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.

Pacific Center for Human Growth will be closed Friday, April 3rd, 2026 for a staff retreat and for Monday April 6th, 202...
04/03/2026

Pacific Center for Human Growth will be closed Friday, April 3rd, 2026 for a staff retreat and for Monday April 6th, 2026 for Easter Monday.

Saturday youth programming will still be held! Visit: https://www.pacificcenter.org/youth-programs

All services to resume Tuesday April 7th, 2026!

Have a lovely and restful weekend! 🌈

Meet MHTI Workshop Facilitator, Champagne Hughes! ✨Champagne Hughes, MA, CPT (she/her) is an Associate MFT with the San ...
04/02/2026

Meet MHTI Workshop Facilitator, Champagne Hughes! ✨

Champagne Hughes, MA, CPT (she/her) is an Associate MFT with the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s African American Alternatives Program, a performer with 15+ years across theater, DJing, and production, and a Bay Area nonprofit leader. She is the creator of Performance Identity Health (PIH) — a groundbreaking clinical framework that supports the mental health of performing artists by addressing identity, creative labor, and the emotional toll of performance, especially for BIPOC communities.

As a lead trainer for SFDPH’s Innovations Program, Champagne has equipped clinicians, case managers, and peer providers with trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and expressive arts-based tools that translate directly into practice. Her work consistently moves providers from theory to action.

Her career spans leadership roles at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, The Flight Deck in Oakland, and the San Jose NAACP Youth Leadership Academy. She has also served as faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Champagne is the host of After the Applause, a podcast on performer mental health, and is developing a series for Black and BIPOC clinicians navigating the field.

🎤 Artists are culture-keepers, storytellers, and architects of joy and resistance — and they deserve care that truly understands them.

Join us at the Mental Health at the Intersections Conference: From Joy to Justice!
📅 Thursday, May 21, 2026
⏰ 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM
📍 The California Endowment Center, Oakland

✨ After Gathering: 4–6 PM at Kinfolx

🔗 Learn more & register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mental-health-at-the-intersections-mhti-conference-from-joy-to-justice-tickets-1982296665689?aff=erelexpmlt

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! Protect our trans community 🫶💕🏳️‍⚧️ At Pacific Center we provide LGBTQIA+ affirming servi...
04/01/2026

Happy Trans Day of Visibility!

Protect our trans community 🫶💕🏳️‍⚧️ At Pacific Center we provide LGBTQIA+ affirming services. We host peer support groups that are volunteer led, creating a space of safety and unity! Visit our website to see all our services we offer at the center.

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Meet MHTI Keynote Speaker, Janetta Johnson!Keynote Address: Prevention is Medicine, Vision for Healing and ReinvestmentM...
03/26/2026

Meet MHTI Keynote Speaker, Janetta Johnson!

Keynote Address: Prevention is Medicine, Vision for Healing and Reinvestment

Ms. Janetta will be discussing her 29 years of healing work embedded in her prevention, harm reduction, case management and organizing. Through storytelling, you will learn how Black Trans Resilience creates worlds where we have no more prisons.

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

Meet MHTI Conference Workshop Facilitator, Greg Tre Harris!Greg Tre Harris (They-She-He-All) is a PsyD candidate at the ...
03/19/2026

Meet MHTI Conference Workshop Facilitator, Greg Tre Harris!

Greg Tre Harris (They-She-He-All) is a PsyD candidate at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a DMin Student at the Pacific School of Religion, and the founding Pastor of Freedom Place Church. A native San Franciscan, Greg embodies the richness of being Black, Q***r, Neurodivergent, and Disabled, carrying forward the sacred love their city poured into them. Her ministry and psychological praxis are rooted in reclaiming the sacred from the margins, where the spirit still dances freely. As a Pastor and Prophet, he holds spiritual space where LGBTQIA+ folks can remember that God is not hate, and that healing is a holy act of activism. Through sermons, sessions, and spirit, Greg cultivates refuge for the ones pushed outside the gate.

Guided by African-centered psychology and transpersonal thought, Greg’s work honors ancestral memory, interdependence, and the epigenetic presence of spirit. Drawing from Bantu wisdom, Sankofa, and the communal ethos of Ubuntu, they live into frameworks that have a knowing that healing is a communal, spiritual, and ancestral act. Her clinical orientation integrates psychoanalytic and psychodynamic insight with the illumination of the soul, what ancient Kemet called Sakhu Sheti. For Greg, therapy is not just treatment; it is ritual return. It is the remembering of who we were before the forgetting caused by trauma. Grounded in community, love, and radical presence, they step into each healing container as kin, not savior. When not studying or serving community, Greg is found nurturing five beautiful children, embodying the sacred labor of tenderness.

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

Check out the upcoming Pacific Center wellness workshops in partnership with West Berkeley Family Wellness Center. All w...
03/17/2026

Check out the upcoming Pacific Center wellness workshops in partnership with West Berkeley Family Wellness Center. All workshops are held from 4:30pm-6:00pm at 1900 Sixth St, Berkeley, CA 94710.

Link in bio (under Linktree)

Meet MHTI Conference Workshop Facilitator, Sloan! Sloan (they/them desired, she/her acceptable) is a non-binary facilita...
03/12/2026

Meet MHTI Conference Workshop Facilitator, Sloan!

Sloan (they/them desired, she/her acceptable) is a non-binary facilitator, seasoned s*x educator, and Human Design enthusiast committed to reimagining how we relate to ourselves, each other, and the young people we support. By providing educational content to a wide range of audiences, this chapter of their facilitation efforts aims to bring individuals closer to their purpose through Human Design.Their work blends a passion for personality, experiential learning, and honoring your unique gifts to create powerful moments of insight and alignment. When they aren’t educating, you can find them offering hugs, giving heartfelt compliments, or dancing in grocery store aisles.

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

Meet MHTI Conference Opening Facilitator, Phoenix Song! Phoenix Song is a q***r, nonbinary Korean American adoptee perfo...
03/05/2026

Meet MHTI Conference Opening Facilitator, Phoenix Song!

Phoenix Song is a q***r, nonbinary Korean American adoptee performer, writer, teacher, and healer featured in SF Magazine's Best of the Bay. They specialize in world fusion and sacred ritual through Korean shamanic music, Indian classical, neo-soul, and wordless chanting. Phoenix loves to help people free their voices to sing, sound and speak their truths in private and group sessions. They hold embodied expressive arts sessions, grief rituals, ancestral healing classes, sound baths, and look forward to being in touch. phoenixsongmusic.com

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: see link in our bio

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

Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/MHTI2026

Check out the upcoming Pacific Center wellness workshops in partnership with West Berkeley Family Wellness Center. All w...
03/02/2026

Check out the upcoming Pacific Center wellness workshops in partnership with West Berkeley Family Wellness Center. All workshops are held from 4:30pm-6:00pm at 1900 Sixth St, Berkeley, CA 94710.

See more info here: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/69918677543

03/02/2026

Drag Performance at the Emeryville International LGBTQ+ Film Festival on 2/28/26.

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03/02/2026

Drag Performance during the Emeryville International LGBTQ+ Film Festival on 2/28/26.

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Berkeley, CA
94704

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

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