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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.

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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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! 🤝🌈

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

04/30/2026

Check out & Wiggin' Out performance at MHTI Conference on 5/21.

Sadie C. Sparkles is a radiant force of glamour and grit, serving unapologetic charisma with every step. As the embodiment of Wicked Beauty, she blends fierce attitude, high-fashion fantasy, and electric stage presence into an unforgettable experience. Bold, seductive, and always in control, Sadie turns every spotlight into her throne—proving that beauty isn’t just seen, it’s felt.

MissCherrylane is a high-energy drag performer serving glamour, comedy, and unforgettable looks. Bold, fierce, and full of personality—she makes every show a moment.

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: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mental-health-at-the-intersections-mhti-conference-from-joy-to-justice-tickets-1982296665689

Join us at the After Conference Gathering
Thursday, May 21, 2026
4:00 — 6:00 PM
Kinfolx, 1951 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA

04/24/2026

Meet Workshop Facilitators, Rosa Cabrera and Dominique Cowling, who are leading their workshop, Archetypes of Liberation at this year's Mental Health at the Intersections Conference on May 21, 2026.

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: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mental-health-at-the-intersections-mhti-conference-from-joy-to-justice-tickets-1982296665689

Join us at the After Conference Gathering
Thursday, May 21, 2026
4:00 — 6:00 PM
Kinfolx, 1951 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA

04/20/2026

💜 FREE Didactic Training!💜

Join us for a 2-hour training, Consent in Relationships including Kink and STIs, with Niki Khanna LMFT on Thursday, April 23, 2026 from 1:00-3:00 PM PST.

Learn more and register here: https://bit.ly/PC042326

04/17/2026

Meet MHTI Closing Session Facilitator Renata de Lima Moreira (she/they)!

Renata de Lima Moreira (she/they) is a dynamic wellness and social impact consultant with 25 years of experience in leadership development, group facilitation, and nonprofit management. She has co-designed and launched countless transformative justice and healing projects California since 2012; including the Breakthrough Coalition, Refuge Healing Circles and WooWoo in the Redwoods; a multiracial retreat where hundreds of healing practitioners and community members gather biannually among the redwoods to freely share animist, shamanic, somatic and indigenous wisdom and practices.

Renata currently serves as a practitioner with the Healing Clinic Collective, is a spiritual and mindfulness teacher, speaker, and organizational consultant. She has apprenticed as a folk healer, maestra, and ceremonialist over with beloved Bay Area teachers over the past 10 years including Atava Garcia, Brenda Salgado, Maya Blow, Francisca Santibanez, and her own Brazilian elders Mama Stella and Mama Lurdes of Xucuru Kariri Ancestry. Renata is certified as a clinical hypnotherapist, past life regression therapist, reiki master teacher, and is a recovering academic devoted to collective healing and liberation. Contact: linktr.ee/renatametta.

Get tickets to MHTI here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mental-health-at-the-intersections-mhti-conference-from-joy-to-justice-tickets-1982296665689

04/16/2026

Meet MHTI Conference Workshop Facilitator, Elijah Chhum (he/they)!

Elijah Chhum (he/they) is Executive Director and CoFounder of New Light Wellness. Through transformative statewide organizing, he has helped relaunch the Pardon Refugees coalition, build up Southeast Asian defense against deportation, and create pathways toward transnational healing. His passion is to uncover modalities that decolonize mental health, uplift ancestral wisdom, and center intergenerational joy. Elijah volunteers annually with the Oakland Khmer New Year celebration and the San Francisco Pchum Ben Ancestral Holiday. You can find Elijah singing with the Oakland Gay Men's Choir or spending quality time with his siblings and niblings in Minnesota. Elijah is proud to be the first generation in his family to graduate and receive a bachelor's degree in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley.

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: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mental-health-at-the-intersections-mhti-conference-from-joy-to-justice-tickets-1982296665689?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Join us at the After Conference Gathering
Thursday, May 21, 2026
4:00 — 6:00 PM
Kinfolx, 1951 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA

Address

2130 Center Street, Suite 200
Berkeley, CA
94704

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 8pm
Tuesday	10am - 8pm
Wednesday	10am - 8pm
Thursday	10am - 8pm
Friday	10am - 8pm
Saturday	10am - 2pm

Website

http://www.pacificcenter.org/

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