Last year Damien served more than 5,700 clients, twice the number it served five years ago.

In 2018 when the city of Indianapolis laid out plans to end homelessness, it set out a goal that by 2023 no one experiences more than 30 days without a permanent, safe, affordable place to live.

Lilly Endowment, Inc. will grant $34 million to organizations that focus on issues that range from re-entry to LGBTQ youth.

The first housing assistance program for victims of human trafficking has launched in Marion County.

The nonprofit will use the $2 million grant to create a program that aims to reduce new infections, increase access to care and promote health equity for young transgender persons of color ages 13 to 34.

A new program to address a rising number of new HIV cases among young people will also be youth led.

The program will provide tenant-based rental assistance, short-term rent, mortgage and utility assistance as well as other supportive services to 212 households each year.

A local resource center for HIV care and prevention received a $2.2 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to increase outreach and service to the Latinx community.

The harm reduction initiative from Damien Center is in partnership with the Marion County Public Health Department.

The CDC reported the first case of HIV 40 years ago. Since then, health officials and advocates learned much more about the virus and how to prevent it. But Black women are being infected at unusually high rates. Outreach organizations are working to change that.