SAGE: Harlem Center Office

Central Harlem

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WALK-IN OPEN HOURS:

• Tuesdays: 4pm-8pm
• Fridays: 12-4pm

Nurse every second and fourth Tuesday afternoons, from 1:30-4:30pm

Case Manager on every Wednesday mornings, from 10am to 2pm

Bilingual Benefit Counselor on Thursday afternoons from 2-5pm

About Sage

SAGE Harlem Center provides a safe space for LGBT older adults in Harlem. The center offers information, referrals, services, programming, educational presentation and social activities for older LGBT residents of Harlem, and partners with local social services providers to expand access for LGBT consumers and sensitivity to their issues.

Connecting Harlem LGBT older adults to services…

Empowering LGBT older adults voicing their needs…

Creating a safe space haven to our LGBT older adults residents in Harlem…

Visit US! during our walk-in open hours or call us for information on SAGE Harlem Center services and events, or referrals to our SAGE services and activities.

• Tuesdays from 4-8pm and Fridays from 12-4pm

Sage Harlem Center Contact Information:

SAGE Harlem Center
Main Number: 646- 660-8953
Email: sageharlem@sageusa.org

• Ruby Fernandez-Brown
  Program Manager
  rfernandez-brown@sageusa.org
  646-660-8954

• Ty Martin
  Community Outreach Manager
  tmartin@sageusa.org
  646-660-8952
  646-660-8955

Directions:

Take the A,B,C,D trains to 125th Street. Exit near intersection of W 125th St and St Nicholas Ave. Start out going East on W 125th St towards Frederick Douglass Blvd. Turn right onto 7th Ave.

Take the 2 or the 3 Train. Exit near intersection of 125th and Malcolm X Blvd. Start out going West on W 125th Street towards 7th Avenue.

News About SAGE: 10/20/2011

SAGE Receives Historic City Contract
to Create the Country's First LGBT Senior Center

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the New York City Department for the Aging (DFTA) announced today that Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) was awarded an Innovative Senior Center (ISC) contract to open the nation's first full-time center for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) older adults. SAGE the country's oldest and largest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBT older adults. The SAGE Center, slated to open in January 2012, will include program sites in all five New York City boroughs—bringing a comprehensive array of services and support to LGBT elders throughout the city.

In addition to the robust array of programs SAGE currently provides at the LGBT Community Center and SAGE Harlem, the new Center will offer hot meals, programs covering issues from health and wellness to workplace skills, comprehensive social services, a wide range of social activities, and much more.

"SAGE is honored to have this opportunity to strengthen the programs and services we offer to address the unique needs of LGBT older people in New York City," said Michael Adams, Executive Director of SAGE. "Opening The SAGE Center has been our dream for many years. We are thrilled to be part of a bold initiative that emphasizes innovation in aging services; SAGE is committed to building program models that can be replicated in New York City and nationwide."

Drawing on its 32 years of experience in designing programs in partnership with LGBT elders, SAGE plans to create vibrant programming for the growing population of LGBT older adults living in New York City. By partnering with community organizations in the five boroughs, The SAGE Center will extend LGBT-affirming services to LGBT older New Yorkers who do not use their local centers for fear of discrimination, and those who may not know of or be able to access SAGE's current services.

The SAGE Center is part of New York City's Innovative Senior Center program, a new initiative by Mayor Michael Bloomberg that is giving 10 of the city's leading aging organizations the opportunity to better serve their elder communities with creative, needs-based programming that will create models for the "senior center of the future." The SAGE Center is one of two citywide centers created to address the needs of historically underserved elder populations.

The city contract represents another historic government funding breakthrough for SAGE and LGBT older people. In January 2010, SAGE—in partnership with 10 aging and LGBT organizations nationwide—received a historic grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Administration on Aging to establish the National Resource Center on LGBT Aging, the country's first and only technical assistance resource center aimed at improving the quality of services and supports offered to LGBT older adults.

For more information on SAGE's programs and services, please visit sageusa.org.

LGBTQ+ Community Central Harlem