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December 10Learning How to Build ResilienceDuring the Long PandemicLet’s take a renewed dive into coping with our need to shelter in place to maintain our safety. We’ll look at strategies to cope with our circumstances and develop creative ways to engage with our lives and each other as we move into winter.Check-in Mondays7 to 8 pmWe catch up with each other on how we’re doing and have unstructured conversations focused on listening and deepening community. The Social Committee has been consistently offering fun events to offset the boredom of the pandemic. They want to celebrate your birthday if you’ll let them know […]

Dine In and Give Back on Thursday, December 3rd to support local restaurants and Food For Thought by participating in this year’s Dining IN For Life event! Participating is easy! Simply… 1. Order takeout from a participating restaurant and enjoy your meal from the comfort of your home! VIEW RESTAURANT LIST 2. Make a donation to Food For Thought and support our work of providing healing food + love to more than 2,000 people living with HIV, COVID-19 and other serious illnesses in Sonoma County. DONATE Our local restaurant community has been severely impacted by the pandemic. Because of this, […]

LGBTQI History: A Sonoma County Timeline 1947-2000.Wednesdays 1:30-3pm. Online via Zoom. Next week, 11/25, we will be watching an interview with Lesbian Caregivers during the AIDS epidemic. Please contact me to enroll in this FREE class and receive a Zoom invite: cdungan@santarosa.edu

Face to Face presents their Strategic Plan. Executive Director, Sara Brewer, along with Face to Face’s passionate and dedicated staff and Board of Directors have been working on this plan for the past few months in order to keep moving forward to achieve their mission.Central to the plan is their commitment to reduce transmission of HIV in people 25 and younger, enhance care services, scale up prevention services and be more more of a sustainable and resilient community resource.Please take the time to get to know our plan for our community. View Strategic Plan

Join us in Downtown San Rafael to mark Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20, 2020. We will have powerful speakers, live music, and will read the names of the transgender people who have been killed over the last year due to anti-trans violence.  Please share information about the event widely with your networks: we encourage all to show up in support of trans people in Marin County and beyond!  Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) was started in 1999 by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor the memory of Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was […]

Today we’re excited to announce the launch of the Spanish version of our website. This has been part of our new strategic plan that we have been working on as we move forward into a new year. It is vital that we are able to reach out and communicate with our Latinx community that we serve here in Sonoma County.The challenges that this community faces in dealing with HIV and more is a key issue for us here at Face to Face and we are thrilled to be able to find more ways that we can share the work we do here with them. While […]

LGBTQI History: A Sonoma County Timeline 1947-2000.Wednesdays 1:30-3pm. Online via Zoom. 11/18 we will be talking about the AIDS epidemic in Sonoma County with Steven DiVerde and Jude Mariah. Please contact me to enroll in this FREE class and receive a Zoom invite: cdungan@santarosa.edu

A Thanksgiving Notluck on zoomNovember 26 12:30 to 2 pm You are warmly invited to join a Thanksgiving “Notluck” with our community of LGBT Seniors on zoom. Though our world is troubled, we still have reasons to be grateful. Let’s share gratitudes while we have our meal. Other communities have been sharing meals on zoom and this is a perfect day for us to be together. What’s a Notluck? A Notluck is like a Potluck except you prepare your own meal, exactly as you want it, so there’s no luck needed. Then, you can eat safely in your own home […]