Equinox House for Youth is Albany’s sole provider of emergency housing for runaway and homeless youth. Equinox House provides shelter, food, and a caring and supportive staff. Housing up to 18 youths, Equinox House offers a safe, home-like environment and provides group activities, trust and confidence building exercises, and life skills training.
Youth Outreach Center offers HIV/AIDS and drug abuse education, housing referrals, employment assistance, tutoring, and recreational activities.
Street Outreach Program is designed to help homeless or "on the street" youth. The program offers free medical care, meals, and guidance to reduce high-risk behaviors.
Transitional Living Program provides supervised apartment living for older homeless youth—ages 16 to 21—to help them transition to life on their own. Youth live in Transitional Living Apartments, where they have easy access to counseling and group sessions at the adjacent youth shelter
Project Independence provides follow-up services to graduates of the Independent Living Program to support their reintegration into the community.
The Journey Program is a group mentoring program that is now sited at Equinox. The Program is in its fourth year and has 40 youth, 15 volunteer mentors involved family members.
The Program meets twice a month at Equinox and also includes trips to various locations of interest to the youth participants. It is an exciting opportunity to many youth who have few positive options in the community. There is no charge for Program participation and youth between the ages of 13-18. The photos were taken on the opening night of the Journey Program here at Equinox.
