on the state of mental health services for LGBT consumers.  Download her full report...

Rainbow Heights Club gives back to its supporters!  Thank you for your donations!

Less than $50 - RHC Journal

Less than $100 - RHC Mug

More than $100 - RHC T-Shirt

Guidelines for mental health care providers:  How to provide effective and culturally competent treatment to LGBT people living with mental illness

Testimonials Read success stories from members, staff and volunteers

Publications Read our LGBT column in New York City Voices full story...

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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 325 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.


Rainbow Heights Club launches search for new Program Director

Effective April 1, 2008, Rainbow Heights Club is launching its search process for a new Program Director.  A full job description is available.  Qualified applicants are welcome to send their cover letters and resume.  The club's previous Program Director, Michael Chew, LMSW, is fulfilling a long standing goal of becoming a therapist full-time.  We thank him for all his hard work, and wish him the very best.


 

Baseball Games, and Circus,

       All happening this Month!

Check out Rainbow Heights Club's

   New Events Calendar for more

                  Details!


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.

 

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.





























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