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Association of Black Women in Higher Education

Contact:Jacqueline A. Kane, Ph.D.
5N Mezzanine Education Bldg.
Albany, NY 12232
Phone: (518) 474-2593
Fax: (518) 486-1861
Email:jkane@mail.nysed.gov

With approximately 350 members across the nation, the Association's primary mission is to promote the intellectual growth and educational development of black women in higher education.

The New York State Capital District Chapter is currently inactive.

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Capital Region Action Against Breast Cancer (CRAAB)

Joan Sheehan, co-president
125 Wolf Road, Suite 124, Albany, 12206
phone:(518) 435-1055
FAX: (518) 435-1245
Bonnie Spanier, co-president
SS-341 phone: (518) 442-9084
Email:spanier@albany.edu

Capital Region Action Against Breat Cancer! (CRAAB!) is a non-profit, community-based organization created in 1997 to make the eradication of breast cancer a priority through education and advocacy Led by an active and committed Board and Director, we are a diverse group of survivors, volunteers and advocates serving the greater Capital Region. Our member's personal experiences with breast cancer as survivors and caregivers give our organization a unique perspective. We want to deal with breast cancer on a personal level; and, we want to see major changes in healthcare policy and research focus attention on the causes of breast cancer. We work for improved commmunication between doctors and patients, and better support systems for survivors, their families, and their caregivers.

To this end, we are an organizational member of the National Breast Cancer Coalition and founding member of the New York State Breast Cancer Network. We publish a quarterly newsletter which is distributed free of charge to members, medical offices, and anyone who requests it. We also sponsor talks and workshops, which are open to the community.
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Capital Region Association for Eating Disorders (CRAED)

Speakers bureau, information and referral services for anorexics, bulimics, compulsive eaters and their families. Educational curriculum and prevention interventions to prevent eating disorders is lso available for school personnel, administration, coaches, or teenagers, both female and male.

Support groups are professionally facilitated. Call CRAED office for times and locations for the 5 support groups in the Capital Region or to obtain referral listings and informational literature. Open only to individuals and their families. The office is frequently but not daily open and messages are picked up and calls returned promptly and confidentially.

Choices Counseling and Consulting

Arlene Istar Lev, CSW-R, CASAC, Founder and Clinical Director
321 Washington Ave.

Albany, NY 12206
Phone: (518) 463-9152
E-mail: istarlev@aol.com
Website: http://www.choicesconsulting.com

Choices Counseling and Consulting has been serving the Albany community since 1986. Arlene is joined by Jennifer Critchley, CSW, providing individual, couple, family and group counseling. The staff of Choices is trained in sexual and gender identity issues, relationship counseling, domestic violence and trauma treatment, addictions and recovery, depression and anxiety, and HIV counseling. We specialize in working with families, couples, and children, and provide adoption home-studies and counseling. Fees are on a sliding scale, and many insurances are accepted. All services are confidential and our offices are accessible to people who use wheelchairs.

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Crime Victim and Sexual Violence Center
(formerly the Albany County Rape Crisis Center)

The Rape Crisis Center has a 24-hour rape crisis hotline staffed by trained volunteers. The Center provides assistance for rape victims at area hospitals, police stations and courts. Professional therapists offer free short-term counseling for sexual assault and other violent crime victims, their families and friends.

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Equinox Counseling Center

Equinox provides individual, family and group counseling to those who are experiencing problems related to drug use or who have a history of drug abuse and are in imminent danger of returning to drug use. They offer sliding scale fees with no limitations on age or geographical location. Special programs address women's issues, relationship issues and sexual abuse issues.

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Equinox Domestic Violence Program and Shelter

Provides residential and non-residential services which include a 24-hour crisis hotline, emergency shelter, legal advocacy, individual counseling, support groups, children's counseling, housing assistance and support, lifeskills training, parenting assistance, aftercare support services, and community education and training on domestic violence issues.

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Equinox Thanksgiving Day Community Dinner

Equinox coordinates the area's largest and longest-running Thanksgiving Day Community Dinner, serving over 7,l000 meals with the help of volunteers and community donors. To volunteer, make a donation or request a meal, please call 434-0131.

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Equinox Youth Services

Mary Campagna, Director
95 Central Avenue
Albany, NY 12206
Phone: (518) 434-6135
Youth Shelter: (518) 465-9524
Youth Outreach: (518) 465-0683
Independent Living Program: (518) 434-6135
website: http://www.equinoxinc.org

Equinox provides comprehensive services to homeless and at-risk youth in the Capital Region. The Equinox Youth Shelter provides emergency shelter, counseling, case management and support services to youth aged 13 - 17.
No referrals are necessary.

Equinox Independent Living Program provides safe, secure, long-term housing for homeless youth aged 16 - 21, including counseling, case management, advocacy, life skills, training and aftercare support services.

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Face the Music

WRPI, WRPI Plaza, Mailbox #6, Troy, NY 12180-3590
Station: (518) 276-6248
http://www.wrpi.org/

We air diverse women's voices, mainly through music, but also interviews, news, and a calendar of local community events. Face the Music is in need of DJs for the late spring and early summer.

Spring Semester Hours (through May 4) 4:00 - 5:30 pm Sundays
Summer and Fall Hours: 4:00 - 6:00 pm Sundays back to index

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Holding Our Own: A Fund for Women

Carmen M. Rau, Executive Director
79 Central Avenue
Albany, NY 12206
Phone/Fax: (518) 462-2871
E-mail: holding@knick.net

Foundation that awards grants to organizations in the Capital District for projects that benefit women and girls, promote feminist social change, and oppose discrimination based on race, sex, income, disability, sexual orientation or age. Call, write, fax or e-mail for grant guidelines. No scholarships, grants to individuals, or funding outside Albany, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, and Schenectady counties.

Holding Our Own also owns and operates the Women's Building at 79 Central Avenue in Albany (see Women's Building for more information).
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The Legal Project offers pro bono legal assistance to victims of domestic violence, free legal consultations, civil litigation for survivors of sexual assault and free Legally Speaking Workshops to community groups and organizations. Legal Consultations take place at the Mechanicville Domestic Violence Advocacy Program, Public School 20, Saratoga County Domestic Violence and Rape Crisis Center, Unity House Street Ministry and YWCA in Schenectady.

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(The) New York State Breast Cancer Support and Education Network (SEN)

Elizabeth Wohl
Phone: (646) 645-0125
Fax: (518) 514-2784

E-mail: lizwohl@earthlink.net http://www.nysbcsen.org

The New York State Breast Cancer Support and Education Network (SEN) is an umbrella group of community based breast cancer groups throughout New York State. SEN facilitates member organizations sharing programs and resources, inter-organization referrals for services, and a support and educaiton system for those who are working each day in the fight agains breast cancer.

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Social Justice Center of Albany

SJC is an umbrella organization comprised of 19 peace and social justice groups. Among the center groups with feminist concerns are Campus Action and In Our Own Voices, an organization of gay, lesbian and transdgenered persons of color. The Center's Dismantling Racism Program addresses all oppressions.

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Unity House Emergency Services

A comprehensive program for victims of domestic violence, Families in Crisis operates an office at 504 Broadway, Troy, which is open Monday through Friday,and a residential shelter (in a confidential location) which is open 365 days a year. The only requirement for access to services is that the person is a victim of domestic violence and is 16 years of age or older.

The program provides residential and non-residential services which include a 24-hour crisis hotline, emergency shelter, legal advocacy, individual counseling, support groups, children's counseling, housing assistance and support, life skills training, parenting assistance, aftercare support services, community education and training on domestic violence issues.

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Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood

Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood (UHPP) offers a wide range of compassionate, confidential, accessible, quality services related to human sexuality and general health. Services offered include: emergency contraception; annual comprehensive gynecological exams; breast exams; Pap smear screenings; colposcopy diagnosis of abnormal Paps; contraceptive counseling, including all methods of birth control; pregnancy testing and options counseling; sexually transmitted infections (STI) testing and treatment; first trimester abortion services; HIV counseling, testing and referral; prenatal care; and more. Our four health centers are located in Albany, Troy, Hudson, and Latham.

UHPP is committed to the promotion of sexual health and wel being through the provision of comprehensive sexuality education and training. Educators provide programming, consultation and resources to parents, schools, community agencies, organizations and business on subjects pertaining to sexual health, human sexuality and family life. The Education Department also houses the Rosamund Plowden-Wardlaw Library, which features a wide collection of publications, videos and resources on issues of sexuality and reproductive health. The library is open to the public by appointment.

UHPP is dedicated to ensuring every individuals's right to reproductive health and choice. Through aggressive public awareness efforts by our Public Affairs Department, we are able to maintain our high record of achievement in the preservation of reproductive rights for the women we serve. The Public Affairs program relies on a large group of dedicated volunteers and community activists who offer their time and expertise in a ariety of valuable tasks. For more infomation about becoming a UHPP volunteer or intern, or to add you name to our e-mail alert network, call the Public Affairs office at 434-5678, ext. 131.

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(The) Women's Building

Carmen M. Rau, Acting Executive Director
9 Central Ave.nue
Albany, NY 12206
Phone/Fax: (518) 462-2871
E-mail: holding@knick.net

The Women's Building, Inc. is the women's community center of the Capital Region. Our mission is to create and environment where differences are respected leadership is shared, all women's strengths are recognized, all women's growth is supported and a diversity of age, race, education, income, physical and mental ability, sexual orientation, religion, and social background is seen as enriching. Our goals are to provide a resource center and clearinghouse for information of interest to women, a multi-purpose space for cultural, informational, and recreational events of interest to women and children including: meeting rooms; office rental for women's organizations, services, commercial, and professional enterprises; and a performance area and to enhance a sense of community among women throughout the region.

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