Celebrating Pride with Resilience

For over 50 years, Pacific Center for Human Growth has celebrated Pride with resilience.

Founded in 1973 by LGBTQIA+ therapists, advocates, and community members, Pacific Center was created in response to the lack of safe, affirming, and accessible mental health services for LGBTQIA+ people. Our community came together to build a space rooted in healing, resilience, and belonging for people of all ages, sexualities, genders, and racial/ethnic identities.

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 $90,000 by August 30, 2026 to sustain and expand affirming LGBTQIA+ mental health services and community care.

Your Pride Month gift helps sustain:
🌈 Sliding scale and low-cost therapy sessions
🌈 LGBTQIA+ and QTBIPOC 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 $90,000 goal by August 30, 2026.

Thank you for your support,

Pacific Center for Human Growth

Have questions? Email: Vanessa Serratos, Development Manager, vserratos@pacificcenter.org