WashBlade.com – Lou Chibbaro Jr
Funding for D.C. facility expires in September
When the local group Transgender Health Empowerment, Inc., launched its Tyra Hunter Drop-In Center last March in a three-story townhouse on North Capitol Street, organizers expected to provide a variety of HIV prevention and social services to mostly adult transgender women.
But in the past two months, younger clients like 19-year-old Nannaboo Mack, a transgender woman who said she learned about the center from the ?streets,? have descended on the facility in large numbers, stretching its resources and threatening to overextend its budget.
?We?re getting swamped,? said Brian Watson, Transgender Health Empowerment?s director of programs.