The LGBTQ group companies group Baltimore Secure Haven introduced it intends to develop its companies in a just lately acquired constructing that it’s at present renovating at 806 North Collington Avenue close to the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
“The brand new facility, named the Mary Lynn Washington Constructing and the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Basis Group Hub and Useful resource Heart, is about to open quickly, marking a major milestone in our ongoing mission to create secure and inclusive areas for all,” an announcement launched by the group on Dec. 30 says.
“The growth wouldn’t have been attainable with out the beneficiant assist and dedication of our group donors,” the assertion says.
A report by Baltimore’s WMAR 2 TV information says the constructing’s rooms will accommodate two dozen folks “who want transitional or everlasting housing and can embrace medical sources beneath the identical roof.”
The TV information report says Baltimore Secure Haven’s founder and CEO, Iya Dammons, accomplished the acquisition of the constructing over the Christmas weekend however neither the information report nor the Secure Haven assertion disclosed the constructing’s buy value.
“We lengthen our deepest gratitude to [Maryland State] Senator Mary Washington, Congressman Kweisi Mfume, Mayor Brandon Scott, Borealis Philanthropy, the Astraea Basis, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Basis, MOHS, COC, and MDH,” the assertion says. “Their unwavering assist has been instrumental in bringing this imaginative and prescient to life,” it says.
“The brand new group hub will function a one-stop useful resource middle, offering expanded clinic companies in collaboration with the College of Maryland, together with psychological well being and wellness programming,” in line with the assertion.
A separate assertion on its web site says Dammons, a transgender rights activist, based Baltimore Secure Haven in 2018. The assertion says the group has beforehand expanded its companies since its founding to offer housing companies for members of the LGBTQ group going through homelessness and housing insecurity.
“The group has additionally developed a variety of packages and companies targeted on psychological well being assist, bodily well being coordination, workforce improvement, authorized assist, advocacy, and group constructing.”
In July 2023, Secure Haven opened a D.C. workplace and drop-in middle at 331 H St., N.E. that Dammons mentioned would search to offer companies for the LGBTQ group, particularly folks in want, just like the companies supplied in Baltimore.
