40°43′48″N 73°59′34″W / 40.730056°N 73.992748°W / 40.730056; -73.992748 The Hetrick-Martin Institute ( HMI ) is a US non-profit organization devoted to serving the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ) youth between the ages of 13 and 24, and their families.
8-689: It was founded in 1979 by Emery Hetrick and A. Damien Martin as the Institute for the Protection of Lesbian and Gay Youth as a response to the needs of vulnerable and at risk LGBT youth in New York City. Following a private donation in 1983, matched by a grant from the New York State Division for Youth they were able to open an office, provide a drop-in centre and significantly expand their provision of LGBT youth counseling. In 1985, with funding from
16-870: The Cornell University Medical School . Hetrick was an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at New York University Medical Center . He was also a member of the State Task Force on Gay Lesbian Issues, as appointed by Gov. Mario M. Cuomo . Hetrick had been an attending psychiatrist and supervisor at the Harlem Hospital Center and associate medical director of Pfizer 's Roerig Division. He started working for them in 1979 and resigned in 1986 for health reasons. At Harlem Hospital, Hetrick had been chief of their psychiatric crisis and emergency treatment unit (1976-1979) and at Gouverneur Diagnostic and Treatment Center , from 1974 until 1976,
24-750: The New York City Department of Education , HMI established the Harvey Milk High School , the first high school in the United States that specifically catered to LGBT students. HMI directly managed the school until 2002/3, when it became a fully accredited public school managed by the New York Department of Education. Both the institute and the school still operate out a joint location on Astor Place in Manhattan. In December 1988, following
32-655: The HMI expanded its services from Manhattan by launching HMI: Newark, a pilot program to serve LGBTQ youth in Newark, New Jersey . Following the success of the pilot programme in July 2014, Ashawnda Fleming was appointed executive director of HMI: Newark. The program has been subsequently expanded to include four counties in New Jersey and renamed HMI: New Jersey. Emery Hetrick Emery S. Hetrick (September 27, 1931 – February 4, 1987)
40-514: The HMI, was A. Damien Martin . In 2015, both were named Icons for LGBT History Month . As a couple, they'd been together since 1975 and lived together on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. They are buried together at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn , with the inscription "Death ends a life, not a relationship." A 1953 graduate of Ohio State University , he went on to graduate in 1957 from
48-495: The death of Emery Hetrick in 1987 from AIDS related complications, Damien Martin was interviewed by Eric Marcus , as part of what would become his book and subsequently a podcast Making Gay History , where he recounted his relationship and work founding what was, by then, renamed the Hetrick-Martin Institute in his and his deceased partners honour. Damien Martin died in 1991, also of AIDS related complications. In 2011,
56-576: Was Acting Chief of the Psychiatry Department. He was the first psychiatrist hired by the Ackerman Institute for the Family . Hetrick died in of AIDS related respiratory failure at the age of 56. After hearing a story about a 15-year old boy being beaten and forcibly removed from his emergency housing because he was identified as gay, Hetrick and his partner Damien Martin they established
64-650: Was an American psychiatrist and one of the founders of the Hetrick-Martin Institute (HMI), originally known as the Institute for the Protection of Lesbian and Gay Youth (IPLGY), which in turn founded the Harvey Milk High School in New York City . Emery Sylvester Hetrick as born on September 27, 1931, in Columbus, Ohio . He was born to parents Emery S. Hetrick Sr. and Alice F. Hetrick. He had an older sister, Virigina Hetrick. His partner, both personally and at
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