Health A-Z

Below please find a list of all agencies and organizations devoted to health and wellness, including health insurance, mental health, substance abuse and recovery, and HIV/AIDS support.

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AIDS-HIV Counseling and Testing Program (NYS Department of Health Admin Office)

Offering free, anonymous HIV counseling and testing. Offering “rapid testing” – results in 30 minutes. Multiple clinic sites throughout the lower Hudson Valley.
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This agency is located in: New Rochelle

Al-Anon (Westchester, Putnam)

The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength and hope in order to solve their common problems. We believe alcoholism is a fami
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This agency is located in: White Plains | County-wide

Alcoholics Anonymous

The meeting list is offered here. Self-help program offers support of recovering alcoholics to others with alcohol dependency.
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This agency is located in: Manhattan | Out of area

Alcoholism Outpatient Clinic Treatment

Outpatient alcoholism services, emergency treatment, screening, psychiatric diagnosis and evaluation, outreach, individual and group counseling, individual and group therapy, family therapy, AA counse
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The Awakenings Program at YWCA

Program for women who are substance abusers and want to live a drug-free life in a safe, supportive environment with other recovering women and women who are ready to participate in a treatment progra
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This agency is located in: White Plains

Chemical Dependency Treatment

This center is largely opiates-based and offers out patient counseling. This center offers individual and family counseling.
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This agency is located in: New Rochelle

Cocaine Anonymous

Offers a 24 hour helpline. Website lists meetings held in the New York area. From their website: Cocaine Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with e
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This agency is located in: Out of area | County-wide

Comite Latino – Peekskill

Under the umbrella of the Hudson River Health Center, this agency assists Spanish-speaking immigrants. ESL classes, Counseling/Workshops (citizenship, health, housing, immigration, workers’ rights e
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This agency is located in: Peekskill

Congregations Linked in Urban Strategy of Effect Renewal (CLUSTER)

CLUSTER provides services and programs that assist residents in Yonkers and Westchester and Rockland County to build a better future for themselves and their communities. Programs include: Housing.
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This agency is located in: Yonkers

Department of Community Mental Health Transitional Management Services

The Department of Community Mental Health plans, oversees and coordinates services for individuals – and their families – with mental illness, developmental disabilities and substance abus
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This agency is located in: White Plains

Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage (EPIC) Program

The Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage (EPIC) program is a New York State program for seniors administered by the Department of Health. It helps more than 250,000 income-eligible seniors aged 6
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This agency is located in: Albany

Family Services of Westchester (FSW)

FSW offers a broad spectrum of services addressing the social, emotional and environmental factors that can have a negative impact on family life and can diminish an individual’s ability to function
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GAM-ANON

Answering service can provide information about locations of support groups for family members and friends of compulsive gamblers.
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This agency is located in: Manhattan

Grand Street Clinic

This agency offers mental health counseling as well as general health. The clinic operates on a sliding scale rate.
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This agency is located in: New Rochelle

Greenburgh Health Center

Greenburgh Health Center provides comprehensive, primary and preventive health care services. In addition to primary health care services, GHC also provides Dental, Behavioral Health, Specialty and
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This agency is located in: Greenburgh

The Guidance Center

Mental Health Services, Housing Assistance, Vocational Assistance Program, Early Childhood Programs Servicios de Salud Mental, Asistencia de Vivienda, Programa de asistencia profesional, programas de
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This agency is located in: Mount Vernon | New Rochelle

Hepatitis C Information for Health Professionals

Frequently asked questions about viral Hepatitis C, including basic information, how it is spread, pregnancy and breast feeding, and treatment.
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This agency is located in: Out of area

HIV-AIDS County Services and Testing

Offer rapid and standard HIV tests (with confidentiality possible) as well as HIV counseling.
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This agency is located in: Mount Kisco | New Rochelle | White Plains | Yonkers

Hudson River Healthcare

Locations, phone numbers and web links are below. Peekskill Health Center 1037 Main Street, Peekskill, NY 10566 For an appointment call: (914) 734-8800 Yonkers – Park Care 2 Park Ave, Yonkers,
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This agency is located in: Yonkers | Peekskill

The Keon Center

Vocational assessment/counseling/development, family support services, benefits assistance, and residence habilitation.
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This agency is located in: Peekskill

Legal References

The History and Social Science Department of the New York Public Library’s Mid-Manhattan Library (455 Fifth Avenue at 40th Street, Fifth Floor, Manhattan 10016) has a collection of legal referen
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This agency is located in: Manhattan

Lexington Center for Recovery

Families First: Preserving family stability for chronic substance abusing families. Generations: Treating chemically dependent women and their families, including their children. Shelter Plus Care:
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This agency is located in: Mount Kisco | Valhalla | Yonkers

Lincoln Avenue Clinic

Lincoln ave clinic offers both general health checks as well as mental health counseling.
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This agency is located in: New Rochelle

Local Human Rights Offices

The Division of Human Rights ensures equal opportunity in employment, housing, public accommodation, education and credit. The Division enforces the Human Rights Law, seeking to: promote human rights
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This agency is located in: White Plains | Yonkers

Mental Health Alternative to Incarceration Program

Taken from the website: The Division of Probation and Correctional Alternatives (DPCA) funds and oversees a variety of pretrial services and correctional alternative programs throughout New York State
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This agency is located in: White Plains

Mental Health Association of Westchester

Mental health problems/diagnosis, treatment, support, rehabilitation, mentoring, housing for adults with mental illness, and employment services. They offer support groups, individual therapy, and g
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This agency is located in: Mount Kisco | Tarrytown | Valhalla | White Plains | Yonkers

Mount Vernon Health Center

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This agency is located in: Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center

HIV/AIDS Education & Case Management Providing quality HIV and Primary Care to a minority population that’s infected and affected by HIV/AIDS MEDICAL CASE MANAGEMENT HOUSING Rent Subsidies NUTR
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Narcotics Anonymous

Groups for recovering addicts that meet regularly in Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, White Plains, Tarrytown, Port Chester, Peekskill, Yorktown Heights, New Rochelle, Briarcliff Manor, Katonah, Ossining, and oth
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National Alliance on Mental Illness

NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illne
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New York State of Health – Health Plan Marketplace

NY State of Health is an organized marketplace designed to help people shop for and enroll in health insurance coverage. Individuals, families and small businesses can use the Marketplace to help the
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This agency is located in: Albany

NYS Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS)

OASAS offers a 24 hour, toll free hotline for help with alcoholism, drug abuse and problem gambling. All calls are toll-free, anonymous and confidential. Spanish also spoken. You call the same
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This agency is located in: Albany

NYS Smokers Quit Line

An interactive website allows you to see how smoking can shorten your lifespan. Provides pre-recorded tapes on how to quit smoking, access to counselors, and free materials on request.
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This agency is located in: Albany

Odyssey House

Treatments to a broad array of drug abusers. Today, through various programs, we provide comprehensive services for young mothers with children, teenagers, the mentally ill, people with HIV/AIDS, the
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This agency is located in: Bronx | Manhattan

Open Door Family Medical Centers

Open Door provides primary health care and human services at affordable prices to the community, particularly those who are low-income or lack access to health care. See the “For Patients”
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This agency is located in: Mount Kisco | Port Chester | Sleepy Hollow | Ossining

Outpatient Clinic Treatment

List of outpatient sites and centers for drug treatment.
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Partnership For Care

Partnership For Care is a collection of programs targeted at serving families and individuals infected with or related to someone with HIV/AIDS. All services are free. Living Together Living Together
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Planned Parenthood Hudson/Westchester

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This agency is located in: Mount Vernon | New Rochelle | White Plains | Yonkers

POZ

A lifestyle, treatment & advocacy magazine & website for people living with/affected by HIV/AIDS. 8 issues/year, with annual guide to HIV drugs. Offering daily news, treatment updates, persona
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Pregnancy Care Center

The Pregnancy Care Center (a service of Catholic Charities) is located in New Rochelle and Yonkers and runs the Elinor Martin Residence located in the convent of Holy Family Parish in New Rochelle, NY
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This agency is located in: New Rochelle | Yonkers

Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center

As the Salvation Army notes, its “Centers offers residential housing, work, and group and individual therapy, all in a clean, wholesome environment. The physical and spiritual care that progr
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This agency is located in: Mount Vernon

Search for Change, Inc.

The opportunity to obtain affordable housing, to secure gainful employment, and to reconnect with loved ones is made possible through programs and services offered by Search for Change. In Congregate
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This agency is located in: Valhalla

Sexual Compulsive Anonymous

The primary purpose is to help achieve sexual sobriety. We are not here to repress our God-given sexuality, but to learn how to express it in ways that will not make unreasonable demands on our time a
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This agency is located in: Manhattan

St. Joseph’s Hospital Outpatient Chemical Dependency Treatment Program

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This agency is located in: Yonkers

St. Vincent’s Westchester Addiction Recovery Services

St. Vincent’s Hospital Westchester offers a multi-disciplinary treatment approach that is consistent with the 12-Step model of recovery. The primary objective of treatment is to help persons sufferi
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This agency is located in: Port Chester | Yonkers | Harrison | Tuckahoe

The Body: the complete HIV/AIDS resource

TheBody.com’s mission is to: Use the Web to lower barriers between patients and clinicians. Demystify HIV/AIDS and its treatment. Improve the quality of life for all people living with HIV/AIDS
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This agency is located in: Manhattan

Treatment Alternatives for Safer Communities

This program began operation in 1978. Agency case management services are primarily assessment, referral, court advocacy, monitoring and supervision. This agency also refers clients for bail expeditin
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This agency is located in: White Plains

Urban League of Westchester

The National Urban League works to provide economic empowerment, educational opportunities and the guarantee of civil rights for the underserved in America.
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This agency is located in: White Plains

ViiV Healthcare

A global specialist HIV company dedicated to delivering advances in treatment and care for people living with HIV.
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This agency is located in: Out of area

Westchester ARC Family Outreach Project

A team of parents and professionals who work with families with a member who is mentally retarded or has developmental disabilities. Project staff work with the family to assess and identify their ne
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This agency is located in: Hawthorne