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The grant supports the Education and Vocation team has been a program of the Broadway Youth Center (BYC) since 2006 and serves over 200 young people per year. The team’s mission statement is “to provide barrier-free education and vocation services for young people who identify as LGBTQ+ as well as those who are unstably housed and/or low income, centering care in empathy, harm reduction, anti-oppression, and trauma-informed frameworks.”

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PA 102-0698, FY’23 Legislative Add On Grant; Illinois General Assembly - Public Act 103-0006 (ilga.gov) FY24 Legislative Add On Grant

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All program services are offered at the main location in the northern Chicago neighborhood of Uptown, but BYC services are not limited to a specific geographic area. BYC, alongside Howard Brown, serves as a magnet of care that pulls patients from over 90 zip codes throughout Chicago and beyond. Students who identify as LGBTQ+ are more likely to face harassment, bullying, and physical violence in high school, which leads to higher dropout rates. Young people experiencing homelessness or unstable housing also are at a higher risk for abandoning high school before graduation in pursuit of more immediate needs. Unfortunately, the cross-section of LGBTQ+ youth and youth experiencing homelessness is large due to lack of family and/or social support systems. Many of the students in the BYC program left high school before graduation due to these factors or some combination of these factors. For these same reasons, LGBTQ+ youth often have a harder time obtaining and maintaining employment.

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FY 2023 : $100,000
FY 2024 : $50,149