Join our Free Fieldtrip
to the Exploratorium!
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Join other LGBTQ+ identified parents for our first field trip of 2024. We will be going to the Exploratorium, an interactive museum filled with hands-on exhibits geared toward helping us understand the world around us! All families must meet at the entrance of the venue at 10:00 AM and register beforehand. We look forward to seeing you there!
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Camp it Up: Save the Date!
July 3rd - 7th
Registration opens in February
Join us for Camp it Up! An all inclusive camping trip in July specifically for queer families. Camp it Up offers daily guided programs and exciting activities for children and adults of ages. Please contact OFC if you are interested and may be in need of full or partial scholarships.
If your high schooler is interested in becoming a counselor in training, please email OFC for more information.
Stay Tuned: Registration opens in February.
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Third Wednesday of each Month, Virtual:
Prospective and Expectant Parent Peer Support Group | 6-7:30PM
Description: Are you ready to start a family, but aren't sure where to begin? Or is a child on the way, and you want to connect with other queer and trans-expectant families?
Whether you're trying to conceive, using surrogacy, or going through the adoption process, come to connect with others and share what is on your mind in this peer support group for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer prospective and expectant parents!
Next Date: 02/21
Location: Virtual
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Fourth Wednesday of each Month, Virtual:
Postpartum Parent Peer Support Group | 6-7:30PM
Description: Becoming a parent is a massive transformation. Be in a space with LGBTQ folks who've given birth to talk about some of the challenges of the postpartum period, and provide peer support for one another while parenting as a queer caregiver.
Next Date: 01/24
Location: Virtual
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Fridays 10am- 11:30am
San Francisco In-Person
SF - LGBTQ+ Parent-Child Playdate | Children 0-5 years
Description: We welcome parents and caregivers of children 0-5 years to our parent-child playdate. Join other LGBTQ identified parents in this weekly group to build community with other LGBTQ caregivers and families, share resources, and interact with their children to support their psycho-social developments, parent-child bonds, and protective factors that help strengthen our families. We will have facilitated circle time, snacks, free play, and community building.
This group will be facilitated by OFC Programs Coordinator Sophia.
Dates:
01/26
Location: Our Family Coalition,
1385 Mission Street Suite 330,
San Francisco, CA 94143
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Fridays 10am- 11:30am
Oakland In-Person
OAK - LGBTQ+ Parent-Child Playdate | Children 0-5 years | 10:00A-11:30A
Description: We welcome parents and caregivers of children 0-5 years to our Friday morning parent-child playdate. Be in community with other LGBTQ caregivers and families, share resources, and interact with their children to support their psycho-social developments, parent-child bonds, and protective factors that help strengthen our families. We will have facilitated circle time, snacks, free play, and community building.
This group will be facilitated by Mitali.
Dates:
01/19, 01/26
Location: Lake Merritt playground (between Rotary Nature Center and Lake Merritt Labyrinth) off of Bellevue Avenue, Oakland, CA 94610
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Meet our new postpartum facilitator, Brooke Patmor! |
In 2010 Brooke (they/them) was introduced to the birth world through the avenue of homebirth midwifery where they had the opportunity to apprentice a sage midwife in Northern California. It was then that they knew this was a life calling. In addition to being a birth and postpartum doula, Brooke is also a full spectrum doula and reproductive justice advocate providing support for all birth outcomes including abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth. |
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Join Our Upcoming Programs |
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To attend, please email sophia@ourfamily.org
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This Saturday: Programming for Teens |
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Access Free Therapy
OFC is very excited to share that we are now sponsoring individual, couples and family therapy for a limited number of clients. The spots will be first come, first served. Therapy will be provided by the Liberation Institute. To get the process started please fill out this Google Form someone will reach out to you to assist with getting an appointment scheduled.
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Our Family Coalition's Mission
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Our Family Coalition (OFC) advances equity for the full and expanding spectrum of LGBTQ+ families and children through support, education, and advocacy.
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Our work is brought to you thanks to generous support from your donations,
and to the major funding partners below:
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with additional support from: |
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Ginna Brelsford & Jillian Marcellus |
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Katherine Delmar Burke School |
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• We give our respect to the Ramaytush and Chochenyo Ohlone people, on whose traditional and unceded land we are grateful to live and work, and on which our San Francisco and East Bay events take place.
• We acknowledge the unpaid labor of the first 12 generations of Americans of African descent, who suffered the horrors of the Middle Passage, two and a half centuries of chattel slavery, and another century of de facto segregation and genocide. We are indebted to their labor, and acknowledge the multigenerational impact of this violence, still felt today.
• We strive to make our office and programs accessible to all families. Please let us know when you register what accommodations will help your family participate to the fullest. Read our Accessibility Statement here.
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