RESOURCES
Please note: this is a “list-in-progress.” Suggestions for additions or edits are very welcome at info@capeannpride.org.
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Emergency Resources
MBHP Help Line – 833-773-2445
It Gets Better – 888-843-4564
Transgender Lifeline – 877-565-8860
Fenway Health Helpline – 617.267.9001
National Suicide Prevention – 800-273-8255
Crisis Text Line – text START to 741-741
National Domestic Abuse – 800-799-7233
Good Samaritans – 877-870-4673
GLBT National Hotline – 888-843-4564
GLBT National Youth Hotline – 800-246-7743
https://www.masshelpline.com
Call or text at 833-773-2445. The Massachusetts Behavioral Health Help Line (BHHL) is here to connect you directly to clinical help, when and where you need it. Even if you’re not sure what kind of help or treatment you may need, we can help guide you. It’s free, confidential, and no health insurance is required. The Behavioral Health Help Line (BHHL) connects individuals and families to the full range of treatment services for mental health and substance use offered in Massachusetts, including outpatient, urgent, and immediate crisis care.
https://www.thetrevorproject.org
The mission of the Trevor Project is to end suicide among LGBTQ+ young people. They offer 24/7 crisis support (hotline), education, and advocacy.
https://www.tnlr.org/en
The Network/La Red is a survivor-led, social justice organization that works to end partner abuse in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, kink, polyamorous, and queer communities. Rooted in anti-oppression principles, our work aims to create a world where all people are free from oppression. We strengthen our communities through organizing, education, and the provision of support services.
HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health Resources, Testing, and Support
Disability Resources Finder
Resources for LGBTQIA+ Affinity Groups
Bisexual
The Bisexual Resource Center - raises awareness and builds bridges within the LGBT and ally communities, and fosters bi-supportive social and political space wherever it can.
Trans, Non-Binary, Gender-Fluid, and Gender-Queer
https://www.massgeneral.org/transgender-health-program
Links to different transgender support groups and legal help. Provides two transgender helplines:
Trans Lifeline: 1-877-565-8860
LGBT Helpline: 1-617-267-9001 or toll-free 1-888-340-4528
https://www.massgeneral.org/transgender-health-program
With a focus on gender-affirming care, the MA General Hospital Transgender Health Program offers comprehensive primary care, endocrine/hormone management, case management & links to behavioral health & surgical services.
The MA Transgender Suicide Prevention Working Group – a collaboration of the DPH, the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, Fenway Health, Samaritans, and the Massachusetts Coalition for Suicide Prevention
How to Change Gender on a Driver’s License – Our state-by-state guide provides information on how to change gender markers on a driver’s license as well as other government-issued documents.
https://www.transgendermap.com/resources/usa/massachusetts/
Provides links to resources and organizations local to Massachusetts. Includes resources specific to youth, legal and health.
HAWC – HAWC (Healing Abuse Working for Change) strives to help abused women, children, men, and nonbinary people live free from violence and fear. As a leading domestic violence agency in Massachusetts, HAWC provides a domestic violence helpline, emergency shelter, legal services, advocacy and counseling services to more than 2,500 families in the North Shore area each year.
Project Out – (857) 228-4911- provides support and financial assistance to transgender and gender non-binary individuals who do not have access to life saving gender-affirming services & products that allow for authentic living.
Intersex
https://interactadvocates.org/
interACT uses innovative legal and other strategies, to advocate for the human rights of children born with intersex traits.
Asexual/Ace
LGBTQIA+ Families
LGBTQIA+ Youth
Younity works to empower youth 16-25 of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Everything about our access center - from the physical space to services and programming - is directly informed by the voices of the youth we work with. We offer young adults a place where they can find respect for the person they are now, and support for the person they want to become. Our team operates from a Peer Support model, and specializes in assisting youth and young adults who identify as LGBTQ+, and/or have experiences with substance use, housing instability, mental health needs, or have experienced other barriers to their health and wellness that have not been met by "traditional" services.
Younity provides a variety of opportunities for youth to engage in individual and group activities designed to help them work through challenges, overcome barriers, and explore what inspires them. Drop in for Open Mic or DnD night, harm reduction supplies, Early 20s Peer Support group, help with housing, or just to use the laundry or wifi. Our food pantry and gender-affirming closet are open so folks can always take what they need, and our bathroom is always stocked with basics like hygiene and harm-reduction products too.
https://www.nagly.org/gethelp
NAGLY is part of a larger statewide network known as AGLY, which began as https://www.bagly.org/ in Boston, NorthShore AGLY is known as NAGLY, in Salem. NAGLY offers a variety of resources for all ages, and supports satellite programs in Lynn, Gloucester, and Newburyport. All of the AGLY programs seek to provide safe and supportive programs for LGBTQ+ youth.
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH)’s Safe Spaces for GLBTQ Youth Program – The Safe Spaces program consists of community-based organizations currently working with LGBTQ youth, to provide services that are trauma-informed, founded in Positive Youth Development, and are culturally appropriate and specific to LGBTQ youth.
The Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ youth – The Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ youth advises others in state government on effective policies, programs, and resources for LGBTQ youth.
LGBTQIA+ Elders
LGBTQ+ Elder Health Care Guide – To connect adults in the LGBTQ+ community to resources and information to find the care you need.
The National Resource Center on LGBT Aging – offers bereavement support groups, caregiver support groups, a speaker’s bureau, meal programs, community education seminars, and cultural competency trainings. Through education, advocacy, and outreach, they help LGBT elders grow older with the dignity and respect they deserve.
Nursing Home Abuse Center – The Nursing Home Abuse Center (NHAC) was founded to bring justice to those affected by nursing home and elder abuse. Their LGBT specific support offers resources to LGBTQ elders who are affected by nursing home abuse.
Veterans
General
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/massachusetts
Allows for people to find therapists and psychologists based on their needs. It allows for searching in the area as well, to find exactly who you need locally.
Fenway Health’s Violence Recovery Program – provides counseling, support groups, advocacy, and referral services to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and anti-LGBTQ hate violence. VRP staff have specialized training and experience in working with LGBTQIA+ individuals.
National LBTQ Health Education Center – Provides educational programs, resources, and consultation to health care organizations with the goal of optimizing quality, cost-effective health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and all other sexual and gender minority (LGBTQIA+) people.
MassEquality – MassEquality is the leading statewide grassroots advocacy organization working to ensure that everyone across Massachusetts can thrive from cradle to grave without discrimination and oppression based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
GLAD – Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders – through strategic litigation, public policy advocacy, and education, they work in New England and nationally to create a just society free of discrimination based on gender identity and expression, HIV status, and sexual orientation.
https://www.hrc.org/resources
By inspiring and engaging individuals and communities, the Human Rights Campaign strives to end discrimination against LGBTQ+ people and realize a world that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all.The HRC offers a wide variety of resources around issue such as health, equity, benchmarks for companies on things like inclusion, helpful databases and tools, along with information about laws and policies.
https://www.cdc.gov/lgbthealth/
Resources and publications for clinicians, researchers, and other health professionals related to LGBThealth.
Educators
GLSEN – works to ensure that LGBTQ students are able to learn and grow in a school environment free from bullying and harassment.
Health Care Providers
The Center of Excellence on LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Equity (CoE LGBTQ+ BHE) has created this glossary of terms related to sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression (SOGIE) as a resource to allow behavioral health practitioners to better understand language commonly used in LGBTQIA+ communities.
Parents and Other Family
North Shore MA LGBTQ Friends and Allies
PFLAG: Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays – through support, education, advocacy, and their Safe Schools Project, they work to create a safe environment for LGBT students in our schools and communities.
https://pflag.org/resource/support-hotlines
All of Greater Boston PFLAG’s work is driven by its vision of a world in which LGBTQ individuals are safe, supported, included, and equal in their families, in their communities, and in society. They are a group of parents, families, friends, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people. Phone support, monthly group meetings, parent-to-parent support, and a Speakers Bureau are the types of things available.
https://www.familyequality.org/neighborhood
A parent’s guide to supporting and understanding their transgender child.
The Family Acceptance Project™ (FAP) – a research, intervention, education and policy initiative that works to prevent health and mental health risks for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) children and youth, including suicide, homelessness and HIV – in the context of their families, cultures and faith communities.
Cape Ann Family Allies for LGBTQIA+ People
Is someone you love in your family (including your chosen family) recently out as member of the LGBTQIA+ community? You probably have questions and maybe some anxieties. This support group is founded in the understanding that Allies nee other Allies to talk to. Our LGBTQIA+ loved ones shouldn’t (always) have to be the ones to educate us or take care of our feelings about their self-realizations. Let’s do that for each other, instead.
Resources on Pronouns
https://pronouns.org/resources
Videos of people explaining the importance of using peoples’ pronouns and what they mean to people in the trans, non-binary and gender-queer communities.
https://www.glsen.org/activity/pronouns-guide-glsen
Provides reasoning for using pronouns, along with examples, and models being inclusive for everyone.