Rainbow Heights Club Articles and Information.

RHC's Executive Director published in Behavioral Healthcare Magazine’s January 2009 issue. Click here to read: "REACHING OUT TO THE LGBT POPULATION"

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.

Rainbow Heights Club Goes National: USPRA Conference, Chicago 2008

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

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

Listen to a radio interview with New York City Councilmember Margarita Lopez, Andrea Sears, and Rainbow Heights Club Director Christian Huygen, February 8, 2005 (streaming audio file-> not recommended if you are on a dial-up internet connection)

History is Made: LGBT Mental Health Issues Addressed in Local Government Plan

Welcoming Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Clients in Mental Health Services. This document is a joint project by: Planned Parenthood Mid-Hudson Valley, Inc., Mental Health Association in Ulster County, Inc., and the University of Maryland Center for Mental Health Services Research with thanks for generous funding from the Gil Foundation.

New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Local Government Plan for Mental Health Services for Fiscal Year 2006.

Now available: Handbook of LGBT Issues in Community Mental Health , edited by Ronald E. Hellman, MD, Director, LGBT Affirmative Program, Heights-Hill Mental Health Service, South Beach Psychiatric Center, a nd Jack Drescher, MD.