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

Offers volunteer opportunities for advocacy, office administration, community education, community representative, helpline, African American and Latino outreach, and event planning.

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.

Provides free surgical eye care for those individuals with no insurance and limited incomes. All clients must have a doctors referral. Areas covered include diagnostic testing, eye surgical care and eye medications. All services are performed in San Francisco at California Pacific Medical Center. The Foundation does not provide for routine eye exams, eye glasses, contact lenses or low vision aids.

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

Offers a respite care program for homeless adults who are discharging from local hospitals and require medical stabilization services. Respite care refers to recuperative services for those homeless persons who may not meet medical criteria for hospitalization, but who are too sick or medically vulnerable to reside in an emergency shelter and cannot be returned to the streets. Clients are ONLY admitted when discharged from a hospital; walk-ins are not accepted.

Provides a variety of free and confidential small business advice for entrepreneurs, business counseling to small business owners or potential owners, and business workshops to teach the basics of starting, improving a small business and international trade. Free On-line Counseling, national website.

Provides crafts, computer lessons, blood pressure screenings, living skills, exercise activities, lunches, and guests educators.

Provides EBT cardholders with information about their individual account balances, view transaction history detail, check claim status, and locate retailers and automated teller machines (ATM's) that accept the EBT card. Clients can either call the toll free number or log in to website to check their account.

Provides well-child exams for children 1 month and older, involved in sports who need a 'regular' yearly physical, and have a history of prenatal problems, or with significant developmental disabilities.

Provides Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) counseling for children, adolescents, families and groups. EPSDT process is in place to assure that medically necessary health care is received in order to correct or ameliorate a defect, physical or mental illness, or a health condition identified through a screening. Services offered at clinic site as well as schools within the WCCUSD.

Provides local information and referral, education and support to cancer patients, their families and friends. Services include public education programs, literature, information on obtaining financial assistance, free wigs, support groups for cancer patients and their families. The Discovery Shop in Walnut Creek is a thrift shop which supports the agency.

Provides law enforcement and crime prevention services within the City of El Cerrito.

Promotes the independence, equality and self-reliance of people who are blind or visually impaired through rehabilitation training and relevant services, such as access to employment, education, government, information, recreation, and transportation. Store sells adaptive visual devices; items can also be ordered from the online store. LightHouse for the Blind has offices in Marin, Berkeley and Eureka, and a camp in Napa.

Provides adoption referral service for those who need to place or want to adopt a dog and/or a cat. Spay/Neuter Assistance Program (SNAP), provides low-cost veterinary clinic referrals, pet-friendly rentals list. Offers advice and referrals to low-cost veterinarians. Offers low-income families with supplementary pet food. CCHS does not handle lost/found animals, pick up stray animals or investigate cases of abuse & neglect.

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 testing and tracking of reported dead birds and squirrels found in California. Reporting can be done online or by phone; animal will be picked up.

Provides psychological treatments to individuals, children and adolescents, parents and caregivers, couples as well as counseling in a group setting. Offers a wide range of assessments including, attention/concentration problems, child/adolescent behavioral, emotional and school problems, cognitive and neuropsychological assessment, learning disabilities and personality assessments.

Offers counseling interventions that are both innovative and culturally relevant to the Latino population and other diverse communities. Provides a therapeutic approach that integrates individual therapy, group therapy and case management. Services offered in office and school sites.

Provides a variety of activities/services for adults 55+ including a senior ride service, Lamorinda Spirit, meals on wheels, caregiver support group, exercise classes and more. Serves as a resource center on area senior services, health insurance, counseling and long term health counseling by Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program (HICAP) as well as Senior Peer Counseling.

Provides groceries to low-income seniors 55+. Individuals receive a bag with fresh fruit and vegetables, and canned food. To apply, pick up an application at the distribution site or contact the Food Bank.

Coordinates a Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), which includes police, prosecutors, CFS, and others to respond to allegations of child abuse (primarily sexual abuse) and to connect families to resources. Conducts developmentally appropriate, recorded forensic interviews with children who are suspected or alleged victims of sexual or physical abuse, and also with child witnesses to these and other crimes. Also offers case management and support services to non-offending family members.

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 emergency treatment, general and pediatric dentistry, children's dental exams, fluoride and sealant treatment, and cleaning and polishing for low-income, uninsured individuals.

Provides a food pantry.