Summary
A program of Howard Brown Health Center and its community partners, Broadway Youth Center offers a wide array of social and medical services to homeless and underserved youth, especially those who identify as being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. This easily accessible, “one-stop shop” eliminates most barriers to care by offering services free of charge and not requiring an appointment or identification. Center services seek to meet the complex needs of these at-risk youth within a safe, welcoming, nonjudgmental environment, including basic necessities, routine medical care, testing and counseling for human immunodeficiency virus and other sexually transmitted diseases, discussion groups, mental health counseling, case management, and career training. The program has successfully connected thousands of hard-to-reach, disenfranchised youth with badly needed services. The vast majority of these youth would not have had access to these services in the absence of this program.