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Us
Health Initiatives for Youth
235
Montgomery Street (between Bush and Pine) Suite 643
San Francisco, CA 94104
phone: 415-274-1970
fax: 415-274-1976
email: info@hify.org
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OUR
HISTORY
In 1992 a team of health care and youth service
professionals in response to the immediate need for HIV prevention, treatment,
and care for young people in San Francisco founded HIFY, a first-of-its-kind organization.
Some of our achievements from the 1990s include: creating two celebrated youth
publications (including a resource manual) for youth living with HIV, offering
four HIV-specific trainings for youth service providers, and developing an HIV-positive
speaker's bureau to help educate young people about the disease.
Around
the turn of the century, HIFY began to look at the bigger picture of the lives
of young people, as well as the supports and opportunities available to them.
We now view HIV and health from a more holistic point of view, addressing many
of the co-factors that put people at greater risk for infection. Because HIV is
one of a broad matrix of interconnected health issues confronting youth, we have
expanded our services to address more risks to healthy development faced by young
men and women; including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth.
In the process, we have acquired a wealth of experience on how best to serve a
richly diverse community of young people.
HIFY'S
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
All of our work is done in
partnership with other community members. We bring our work to community centers,
schools, clinics, and afterschool programs who are working daily with youth. Some
of our key partners are listed below:
Dimensions Clinic for Queer and Questioning
Youth
at Castro Mission Health Center
An open and friendly place to
get support in being healthy. We offer low cost health services for Queer, Transgender,
and Questioning youth ages 12-25. www.dimensionsclinic.org
Edgewood
Center for Children and Families
Strengthening children, youth, families
and their communities through service, training, advocacy, and research.
www.edgewood.org
Edgewood Kinship
Support Network
Edgewood believes that children should first be supported
in the homes of their relatives and remain in their communities. Edgewood Kinship
fills the gaps in public social service available to relative caregivers and was
the first program of it's kind. www.edgewood.org/whatwedo/kinship/
San Francisco Wellness Initiative- Youth Outreach Workers
A collaborative
effort to support SFUSD student wellbeing through on campus programming and community
based partnerships.
www.sfwellness.org
The Harm Reduction Therapy Center
Dedicated to providing alternative
treatment to people with drug and alcohol problems.
www.harmreductiontherapy.org
San Francisco Youth Guidance Center- Special Programs for Youth
Provides health care services specifically designed for youth in
San Francisco's Youth Guidance and Log Cabin Ranch Juvenile Correction Centers.
www.sfdph.org/dph/comupg/oservices/medSvs/hlthCtrs/SPYHlthCtr.asp
Expect Respect San Francisco
A collaborative of San Francisco Domestic
and Sexual Violence programs working to promote healthy and violence free dating
among all youth for youth centered, culturally sensitive education.
www.ccsf.edu/Departments/Women_Studies/Project_SURVIVE/7.html
San Francisco State University
A pioneering university with a committment
to community and civic engagement.
www.sfsu.edu
