Center on Halsted

Attached to whole foods. Good public bathroom. Open computer lab hours during the weekday. Good place to eat/charge your phone.
Jan 30th, 2023

This place is here to support Everyone. When you submit negative texts YOU are helping to disrupt others who might be trying to work with the Centers goal of being there in person for Everyone.
Jan 19th, 2023

I realize that the Center On Halsted does a lot of good for the L, G, B, Q, and yes T communities. And I applaud them for it, hence the 2 stars.The events in this review happened just before Horizons moved to Halsted and became the Center On Halsted.Yet after reading a few pages of the other reviews here it sounds like not much has changed.So if you are questioning your gender, here is an example of how the L G and B often feel about the T:I went to Horizons looking for support and counselling in my quest to understand myself. I had scheduled an appointment with a counsellor. Seeing "LGBT" in  all their brochures, their signage, and their internet presence, I assumed that this would be a safe place to talk about issues relating to the "T" in LGBT.I arrived a few minutes early and waited. And waited. And waited. The counsellor I was supposed to meet was over 20 minutes late past the appointment time, so I walked over to the nearby 7-11 and got a juice. When I came back maybe 10 minutes more had passed, tops. The counsellor was now there, a full half hour late. The front desk vouched that I had been on time and waiting for him for probably 25-30 minutes total before even walking a literal block and a half away and coming right back. Despite this, upon being seated in his office he let me know in no uncertain terms that I was the one who was late to my appointment. [And judging from some of the more recent reviews it may still be the modus operandi of some of the counsellors there.]I explained I was questioning my gender. That as a man I was struggling with some gender issues yet attracted almost exclusively to women.  Taking my display of vulnerability into the fullest consideration that he was apparently capable of, he proceeded to tell me that they had a group I could join for gay men who wanted to meet other gay men and that I could talk to them about my issues being a gay man.A word of advice to the T in LGBT, if by some twist of cosmic fate you haven't experienced this yet yourself: There's always been a large segment of the L, G, and B community that absolutely despises anyone even remotely nonbinary.
Jan 8th, 2023

Supposed to be a safe space for queers. They threw me out on the street after arriving and sitting down to my first mental help group. This was after hours of intake phone calls and waiting a month to finally start.. you arent treated like a person worthy of help unless you are vaccinated AND found that info in the fine print somehow lol They do not care about people.
Jan 6th, 2023

This review is not for the work that that Center does, which is amazing, but for their handling of appointments when it comes to vaccinations.  It is lovely that they allow you to set up appoints for certain times, but what is not so lovely is that you get to the Center 20 min ahead of time and still have to wait  about 2 hours.  The Queen and I arrived at 4:10 pm for our 4:30 pm appointments, but by 4:30 pm, they were just checking in everyone there.  After checking in, we sat for a bit before we were allowed to line up to head up to the area to get vaccinated.  While I am very appreciative of the work they do and the fact that they were giving out free shots, it still would be nice to know that when you say 4:30 pm, it means I will get in at least within 15-20 mins of that time and not 2 hours later.
Nov 24th, 2022