Keep LGBTQ Mental Health Care Accessible

Hi friends,

I’m reaching out because AHP’s mission is personal to me. After 20+ years as a volunteer, and another 7½ years on the clinical staff, I have now joined the Community Advisory Board to help AHP continue to provide the life-saving services it has been providing since 1984.

Founded at the height of the AIDS epidemic in 1984, AHP pioneered the world’s first high‑volume HIV counseling and testing program. Four decades later, its staff of dedicated mental‑health professionals and peer counselors serve more than 6,500 clients every year—from LGBTQ+ youth seeking their first safe therapist to long‑term survivors managing trauma and isolation.

Today, public funding for community mental‑health services keeps shrinking. Insurance rarely covers the true cost of culturally competent care (if you can even find someone who takes your insurance), city budgets are tight, and state grants fluctuate year‑to‑year. Right now, AHP must raise unrestricted dollars simply to:

What Your Gift Makes Possible

Gift What it can fund today

$25 One HIV/STI rapid‑test kit and safer‑sex supplies for outreach

$50 A single session of crisis counseling for someone who can’t pay

$100 A single evening support‑group

$250 A week of trauma‑informed therapy for a low‑income client

$500+ Partial cost for a new LGBTQ+ clinician’s practicum training

All donations are 100 % tax‑deductible (AHP is a 501(c)(3) via UCSF).