We use holistic approaches to support LGBTQ youth in building a foundation of self-reliance, self-esteem, and self-confidence to promote individual and community based sustainability. We envision a world where LGBTQ youth are empowered to respect and love themselves and their communities.
NJCRI offers inclusive, comprehensive primary care for the LGBQT community with a special mission to provide gender affirmative as well as supportive care to the transcommunity.
We aim to provide state of the art care in a safe, welcoming environment, featuring preventive, primary care, infectious disease care and gender affirmative hormonal treatment under one roof. We offer mental health, substance use treatment and case management services as well as medical care to all and strive to treat the whole person. If you need a medical home, NJCRI is that place.
And though many of our programs begin in the field of HIV, we have expanded programming over the years to include drop-in center spaces, activities, social, community and special events that support the community throughout Newark and Greater Essex County. Now LGBTQ+ Services engages the community from 13-24, from young adults to seasoned men and women still active and living vibrant lives.
Meet kevin
Kevin E. Taylor is a Newark community leader who has worked with the LGBTQ community for more than 20 years in New Jersey. Community Activist. Speaker. Pastor. Author. Advocate. A former television producer and motivational speaker who has traveled to and lectured and empowered across the country and around the globe. Taylor has previously served as the Manager of our Pride Center downtown and now oversees the entire department’s programming.
As director, Kevin E. Taylor brings a lifetime of experience in the LGBTQ communities he has been a part of here in New Jersey, in New York, where he led couples counseling with POCC and in Washington, DC, his hometown, where he worked as a Peer Counselor with Whitman Walker Clinic and served as a part of the founding ministry team of Inner Light Unity Fellowship Church. He is now Senior Pastor for Unity Fellowship Church NewArk, an affirming church where all are welcome, and is a proud father to Ga’Vel Qwame Taylor and proud grandfather to 3.
