Community Health Programs
Compass JANE CHANG, MD • Medical Director • jac9009@med.cornell.edu
Mission and Goals
The Compass Program is a new program for transgender and genderdiverse children and adolescents. Compass began in the fall of 2018 and is located in the Helmsley Tower on the Weill Cornell Medicine campus. The multidisciplinary Compass team consists of an adolescent medicine physician, pediatric endocrinologist, psychiatric nurse practitioner, and an adolescent social worker. In a safe, welcoming, and nonjudgmental space, Compass provides: • A comprehensive and individualized needs assessment • M ental health counseling • F amily support • G ender-affirming hormone treatment In addition to patient care and family support, the team’s mission includes training pediatric providers and clinic staff to provide transgender-friendly care, advocate for transgender and gender-diverse patients within the NewYork-Presbyterian system and the outside community, and link families with trans-affirming community resources. Future goals include offering both patient and parent support groups where participants can share their experiences and concerns. Compass is currently seeing patients with Medicaid insurance up through age 19.
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The Compass Program is a new program for transgender and gender-diverse children and adolescents. Compass began in the fall of 2018 and is located in the Helmsley Tower on the Weill Cornell Medicine campus.
