Pacific Center for Human Growth

Pacific Center for Human Growth Pacific Center for Human Growth is an LGBTQIA+ BIMPOC mental health community center. Pacific Center for Human Growth

We provide sliding scale counseling services, peer groups, elder support, HIV services, community workshops, and youth services.

🎟️ Berkeley Pride 2026 tickets are on sale now!Join us on Sunday, August 30 in Downtown Berkeley at MLK Jr Civic Center ...
06/18/2026

🎟️ Berkeley Pride 2026 tickets are on sale now!

Join us on Sunday, August 30 in Downtown Berkeley at MLK Jr Civic Center Park for a day of LGBTQIA+ community, entertainment, resources, food, art, and celebration. Early Bird pricing is available through June 30, so purchase tickets for yourself, your partner, and your chosen family!

✨ Adults (13+): $15 Early Bird
✨ Seniors (55+): $10 Early Bird
✨ Kids (12 & under): FREE
✨ VIP: $59

Get your tickets today and use code EARLYBIRD to receive the discount. Stay tuned for some exciting entertainment updates.

Buy your tickets and learn more: https://www.pacificcenter.org/berkeleypride

Why is our Pride Campaign Celebrating Resilience? ✊🏳️‍🌈 Pride has always been rooted in resilience. ✊🏳️‍🌈Resilience is w...
06/16/2026

Why is our Pride Campaign Celebrating Resilience?

✊🏳️‍🌈 Pride has always been rooted in resilience. ✊🏳️‍🌈

Resilience is what allowed LGBTQIA+ communities to come together and create spaces of safety, belonging, and support when those spaces did not exist. It is what continues to carry our community forward through challenges, uncertainty, and change.

At Pacific Center, resilience looks like showing up for one another. It looks like providing affirming mental health care, peer support groups, community programs, and healing spaces where LGBTQIA+ and QTBIMPOC individuals can find connection, hope, and support.

For more than 50 years, Pacific Center has been a place where resilience is nurtured and community care is strengthened.

This Pride Month, we're celebrating Pride with resilience and asking our community to help us reach our $50,000 fundraising goal by June 30.

Your support helps ensure that LGBTQIA+ QTBIMPOC people continue to have access to the care, resources, and community they need to thrive- today and for generations to come.

Join us in Celebrating Pride with Resilience.

❤️ Donate today: https://www.pledge.to/celebrating-pride-with-resilience

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🌈 Join Us for a Berkeley Pre-Pride Celebration! 🌈As we wrap up our Pride fundraising campaign, Pacific Center for Human ...
06/12/2026

🌈 Join Us for a Berkeley Pre-Pride Celebration! 🌈

As we wrap up our Pride fundraising campaign, Pacific Center for Human Growth is thrilled to invite you to a special Berkeley Pre-Pride celebration in partnership with Donkey & Goat Winery on Thursday, June 25th, from 6:30pm-9pm! Free and open to all ages!

Come celebrate community, resilience, and Pride with an evening of drag performances, raffles, music, great company, and plenty of opportunities to connect and mingle. Whether you're a longtime supporter or joining us for the first time, we'd love to celebrate with you.

Together, we'll raise a glass to Pride, community, and the impact we've made and continue to make throughout the year.

✨ We can't wait to celebrate with you! ✨

🫶 We are HIRING 🫶IT/Operations & Facilities Specialist The IT/Ops & Facilities Specialist is responsible for supporting ...
06/10/2026

🫶 We are HIRING 🫶

IT/Operations & Facilities Specialist

The IT/Ops & Facilities Specialist is responsible for supporting and maintaining the organization's technology infrastructure, end-user systems, and operational technology needs. Serving as the primary point of contact for IT support, this role manages hardware and software deployment, user account administration, device and asset management, onboarding and offboarding, network and system troubleshooting, and support for cloud-based platforms and cybersecurity initiatives.

More info here: https://www.pacificcenter.org/employment-opportunities?utm_campaign=4c247da3-b0d4-45c5-bd8b-532d12213f57&utm_source=so&utm_medium=lp

🤗 We are HIRING! 🤗The IT/Ops & Facilities Specialist is responsible for supporting and maintaining the organization's te...
06/09/2026

🤗 We are HIRING! 🤗

The IT/Ops & Facilities Specialist is responsible for supporting and maintaining the organization's technology infrastructure, end-user systems, and operational technology needs. Serving as the primary point of contact for IT support, this role manages hardware and software deployment, user account administration, device and asset management, onboarding and offboarding, network and system troubleshooting, and support for cloud-based platforms and cybersecurity initiatives.

See more here: https://www.pacificcenter.org/employment-opportunities

We are partnering with ! They are hosting a Pre-Pride event for their Cats show! There will be music, face painting, and...
06/09/2026

We are partnering with ! They are hosting a Pre-Pride event for their Cats show! There will be music, face painting, and their evening performance of Cats!

Get your tickets here: https://berkeleyplayhouse.org/event/cats/

Use code: PRIDE20 for 20% off your ticket!

HAPPY PRIDE 🌈

Be on the lookout for more pre-pride events to come!

🌈✨ BERKELEY PRIDE 2026 IS HERE! ✨🌈We're excited to officially launch Berkeley Pride 2026: From Joy to Justice!Join us on...
06/05/2026

🌈✨ BERKELEY PRIDE 2026 IS HERE! ✨🌈

We're excited to officially launch Berkeley Pride 2026: From Joy to Justice!
Join us on Sunday, August 30, 2026 at MLK Jr. Civic Center Park in Downtown Berkeley for a day of LGBTQIA+ community, celebration, activism, entertainment, resources, art, food, and Pride. 💖🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

🎟️ TICKETS ON SALE NOW

Get your tickets today and save with Early Bird pricing through June 30!
✨ Early Bird Tickets:
👶 Kids (12 & under): FREE
🧑 Adults (13+): $15
👵 Seniors (55+): $10
⭐ VIP: $69

🛍️ VENDOR APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN

Are you a community organization, artist, maker, small business, food vendor, or service provider? We'd love to have you join us! Space is limited and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

🙌 VOLUNTEER APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN

Berkeley Pride is powered by community. Help us create a welcoming, safe, accessible, and joyful celebration by joining our volunteer team. Opportunities include admissions, guest services, stage support, accessibility, vendor support, set-up, breakdown, and more.

💜 This year's theme, From Joy to Justice, honors the truth that Pride is both celebration and action. We gather in joy, we organize for justice, and together we continue building a stronger future for LGBTQIA+ communities.

📅 Sunday, August 30, 2026
📍 MLK Jr. Civic Center Park, Downtown Berkeley
🕚 11:00 AM–5:30 PM
🔗 Learn more, get tickets, apply as a vendor, or sign up to volunteer:
www.PacificCenter.org/BerkeleyPride

06/03/2026

Pride is a riot. Pride is resistance. Pride is community. 🌈✊

This morning, we proudly raised the Pride flag at the Alameda County Administration Building, marking the beginning of Pride Month and reaffirming our commitment to equity, visibility, and belonging for LGBTQIA+ communities.

We also recognize the organizations doing the daily work of supporting and uplifting LGBTQIA+ residents across Alameda County and the Bay Area.

The Pacific Center for Human Growth, powered by nearly 200 volunteers and 11 staff members, serves more than 3,000 people each year through direct services and leadership of the Berkeley Pride Resource Fair.

The Oakland LGBTQ Center supports over 4,000 LGBTQIA+ youth and elders experiencing mental health and other health related needs, while leading the LGBTQIA+ Cultural District and the Oakland Pride Parade and Festival.

Alameda County continues to invest in this work. The Board of Supervisors has allocated $1.5 million in FY26 and FY27 funding for the LGBTQIA+ Community Health Access, Navigation, and Health Equity Initiative. This coalition, including Oakland LGBTQ Center, LifeLong Medical Care, Bay Area Community Health, Pacific Center for Human Growth, and Side by Side Youth, works to address barriers to care and expand access to gender affirming care, behavioral health services, crisis response and prevention, legal resources, peer support, and other critical social supports.

The $1.5 million allocation will come before the Board at our June 16 meeting, representing an important step forward in expanding access to care and support for LGBTQIA+ residents throughout Alameda County.

Pride Month is more than a celebration. It is an opportunity to engage in dialogue, foster understanding, build alliances across communities, and strengthen the fabric of our society.

Happy Pride Month. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Together, we continue the fight for equity, dignity, and belonging for all.

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🌈🌈🌈HAPPY PRIDE MONTH 🌈🌈🌈For over 50 years, Pacific Center for Human Growth has been Celebrating Pride with Resilience.To...
06/01/2026

🌈🌈🌈HAPPY PRIDE MONTH 🌈🌈🌈

For over 50 years, Pacific Center for Human Growth has been Celebrating Pride with Resilience.

Today, many in our community continue to face fear, uncertainty, isolation, discrimination, and barriers to care. During times like these, Pacific Center remains committed to being a place where LGBTQIA+ and QTBIMPOC communities can feel supported, affirmed, and safe.

Every day, Pacific Center works to bridge the gap between what clients can afford and the true cost of affirming mental health care. Through our sliding scale model, grassroots donations, grants, and community support help ensure individuals can continue accessing therapy, peer support groups, outreach programs, and life-saving services regardless of financial barriers.

This Pride Month, we are asking our community to help us raise $50,000 by June 30, 2026 to sustain and expand affirming LGBTQIA+ and QTBIMPOC mental health services and community care.

Your Pride Month gift helps sustain:
🌈 Sliding scale and low-cost therapy sessions
🌈 LGBTQIA+ and QTBIMPOC peer support groups
🌈 Community outreach and education programs
🌈 Clinical training for future affirming therapists
🌈 Safe and welcoming healing spaces
🌈 Staffing, technology, and operational support that keep services accessible
🌈 Berkeley Pride: community-rooted celebration uplifting LGBTQIA+ and QTBIMPOC arts, culture, advocacy, and joy (Save the date for August 30th, 2026)

Pride is more than a celebration- it is resilience, community care, and collective action.

This Pride Month, we invite you to stand with Pacific Center in Celebrating Pride with Resilience and help ensure affirming mental health services remain accessible for our community today and for generations to come.

Stand with Pacific Center and help us reach our $50,000 goal by June 30, 2026.

Donate here: https://www.pledge.to/celebrating-pride-with-resilience

Show us your resilience! 🤝🌈

Pathways to citizenship for LGBTQ immigrants, with Cristina CeballosAs an immigrant from Mexico, Cristina's passion for ...
05/07/2026

Pathways to citizenship for LGBTQ immigrants, with Cristina Ceballos

As an immigrant from Mexico, Cristina's passion for immigrant rights came from bearing witness to the obstacles their own family faced. Cristina joined East Bay Sanctuary Covenant (EBSC) in 2017 and works primarily with LGBTQ+ asylum seekers. They also coordinate the OLAS-LGBTQ+ Sanctuary Project. Their focus on the LBGTQ+ immigrant community stems from their own experience growing up as gender q***r in Mexico. Cristina started as a volunteer in 2013 while attending UC Berkeley, where they earned a BA in Sociology.

In this workshop participants will learn basic information about different types of visas and other forms of immigration relief for which LGBTQ undocumented people could qualify. While asylum is the most common process for LGBTQ people, there are certain circumstances in each person's life that could make them eligible for something completely different. This can sometimes mean that one individual can have more than one immigration application pending but not be aware of it. You don't need to work in the legal field to be able to screen somebody and refer them to an immigration non-profit organization for a legal consultation, which is often free of charge.

Mental Health at the Intersections Conference: From Joy to Justice!
Thursday, May 21, 2026
8:30 AM — 4:00 PM
The California Endowment Center, 2000 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA
Learn more and register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mental-health-at-the-intersections-mhti-conference-from-joy-to-justice-tickets-1982296665689

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