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Serves eligible students with disabilities, including justice involved and foster youth. Supports students in reaching their vocational goals. Students work with vocational rehabilitation professionals and participate in activities that promote exploration and preparation for a thriving career in the workforce. Collaborates with local county resources to provide information and referral services to youth. Vocational rehabilitation services are also available to eligible youth with disabilities not currently enrolled in an academic institution.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides volunteer opportunities to individuals interested in delivering hot meals to home-bound seniors 60+. Meals are delivered around the noon hour by volunteers, 5 days a week. Provide companionship for friendly visitors program, provide administrative event or project support.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides medically supportive foods, nutrition and cooking classes to families and pregnant/postpartum individuals part of Contra Costa Health plan. Programs include Food as Medicine (for individuals facing diabetes and pediatric obesity), Nourishing Pregnancy, and Cooking Matters.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Recruits and trains resource family applicants; conducts family evaluations;, approves resource family homes for children ages birth to 18. The resource family approval process includes approximately 20 hours of pre-approval training. Ongoing training and support to resource families and children in placement. Provides adoption services for children birth-18 and special needs children.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides a variety of recreational and educational classes to seniors. Delivers hot and cold lunches to home-bound seniors living in the surrounding community on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Volunteers make weekly friendly reassurance calls.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides information and referral for individuals with Leukemia or Lymphoma, offers educational and fund-raising events, support groups, caregiver support and other services.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides information and referral on local resources and events for people and families concerned with Muscular Dystrophy and ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) including summer camps, clinics, support groups, clinical trials, latest research, events and more. Website has extensive information.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides telephone crisis counseling, grief counseling, suicide prevention services, including response to 800-273-TALK and 800-SUICIDE. Provides information and referral to community programs. Answers all after-hours calls to Contra Costa County Child Protective Services and Contra Costa County Adult Protective Services. Clients can call or text "HOPE" to 20121 to reach a crisis counselor 24 hours daily.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Helps people cope with life-limiting illnesses by providing medical, emotional, spiritual, and practical support for patients and families, regardless of their ability to pay. Serves patients in their home, specialized nursing facilities or assisted living facilities. Provides acute care at Bruns House Hospice facility in Alamo. Hospice of the East Bay's Bereavement Department offers bereavement support for patients and groups and classes that are open to the general public.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides current information on car, bus, rail, bicycle, ride share, airport, paratransit, and ferry travel for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. Web site gives further detailed information. Provides free car pool and van pool matching services for commuters to or from any location in the Bay Area. Individuals can call or visit the website, www.ridematch.511.org, to give details about their commute and are matched with other individuals who make the same trip. Also provides information and brochures about Park & Ride lots, carpool lanes, and vanpool leasing. Provides general transportation advice and refers callers to appropriate transit services. Information about bicycling, walking and telecommunication is available.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides a variety of animal services which include licensing, microchipping, a low-cost spay/neuter and vaccination program, adoption, and provides dead animal pick-up and disposal, public information and education for schools and community groups. After hours contact is the Antioch Police.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides a variety of programs for families with young children, age 0-5. Offers a place where clients can connect with each other, learn, and get access to community resources. Once registered at a First 5 Center, families can begin to choose from over 20 classes (in person/virtual) each session full of fun activities for families, parenting classes, workshops for adults, etc. All services are free. Provides drop-in playtime, Saturday classes, monthly events, and classes focused on dads. Families can meet with a Community Resource Specialist to be connected to resources or for parenting tips. Offers Kinder Readiness classes, the ages and stages questionnaire and hosts a Help Me Grow Developmental playgroup. Registered families can also pick up diapers as needed and food from the centers food pantry.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides Christian-oriented individual, child and adolescent counseling, marriage and pre-marital counseling, family counseling, and pastoral counseling.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides information, referrals, assistance, understanding and hope to persons of all ages with disabilities as well as elderly individuals for the purpose of helping them to live as independently as possible. Services include: advocacy, benefits assistance, housing assistance, employment services, peer counseling services, assistance with independent educational planning (IEPs for school-aged youth), life skills, ADA information, public & businesses education. Referrals and resources are provided for: assistive technology, agencies serving the disabled, transportation, and youth programs. Advocacy services to increase access to services, benefits, and other social services and advising clients regarding their rights. Housing referral services assist clients by maintaining a registry of accessible, adaptable, affordable apartments and houses. Peer counseling is available to disabled individuals, their families, and friends. In depth individual skills development can be provided within the peer-counseling group or on a one-to-one basis. A small lending library of equipment is available.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides City of Richmond tenants and landlords counseling and education, assistance with rent adjustment petitions, and mediation to help resolve disputes. Additionally, the program hosts regular workshops and community outreach events, facilitates Rent Board meetings, property enrollment, rent increase filings, and enforcement of just cause eviction rules.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides comprehensive family planning services to eligible low income men and women who meet income guidelines and do not have insurance that covers family planning, or have insurance, but need to keep family planning services confidential, or have insurance but have not met the deductible or Medi-Cal Share of Cost, or have limited-scope Medi-Cal coverage that does not include family planning. Eligibility for teens is not based on parental income and by law parental consent is not required. This clinical program increases access to services by expanding the provider network to include medical providers, pharmacies and laboratories. Website has extensive information.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Offers a variety of dance classes for children, teens and adults. Classes include, classical and contemporary dance, social dance, and world dance. Classes may fill up fast or may be cancelled depending on registration.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides homeowners with loans and opportunities to refinance into more affordable monthly payments. The Home Affordable Modification Program helps homeowners stay in their homes by preventing avoidable foreclosures. Website provides tools for eligibility for refinancing and home modification, helps locate a HUD approved housing counselor, and related tools.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides a food pantry, food gift cards, vouchers for food and vouchers for clothing at St. Vincent de Paul thrift stores (Pleasant Hill and Pittsburg). Offers shower passes to homeless individuals and families in Pleasant Hill which can be used in lieu of cash at American Family Hot Tub. Additionally, provides a home visiting program to provide emotional support, referrals to community programs and budgeting/financial assistance.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

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.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provide loans to low-income homeowners to improve their homes by correcting health and safety problems and improving livability. Housing rehabilitation loans are available throughout the entire county of Contra Costa except for the cities of Concord, Antioch, Pittsburg and Walnut Creek. Some senior citizens may qualify for deferred loans and may not need to make monthly payments. Website as extensive information. Individuals who do not qualify for a loan may by eligible to receive a grant.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides pre-recorded information during a health crisis. Information on current health issues, symptoms and treatment are provided as well as information about what to do when the community warning sirens sound.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

HICAP Volunteer Counselors provide free, confidential, counseling service to directly assist eligible individuals better understand their Medicare benefits and services. Medicare benefits including Prescription Drug Plan Coverage, low income plans, Medicare Advantage Plans, Medicare Supplemental options, Medicare Savings Programs Medicare and Medi-Cal (dually eligible) benefits, and long-term care insurance. HICAP provides information on long-term care planning and issues concerning long-term care. HICAP can also assist with referring Medicare matters involving Medicare appeals or insurance that require legal support.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Arranges and pays for medical care, equipment, and rehabilitation for eligible children and youth up to age 21 who have eligible medical conditions (such as congenital heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, cancers, tumors, hemophilia, sickle cell anemia, cystic fibrosis, chronic lung disease, thyroid problems, PKU, or diabetes that is difficult to control, serious kidney problems, liver problems such as biliary atresia, cleft lip/palate, spina bifida, eye problems leading to loss of vision such as glaucoma and cataracts, and hearing loss, cerebral palsy, uncontrolled epilepsy/seizures, rheumatoid arthritis, muscular dystrophy, HIV infection, severe head, brain or spinal cord injuries, and severe burns, disabling injuries and poisonings requiring inpatient hospital treatment, complications of premature birth requiring an intensive level of care, severe hemangioma, severely crooked teeth) and whose families are unable to pay for all or part of their care. Call or check the website for list of covered medical conditions.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides HUD-subsidized independent living apartments for low income seniors 62+ and for mobility impaired age 18+.

Contra Costa Crisis Center