Youth Resources

Organization
Name

Website + Contact

Location

Description

New York Center
for Children

Manhattan

  • Individual therapy for children who have experienced sexual/physical abuse and/or witnessed domestic violence

  • Crisis intervention and counseling

JCCA

www.jccany.org
Email:

jcca@jccany.org
Phone:

917-808-4800

Throughout New York State

  • Center for Healing: provides comprehensive, specialized services for addressing childhood sexual abuse and sexual exploitation

  • Gateways program: intensive, specialized residential treatment program for girls, ages 12-16, who have experienced sexual abuse and domestic trafficking.

Girls Educational
and Mentoring
Services (GEM)

Manhattan

Support girls and young women (ages 12 – 24) who are survivors of sex trafficking:

  • Survivor Leadership and youth development programs

  • Transitional and supportive housing for survivors

Just As I Am
(JAIA) Youth
Empowerment

Brooklyn

Fosters a safe space for LGBTQ youth, youth of color, and immigrant youth.

  • Virtual Mindful Leaders Institute: leadership development program

  • Workshops on mental health and coping with anxiety

Rising Ground

www.risingground.org
Phone:

212-437-3500

Brooklyn

  • Relationship Abuse Prevention Program: the largest teen dating violence prevention
    program in the US. Social workers provide individual counseling, in-class education,
    and training on healthy relationships and consent

  • STEPS to End Family Violence: group of programs dedicated to preventing family abuse

Covenant House

Manhattan

  • Shelter for young, homeless victims of sex trafficking

  • Provides personal care kits, therapy, and case management for sex trafficking victims