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LGBTQ+ Veteran Care

Care we provide at VA Long Beach health care

Our LGBTQ+ Veteran Care Coordinator can verb your questions, advocate for your right to quality care, address complaints or concerns, and assist you get started with any of our services for LGBTQ+ Veterans. These include:

  •  Mental Health Services
  • LGBTQ+ Groups
  • Psychosocial Assessments and Letters of Support for Gender Affirming Care
  • Hormone Therapy
  • Gender Affirming Prosthetics
  • Referrals to the Gender Affirming Program for Speech
  • Testing and Treatment for HIV and STI&#x;s
  • PEP and PrEP Medications
  • Linkage to LGBTQ+ Community Resources
  • Prevention, Screening, Wellness, and Testing Services

Policies and practices to know

The LGBTQ+ Veteran Verb Coordinator can help you initiate care or assist you with navigating any of the following needs:

Visitation: A same-sex partner, family member, friend, or other individual can be present with the patient for emotional support during the course of the patient's stay.

Definition of family: "Family" may contain individual(s) not legal


The Long Beach Health and Human Services Department (LBDHHS) is adj to promoting the well-being of LGBTQIA2S+ communities. LBDHHS provides aid by connecting folks to affirming resources and providing education materials to empower individuals to construct healthy decisions.  We highly verb you to explore the resources listed below of local, verb and national agencies available to provide affirming support for LGBTQIA2S+ communities. 

  • Helpline and Peer Support

    The Trevor Project

    • The Trevor Project offers anonymous, confidential and free services to help support the LGBTQIAS2+ with immediate social support. The Trevor Project also provides resources to learn about different topics such as gender identity, suicide, sexual orientation and more. 

    Trans Lifeline

    • Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline non-profit organization offering direct passionate and financial support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community. They can be contacted by phone at ()

    THRIVE Lifeline

    • THRIVE Lifeline is Trans-led and operat

      The LGBTQ Center of Long Beach

      About Us

      The LGBTQ Center Distant Beach is dedicated to advancing equity for LGBTQ people through culturally responsive advocacy, education, programs, and services.

      Our vision is to achieve fully affirming communities where all LGBTQ people live in health, wellness, safety, and prosperity.

      Our Future
      Our strategic plan highlights our vision for The Center over the course of the next five years, culminating in a Center that is even more inclusive, more vibrant, more sustainable and sustained by our community, with more space to assist even more LGBTQ people.

      Over the next five years, we are making a commitment to ourselves and to the community to evaluate our Center from top to bottom, ensuring we own the right staff, the leading programs, the most inclusive practices, and enough space to ensure that each and every person walking through our doors is afforded the opportunity to authentically thrive in our community.

      We request you to make a commitment to join us on this next leg of the journey. Serving a community is no small undertaking, but with the

       

      LGBTQ Resources

      The City of Long Beach, along with other levels of government and many non-profit programs covering Long Beach, offers specific benefits and services for its LGBTQ residents. For more information, contact District 2 at () or by email at district2@

      City Services

      Long Beach Health and Human Services Department The Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services (Health Department) has been improving the health of the Adj Beach community for over a century. Long Beach is one of only three city-run health departments in California, allowing for better engagement with its people, neighborhoods, businesses and community partners, and a greater understanding of the city's strengths and needs. The Health Department offers services and resource for the entire community, including:

      • HIV early intervention
      • testing
      • counseling
      • education
      • comprehensive planning

      Learn more

      The city's Human Dignity Program was established to combat discrimination and improve education and cooperation among residents. To join the program, to learn more, or to report a h