What We Do

Research has shown that LGBTQ youth perform better in school and feel better about themselves overall when they feel supported and have positive role models to identify with. Center Lane offers a wide range of services and activities designed to help LGBTQ youth reach their fullest potential.

Center Lane provides emotional and social support, individual, group & family counseling, advocacy, community education/training, leadership training, fun activities, talent shows, dances, poetry slams, etc.

Our Programs and Services

Supportive Services
Center Lane provides individual, family and group counseling as well as referral services, as needed, to community resources. Weekly discussion groups in White Plains and Yonkers offer youth a safe, supportive space to talk about whatever is on their minds.

Individual and Family counseling sessions are available by appointment, free of charge.

Educational & Recreational Activities
Center Lane’s drop-in center is open Monday through Thursday after 3:30pm. The drop-in center is an adult-supervised, safe space where youth can do their homework, listen to music, play games or hang out with other LGTBQ youth.

A wide range of educational workshops is offered throughout the year. Topics have included: smoking cessation, resume writing and interviewing skills, safer-sex, spirituality, healthy relationships and gay history… just to name a few.

There are frequent fun, age-appropriate social events and trips organized by Center Lane. Our youth, staff and volunteers celebrate the holidays together at our annual Thanksgiving feast, gingerbread house decorating contest, Valentine’s dance and Gay Pride Parade. There are also trips to the zoo, the ballet, movies, museums and the annual gay prom.

Leadership Council
Center Lane’s Youth Leadership Council has become the voice of LGBTQ youth in Westchester. Council members are a team of dedicated youth leaders who help shape programming at Center Lane. They participate in our speaker’s bureau to educate students, school personnel and human service providers about LGBT youth issues and advocate for equality in the halls of Albany government. Youth leaders develop their skills through intensive trainings and twice monthly meetings.