LGBTQ youth are disproportionately at risk of homelesness. It's often because they are rejected by their family as they are coming into their sexual identity.

Damien Center President and CEO Alan Witchey said 23 percent of the LGBTQ+ population surveyed reported experiencing a decline in mental health during the pandemic.

Damien Center is receiving funds from the City of Indianapolis to run a program that houses vulnerable people in hotel rooms.

The Damien Center in Indianapolis will house some who are HIV positive and experiencing homelessness in hotel rooms for the next month.

The Damien Center helps people with HIV get on the proper drugs. But that's just one piece of the puzzle to end the epidemic. Many clients have more basic needs and the center is able to provide for those, and more.

A new grant-funded program at The Damien Center, an AIDS service group in Indianapolis, was designed to help transgender people move into short-term housing.