The Center enriches the lives of the LGBT community in the Coachella Valley. Women are a vital part of the fabric of the LGBT community and the Center is dedicated to enhancing outreach to women. 

The Center welcomes inquiries about planning programs that serve our community.  If you have an idea to propose that would enhance the range of our programming, we would be delighted to hear from you.  Programming decisions are made by a program committee of staff and board members.

Women’s Board Leadership
The Center is proud to have four women currently serving on its board of directors

Participants
Women users of the Center make up approximately a quarter of our member base, with over 500 current or recently lapsed women members and many hundreds more who are non-member users throughout the year.  The Center has also experienced much success in gaining women as business partners here at the Center, with approximately 30 of our business partners in the last two years being women and/or women-run.

Programs for all users and women’s specifics
Check out the program tab above to review current offering and program descriptions.  In there and throughout our site, you will find a range of clinical and social support offerings include:

Women’s Wellness-Yoga,  Book Club for Lesbians, Women’s Supper Club, Old Lesbians for Organizing Change, Women’s Golf, Women’s Discussion Group, ACOA (Women), Women’s Dances and  Women on the Go.

We offer individual counseling that teaches how to identify and combat faulty thinking, how to improve mood and reduce depression and anxiety, how to connect with social support networks and how to envision a hopeful, active future.  We also offer Gottman-method based couples counseling

The center houses support groups such as AA, ACOA and CODA, a Bereavement Support Group and a Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions Support Group.

Offerings include mammogram screenings, HIV testing, “ask the doctor” series by Dr. Natalie Shemonsky well as periodic, seasonal or special health and wellness events.

Chair yoga, fall prevention, pilates and more… we keep the women and men, particularly seniors, moving!

A variety of activities are offered by the Center including mature driving courses, legal aid services, Spanish courses, golf lessons and a wide variety of political, social and educational support groups.

From the popular monthly Women’s Supper Club, which promotes community and socializing amongst older women to the Women’s chat group or painting with water colors, the Center operates as a vital gathering place for our community

The David Bohnett Cyber Center is free to Center members with unlimited internet access, updated Office software and printing capabilities.  Courses such as “facebook 101” and “How to Sell on eBay” help women and men connect.

Produce, meat and dairy products as well as canned and dried foods are available weekly to LGBT Riverside County residents in need, who are disabled or aged 55+.

Throughout the hot summer months, people needing a place to cool off can come to the center during business hours, sit and relax and enjoy the air conditioning along with water and snacks.