history

The Center’s Advocacy and Civic Engagement work includes the 2020 Primary and General Elections and 2020 Census campaigns with outreach and dedicated and targeted campaigns to our community.

The Center closed its doors for in-person services due to the COVID-19 pandemic on March 20, 2020. Throughout the pandemic, The Center provided Emergency Services including an Emergency Referral and Resource phone line, Behavioral Health Services via Zoom Healthcare, Individual Program Meetings and Check-Ins via Zoom, Virtual Support Groups, Critical..Read More

To help LGBTQ community members experiencing homelessness, The Center’s housing program went from Sunburst Youth Housing Project to an entire continuum of housing services and homelessness prevention — family reunification, host homes, and LGBTQ Safe S.T.A.Y. emergency overnight housing. The Center also offers permanent supportive housing programs to include housing..Read More

The Center embarks on a Strategic Planning process, engaging a wide variety of community stakeholders to strive to serve our growing and diverse community and ensure that we maximize our organization’s resources to best continue to fulfill our mission in the years ahead

The South Bay Youth Center (SBYC) opens in Chula Vista to support LGBTQ youth 10-24 in need of resources in South County

The Center embarked on the first border campaign to ensure that legal services, case management, and humanitarian relief to LGBTQ and HIV-positive asylum seekers were provided to those who arrived at the Mexican/U.S. border

The Center reaches $2 million goal with unprecedented community support, matching donors Ron Bowman, with his husband Stan Zukowfsky announce a second gift of $1.65 million to pay off mortgage for the Centre Street building in spring of 2018

The Center Board announces selection of Caroline (Cara) Dessert, Esq. as the next Center Chief Executive Officer effective July 1, 2018

The LGBTQ-welcoming affordable senior housing project opens