Coming up
Live Concert with Heather Mae & Crys Matthews!
with Heather Mae and Crys Matthews
Friday, 5-6:30pm, August 7
Celebrate our families and community while listening to a 100% family-friendly live concert with Crys Matthews & Heather Mae. Matthews & Mae incorporate social justice topics in their music with topics ranging from women's equality, racial justice, LGBTQ+ liberation & love songs, and mental health. The one hour concert will be followed by a 30 min Q&A with the artists!
Offered via a secure Zoom video telehealth conference.
Beginner Deafqueer Baby Sign
with Courtney Hipskind
Sunday, 12-1pm, August 9, 16, & 29
(three-part workshop series!)
Courtney Hipskind, a Deafqueer pre-school educator, will be teaching this intersectional intro lesson into Deafqueer culture and beginner's babysign. A three week series in September will build on what was learned in August.
Offered via a secure Zoom video telehealth conference.
Take Action
Every Child Deserves a Family.
Over 120,000 at-risk foster youth nationwide await a permanent family. One in five identifies as LGBTQ, and they fare markedly worse than their non-LGBTQ peers.
Right now 10 states – home to 30,000 children awaiting adoption – sanction discrimination against foster youth and prospective adoptive parents on the basis of religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and marital status.
At any time that's wrong. During a crisis, that's unconscionable.
The Every Child Deserves a Family Act, reintroduced on June 5th, will put an end to that.
Give Back
Help Our Family grow stronger in 2020.
Over the past twenty years we've had the honor of supporting thousands of LGBTQI family members and their friends, from the Bay Area and beyond. Ours are families large and small, having come together in many different ways. We live in every zip code; we are people of all races, ethnicities, genders, abilities, and ages.
Strengthening these families is our mission and our joy. Your support helps us keep doing this work we love, better and stronger.
Family Support
For over twenty years, Our Family Coalition has provided community-building and support for LGBTQ+ families with children, prospective parents, youth, allies, community partners, and volunteers.
We offer a wide range of programming – 250-300 events annually – including informational workshops, peer- and professional-led support groups, field trip outings, seasonal celebrations, informal meet-ups, play groups, and more in both San Francisco and the East Bay.
Schools Work
Our Family Coalition’s Education Team works with families, teachers, administrators, and child-serving professionals to support their school communities and agencies in becoming more welcoming of LGBTQ+ families, children, and our allies.
We also work with California K-12 public school communities and education professionals as they adopt and teach the new LGBTQ-inclusive history and social science curriculum.
Resources
Over more than 20 years, we have generated or curated a wealth of information about LGBTQ+ family-building, support and advocacy for our families, resources for school communities, and more.
We keep a list of referrals to San Francisco Bay Area LGBTQ+ agencies and organizations offering support to the full and expanding spectrum of LGBTQ+ families and children.
In addition to infographics and "white papers," our publications include archival records of past print and electronic newsletters and community emails.
Our Funders
Ettinger Foundation
Small Change Foundation
Our Community
