You Don't Have to Run Around Town
It’s not easy to sign up for assistance if you have to go to multiple appointments and various locations. The Montrose Center’s Case Management team wants to try to make it easier for you, especially now that you’ve realized that you may need a little help. Come by the first floor at the Montrose Center on April 5 to apply for assistance.
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Our Greenest Gratitude
A great crowd, delicious hors d’oeuvre, a beautiful location, and a silent auction of luxury items. Every year gets better and better. Who do we love?
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Taking Care of Our Own
We are a proud city, and we have good reason. Houston has been ranked THE MOST PHILANTHROPIC city in the country by Charity Navigator. Of the $10.2 Billion dollars given to charity by Houstonians last year, estimators gauge that less than five percent was LGBT persons supporting LGBT agencies. You can be a part of a national campaign to mobilize donors on May 9 to give to a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to serving this community.
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Have You Hugged Your Social Worker?
March is Social Worker Awareness Month, and we couldn’t accomplish as much as we do without social workers in our counseling and case management programs. These are the people who weave the threads of resiliency and advocacy together to make a safety net for our clients.
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St. Patrick's Day Shenanigans – March 15, 2013
SAVE THE DATE and celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with us! Mark your calendars for Bringin’ in the Green on Friday, March 15. With a great crowd, delicious hors d’oeuvre, a beautiful location, and silent auction of luxury items, you won’t want to miss the 24th annual event and our longest running fundraiser and a tradition for Houston’s GLBT communities.
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Part 2, Linking Aging & HIV Service Providers
Are you prepared to talk with seniors about safer sex? Can you tell them where to go to get tested for sexually transmitted infections? These are just two of the many topics we need to think about as service providers in 2013 and beyond. Thirty years ago, the first cases of HIV/AIDS were just being discovered. HIV/AIDS is still here. Treatment has changed. People have changed. We’ve gotten older. Patients are living longer.
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Registration is open for Spring. Expand your horizons!
QU is Houston’s first recreational learning program that is by, for, and about the LGBT community. Our exciting Spring catalog includes…
Life Drawing for Beginners / Queer Minds: Sex Lives of Philosophers / Introduction to Belly Dance / Life Coaching Workshops 1 & 2 / Introduction to Enneagram / How to Protest Your Property Value / Gender, Movement & Performance
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Self-care Workshop for LGBT Service Providers
If you work in the field of mental or behavioral health and have to manage living in a world that’s not always LGBT-affirming, make sure to take good care of yourself before helping others in the community.
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Stretching Your Dollar on a Fixed Income
Too many people in our community go hungry. In addition to Montrose Diner Days for LGBT Seniors, we are working with Houston Food Bank to have a representative here to make it easier to sign up for the SNAP Program (formerly known as Food Stamps).
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Changing Lives: Marcus & Sal
Case management, anti-violence services, counseling, support groups, substance abuse treatment. You’ll want to protect your heart with bubble wrap when you hear their whole stories and how the Montrose Center helped them turn their lives around.