For Those Struggling

If you or someone you know is struggling with anxiety, depression, PTSD, or has contemplated suicide, these resources are here to help.

New Jersey Resources

• The Pride Center of New Jersey: Provides a safe and welcoming space for the LGBTQ community to find support, educational tools, health resources, educational resources, and social gatherings.

https://www.pridecenter.org

• PFLAG Jersey Shore: Provides resources, tools, information, support groups, and other scheduled events for the LGBTQIA+ community, their families, and allies.

pflagjerseyshore.org

• EDGE NJ: Provides mental health counseling, substance abuse counseling, group therapy, preventative services including HIV and STI testing, housing support, and assistance with finding competent medical health providers, behavioral health counseling, mental health care, and substance use care. Located in Morris Plains, NJ, and Denville, NJ.

https://edgenj.org/

National Resources

• The Trevor Project: Provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention to LGBTQ+ Youth

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/, Trevor Lifeline (1-866-488-7386)

• The LGBT National Help Center:Provides free and confidential peer support and resources

http://www.glbtnationalhelpcenter.org/

• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI):Provides information on how mental illness affects the LGBTQIA+ community: including risk factors and how to find a mental health professional

https://www.nami.org/Your-Journey/Identity-and-Cultural-Dimensions/LGBTQI

• GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality: Provides information and a health provider directory in order to provide LGBTQIA+ people with a health provider they can trust.

http://www.glma.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=939&grandparentID=534&parentID=938&nodeID=1