Quick Bronx News Roundup this afternoon:

— Despite a lack of physical office space, the Bronx’s newest and only organization dedicated to LGBTQ issues, the Bronx LGBTQ Community Services Center, is starting to provide programming with an outreach event on Friday. With recent string of hate crimes in the city, the group says it needs to act now, the Daily News reports.

— A 9-year-old Kingsbridge girl who was shot in the stomach on Friday night while playing in a parking lot on Bailey Avenue was released from the hospital on Sunday, the NY Post reports. Meanwhile, police arrested 17-year-old Billie James in connection with the shooting, ABC News reports.

— A Bronx woman is helping prison inmates sell their artwork, DNAinfo reports.

— Here’s a crazy Bronx statistic: There are 200,000 single-parent households in the Bronx that are headed by single moms. Only 33,000 headed by single dads. A new mentoring program run by Visiting Nurse Services of NY is working on changing that dynamic and prepare more dads to be more engaged parents, the Daily News reports.

— Think your Bronx park isn’t getting the love it deserves? Well, that might depend on how much money your City Council member is allocating for parks in their district. For instance, South Bronx Council member Annabel Palma has allocated zero money to parks in the last three years, but says she’s benefited from city initiatives that made huge upgrades to Soundview Park, allowing her to put her money elsewhere, the NY Times reports.

That’s it for today. We’ll be back on Wednesday with another Bronx News Roundup.