About Us
The NJ GAY Health Website was created to provide healthcare information and resources to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals who reside in NJ. The project is supported by Rutgers School of Public Health, Office of Public Health Practice and Rutgers School of Nursing The NJ Gay Health Initiative Project is under the leadership of Philip T. McCabe CSW, CAS, DRCC. Phil has an extensive background in providing public health advocacy and community education within the LGBT communities since 1979. Mr. McCabe served as a staff consultant for the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center NYC and the National Voices and Faces of Recovery LGBT SpeakOut. Additionally he was the former chairperson of The National Coalition for LGBT Health -Tobacco Work Group on Treatment Issues. Mr. McCabe serves on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Lesbian & Gay Addiction Professionals, and holds the position of president. He contributed to the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment’s, “A Provider’s Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Individuals” as a principal writer on family issues and for the “Healthy People 2010 LGBT Companion Document.” He was recently appointed to the Board of Trustees of NJCASA, the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault, and also serves on the Governor’s Advisory Council Against Sexual Violence Prevention and Public Education Committee. |
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