Ali Forney Center
The Ali Forney Center (AFC), based in New York City, is the largest LGBT community center helping LGBTQ homeless youth in the United States.[1] The AFC both manages and develops transitional housing for its clients.[2] AFC helps approximately 2,000 youth clients each year, primarily between sixteen and twenty-four years old.[3] AFC is named after Ali Forney, a transgender youth who was murdered in New York in 1997.[3]
Abbreviation
AFC
2002
Carl Siciliano
New York
Alexander Roque
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AFC has 15 residential sites in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan. In 2012, AFC provided 77 beds a night for homeless LGBTQ youth.[4] AFC also runs a drop-in center, open 24/7, where clients can apply for housing, receive food and hygiene services and can access free medical and mental health care .[4] AFC Founder Carl Siciliano says that the clients served by the drop-in center are often in the most acute crisis.[5] AFC serves the LGBTQ population because they represent approximately forty percent of New York's young homeless people.[6]