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    Behavioral Health

    Identity & Acceptance Program

    Adolescent Health Education Initiative Children's Care Management Circle of Security Parenting Program Identity & Acceptance Program Health Services for Child Welfare Involved Children & Youth Partnership to Improve Community Health Outcomes School Based Mental Health Services School Response Teams Supportive Housing

    Every young person deserves a community who respects and understands them. The Foundling’s Identity & Acceptance program offers an array of clinical services for LGBTQIA+ youth across New York City, with the aim of creating a more equitable and inclusive world.

    Nationally, LGBTQIA+ youth experience high levels of discrimination, and are at higher risk for depression, anxiety, eating disorders, experiencing homelessness or placement in the foster care system, substance use and attempted suicide. Our trained staff works to prevent these negative outcomes, through providing psychoeducation, therapy, and resources around sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression to children and young adults, their caregivers, and youth-facing professionals.

    Based within The Foundling’s Home of Integrated Behavioral Health, the program uses a holistic approach to assist people at all stages of their journey – from children starting to navigate their identity and looking for safe spaces, to  families who want to better understand their children or repair a strained relationship. Acknowledging the intersectional identities of the young people that enter the program, our staff offer support to directly address all forms of trauma that our participants may experience, including sexual, gender, racial, and ethnic discrimination. Through individual, group, and family therapy, The Identity & Acceptance Program helps LGBTQIA+ youth and their families thrive in a loving, affirming environment.

    The program serves those involved in The Foundling’s child welfare programs, youth and families in foster care with other agencies, and those in the greater New York City community. Referrals are accepted for young people up to age 21.

    Services offered include:

    • Individual and family therapy (for birth, foster, or chosen families)
    • Access to Psychiatric Services and Consultation
    • LGBTQ+ Youth and Parents of LGBTQIA+ Youth Support Groups
    • Staff Consultation and Professional Development
    • Connection to community spaces and outside services
    • Letters to support of gender-affirming medical intervention
    • Resources on Non-Medical TGNCNB interventions
    • LGBTQIA+ job support and connection to LGBTQIA+ affirming summer camp opportunities

    Questions? Contact Identity@NYFoundling.org.

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    Success Stories

    When David and his wife faced the possibility of living…

    When David and his wife faced the possibility of living in their car, they knew they needed to keep their four children safe and called The Foundling's Crisis Nursery. While their children were cared for in the nursery, The Foundling connected David and his wife to the resources they needed to get back on their feet and bring their children home.

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    David

    Our Continued

    Impact

    Up to 96%
    of families avoided foster care placement
    471,000+
    children in New York City are growing up in low-income households
    3,960
    hours of free after-school programming provided to Haven Academy students every year
    28%+
    of individuals with a developmental disability in the US are living in poverty
    4,000+
    middle and high school youth in NYC in foster care
    30,000+
    people served in The Foundling's programs every year
    DID YOU KNOW
    The New York Foundling is one of New York City's largest providers of prevention programs

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    2019
    Integrated Home of Behavioral Health Opens in East Harlem

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