The Pacific Center
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Overview
2712 Telegraph Avenue Berkeley, CA 94705Gay Community Center
Working With The LGBT Community, Providing Mental Health & Wellness Services, Counseling & Peer Groups
We are a distribution SPOT for the 2010 edition of Pink Spots for Alameda & Contra Costa Counties
t: view phone510-548-8283
Description
Gay Community Center
Mission & History
The Pacific Center is an award winning, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community center based in Berkeley, CA serving the East Bay and Greater Bay Area. Through professional counseling, groups, community events, and advocacy, Pacific Center works to foster and enhance the well-being and self-respect of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals.
Founded in 1973 in response to a brutal gay bashing incident in Oakland, the Pacific Center is the oldest LGBT community center in the Bay Area and the third oldest in the United States. Over the past 35 years, Pacific Center has worked with tens of thousands of diverse LGBT people providing mental health and wellness services. Pacific Center has continually demonstrated innovation and leadership in responding to homophobia and the AIDS epidemic, and is committed to serving all parts of our diverse LGBT community.
Each year, nearly 4,000 people participate in our programs and services with 200 people calling or walking through our doors each week. Our programs include mental health counseling, HIV services and support, youth development, and peer based education and support. Pacific Center works every day to foster and enhance the well-being and self-respect of our LGBT community.
Business Hours:
The Pacific Center is open from 9am-6pm Monday through Friday and is closed Saturday and Sunday. (even though staff is here til 8pm or we maybe open earlier that 9am.)
Mental Health Clinic Hours:
The Pacific Center Mental Health Clinic is open by appt from 10am - 8pm Monday through Friday. (again even though these hours may flex with the particular needs of a client, this is the official publicly listed hours.)
Community Drop-in Hours:
The Pacific Center's Community Drop-in hours are from 4pm - 8pm Monday through Friday. (We are shortening these hours both with winter on it way and because few people "just stop by" between 8pm and 10pm. This will not affect the groups that meet here later than 8pm, but will allow our front desk staff to leave earlier on the nights when no groups are meeting.)
Hours of Operation
Monday through Friday, 4pm to 8pm
Locations
Directions from 80: Take the Ashby Ave. exit and turn right onto Ashby Ave. Turn left onto Telegraph Ave. Pacific Center is located at the corner of Telegraph and Derby (near Andronico's).
Directions from 580 or 880: Take Highway 24 to the 51st/Martin Luther King Jr. Way exit. Get in the right lane and take the 51st St. ramp. Turn right at the end of the off ramp and turn left at the second stoplight, Telegraph Ave. We are approximately 1 mile up on the corner of Telegraph and Derby.
From BART: get off at the downtown Berkeley BART station. Take the 1 or 1R. The 1 stops directly in front of the Center; the 1R stop is 4 blocks north on Telegraph at Dwight.
Areas We Serve
East Bay, CAAlameda County, CA
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