Creating Freedom & Self-Efficacy Through Safe, Collaborative, & Empowering Services.

Name: Rainbow Access Initiative
Address: 10 Colvin Avenue, Albany, NY, 12206, US
Telephone: 518-801-2521

RAI is dedicated to providing quality services to folx within the LGBTQQIP2SA+ community (and their families) and aims to dismantle barriers to care so that all clients find the freedom and resources they need to live full, authentic lives.

We believe affordable care is a fundamental right. RAI works to ensure quality therapy is accessible for all clients.

Our Mission & Dedication

RAI is dedicated to being LGBTQQIP2SA+ and BIPOC allies, trauma-informed, neurodivergence-affirming, fat liberation focused and anti-body oppression/terrorism, sex & kink-affirming, anti-ableist, decolonizing, and anti-capitalist. At RAI, there will always be a focus on social justice and providing therapy that is empowering and de-stigmatizing for all clients.

LGBTQIA+ Access & Empowerment

Transition Support

With our organization’s mission always in mind, we strive to assist health care providers to embrace new strategies for ensuring their services are Trans inclusive. LGBTQ+ Competent Health Care is something that we take very seriously, and our team is working each and every day to make a positive impact. RAI is committed to aiding the Trans and Gender Nonconforming/Nonbinary community find resources and have access to support as they explore authenticity in gender in their life.

RAI is has taken the GALAP pledge.

Counseling, Advocacy and Support

Our goal is to promote great opportunities for those in need. With access to the right resources, people can become empowered by their own abilities and gain the confidence to fulfill their potential. RAI offers individual, partner, and family therapy along with case management services to help each client find the freedom to live their lives authentically.

Learn more about our work by connecting with our team today.

Harm Reduction

RAI offers harm reduction services for both substance use difficulties and disordered eating. We believe in every persons right to live a full and beautiful life - with the right support and understanding we hope to make this a reality. From counseling supports for substance use or disordered eating/eating disorder difficulties, to offering Narcan and other harm reduction tools to all clients RAI pledges to stand with those in need of the most community.

“There is no formula when it comes to gender and sexuality. Yet it is often only people whose gender identity and/or sexual orientation negates society’s heteronormative and cisnormative standards who are targets of stigma, discrimination, and violence. I wish that instead of investing in these hierarchies of what’s right and who’s wrong, what’s authentic and who’s not, and ranking people according to these rigid standards that ignore diversity in our genders and sexualities, we gave people freedom and resources to define, determine, and declare who they are.”

-Janet Mock