Pacific Center for Human Growth

Mark your calendars! 🏳️‍🌈✨ Berkeley Pride: From Joy to Justice has moved to Sunday, August 30th, 2026. This choice has been made to better accommodate existing events taking place. We want to honor and respect our community partners who are hosting events in the same space (additional location details coming soon!). We are thrilled to once again have you join us at Berkeley Pride! A vibrant, community-rooted celebration of LGBTQIA+ and QTBIMPOC resilience, creativity, and collective power. Hosted by Pacific Center for Human Growth, Berkeley Pride brings together local organizations, artists, students, families, and community leaders for a day of connection, advocacy, and unapologetic queer joy. From live performances and resource booths to community-building opportunities and collective action, this year’s theme, From Joy to Justice, honors the truth that our joy is powerful and our liberation is collective. Whether you’ve been with us for years or are joining for the first time, we invite you to stand with us as we celebrate, organize, and uplift our community. Want to support Berkeley Pride? Sponsor us! Sponsor levels featured in second photo. Don't see a level that works for you? Talk to us- we would love and appreciate your support in anyway! Email: [email protected] More details coming soon! Stay tuned. 💜

Mental Health at the Intersections Conference 2026: From Joy to Justice ✨ Join us for a powerful gathering centering the mental health and well-being of people living at the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality uplifting Queer and Trans, Black, Indigenous, multicultural/racial People of Color (QTBIMPOC) communities and practitioners. Rooted in community care, trauma-informed practice, and collective liberation, this conference explores how joy, cultural wisdom, and shared healing guide us toward justice. 🎟️ Get your ticket today — link in bio.

Enhancing the mental health and overall well-being of the LGBTQIA+ and QTBIPOC communities since 1973. We provide culturally responsive therapy, peer to peer support groups, community outreach services, and facilitated workshops. Only two blocks from BART! Thanks to our fabulous volunteers Justin and Lydia for showing us the way! #lgbtqia #lgbtqiaplus #mentalhealth #berkeley #eastbay

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 queer 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: link in bio!

❤️ Catch @misscherrylane and @sadiecsparkles performance during lunch at Mental Health at the Intersections on May 21st at 12:30pm-1:30pm! ❤️ It is going to be FABULOUS! 💅💋 #LGBTQIA #DRAG #BRUNCH #DRAGBRUNCH #mentalhealth

Check out @sadiecsparkles & @misscherrylane 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: Link in bio! Join us at the After Conference Gathering Thursday, May 21, 2026 4:00 — 6:00 PM Kinfolx, 1951 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA

Meet Workshop Facilitators, Rosa Cabrera (@rositagisellec ) and Dominique Cowling (@black_seeds_project ) , 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: link in bio! Join us at the After Conference Gathering Thursday, May 21, 2026 4:00 — 6:00 PM Kinfolx, 1951 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA

💜 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

Delighted to offer this 4th collab workshop with @pacificcenterberkeley ! Come thru today at 4:30pm! Heads up; The registration link has some glitches so they said to just show up even if it says sold out on eventbrite. Its free ! Bring your personal pillow and yoga mat to feel extra comfy or use the cushions and mats they have there. #soundbath #collectiverest #freeevent #wellnesscommunity #vibrationalhealing

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 on our bio!

Meet MHTI Conference Workshop Facilitator, Elijah Chhum (he/they)! @newlightwellness 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, link in bio! Join us at the After Conference Gathering Thursday, May 21, 2026 4:00 — 6:00 PM Kinfolx, 1951 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA

Pacific Center for Human Growth is offering FREE HIV and HepC testing on site provided by HCH510 (@asianhealthservices / @hch510 ) When: Every Monday! (Except holidays and center closure dates) Time: 4-6pm Where: Pacific Center for Human Growth: 2130 Center St. Suite 200, Berkeley CA 94704