2011/2012 Conference Sponsors

The support from these sponsors is essential in making our conference possible and leads directly to the success of the event. Please show your support in every way you can to the individuals and organizations listed below.

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Champion

NCLR
Over the past 33 years the National Center for Lesbian Rights has been at the forefront of nearly every legal gain won for transgender people and families.

NCLR salutes the Gender Spectrum Family Conference and the families who attend for their courage, perseverance, and love. You are helping to make the world a safe and welcoming place for generations to come.
www.nclrights.org

Advocate

Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D.
Developmental & Clinical Psychologist, Oakland, California.
www.dianeehrensaft.com

Our Family Coalition
Our Family Coalition promotes the equality and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer families with children.  We foster community leadership in advocacy efforts that promote social justice, and offer education and social networking support. Today Our Family Coalition provides a variety of vehicles for LGBTQ families with children to engage effectively in public education and advocacy efforts that challenge the bias and discrimination that affects them. We aim to reach a diverse grassroots base of LGBT families where they are and engage them in challenging the many societal barriers they face.
www.ourfamily.org

Transgender Law Center
The Transgender Law Center (TLC) is a civil rights organization advocating for transgender communities. Every day we connect transgender people and their families to technically sound and culturally competent legal services, increase acceptance and enforcement of laws and policies that support California's transgender communities, and work to change laws and systems that fail to incorporate the needs and experiences of transgender people.

Youth Homes
Youth Homes, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to serving the needs of abused and neglected children and adolescents in California's San Francisco Bay Area. We provide intensive residential treatment programs and community-based counseling services that promote the healing process for seriously emotionally abused and traumatized children and adolescents.

Jewish Community Federation
Founded in 1996, the LGBT Alliance of the Jewish Community Federation seeks to increase opportunities for Bay Area LGBT Jews to fully participate and celebrate in Jewish life. Through leadership development, advocacy, and community organizing, the LGBT Alliance works toward a future in which greater numbers of LGBT Jews engage with Judaism and the Jewish community.

Contra Costa LGBTQ Youth Advocacy Collaborative
Contra Costa LGBTQ Youth Advocacy Collaborative:  Helping families & communities accept & support our LGBTQ children.  Moved by the high levels of risk and by groundbreaking research on the impact of family acceptance and rejection on the health of LGBT youth conducted by the Family Acceptance Project at SF State University, the Rainbow Community Center and the Contra Costa County Division of Mental Health launched the Contra Costa LGBTQ Youth Advocacy Collaborative to increase support and decrease risk for LGBTQ youth.  Our primary goal is to improve the health of LGBTQ youth by reducing  rejecting behaviors and increasing  accepting behaviors in Contra Costa social and service networks.

Jennifer Hastings, MD, Vicki Houle, RN, and Chris Weigen, MD

Friend

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Dr. Schreier is a Child Psychiatrist at Oakland Children's Hospital who sees a number of gender variant children in his practice. For more information, please contact him at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .