SafeZone Resources

Here are a few helpful resources both on and off campus. Feel free to contact us with any questions, thoughts, concerns, or suggestions. Cañada is always working to foster a more inclusive campus environment for all students to succeed in accomplishing their academic and professional goals. We want you to succeed and feel connected along the way. 

On-Campus Resources

• Gender Sexuality Alliance Club
• Personal Counseling Center
• The Center for Student Life & Leadership Development

Guides and Lessons 

• Coming Out
  • Human Rights Campaign Coming Out Guide
• Find tips for establishing an LGBTQ ally network in your school or community
  • Establishing an Allies Program
• What are pronouns? Why are they important? How do I use them?
  • Pronouns Guide
• Every month the Sacramento LGBT Community Center will be conducting free training to the community on a variety of topics. These free 45 minute trainings are designed to provide information on relevant topics to the LGBTQ+ community and surrounding communities help build cultural humility around LGBTQ+ issues
  • Sacramento LGBT Community Center Training Series

Community Centers

• San Mateo County PRIDE Center | 1021 S. El Camino Real | San Mateo mission is to create a welcoming, safe, inclusive, and affirming community climate that fosters personal growth, health, and opportunities to thrive for individuals of all ages, sexual orientations, and gender identities through education, counseling, advocacy, and support
• San Francisco LGBT Center connects community members to opportunities, resources, and each other
• Billy DeFrank Silicon Valley LGBT Community Center provides community, leadership, advocacy, services and support to the Silicon Valley's LGBTQ People and their Allies

Community Organizations & Family Support Networks

• Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) is the first and largest organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents and families, and allies
• Outlet empowers LGBTQQ+ youth and builds safe and accepting communities through support, education, and advocacy

QTPOC Community Organizations

 Asian LGBTQ+ Resources

• API Family Prideis a supportive environment for families of Asian/Pacific bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transgender people, dedicated to ending the isolation of API families 
• Gay Asian Pacific Alliance is an organization dedicated to furthering the interests of gay & bisexual Asian/Pacific Islanders by creating awareness, by developing a positive collective identity and by establishing a supportive community
• Trikone is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people of South Asian descent, founded in 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area
• South Bay Queer and Asian (SBQA) is a support and social group that provides gay, bisexual, and lesbian Asians and Pacific Islanders in the South Bay with a safe place to “come out of the closet” and be comfortable with their sexual identity and race
• The Network on Religion and Justice for Asian and Pacific Islander, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People (NRJ) is a network of API-LGBTQ organizations and individuals, their faith communitites, family and friends working to nurture and support efforts toward a fully LGBTQ inclusive Asian Pacific Islander faith community.

Black LGBTQ+ Resources 

• Black Brothers Esteem is a program empowering gay, bisexual, and same-gender loving African American men who are at risk of HIV.
• DREAAM Project is a drop in social & health events for gay, bisexual & queer African American and Black men age 30 and under. 
• Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP) uses film to shatter stereotypes and bias, reveal the lived truth of inequality, and build community around art and activism.

LatinX LGBQT+ Resources

• Aguilas is dedicated to creating a supportive, culturally sensitive environment for gay/bisexual Latinos
• Samos Familias was created to support and acceptance for Latina(o) lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning youth and their families

Political Organizations/Policy/Government

Local

• San Mateo County LGBTQ Commission California's first county or city commission focused on the needs to the LGBTQ community
• San Francisco Pride is dedicated to education, to the commemoration of LGBT heritage and to the celebration of LGBT culture and liberation

State

• Equality California is the largest statewide LGBTQ civil rights organization
• California LGBTQ Health and Human Services Network is an LGBTQ-specific program of Health Access, to advocate collectively for state level policies and resources to advance LGBTQ health 

National 

• National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR)
• • Find resources on advancing lesbian, gay, and transgender equality through litigation, legislation, policy, and public education 
• Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) rewrites the script of LGBTQ acceptance. As a dynamic media force, GLAAD tackles tough issues to shape the narrative and provoke dialogue that leads to cultural change
• The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) is committed to advancing the equality of transgender people through advocacy, empowerment, and collaboration

Medical Services/Clinics & Mental Health

• The Trevor Project A national 24-hour, toll free confidential suicide hotline for LGBTQ youth
• Alliance Health Project (UCSF) mission is to support the mental health and wellness of the LGBTQ and HIV affected communities in constructing healthy and meaningful lives

Transfer Schools & Universities & Additional Campus Resources 

• 44 Resources for LGBTQ+ College Students has academic resources for LGBTQ+ students
• Campus Pride is to develop necessary resources, programs and services to support LGBTQ and ally students on college campuses across the United States
• Gay Straight Alliance Network empowers and trains queer, trans, and allied youth leaders to advocate, organize, and mobilize an intersectional movement for safer schools and healthier communities 
• Spectrum Caucus Interest Form - The Spectrum Caucus will be the official caucus representing California Community College students in the LGBTQIA+ community of all gender identities and sexual orientations.
• Gender Equity Resource Center at UC Berkeley
• Pride at SF State
• UC Davis LGBTQIA Resource Center

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