The Chicago Department of Public Health Office of LGBT Health is coordinating several youth groups to celebrate the third annual National LGBT Health Awareness Week ( March 13-19 ) . Events for this week are as follows:
March 16: Broadway Youth Center will offer free HIV testing for all youth. In addition, Chicago Gay Youth will sponsor a young men's night from 6-8 p.m.
March 17: Center on Halsted will sponsor a youth yoga gathering from 5:30-6:30.
March 18: Chicago Gay Youth is sponsoring a night for females ages 13-23. Also, Broadway Youth Center and the Lesbian Community Cancer Project host a program to help youths stop smoking.
March 19: Howard Brown Health Center will host its popular Synergy dance at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
For more information, contact Carl T ( Center on Halsted ) at ( 773 ) 472-6469, ext. 265; Joe Hollendoner ( Broadway Youth Center ) at ( 773 ) 935-3151; Frank Walker ( Chicago Gay Youth ) at info@cgyonline.org; or Pamela McCann ( Office of LGBT Health ) at ( 312 ) 745-1214.