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Provides disaster training and response classes, coordinates Pittsburg's emergency response.

Therapeutic support for expectant mothers facing mental health challenges to promote bonding and mental wellness postpartum.

Provides counselors to help HIV-positive individuals explore ways to tell their partner (sex and/or needle sharing) about their possible exposure so that partners can make informed decisions about their health. The counselor provides sensitive and private support, answers any questions and concerns, explores options with clients about disclosure. Clients determine the various options they want to use to inform their partners. Call for more information or private appointment.

Provides a variety of services including child protective services, family maintenance and preservation.

Provides a variety of volunteer opportunities including, legal translation, legal immigration, office admin work, housing intake services, front office reception, etc.

Provides mobile showers and toilet facility, hygiene, clean clothes, occasional haircuts , and light snacks. Other service providers may be onsite.

Due to COVID-19, school closures until further notice. Limited staff are available by phone and email. Administers four elementary schools, one middle school, one high school, two alternative schools and an adult education program. Programs and classes are available for special needs children, ages 0-22; call for information.

Offers consumers of Golden Gate Regional Center and the Regional Center of the East Bay personalized supports in their own homes or apartments. Specific supports are tailored to the individual's particular needs and interests with staff working with the consumer to develop a "Circle of Support," consisting of the individual, family members, friends, and associates.

Provides acupuncture, Chinese and Western herbs, homeopathy, bodywork, and guided imagery sessions - as well as classes on movement and nutrition. Offers integrative modalities to ease the pain, nausea, fatigue, anxiety, neuropathy and numerous other side effects that often accompany surgery, chemotherapy and radiation for low-income women. Works alongside client's oncologist and primary care physician. Also offer social work assistance, transportation available on a limited basis for client of the clinic to and from clinic appointments, fresh organic produce and, educational workshops.

Offers individual, group, family and parents therapy to human trafficking and sexual assault victims. Provides play therapy for children and counseling for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

Provides shelter and substance abuse recovery services for women. Services include legal and court assistance, parenting/pregnancy education/support, HIV/AIDS testing and education, job training and support, bible studies, and AA and NA meetings on site. Pregnant women can stay up to a year after the birth of their child.

Provides prenatal care, pill abortion services, birth control services, emergency contraception, HIV testing, HPV vaccines, LGBT services, men's health services, patient education, pregnancy testing, options & services, STD testing & treatment, and women's health services including breast and cervical cancer exams.

Provides 15 to 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.

Provides community with Immigration Rapid Response hotline information for various counties and advocates/provides education on what to do in the event of an immigration arrest.

Provides a one-stop family resource center serving families of children with disabilities and special needs. Care Parent Network helps families meet the challenges of parenting a child with special needs. Care Parent Network offers one-to-one support, information, virtual workshops, referrals, mentors parents, and support group meetings. Provides information about transitioning a child with intellectual and developmental disabilities from the public-school system into programs for adults. Offers two father support groups available in English and in Spanish as well as an African American support group. All services are in English and Spanish. Offers virtual support group for black/multi-racial families who are raising individuals with special needs.

Provides information, eligibility and application assistance for health coverage programs available to Contra Costa residents. Web Site has detailed information on a variety of low-cost and no-cost plans, plans open to individuals and families regardless of citizenship, plans for children and information on dental coverage.

Administers four elementary schools and one middle school in Lafayette. Programs and classes are available for special needs children, ages 0-22; call for information.

Provides information on free or discounted transit passes, Take 10 Transit Pass Offer, and Buy-One-Get-One Free transit passes (WestCAT & AC Transit only) as well as E-bike rebate program. Website has link to all transit providers currently offering discounted tickets.

Provides legal representation for indigent persons accused of crimes in Contra Costa County. Offers assistance with clearing prior criminal records through the Clean Slate Program. Provides rapid response, legal services, and community education project to support safety and justice for immigrant families through the Stand Together Contra Costa Program. Represents youth in long-term placement (group homes) and long term in-custody programs as well as youth in extended foster care proceedings through the Juvenile Justice Program. Provides legal assistance, information, and representation to individuals who have been arrested or cited for misdemeanor offenses from the time that they have had police contact through the Early Representation Program. Provides interdisciplinary case management and navigation services to individuals to ensure timely and coordinated access to a client-centered array of housing, behavioral health, transportation, and legal services at time of initial law enforcement contact. Provides community-based solutions to programs for alternatives to custody and develop re-entry plans by communicating directly with clients and members of their support systems. Works with clients to identify alternatives to incarceration such as substance abuse treatment, mental health treatment or connections with re-entry case management programs throughout Contra Costa County. Provides incarcerated, convicted, and sentenced individuals access to different kinds of post-conviction relief and resentencing, made available through recent state legislation.

Provides vocational and social rehabilitation in a supportive environment for Contra Costa County adults living with serious mental illness. Offers a hybrid model of in-person and virtual Work-Ordered Day programming and social activities. Participants share ownership and responsibility for the success of the organization by working in a unique partnership with a small staff, building on strengths rather than focusing on illness and finding purpose and meaning through work. Provides a safe, accepting place to spend the day, valuable work to perform within the organization, opportunities to socialize with friends and co-workers, and access to employment and resources within the wider community. Membership is free and lifelong. Members are eligible for supportive services including, rental assistance, food and transportation. Provides transportation and rides for medical appointments, grocery shopping, errands, banking and more. Site offers a food pantry for members who are facing food insecurities and supports members in signing up for CalFresh and connecting to local food banks.

Administers the federal government website which provides information from various government agencies on what bullying is, what cyberbullying is, who is at risk, and how you can prevent and respond to bullying. Coordinates closely with the Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention Steering Committee, an effort led by the Department of Education that works to coordinate policy, research, and communications on bullying topics. Website has a link to resources with extensive information.

Provides free, confidential, one-on-one basic instruction in reading, writing, and spelling to adults who can converse in English. Instruction is provided by trained volunteers. Adult learner/tutor pairs meet twice a week, for an hour and a half each time at libraries or other public locations throughout Contra Costa County. Trains volunteer tutors three times per year. For more information, visit https://ccclib.org/psc.

Provides free 15-minute showers. Contra Costa Health Services Healthcare for the Homeless van provides medical care. Offers volunteer opportunities to individuals interested in helping.

Provides information on how the Medi-Cal Mental Health Managed Care system works, explains an individual's rights and choices, helps solve problems with getting needed services, assists in communication between parties to help resolve disagreements, requests information on an individual's behalf, and refers individuals to others who may be of assistance.

Provides in-home, low cost broadband Internet service for families that have a child in grades K-12 who are currently enrolled in the Free or Reduced Lunch Program, or families that qualify for housing assistance, Medicaid, SNAP, SSI, and others. The program offers Internet service for $9.95 per month (plus tax), the option to buy a computer for under $150 (plus tax), free access to online, in print and classroom Internet training, no activation fees or equipment rental fees, guarantee of no price increase so long as an eligible child is enrolled in the free lunch program during their K-12 attendance and no credit check requirement. Website has extensive information about the program.