When Gryffin started coming to the Bert Nash Center for services, they found the help they needed. They also found a sense of connection and community. “As a trans individual, especially someone nonbinary, I’m often the odd one out,” Gryffin said. “I don’t often get the chance to participate fully, there are parts of my experiences, my identity, which just don’t fit.” After joining a trans dialectical behavior therapy group led by Bert Nash Center therapist Amy Hammer, Gryff
Since 2006, the Bert Nash Center Homeless Outreach Team has been helping some of the most vulnerable among us. “We’re just trying to help people, and it’s a privilege when they will actually let you come into their lives,” said Kelly Martin, a member of the Bert Nash Center Homeless Outreach Team. “They are just people who trying to do their best to get by.” The Bert Nash Center Homeless Outreach Team is funded through a partnership with the city of Lawrence and works with th
