Gay And Lesbian Community Center Of Southern Nevada, Inc.

Gay And Lesbian Community Center Of Southern Nevada, Inc. (doing business as The Center) is a Las Vegas-based nonprofit recipient of federal grants supporting youth homelessness prevention, HIV/STI care coordination, substance use disorder treatment, and victim services for LGBTQ+ and other underserved populations. The Center operates as a direct prime recipient on four federal grants and as a subrecipient on twenty-eight federal grant sub-awards, with no federal contract presence in the footprint.

The Center's primary federal customer is the Department of Health and Human Services, which accounts for the majority of the Center's award count across three operating divisions: the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. A $1.19 million Project Grant from HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development under the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (CFDA 14.276), obligated May 1, 2026 and running through April 30, 2028, funds coordinated community prevention and housing services for youth aged twenty-four and younger experiencing homelessness in Las Vegas, including unaccompanied and pregnant or parenting youth. The Center is eligible for eleven activity categories under YHDP, including real property acquisition and rehabilitation, new construction, leasing, rental assistance, supportive services, and HMIS implementation. A $1.04 million Project Grant from the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (Grants for Outreach and Services to Underserved Populations, awarded October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2027) supports outreach, education, and victim services targeting adult and youth survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking within LGBTQ+ communities. A five-year SAMHSA Center for Substance Abuse Treatment grant awarded September 30, 2024 (completing September 29, 2029) funds the Empower Behavioral Health project, which expands the Center's capacity to serve 380-plus individuals with integrated substance use disorder and HIV/STI prevention, education, and treatment services targeting Black, Latino, American Indian/Alaskan Native men who have sex with men, youth aged thirteen to twenty-four, and people who inject drugs across Clark County. A Ryan White Title III HIV Capacity Development and Planning Grant from the HIV/AIDS Bureau ($149,992, September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2024) supported HIV care innovation through coordination and integration of HIV primary care with oral health and behavioral health services in collaboration with the Community Counseling Center, the University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Dental Medicine, and the Huntridge Family Clinic.

As a subrecipient, the Center receives sub-awards from Clark County, the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, the Southern Nevada Health District, and the Division of Child and Family Services. Sub-award work includes Ryan White Part A core medical and supportive services (multiple awards from Clark County and the Health Department), rapid HIV testing and start-of-antiretroviral-therapy linkage services, harm reduction and peer support programming, sexually transmitted disease screening and prevention, and Center Advocacy Network victim advocacy training and services for marginalized populations. The Center's role extends to drug-checking surveillance work contracted through the Southern Nevada Health District, performing sample collection and analysis for NIST qualitative analysis, and deploying peer recovery support specialists providing medication-assisted treatment, harm reduction supplies including naloxone and fentanyl/xylazine test strips, and social determinant assessments for opioid and stimulant use disorder populations.

The Center's federal footprint reflects strong alignment with Health and Human Services priorities in HIV/AIDS, substance use treatment, and victim services. Activity has grown from one award in 2021 to ten in 2024 and 2025 combined, with seven awards obligated as of 2026. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $11.5 million. Two awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing limited recompete risk in the near term. The Center's subrecipient position on twenty-eight of thirty-three awards (85%) reflects its primary role as a service-delivery organization operating under pass-through federal funding from state and local prime grantees rather than as a direct federal contractor or IDV participant.