Choices@AZC
Monday 5 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Amsterdam and Heerhugowaard AZCs
Wednesday 17.00 - 20:30 Almere and Rotterdam AZCs

We alternate every other week to each location.

We understand the need for immediate help from people who know what you're dealing with. Choices @ AZC is here to help you in your own language. Our team of LGBTQ psychologists and volunteers speak Arabic, Farsi, English, French and Dutch.

Choices brings psychological first aid to you in the AZC. Psychological first aid is essentially about providing human and compassionate care. It focuses above all on emotional and practical needs and concerns. An important aim of psychological first aid is to build people's capacity for recovery. Together with our psychologist, you will identify your immediate needs, your strengths and your options for meeting these needs. Once this is done, a personal care plan with your goals and needs can be developed together.

Our psychological first aid includes:

• Immediate clinical assessment, referral for people with acute symptoms due to trauma, depression and drug/alcohol dependence;
• Crisis management, immediate referral where necessary;
• Identifying and helping with current needs;
• Helping people to identify their own strengths and coping mechanisms;
• Promote belief in people's ability to cope on their own;
• Helping people through the initial period of great intensity and uncertainty;
• Reduce the risk factors of mental illness;
• Setting personal goals to minimise and eliminate identified HIV risk behaviours;
• Developing a personal social network for support;
• Involving partners in the support process where possible and with consent;
• Identifying appropriate support centres for further clinical support.

In addition, we can put you in touch with the GGD for HIV/SoA testing and PrEP. We also offer free HIV self-tests to our members.

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