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Provides law enforcement and fire prevention services within the City of Richmond.

Assists individuals with disabilities obtain and retain employment and maximize their ability to live independently in their communities by providing vocational rehabilitation services to eligible individuals and ADA technical assistance. Also provides training to businesses around diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Collaborates with local county resources to provide information and referral services to assist individuals with disabilities live active, independent lives.

Administers California State Paid Family Leave Insurance Program for California workers covered by State Disability Insurance. Paid Family Leave (PFL) insurance provides up to eight weeks of benefits for individuals who must take time off to care for a seriously ill family member (child, parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, spouse, or registered domestic partner) or to bond with a new child (including newly fostered and adopted children). Applications available on-line or over the phone.

Provides bilingual services that support mental health, developmental disabilities, substance use recovery, housing, employment, and reentry programs. Additionally they assist individuals and families with counseling, job training, peer support, and community engagement.

Serves as a cooling center during summer heat wave. Clients must call to confirm space availability. Pet friendly.

Oversees capital improvements, community development, building division and engineering division. Public works department provides maintenance service to Antioch's roads, parks, marina, open spaces, flood control areas, street signs and lights, water and sewer lines as well as providing safe potable water to residents.

Provides a variety of programs for families with young children, age 0-5. Information on HMG playgroups and various activities available on center website. Offers virtual and in-person parenting classes and workshops and activities for families such as art, music and more. Clients can meet with a community resource specialist and socialize with other parents. Center offers Kinder Readiness classes, and ASQ3, and ASQSE (ages and stages questionnaires to help parents understand their child's development). Additional supportive services, resources, events and activities to support families in need.

Provides court ordered anger management and domestic violence classes. Partners with Probation Department.

Provides education, information, socialization and services for visually impaired or blind individuals. Provides home visits to assist those with reduced vision in coping with the problems of daily living, and support groups in El Cerrito and Concord. Offers an adult day program at site Tuesdays. Provides free Early Detection program at various sites; service is free for adults. Provides referrals to eye exams and glasses at low cost or no cost for individuals with no vision insurance coverage and individuals on Medicare; call number to locate service provider in area.

Partners with Village Community Resource Center and Fred Finch Mental Health Services to offer free and confidential mental health counseling to the local community. Provides 1-hour appointment-based individual and family counseling services.

Provides a holistic approach to research and advocacy, catalyzing efforts through various programs to make ME/CFS, long COVID, and other “long haul” diseases better understood, diagnosable, and treatable. Website has extensive information covering patients, family and friends, youth, legal issues, reading materials, and more.

Provides referral services for professional translators and interpreters. Database of individual translators, interpreters and language service providers can be searched online or call for assistance.

Provides a source of information and support for people with MS, their families, friends and professionals involved in their care. Conducts educational programs for professionals, has peer counselors who provide information and emotional support and maintains a lending library. Also has a network of support groups throughout the chapter territory, provides grants for respite, and participates in government advocacy. Call or check website for active support groups in Contra Costa County.

Records and loans educational tapes for readers with visual disabilities or physical or learning disabilities that make it difficult to read books. The library carries over 65,000 recordings, ranging from fourth grade through post-graduate and professional texts, also classics and other books. Clients can also provide their own books to be taped by volunteers. Complex materials, such as law and medical books or computer manuals, require specialized readers and a significant amount of time. Provides downloadable AudioPlus books for over 65,000 books.

Provides support and services for LGBT elders across the United States. Offers training, technical assistance, and educational resources to aging providers, LGBT organizations, and LGBT older adults.

Provides screening, examination and needed stabilizing treatment, without consideration of insurance coverage or ability to pay, when a patient presents to an emergency room for attention to an emergency medical condition.

Provides services across four areas (income, assets, wellness, and social connections) to low-income parents and those with a history of incarceration or probation seeking coaching, workshops, and assistance in obtaining employment, launching a career, building a budget, repairing credit, resolving legal issues, applying for public benefits, and becoming a better parent or neighbor. Additional services include, job readiness placement, on-the-job training, legal services addressing barriers to employment, financial education, debt repayment guidance, behavioral health services and referral, health education workshops, health insurance enrollment and navigation as well as social connections to support in building and maintaining a professional network.

Offers one-stop center for people affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, elder abuse, child abuse and human trafficking. Center helps people in crisis to find hope, safety and healing by being a one-stop center where many service providers are readily available.

Provides Ombudsmen who advocate for residents of long-term care facilities which include skilled nursing facilities, large assisted living facilities and small 6-8 bed residential care homes for the elderly. Receives complaints and concerns from family members of patients and residents themselves, concerned friends and citizens, acute hospital staff and paramedics and government and private agencies. Ombudsmen work with residents to improve their quality of care thru review of care plans and mediating with health care providers. Also, functions as the official reporting and investigation agency for elder and dependent adult abuse incidents occurring in long-term care facilities.

Recruits and provides foster family certification to enable families to be eligible to provide a crisis home for youth needing a safe environment for youths, ages 0 to 17, who are experiencing crisis while NCFC counselors work with the youth and family to reunite them, or develop mutually agreed upon alternatives. Also provides Long-term Foster care for children referred by Social Services in Contra Costa, Alameda, and Solano counties. To be eligible, family must possess the ability to relate effectively to and adequately supervise youth, have space to temporarily house one or more young people, possess the ability to be certified by the NCFC as a Foster Family, and pass child abuse and criminal background checks.

Provides mental health brief therapy (16 sessions) to support clients who have experienced a traumatic event or who have had a loved one who experienced a traumatic event, including, but not limited to, domestic violence, community violence, and sexual assault.

Provides mental health services for adults 60+ with a qualifying mental health concern. The service is provided at the individuals home or community location by a mobile team of clinicians. Eligibility requires client be uninsured or on Medi-Cal or on Medi-Cal and Medicare combined. Excluded from service are individuals on Medicare only or with private insurance or with a primary dementia diagnosis.

Provides a variety of programs for families with young children, age 0-5. Information on HMG playgroups and various activities available on center website. Offers virtual and in-person parenting classes and workshops and activities for families such as art, music and more. Clients can meet with a community resource specialist and socialize with other parents. Center offers Kinder Readiness classes, and ASQ3, and ASQSE (ages and stages questionnaires to help parents understand their child's development). Additional supportive services, resources, events and activities to support families in need.

Provides screening, diagnosis, prevention and treatment services for STD including syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, trichomoniasis and herpes. Legal immigration status is not a requirement in order to receive services.

Provides 15-20 pounds of fresh produce two times per month to qualifying households that are in need of food assistance. Produce is distributed from the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano Mobile Trucks.