Chicago City Treasurer Kurt Summers hosted an LGBTQ Pride Week event with Windy City Times newspaper, Tuesday, June 23 in the South Loop.
The event featured a discussion on LGBT issues, including youth homelessness. Summers and his staff joined in the discussion about how the treasurer's office can impact community development and policy issues. Summers especially focused on the two young men in the room and how he could directly help their job and apartment searches.
Staff from youth homeless agencies attended, as well as neighbors, activists and two youth. Attendees included executive directors Jeri Linas of Teen Living Programs and Flora Koppel from Unity Parenting, in addition to Anne Holcomb of Unity.
Amy Miller, associate director at Broadway Youth Center at Howard Brown Health Center, and Tracy Baim, publisher of Windy City Times, also addressed solutions to youth homelessness. Activist Newsense, a singer and youth development practitioner, also spoke about common-sense solutions to the issues.