2712 Telegraph
Berkeley, CA 94705
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Our Future is Bright!

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Pacific Center is a healthy, vibrant organization that has served the East Bay and Greater Bay Area LGBTQ community for more than 36 years – and we are currently in a planning process to make us even stronger.

With our current lease expiring on July 31st 2010, and our landlord expressing a desire to sell the building, we are investigating all our options including buying the building and what a new location might provide - improved access, more appropriate accommodations and a wider range of services.

This campaign is being led by Pacific Center’s board of directors and planning has just begun. Rarely, do opportunities like this come along that allow organizations to truly evaluate their value to the community and plan for future growth and service. While this process will involve a lot of hard work – including fundraising-  it also will provide a way for us to really pull together and truly take Pacific Center to a new, exciting level.

If Pacific Center has touched your life, now is the time to step up and help us make decisions that will have a positive impact on the East Bay LGBT community for the next 36 years! One thing we do know for sure is that there will be a financial challenge attached to whatever action we decide to take and we will need the support of ALL our stakeholders - including YOU! Please stand by your center at this crucial time in our history with your continued financial support.

Everyone is excited about this opportunity to better serve our community – our future is bright!

If you want to join the committee working on the project, please contact: Antonio Salas, president of Pacific Center’s board of directors: boardpresident@pacificcenter.org

Applications for the 2010-2011 Clinical Training Program are now available. Click here to download.

Want to Start a Peer Group?

The Pacific Center is looking for dynamic individuals to co-facilitate a men of color group, a young women's group, or a general young person's group. Currently Monday and Tuesday evenings are available.

Contact Aaron Testard at 510-548-8283, ext. 240 or via email.

About Pacific Center:

Pacific Center, located in Berkeley California, has served the LGBTQ community of the East Bay since 1973 and is the third-oldest LGBTQ Community Center in the United States.  And, as the only LGBTQ-specific mental health clinic for low-income and uninsured people in Alameda County California, Pacific Center is a critical and unique resource for the health and wellness needs of the local community.

Pacific Center offers licensed individual, couples and family mental health services, HIV counseling services, peer-support groups and a vibrant youth leadership program. The organization also provides LGBTQ sensitive training for 15-18 graduate-level therapists every year. The organization serves around 2,000 individuals every year and operates with five paid staff members, a working board of directors, over forty volunteer therapists and licensed trainers, and thirty community volunteers who provide a wide variety of outreach and administrative support.
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