FREE AND ANONYMOUS
HIV TESTING:
·
Contact:
457-1163
Hours Tuesdays
and Wednesdays 3 p.m.- 6:15 p.m.
HIV
testing is free and anonymous. Since it is first-come first-served we recommend
signing up when our doors
open at 3. Educational videos, information, safer sex and safer injection
supplies are always available. Bilingual testers and volunteers are on staff.
The
·
Emeline Ave Health Services Agency Clinic
Contact:
454-2437 or 454-4100
Hours: Tuesdays
1 – 3
Appointments
given out beginning at 12 pm
Free/Anonymous
and Bilingual
·
Contact: 459-2500
http://www2.ucsc.edu/healthcenter/
Hours: Monday
through Friday 9-12, 1-4
All
undergraduate UCSC students are eligible for free and anonymous HIV testing
provided by highly trained Peer Test Counselors. We take pride that UCSC is one of the
few totally student-run HIV testing programs in the country. Appointments can be made at the
Appointment Desk (2nd floor).
Results are returned in 2 weeks.
Confidential testing is also available for students needing a copy of
their test results (e.g., travel abroad).
For those tests, call the Appointment Desk to schedule with a
clinician. This test costs
approximately $25.
SAFER SEX INFORMATION:
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UCSC Condom Co-op
Contact: HIVInfo@cats.ucsc.edu
http://www2.ucsc.edu/healthcenter/promotion/condom.shtml
Hours: Monday
12-3
pm Porter
Dining Hall and Hungry Slug Café
Tuesday
12-3
pm Stevenson
Coffee House
Wednesday
12-3
pm Merrill
Dining Hall
Thursday
& Friday 12-3
pm
Tuesday
10pm
– midnight College
8 Dining Hall
Wednesday 9pm-10pm Stevenson
Coffee House
The Condom Co-op provides condoms, dental dams,
lubricants and other safer sex supplies to the campus community at a lower cost
than you could find anywhere else.
The Co-op sets up shop at dances and other special events. Sometimes accompanying the Co-op is the
Sex Booth – a table full of sex toys, books, and other erotica to help
promote healthy communication around sex and sexuality.
·
Contact: (831)
426-5550.
Hours: Monday
– Thursday 8:30 am
– 8 pm
Friday 8:30
am – 5 pm
Saturday 8:30
am – 2 pm
Planned
Parenthood believes in the fundamental right of each individual, throughout the
world, to manage his or her fertility, regardless of the individual's income,
marital status, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, or
residence. We believe that respect and value for diversity in all aspects of
our organization are essential to our well-being. We believe that reproductive
self-determination must be voluntary and preserve the individual's right to
privacy.
STI TESTING:
These
are clinics in
Planned
Parenthood/Westside
1119 Pacific Ave
(831)-426-5550
1080 Emeline Ave.
(831)-454-4100
Santa
Cruz Women’s
250 Locust St.
(831)-427-3500
1156 High St.
(831)-459-2500
RAPE PREVENTION:
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UCSC Rape Prevention
Education Program
Contact: Gillian
Greensite, Director. (831) 459-2721
Founded
in 1979 to raise community awareness about rape and to lessen the fear and
trauma of rape, the program offers a wide variety of educational and innovative
workshops for UCSC males and females. Emphasis is placed on understanding the
causes, consequences, and prevention of acquaintance
rape. Films, videos, books, and periodicals are available for class projects.
Self-defense classes are coordinated. Confidential appointments can be made.
·
Commission for the
Prevention of Violence Against Women
Contact: Laurie
McWhorter (831) 420-6298
Hours: Monday
- Thursday 10:00am to 1:00pm and 2:00pm to 5:00pm
The
Commission’s goal is to work in concrete ways to eliminate violence
against women in the City through education and prevention programs. These
programs focus on empowering women and girls, changing the behavior of
potential batterers and rapists, offering support to women survivors of
violence and changing community attitudes towards violence against women. The
Commission develops and implements educational programs, reviews police
response to crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence, and contracts with
local agencies to provide services which include prevention and education
programs and support services for survivors of violence.
Hours:
Monday
through Friday, 9:00am -5:00pm
Crisis
line: 24-hours
(831) 685-3737
GLBTIQ:
·
UCSC GLBTRC
The
Contact: Director,
Deb Abbott 831-459-2468
http://www2.ucsc.edu/glbticenter/home/home.shtml
Hours: Monday
– Friday 10 am – 6 pm
The
overarching goals of the
·
The
Contact: 425-5422.
http://www.sclgbtcc.org/
We
are dedicated to the principle
that being lesbian, gay, bisexual and or transgendered is something
special. We exist to educate, enlighten, inform, instigate and facilitate
a better understanding for ourselves and our allies of what it means to be a
member of our community.
·
Equinox
Contact: 457-1441
http://www.geocities.com/equinoxsc
Equinox
is a community project for gay, bi, queer, questioning, and trans-gendered men
of all ages. During Open Hours women, transgendered individuals and all
allies are welcome. The goal of Equinox is to reduce the spread of HIV by
utilizing the harm reduction model that addresses the reality in which we live,
love, and have sex. Equinox accomplishes its goal by providing a
space for the celebration and exploration of sexuality in an uncensored
context, encouraging participants to make self-empowering choices. Equinox
works with a continuous learning process, evolving and changing its strategies
and information to bring together a community through social events, outreach,
support groups, creative projects, informational programming, and support
groups. Although Equinox focuses on the health issues of gay and bisexual
men of all ages, Equinox acknowledges the support of the whole community to
create a healthy environment for all queer people and their allies.
COUNSELING AND ADVOCACY
SERVICES:
·
UCSC Counseling and
Psychological Services (CPS)
Contact: 459-2628
Cowell Student Health Center
Hours: Monday
- Friday 8 am to 5 pm
The
CPS goal is to provide a broad range of high quality counseling, outreach and
consultation services and programs that support UCSC graduate and undergraduate
students in achieving their personal
and educational goals.
Services include Individual, Couples, Family
Counseling/Psychotherapy, and Referrals; Counseling Groups; On-Call (urgent)
Services; Residential Crisis Program; Stress Reduction/Behavioral Health
Clinic; Workshops; Consultation; Outreach; Training/Education; Community
Service.
·
Contact: 427-3900
http://www.scapsite.org/
The
Santa Cruz AIDS Project provides the highest quality of compassionate care,
advocacy and support for those infected and affected by HIV. Because AIDS still exists, the Santa
Cruz AIDS Project offers innovative education
and prevention to end the spread of AIDS.
·
Walnut Avenue Women’s Center
Contact: 426-3062
The
Walnut Avenue Women's Center provides a variety of services for the purpose of
helping women to improve their life situations. The organization is
women-centered, seeking to put women's experiences at the center of our
thinking. We provide services which empower and inform women, their children
and their families, enabling those we serve to realize their potential in all
aspects of their lives.
Services
include: Teen-Age Mom Infant & Toddler Care Program (TAM), Downtown
Children's Center, Women's Work Center, Family Support Services, Food Bank,
Support Groups, Women in Recovery, Breast Cancer Survivors,