Youth Resource Guide

Every county health department in the state offers HIV testing facilities or information on area HIV testing sites. The following is a partial list of sites that specifically offer programs, testing and information on HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases for teens, as well as general health care information. For more information on local testing sites, call your county health department. In addition, an extensive list of sites for STD testing can be found on the State Department of Health website: www.state.nj.us/health/cd/stdclinics.htm

Checkmate
550 Cookman Ave.
Asbury Park, NJ 07712
Phone: (732) 774-3100.
Fax: (732) 774-3220

This site offers free, confidential HIV testing for those thirteen to eighteen years of age.

HiTOPS
21 Wiggins St.
Princeton, NJ 08873
Phone: (609) 683-5155
Fax: (609) 683-9507
Email: hitops@hitops.org
Web: www.hitops.org

This agency runs a teen health and education center that provides clinical care and educational outreach relating to sexual and reproductive health, and healthy relationships.

Henry J. Austin Health Center
321 N. Warren St.
Trenton, NJ 08618
Phone: (609) 278-5967 or 5968
Web: www.Henry-J-Austin.org

This center offers anonymous HIV testing to teens.

Hyacinth Foundation
78 New Street, 2nd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: (732) 246-0204 (Office)
Hotline: (800) 433-0254

This foundation provides counseling, testing, referrals and legal assistance. In addition, it runs support groups, maintains a buddy program, and operates an AIDS hotline. Its youth speakers' bureau and drama group (HOLLA: Helping Others Learn Living Abilities) do presentations on HIV/AIDS and sexuality.

Jersey City Medical Center
AIDS Health Services
Floor 10C
50 Baldwin Ave.
Jersey City, NJ 07304
Phone: (201) 915-2295
Fax: (201) 915-2213

This organization provides anonymous and confidential HIV testing at no cost.

Latinos United for Prevention and Education (LUPE)
Raritan Bay Health Center
530 New Brunswick Ave.
Perth Amboy, NJ 08861
(732) 324-5022

This Center provides HIV testing for anyone thirteen years and older. Signed parental consent forms are required for those under the age of eighteen. The Center also offers STD referral.

Mercer County HIV Consortium-Information and
Referral Line and AIDS Resource Center
1040 Hamilton Ave.
Trenton, NJ 08618
In Mercer County: (800) 550-6755
Office: (609) 278-9555
Fax: (609) 278-0553

This information and referral line, based at the AIDS Resource Center in downtown Trenton, will answer questions relating to all aspects of HIV/AIDS, including prevention, education, medical services, transportation and housing. The agency's hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. After-hours messages are recorded and returned on the next business day. (All calls are confidential.) The center also provides confidential counseling, testing, and referrals to agencies.

New Brunswick Counseling Center
84 New Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: (732) 246-4025 (Office)
Fax: (732) 246-1214 (FAX)

This agency provides pre- and post-test counseling, free testing for HIV (with parental consent), service referrals for HIV clients, support groups, and educational and informational workshops.

Ocean County Health Department (Toms River office)
175 Sunset Ave.
Toms River, NJ 08754-2191
Phone: (732) 341-9700, Ext. 7502.

This department offers confidential and anonymous HIV testing between 5:30-8 p.m. on Tuesdays for those twelve years of age and older. Both pre- and post-test counseling are provided to encourage behavior that will keep the person HIV negative. If the person is found to be positive, counselors cover treatment options.

Ocean County Health Department (Lakewood office)
225 Fourth St.
Lakewood, NJ 08701
Phone: (732) 341-9700, Ext. 7502

This site offers free, confidential HIV testing between 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Mondays for those twelve years of age and older.

Somerset Medical Center Ryan White Clinic
110 Rehill Ave.
Somerville, NJ 08876
Phone: (908) 685-2444

This clinic offers confidential testing for those eighteen and older from 1:30-3 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month.

START: Screening Treatment and Risk Reduction for Teens
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
The Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine
65 Bergen St.
Room 715
Newark, NJ 07107
Phone: (800) 375-9482
Fax: (973) 972-0832

This program offers HIV counseling and support for those sixteen to twenty-five.

UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center Department of Pediatrics
Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases
Robert Wood Johnson Pediatric AIDS Program
1 Robert Wood Johnson Place
Room 322
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Telephone: (732) 235-7894 or 235-7114
Evenings/Weekends/Holidays: (732) 828-3000 (Ask for Pediatric ID Attending on call)

This division offers HIV testing, diagnosis and treatment for children and teen-agers. It is open from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. on Monday through Friday. In addition, this agency offers outreach programs on HIV to high schools.

New York City:

The Adolescent Health Center / Mount Sinai Medical Center
312 East 94th Street
New York, New York 10128
Phone: Medical services: (212) 423-3000 Mental Health Services: (212) 423-2981

This center serves adolescents between the age of twelve through twenty-one. It offers complete physicals, acute and walk-in medical care, family planning, pregnancy testing, STD information and health education, HIV risk reduction and testing and medical services for HIV-positive youth. The mental health program includes individual, group and family therapy, and a wide range of group programs. It offers groups for gay, bisexual and questioning young men and women. The Ryan White program offers services to those affected by HIV and to HIV-positive youth. Services include individual and group counseling, and a large support group for HIV-positive youth. All services are free.

Callen Lorde Community Health Center
356 West 18th St.
New York, New York 10011
Phone: (212) 271-7200
Phone for the HOTT youth services: (212) 271-7212
Web: www.callen-lorde.org

This center's HOTT Program serves lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning adolescents and young adults (ages thirteen through twenty-one). It offers free, confidential, comprehensive primary medical care (including a full continuum of HIV care), social services, counseling and health education. Services are delivered both on-site at Callen-Lorde and on the mobile HOTT medical van.

Montefiore Medical Center
Adolescent Clinic
3332 Rochambeau Ave.
Bronx, NY 10467
Phone: (718) 882-0232

This center provides confidential HIV testing from 1-5 p.m. on Thursdays, as well as counseling, comprehensive primary care and acute medical, OBGYN, and sexually transmitted disease treatment. A large percentage of patients are gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender adolescents.

Philadelphia:

Philadelphia Community Health Alternatives
1201 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Phone: (215) 563-0652/563-0658
Fax: (215) 546-6107
Hotline: (215) 732-2437 9 a.m.-7p.m. on Monday-Tuesday; 9 p.m.-5 p.m. on Wednesday-Friday; and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday.

This agency provides free and anonymous HIV testing. In addition, it provides a variety of services for people with HIV/AIDS and education about HIV/AIDS.