Welcome to the new web home of the Health Initiative: Georgia’s Voice for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Health.
Founded in 1996, we are the largest non-profit agency in the southeast devoted solely to the health and wellness of LGBTQ people. We do that through education, advocacy, support and improved by access to care.
Our history is rich. We were founded as the Atlanta Lesbian Cancer Initiative to address a void in attention to lesbian health, insensitivity on the part of many medical practitioners and a palpable lack of support. Thanks to the hard work and determination of a lot of people, many of those conditions have improved. Meanwhile, other issues emerged. We evolved into the Atlanta Health Initiative to address more broad concerns affecting the larger LGBTQ community, including general access to care and ability to pay for it. Our Health Fund, launched in 2008, is available to support any under- or un-insured LGBT individual. We officially became the Health Initiative in 2011, and will be sharing more of expansion plans in the months to come.
We take pride in our accessibility and attentiveness to the needs of the LGBTQ community. Our ability to adapt and change with the community is a credit to your participation. If you have a comment, an idea, or a suggestion, please get in touch. It makes a difference and we need you.
Linda Ellis
Executive Director
Linda@thehealthinitiative.org
(404) 688-2524
As always, if there’s anything we can do to help you – whether it involves the Health Fund, finding an LGBTQ provider, or participating in one of the Health Initiative’s programs, please contact us at info@thehealthinitiative.org.