[2] In addition to providing medical services, the center offers a GED program; high school and college tutoring; assistance in applying for health insurance, food stamps, shelter and jobs; food, clothes and laundry services; refuge and other care to LGBTQ youth.

[6] In 2006, Howard Brown was selected to lead a joint effort to provide services for LGBTQ senior citizens.

Funded by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (now the National LGBTQ Task Force), the initiative combined the resources of Rush University Medical Center, Heartland Alliance, the Council for Jewish Elderly (now CJE SeniorLife), and Midwest Hospice and Palliative Care to create a comprehensive program for seniors in the LGBTQ and disadvantaged communities.

This event was held to call on the federal government to lift the ban on gay men donating blood, while simultaneously promoting HIV screenings.

[8] The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lifted the ban in 2015, with a new guideline that allowed gay men to only donate blood if they have not had sexual relations for a year or longer.

[9] The deferral period was further reduced in April 2020 from one year to three months, with FDA citing concerns with depleted medical supplies during the Covid-19 pandemic.

[12] In the summer of 2019, Howard Brown Health opened the Broadway Youth Center that focused on helping young LGBTQ people who have experienced homelessness or housing instability.

[14] Workers described understaffing, a "toxic work culture," burnout, and retaliation from management as major reasons for the push to unionize.

But Panoptic left their part unfinished with defects, which resulted in Howard Brown suing the company's principle, Bogdan Popvych, for $1.9 million in December 2018 and winning the suit.

[18] With increasing demand of services, Howard Brown has made plans in early 2020 to continue the expansion of the organization in the North and South sides of Chicago by 2024.

In the North side, there are plans to move the Broadway Youth Center to Lakeview and their Halsted clinic to a larger facility.

[20] The press release issued by Dr. Robin Gay, interim CEO and President of Howard Brown, cites that this follows a critical need to address a $6.6 million budget gap in the 2023-2024 Fiscal Year.

This news follows a press release earlier this year in May announcing the closure of the Howard Brown Health Center Locations: Diversey and 47th/Thresholds South scheduled to close on August 31, 2024 and September 30, 2024 respectively further citing the aforementioned $6.6 million budget gap as rationale.

[23] Announced on the Workforce Updates page on March 8, 2024, an evidentiary hearing is being held in October to determine if Howard Brown Health violated the National Labor Relations Act in its enactment of layoffs in January 2023.

[27] As a result, Howard Brown had to turn over less than $1 million dollars to Northwestern University who continued as the lead agent for the studies.