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Audre Lorde Lesbian Health Program
Los Angeles LGBT Center (a nonprofit California corporation)
In the rapidly-changing environment of health care, the Director of Women’s Health will be a central figure to guide the Center’s evolving and expanding roles in Lesbian Healthcare; primary care services; cutting-edge research; mental health care including services for substance abuse and domestic violence; and culturally-competent health and psychosocial services for lesbians, transgender individuals, youth and seniors.
Director of Women’s Health
Contact David Mahan at dmahan@starmed.com or 813-514-8591 for additional information
For over 40 years, the Los Angeles LGBT Center (the “Center”) has been building the health, enriching the lives and advocating for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (“LGBT”) people. It was founded as an all-volunteer organization, offering counseling, shelter/support for homeless youth, senior citizens and a safe space for our community to gather.
Today the Center is over a $56 million organization with over 300 employees and approximately 3,000 active volunteers. Its wide array of services includes: free HIV/AIDS healthcare and medications for those most in need; housing, food, clothing and support for homeless LGBT youth; low-cost counseling and addiction-recovery services; essential services for LGBT seniors and parents; legal services; health education and HIV prevention programs; cultural arts programs; and more.
The Los Angeles LGBT Center (The Center) was founded in 1971 as a 501c(3) public benefit corporation. Since then, the Center has provided a variety of health, legal, social, cultural, educational, and housing services to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities of all ages, races and ethnicities. The Center’s Health & Mental Health Services (HMHS) Department has been a trusted health care provider to these communities for decades. Its mission is to help individuals in Southern California reach their health potential by providing high-quality health and mental health services in a compassionate and accepting manner regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, and ability to pay.
The Center began providing medical services when it opened a County-funded sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic in 1974. Together with other gay male focused health care providers at the time, the STD clinic providers began to see the earliest cases of HIV. In 1985, the L.A. County Health Department asked The Center to provide HIV “early intervention” services. This was the beginning of the Jeffrey Goodman Special Care Clinic (JGC), where the overall health and wellbeing of people living with HIV became a primary concern. Since then, LALGBTC’s HIV/AIDS care has evolved into one of the most comprehensive systems in the nation, providing a full range of HIV medical and psychosocial outpatient services. JGC offers comprehensive low- or no-cost HIV primary care to over 2,400 people annually. JGC services include: HIV primary care, treatment, case management, benefits screening, psychiatry, mental health counseling, nutritional counseling, and on-site laboratory services. In addition, JGC provides access to specialty care, research studies, and an in-house pharmacy that provides over 100,000 prescriptions annually.
JGC also offers low-cost primary care to people who are not living with HIV. Services include screening and treatment, mental health counseling, psychiatry, nutrition counseling, case management, and benefits counseling. JGC provides low-cost, culturally-competent primary care to transgender individuals. Services include hormone replacement therapy, mental health counseling, psychiatry, nutrition counseling, case management, benefits counseling, as well as information and referrals related to sex reassignment surgery.
In addition to the services available through JGC, the Center’s Sexual Health Program (SHP) offers HIV and STD testing, along with STD treatment. SHP has more than 1,700 patient visits monthly and identifies more cases of HIV than any other service provider in L.A. County.
The Division of Mental Health Services provides counseling to individuals, couples, groups, and families, along with psychiatric evaluation and medication management. The Division also provides addiction recovery services; HIV-related mental health services; crisis counseling; domestic violence outreach, prevention and treatment; compulsive sexual behavior therapy; and training, education and internships.
The Center’s Research Program conducts numerous studies on drug treatment, behavioral interventions, transgender health care, mental health, and technological and surveillance methodologies.
In the rapidly-changing environment of health care, the Director of Women’s Health will be a central figure to guide the Center’s evolving and expanding roles in Lesbian Healthcare; primary care services; cutting-edge research; mental health care including services for substance abuse and domestic violence; and culturally-competent health and psychosocial services for lesbians, transgender individuals, youth and seniors.
For additional information contact:
David Mahan
Director of Permanent Placement
813-514-8591 | Direct
813-789-0027 | Cell
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