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“I lead in a way that invites community constituents to step forward and be heard as their whole self – and to fully take part. I have no interest in telling someone who they are, or in forcing them into a role that feels unnatural or painful. I think people are at their best when authentic, when naming their boundaries and limits as human beings, and when capitalizing on their best skills – while also actively exploring areas of limitation, or fear, where possible growth can happen.” ~PatrickLyra Wilder, LMFT
Non-Profit Resource Network: Local Leader Spotlight - Nov. 2017
"With LGBT students in Santa Barbara County schools reporting being bullied twice as much as their non-LGBT peers, this event, along with our year-long youth programming, increases safety and decreases stigma for LGBTQ+ teens on the Central Coast.”
“There were tears from many of our staffers that we were part of an educational process that allowed someone to have their life saved… For a while now we’ve been providing Narcan for folks as the opioid crisis has become quite an issue. The goal is to be supporting people who might be using opioid drugs and try to help them stay safe, alive, healthy, so they can have that turning point and maybe improve their lives for the better.”
~PatrickLyra Wilder, LMFT
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And then there are the role models, the transgender community leaders themselves. There are role models such as PPF’s PatrickLyra Wilder, striving to elucidate the multifold, nuanced nature of humanity. ‘The world is a little more in the gray, on a lot of levels,’ Wilder said. ‘People are really kind of getting more fluid and more plastic in the way they think about everything. It’s okay for people to be in between.’”
Transgender Life in Santa Barbara - Dec. 2016
“We must, in all contexts, de-escalate and destroy our deeply ingrained biases that leave Black lives lost and community members of color lost.”
~PatrickLyra Wilder, LMFT
“Richard made the decision that he wanted to go public with his experience [of an anti-LGBTQ+ hate crime], just because he knows — and we at Pacific Pride Foundation know — that a lot of different people in the LGBTQ+ community experience harassment and discrimination on State Street [in Santa Barbara].”
~PatrickLyra Wilder, LMFT