Specialized Healthcare Services for Adolescents and Young Adults

Project STAY provides friendly, compassionate, and comprehensive healthcare services to young people ages 14-24. We're here to help.

About Project STAY

Project STAY is administered jointly by NewYork-Presbyterian and by the Harlem Health Promotion Center (HHPC) within the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. We work with community leaders, academic scholars, and public health professionals to serve Harlem and other New York City communities through two major programs:

• Our Specialized Care Center, through which we care for young people who are HIV-positive or are at risk for HIV infection.
• Our Youth Access Program, which conducts community outreach, screening, and linkage to care for young people engaging in risk-taking behaviors. Our youth-friendly primary care clinic provides medical and mental health services for these young people as well.

Who We Serve

We care for young people between the ages of 14 and 24 who are:

• Living with HIV
• At high risk for HIV
• Justice-involved youth
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, or pansexual
• Men who have sex with men

Our Team

The Project STAY team includes physicians, outreach specialists, social workers, nurses and nurse practitioners, and others dedicated to ensuring that the young people of New York have ready access to the healthcare services they need.

Getting Started

Not sure where to begin? Start here:

• For testing for HIV, sexually transmitted diseases, or pregnancy, text or call 646-245-4000.
• For pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) or post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) — medications aimed at preventing HIV infection — text or call 917-580-1682.
• For HIV care, text or call 646-234-0417.
   

Harlem Community Development Corporation (“HCDC”), a subsidiary of the New York State Urban Development Corporation, d/b/a Empire State Development Corporation, was created in 1995 to serve the greater Harlem community, including Central Harlem, El Barrio/East Harlem, Washington Heights and West Harlem. It supersedes the Harlem Urban Development Corporation (HUDC) that existed from 1971 to 1995.

Through various partnerships, HCDC plans and facilitates a wide range of community revitalization initiatives, strengthening upper Manhattan and its economically and culturally vibrant communities.

Harlem CDC’s Business Services programs provide tools, including technical and financial assistance and skills training, to local entrepreneurs to start and grow small businesses.

Harlem CDC’s Community Development programs provide information, technical and skills training to community-based organizations and individuals seeking to create independent projects and initiatives which support further investment in Upper Manhattan.

For more information visit: https://esd.ny.gov/harlem-community-development-corporation

At Gilead, we’re committed to creating a healthier world for everyone – no matter the challenges ahead of us. For more than 30 years, we’ve pursued the impossible, chased it down, tackled it for answers, and surrounded it for a way in. 

Through bold and transformative science, we’re driving innovation that has the potential to become the next generation of life-changing medicines. Our ambition is evident in our mission. Because the impossible is not impossible. It’s what’s next.

Gilead is dedicated to developing innovative medicines for life-threatening illnesses – and we recognize that it takes more than medicine to address challenges people and communities face.

That’s why we work with organizations around the world to launch programs that help improve access to care by eliminating barriers and advancing education.

For more information visit: https://www.gilead.com/

The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD)

The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) invests in a network of community-based organizations and programs to alleviate the effects of poverty and to provide opportunities for New Yorkers and communities to flourish.
 
DYCD supports New York City youth and their families by funding a wide range of high-quality youth and community development programs, including:

• After School
• Community Development
• Family Support
• Literacy Services
• Youth Services
• Youth Workforce Development  

West Harlem Development Corporation (WHDC) was born from the need to implement the deliverables and expectations of the May 18, 2009 Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) between Columbia University and West Harlem Local Development Corporation. WHDC functions with the vision of building collaborations and leveraging resources to enhance the lives of the residents of West Harlem beyond the term of the CBA.

Since 2011 and through 2019, WHDC has funded 177 nonprofits for $11.5 million to serve West Harlem/Manhattan Community District 9 (MCD9) residents with services in education, housing, workforce development, arts & culture, and more. 

For more information visit: https://westharlemdc.org/