Resources

hotlines

LGBT National Help Center     Peer support and local resources for LGBTQIA+ people

  • National Hotline 1(888) 843 - 4564

  • Youth Talk Line 1 (800) 246 - 7743

  • Senior Hotline 1 (888) 234 - 7243

  • Online chat options available, all hours listed on site

Postpartum Support International Helpline:

  • 1-800-944-4773 #1 en español or #2 in english

RAINN     National Sexual Assault Hotline

  • 1 (800) 656 - 4673, 24 hours

  • Online chat options available

National Suicide Prevention Hotline

  • 1 (800) 273 - 8255, 24 hours

San Francisco Sex Information (SFSI)     Confidential and non-judgmental sex information

  • 1 (415) 989 - 7374, 3pm to 9pm PST M-TH

The Trevor Project     Crisis support for LGBTQIA+ Youth

  • (866) 488 - 7386

  • Online chat and text options available

crisis support

The Mobile Crisis Team of San Francisco: 415-970-4000

direct service + advocacy

BAWAR    For people impacted by sexual trauma

  • (510) 845 - 7273, 24-hour Crisis Line, English and Spanish

  • (510) 430 - 1298, Office

Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective     Transformative Justice and Sexual Trauma

  • Can be reached via their website

California Coalition Against Sexual Assault     State Coalition of Rape Crisis Centers

  • (916) 446 - 2520, Office

  • Directory of Crisis Centers - http://www.calcasa.org/agencies/

Community United Against Violence     Building the power of LGBTQ Communities

  • (415) 777 - 5500, Office

El/La Para Translatinas     Fighting for the rights of Translatinas

  • (415) 864 - 7278, Office

FORGE     National Transgender Anti-Violence Organization

    Can be reached via their website

SFWAR     Women of Color-led org for people impacted by sexual trauma

  • (415) 647 - 7273, 24-hour Crisis Line

  • (415) 861 - 2024, Office

St James Infirmary     Peer-based occupational health and safety clinic for sex workers

  • (415) 554 - 8494, Office

TGIJP     Transgender, Gender-Variant and Intersex Peer Legal Advocacy for incarcerated or formerly incarcerated TGI people

  • (415) 554 - 8491, Office

W.O.M.E.N. Inc.     Supporting survivors of intimate partner violence

  • (415) 864 - 4722, 24-hour crisis line

  • (415) 864 - 4777, Office

legal services

Family Violence Law Center     Services for people impacted by sexual assault and intimate partner violence

  • 1-800-947-8301, 24-hour Crisis Line

  • (510) 208 - 0220, Office

International Institute of the Bay Area     Immigration legal services

  • (510) 451 - 2846, Oakland Office

  • (415) 538 - 8100 ext. 206, San Francisco Office

Red Light Legal     Direct legal services for sex workers // Can be reached via website or Facebook page

Transgender Law Center     National org providing legal services to trans and gender non-conforming people

  • (510) 587 - 9696, Office

  • (510) 380 - 8229, Collect line for inmates and detainees

sf bay area

Bay Area Open Minds - provider database of therapists affirming sexual and gender diversity

Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective for information and resources regarding Transformative Justice, particularly their Pod Mapping technology.

East Bay Meditation Center

Feelmore - black women-owned and operated sex toy shop

Sogorea Te’ Land Trust: urban Indigenous women-led land trust that facilitates the return / rematriation of Indigenous land to Indigenous people through yearly or monthly land taxes. 

Gaylesta - LGBTQIA+ provider database

Gender Spectrum is a fantastic local organization that helps to create gender sensitive and inclusive environments for all children and teens. 

Oakland-based LGBTQ Center recently opened near Lake Merritt. They offer resources, events and services. 

This is Stronghold: Affinity groups for white people & BIPOC regularly + other trainings

national

Buy Back Black Debt

Decriminalize Sex Work Now

East Pointe Peace Academy: Kingian nonviolence trainings

Full Spectrum Doula Circle: Provides Abortion Skills Support

National Harm Reduction Coalition: Harm Reduction Principles

National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network

Sister Song - Reproductive Justice led by WOC

Sex Workers Project

Sex Workers Outreach Project

WellCellium: Wellcelium is a learning community that spreads pleasure, on purpose

covid-19 resources

East Bay Meditation Center

Sounds True Talks and Meditations

Tara Brach weekly meditations

Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness podcast with David Treveaven

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Somatic Centering with Sumitra Rajkumar

Bruce Perry Office Hours

Ecstatic Dance Oakland

Coronavirus Anxiety Workbook

articles, videos, films

Asexuality.org

The Critical Resistance website, particularly the resource section “Addressing Harm, Accountability, and Healing.”

How to Survive the End of the World Podcast - adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown

With the barriers affecting access to treatment by members of diverse ethnic and racial groups. Loveland Therapy Fund provides financial assistance to Black women and girls nationally seeking therapy.

Let’s be real, mainstream LGBTQIA+ organizations aren’t really showing up for QTPOC

Native Land - a website to learn about North American tribes and communities

Organizational Transformation Without Equity and Allyship is Meaningless

The work of Prentis Hemphill, particularly the Finding Our Way podcast and “Letting Go of Innocence,” both available at their website.

What is White Supremacy Culture?

Yes, No, and Maybe

books

Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Davis

Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement, by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair, by Sarah Schulman

Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown

Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators, by Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan

How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong

Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger by Lama Rod Owens

My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, by Resmaa Menakem

Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stametz

The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

We Will Not Cancel Us (Emergent Strategy Series) by adrienne maree brown

pregnancy, parenting & children’s books

Oakland Birth and Wellness: Offering compassionate healthcare, trusted support and community space to support new and expectant families.

Perinatal task force: Perinatal rights and needs for community support with a reproductive justice lens

Spiritual Midwifery: Seminal text about midwifery care centering pleasure and the need to reduce stress surrounding labor and birth

Expecting Better: Data driven resources and stories to empower decision-making for expectant parents during pregnancy.

NICU Parent Network: NICU Parent Network is a network of organizations offering support to families of premature infants. 

Then Comes Baby: Resource center in Oakland for new and expectant families, offering childbirth education classes, groups and lactation support.

Postpartum Support International: PSI has many resources surrounding the emotional and mental health for parents and families. Toll-free Help Line, in English and Spanish. 800.944.4773

A Secure Base: All about attachment in intimate early relationships, written by John Bowlby.

The Invisible String: A lovely children’s story about the enduring power of love through time, space, loss, separation, and change.

My Heart: “My heart is a window. My heart is a slide. My heart can be closed...or opened up wide.” A story of love and self-acceptance with beautiful illustrations

grief and loss

The Year of Magical Thinking: Joan Didion’s personal experience with sudden loss of her husband and daughter

Thirst: Mary Oliver's poems following the death of her partner, Molly.

When Women Were Birds: Terry Tempest Williams writes of the loss of her mother and finding voice

Kara: Grief support in Palo Alto hosting groups and individual bereavement support

The Sharing Place: Support groups for children, excellent resources to support children with grief and death of loved ones.

Sutter Care Bereavement: Grief support in the East Bay with diverse support group offerings

The Invisible String: A lovely children’s story about the enduring power of love through time, space, loss, separation, and change.