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Need a 12-step program? Want to volunteer to fight hunger and homelessness? Check out these worthy organizations:
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
• 129 Fulton St., New York, NY 10038 • 212-964-5900 • fax: 212-964-1303 • info@cfthomeless.org • coalitionforthehomeless.org
HOUSING WORKS
• 320 W. 13th St., New York, NY 10014 • 212-645-8111 • fax: 212-645-8750 • TTY users call 212-925-9560 • If TTY is not available, call New York Relay Services at 711 or 800-421-1220 • smith-caronia@housingworks.org • housingworks.org
THE HUNGER PROJECT
• Global Office, 15 E. 26th St., New York, NY 10010 • 212-251-9100 • fax: 212-532-9785 • info@thp.org • thp.org
SAKHI(support group for South Asian women who are domestic-violence victims; empowering survivors to help build a society free of the abuse of women)
• P.O. Box 20208, Greeley Sq. Station, New York, NY 10001 • 212-714-9153 • sakhiny@aol.com • sakhi.org
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NEW YORK CITY
• Margaret Sanger Square, 26 Bleecker St., New York, NY 10012 • headquarters: 212-274-7200 • to volunteer: 212-274-7284 • to make an appointment at Planned Parenthood health centers in Manhattan, Brooklyn, or the Bronx: 212-965-7000
Substance Abuse Programs
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS • 212-647-1680 • alcoholics-anonymous.org
COCAINE ANONYMOUS• 212-929-7300 • ca.org
CRYSTAL METH ANONYMOUS • 212-642-5029, nycma.org
MARIJUANA ANONYMOUS • 212-459-4423 • marijuana-anonymous.org
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS • 212-929-6262 • na.org
Other 12-Step and Self-Help Groups
SEXUAL COMPULSIVES ANONYMOUS• 212-439-1123 • sca-recovery.org
MOOD DISORDERS SUPPORT GROUP • P.O. Box 30377, New York, NY 10011 • 212-533-MDSG (6374) • fax: 212-675-0218 • info@mdsg.org • mdsg.org
Self-help organization serving individuals with depression or manic-depression (bipolar disorder), as well as their families and friends.
SAMARITANS OF NEW YORK
• 24-hour suicide hotline: 212-673-3000 • samaritansnyc.org
SUCE, SUBSTANCE USE COUNSELING AND EDUCATION
• 212-367-1385
Helps HIV-negative gay men who use alcohol and drugs to remain uninfected, and HIV-positive gay men who use alcohol and drugs to stay healthy.
NEW YORK CITY AIDS HOUSING NETWORK
• 80-A Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11217 • 877-615-2217 • nycahn.org
A coalition of nonprofit housing providers, AIDS service organizations, and homeless and formerly homeless people living with HIV/AIDS.
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION
• 120 Wall St., 22nd fl., New York, NY 10005 • 212-363-3500 • afsp.org
AFSP funds research, education, and treatment programs aimed at the prevention of suicide.
CRIME VICTIM HOTLINE
• 2 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10001 • 212-577-7777 • ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc
Oversees programs that have been designed to benefit and assist victims of crime.
NEW YORK HELP
• 212-628-9154 • nyhelp.org
Directs the attention of medical practitioners, researchers, and community groups to the seriousness of herpes on personal, physiological, and social fronts and offers support to herpes patients and provides information on treatment.
Activist Groups
Stop complaining and do something!
ABC NO RIO
• 156 Rivington St., P.O. Box 436, Stuyvesant Station, New York, NY 10009 • 212-254-3697 • abcnorio.org
Center for art and activism, or "oppositional culture."
ACTIVE ELEMENT FOUNDATION
• 532 La Guardia Pl., #510, New York, NY 10012 • 212-905-2373 • fax: 212-694-9573 • activelement.org • info@activelement.org
Builds relationships among grassroots youth organizers, donors, professionals, and artists.
AL-AWDA—THE PALESTINE RIGHT TO RETURN COALITION
• P.O. Box 1172, Orange, CT 06477 • info@al-awda.org • al-awda.org
AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE
• 15 Rutherford Pl., New York, NY 10003 • 212-598-0950 • fax: 212-529-4603 • anaples@afsc.org • afsc.org
Quaker organization for peace and social justice.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA
• 322 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10001 • 212-807-8400 • fax: 212-627-1451 • amnestyusa.org
ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND (AALDEF)
• 99 Hudson St., 12th fl., New York, NY 10013 • 212-966-5932 • fax: 212-966-4303 • info@aaldef.org • aaldef.org
ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS FOR REFORM NOW (ACORN)
• 88 Third Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11217 • 877-55-ACORN, 718-246-7900 • fax: 718-246-7939 • natexdirect@acorn.org
AUDRE LORDE PROJECT (CENTER FOR LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TWO SPIRIT, AND TRANSGENDER PEOPLE OF COLOR COMMUNITIES)
• 85 South Oxford St., Brooklyn, NY 11217-1607 • 718-596-0342 • fax: 718-596-1328 • alpinfo@alp.orgalp.org
BLUE MOUNTAIN CENTER
• Blue Mountain Lake, NY 12812-0109 • 518-352-7391 • bmc1@telenet.net • bluemountaincenter.org
Working group of writers, artists, musicians, and activists.
CASA ATABEX ACHÉ
• 471 East 140th St., garden level, Bronx, NY 10454 • 718-585-5540 • fax: 718-585-5980 • casaatabexache@aol.com • casaatabexache.org
Women's group for community empowerment, healing, and action.
CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
• 666 Bway, 7th fl., New York, NY 10012 • 212-614-6464 • fax: 212-614-6499 • info@ccr-ny.org • ccr-ny.org
CENTRAL BROOKLYN PARTNERSHIP
• 1195 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11216-1815 • 718-398-1000 • info@centralbrooklyn.org • centralbrooklyn.org
Community-based campaign to build the capacity of local, low-income people to become financially independent.
CHINESE STAFF AND WORKERS' ASSOCIATION
• cswa.org
Drop-in centers:
MANHATTAN'S CHINATOWN CENTER• 15 Catherine Street, 2nd fl. rear, New York, NY 10038 • 212-619-7979 • fax: 212-374-1506
BROOKLYN WORKERS' CENTER • 5411 Seventh Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11210 • 718-633-9748 • fax: 718-633-9757
COALITION FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF IMMIGRANTS
• 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 • 212-254-2591, 888-57-LUCHA • fax: 212-674-9139 • chri@ itapnet.org • itapnet.org/chri
COMMITTEE AGAINST ANTI-ASIAN VIOLENCE (CAAAV)
• 2473 Valentine Ave., Bronx, NY 10458 • 718-220-7391 • justice@caaav.org
COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR DEMOCRACY AND SOCIALISM
• 545 Eighth Ave., 14th fl. NE, New York, NY 10018 • 212-868-3733/3334
• fax: 212-663-3650 • national@cc-ds.org • cofc.org
COMMUNITY VOICES HEARD
• 212-860-6001 • info@cvhaction.org • cvhaction.org
Low-income people on welfare working together to improve the lives of members' families and all poor people in New York City.
