UCSF Alliance Health Project

The mission of the UCSF Alliance Heath Project is to support the mental health and wellness of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) and HIV-affected communities in constructing healthy and meaningful lives.

AHP’s goals seek to manifest this mission:

• Decrease health disparities within the LGBTQ and HIV-affected communities
• Provide the highest quality mental health services and substance use counseling based on the most effective interventions
• Grow a diverse and culturally competent work environment that allows staff to do their best and clients to flourish
• Translate our frontline expertise and our research findings into interventions, publications, and trainings that broaden its effect beyond our local community

Our values guide our activities toward these goals and ensure that our services are:

• Client-centered. We focus on the individual needs of each person seeking our services
• Strength-based. We help individuals maximize their existing capacities to undertake the challenges they identify
• Health and wellness enhancing. We work toward an individual’s vision of a healthy and meaningful life
• Culturally competent. We constantly develop our capacities to match the growing diversity of the populations we serve; and we recognize that individuals, as the experts in their own lives, have much to teach us about their cultures