Focus Areas:
  • Criminalization & Policing
  • Immigration
  • Racial Justice

Queer Detainee Empowerment Project

  • LAST GRANT RECEIVED: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
  • LOCATION: New York, NY
  • WEBSITE: qdep.org
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QDEP is a post-release support, detention visitation, direct service, and community organizing project that works with LGBTQTSGNI/HIV+ immigrant prisoners and their families currently in, those that have been recently released from, and those at risk at entering immigration detention.

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YEPP uses leadership development, artistic expression and community advocacy to work with LGBTQ youth throughout the city of Chicago who are or have experienced homelessness or housing instability, with a focus on Transgender and gender non-conforming youth of color.