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Baltimore Safe Haven is now poised to expand and improve our services beyond our tried-and-true mobile outreach through the establishment of the Baltimore Safe Haven Center for Health and Achievement. Located in Charles Village the Center will include an in-house wellness city , offer medical, mental health and drug treatment services in addition to BSH easy to access traditional services. Condom distribution, syringe exchange, case management, crisis counseling, shower and laundry facilities and a clothing closet will continue to be staple services. BSH will also continue our extensive ‘peer’ program, empowering clients to volunteer alongside staff to offer services and support.
Thanks to the support and compassion of our donors, staff and volunteers, BSH , has improved the lives of thousands of individuals in “street economies": transgender people in the sex trade, drug users, and people who face chronic homelessness, unemployment, incarceration and abuse. Since 2018 BSH has met people-in-need where they are to build up their self-worth, encourage them to set goals and realize their potential for success. The majority of BSH’ contacts to-date are made through our mobile outreach program, reaching an average of 50 sex workers each night and making over 8,000 contacts every year. Four nights a week, between 11 pm and 4 am, we are the only lgbtq mobile vehicle in Baltimore city ran by transgender women of color. Opioids has been killing our community at a alarming rate this year five deaths youngest 17 either blind to we matter or not caring we established Baltimore Safe because of the our community needs falling on death ears. For us by u. BSH staff and volunteers provide education, counseling, distribution of condoms and safer sex materials, and referrals to services
BSH Center for Health and Achievement will co-locate with other esteemed nonprofits focused on serving the poor and vulnerable TGLBQ of our Baltimore community. The new Center is based on a co-location model, utilizing community partners to offer more services at the center. The new co-location model also helps solve some of Baltimore city most pressing issues, most significantly the stigma our clients face when not being welcome at other agencies. Being judged or treated poorly by doctors, social workers, and counselors because you are transgender, your engagement in sex work or because you use drugs creates a mistrust of the system and makes it less likely people will seek the services they need to change their lives.
The new center will offer harm reduction services like our drop-in center, showers, clothing closet, syringe access, counseling – with medical services, mental health counseling, job training, and drug treatment. The new center will vastly increase the options we are able to offer to our clients and reduce obstacles they face in their journey towards self-sufficient, healthy, and self-determined lives.
Your gift will be complemented in so many ways by a ‘low-bono’ architectural design services firm, pro-bono legal support, donated furniture and access to discounted and free building supplies. You will not only help ensure a first-of-our-kind co-located center for services in Baltimore but also lift BSH national profile as we increasingly become a model for similar programs to study and emulate in other regions.
These funds will be leveraged with governmental, corporate and foundation grants to reach our goal.
Time is of the essence.
BSH lease on the new space commences Soon. So does our rent. With your help today, BSH could be operating programs out of the new space in the middle of August or early September. Trans Connector will still operate as a mini service of BSH meeting people in social settings as it is a umbrella service to Baltimore Safe Haven.
Thanks to the support and compassion of our donors, staff and volunteers, BSH , has improved the lives of thousands of individuals in “street economies": transgender people in the sex trade, drug users, and people who face chronic homelessness, unemployment, incarceration and abuse. Since 2018 BSH has met people-in-need where they are to build up their self-worth, encourage them to set goals and realize their potential for success. The majority of BSH’ contacts to-date are made through our mobile outreach program, reaching an average of 50 sex workers each night and making over 8,000 contacts every year. Four nights a week, between 11 pm and 4 am, we are the only lgbtq mobile vehicle in Baltimore city ran by transgender women of color. Opioids has been killing our community at a alarming rate this year five deaths youngest 17 either blind to we matter or not caring we established Baltimore Safe because of the our community needs falling on death ears. For us by u. BSH staff and volunteers provide education, counseling, distribution of condoms and safer sex materials, and referrals to services
BSH Center for Health and Achievement will co-locate with other esteemed nonprofits focused on serving the poor and vulnerable TGLBQ of our Baltimore community. The new Center is based on a co-location model, utilizing community partners to offer more services at the center. The new co-location model also helps solve some of Baltimore city most pressing issues, most significantly the stigma our clients face when not being welcome at other agencies. Being judged or treated poorly by doctors, social workers, and counselors because you are transgender, your engagement in sex work or because you use drugs creates a mistrust of the system and makes it less likely people will seek the services they need to change their lives.
The new center will offer harm reduction services like our drop-in center, showers, clothing closet, syringe access, counseling – with medical services, mental health counseling, job training, and drug treatment. The new center will vastly increase the options we are able to offer to our clients and reduce obstacles they face in their journey towards self-sufficient, healthy, and self-determined lives.
Your gift will be complemented in so many ways by a ‘low-bono’ architectural design services firm, pro-bono legal support, donated furniture and access to discounted and free building supplies. You will not only help ensure a first-of-our-kind co-located center for services in Baltimore but also lift BSH national profile as we increasingly become a model for similar programs to study and emulate in other regions.
These funds will be leveraged with governmental, corporate and foundation grants to reach our goal.
Time is of the essence.
BSH lease on the new space commences Soon. So does our rent. With your help today, BSH could be operating programs out of the new space in the middle of August or early September. Trans Connector will still operate as a mini service of BSH meeting people in social settings as it is a umbrella service to Baltimore Safe Haven.
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Kashawna Dammons
Organizer
Baltimore, MD
