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Brighter Beginnings Family Health Clinic in Downtown Antioch provides accessible, affordable, and compassionate healthcare to all, regardless of insurance or immigration status. Our services include pediatric care (well visits, sick visits, and immunizations), comprehensive prenatal care, and family planning/reproductive health services. Provides confidential testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections for all ages and genders. Provides COVID-19 testing.

Provides services for ham radio operators in Contra Costa County including licensing exams. During a disaster or emergency crisis, Amateur Radio operators set up and operate organized communication networks locally for governmental and emergency officials, as well as non-commercial communication for private citizens affected by the disaster. Amateur Radio operators are most likely to be active after disasters that damage regular lines of communications due to power outages and destruction of telephone, cellular and other infrastructure-dependent systems.

Provides assistance to eligible aged, blind and disabled individuals who are unable to remain safely in their own homes without this assistance. IHSS is an alternative to out-of-home-care. Each case is reviewed annually and includes a yearly visit by a social worker to the client's home. The provider may be a relative or friend if desired. The provider's wages are paid twice per month after the work has been performed.

Provides an adult day program for adults with developmental disabilities. This center serves severe to profoundly disabled individuals. Students participate in a multitude of learning and activities that promote self-expression, such as: arts and crafts, music and dance.

Provides youth leadership program for young Latinas. Program includes support groups at various West County middle and high schools as well as virtual Zoom support group. Support groups offer life skills training, leadership empowerment, youth support information, and skills to make decisions about how to be healthy and successful at school, among their peers, and at home. Provides positive role models and culturally specific mentoring in an environment of trust to teach communication, conflict resolution, anger management, goal setting and life skills while providing opportunities for pro-social behavior and developing activities.

Provides a full range of medical services, including family medicine, women's health, prenatal care, pediatrics, chronic disease management, immunizations, nutrition services, health education, and HIV testing.

Provides independent living apartments, all low income, for seniors 55+.

Provides outpatient methadone and buprenorphine detoxification, outpatient methadone and buprenorphine maintenance, individual and group counseling and addiction services for adult opiate addicted population age 18+, pregnant women and HIV with opiate addiction. Also provides self-help groups such as Methadone Anonymous; must be a client of BAART for additional counseling and groups.

Offers an intensive your leadership internship program. Provides leadership training, education on local community issues, community organizing skills, coordinates new member enrollments, campus tours, and events to educate the community.

Provides educational programs that include financial literacy programs, home loan programs, foreclosure prevention, and affordable rental counseling.

Offers a variety of senior classes like ceramics, exercise, Japanese/English computer classes, and Japanese Taiko.

Provides a general acute care hospital and associated services.

Provides fair housing counseling and information to Antioch residents. Offers tenant landlord counseling including evictions, rent increase, deposits, repairs, retaliations etc., to Antioch residents.

Provides domestic violence intervention which consists of crisis and peer counseling, risk assessment, safety planning, domestic violence education, court accompaniment, legal advocacy and referrals, peer support groups and other related support resources for the clients and their family. STAND! has offices in Central, East and West counties, as well as services and shelters at confidential locations. Volunteers are used extensively.

WestCAT is a service of the Western Contra Costa Transit Authority, which provides a network of local and express bus routes throughout west Contra Costa County: serving the cities of Pinole and Hercules and the unincorporated communites of Montalvin Manor, Tara Hills, Bayview, Rodeo, Crockett, and Port Costa. The express bus routes operate to and from the El Cerrito del Norte BART station 7 days a week. In addition, WestCAT operates regional service between Martinez and the Hercules Transit Center and between the Hercules Transit Center and Contra Costa College. Also, WestCAT operates transbay bus service between the Hercules Transit Center and the San Francisco Transbay Terminal, called the Lynx.

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.

Offers a free and confidential, non-emergency nationwide bilingual helpline in Punjabi and English, answered by peer volunteers. Supports community members facing threats to health, safety and or security. Creates and disseminates community centered bilingual resources and programming to change social and cultural conditions that allow violence to occur. Offers training and technical assistance to Sikh and non-Sikh organizations at the intersections of faith, gendered violence and community-based solutions.

Provides current Contra Costa County Medi-Cal and CalFresh clients with assistance reporting Medi-Cal and CalFresh changes (such as a new address, income, newborn, etc.), answers about benefits, and assistance completing forms. Offers benefit information for dental care.

Provides administration over all Richmond city parks and recreational activities, aquatic facilities and community centers. A variety of classes are available for children, teens, and adults including art classes, dance and exercise classes, sports, summer camps and trips. Due to the current pandemic only offering Zumba and lap swimming. Accepting registrations for summer camp which starts in June.

Provides a comprehensive one-on-one case management, temporary subsidized transitional housing placement, pre-employment workshops, and wraparound supportive services.

Serves as the lead agency in California providing detection, treatment, prevention and surveillance of public health and environmental issues. Main responsibilities include media relations, risk communications, web services, social media and internal communications.

Operates automotive repair and smog check station licensing units and several programs related to automotive repair and vehicle emissions including the Consumer Assistance Program (CAP) which assists consumers needing Smog Check repairs to bring their vehicles into compliance with emissions standards. CAP allows qualified motorists to receive financial assistance for emissions-related repairs from the state. Eligible consumers can receive payment to retire their high-polluting vehicle. The Bureau of Automotive Repair takes complaints against auto repair shops and smoking vehicles; helps consumers to locate hard-to-find emissions parts, and offers a free auto body inspection program. Extensive information available online; see website for more information.

Provides an in-person afterschool program that offers help with homework. The program also offers art and craft activities, and organized group games/activities.

Provides first mortgage loans and low interest down payment Assistance Loans to low and moderate income families through their network of lenders in all 58 counties. Borrowers can be first-time and non-first time home buyers. Only one unit properties or condos are allowed.

Maintains complete list of reuse and recycling options by material types including locations in Contra Costa County. Provides list of materials accepted in local curbside collection programs including e-waste and hazardous waste. Maintains thrift shop location information and items accepted in Contra Costa County. Website has extensive information.