Please send love and healing wishes to the Appel/Bernstein family

Our Family Coalition's longtime former Executive Director Judy Appel and her wife Alison Bernstein were seriously injured in an accident in Berkeley just after midnight on Saturday, January 5th (Berkeleyside article here). While they are now stable, there is a very long road ahead to recovery.

As they fight to recover, we ask that the many, many people in the Bay Area and beyond who have been impacted by their decades of public service – on behalf of LGBTQ families and so many more – send healing thoughts and prayers their way. The outpouring of concern and love has been enormous, in direct proportion to the impact they've had on so many for so many years.  But the family asks that at this time no one visit the house or the hospital: what they most need, they say, are prayers for their healing, and sufficient privacy and space within which to do that.

Friends have set up a site to coordinate information and offers of support for them at LotsaHelpingHands; it's titled "Alison and Judy's Love Community." Requests to join (it's a private group), will be reviewed at the end of each day. We will share additional news or requests for support here in accordance with the family's wishes.