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Provides information on substance abuse and mental health issues and diseases via publications, telephone, and or web site. Provides searchable resource guide by state, and city for: mental health facilities and support services, substance abuse treatment facilities, mental health services for consumer, family, and advocacy organizations. Searchable facilities include residential treatment services, outpatient mental health clinics, hospitals, and multi-service organizations. Also provides mental health statistical information by local area.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Offers information, resources and assistance needed to learn consumer rights and responsibilities, learn how to make smart and safe consumer choices, and learn how to effectively complain when a consumer transaction goes wrong. DCA's consumer assistance hotline is staffed by friendly and knowledgeable agents who, through translation services, can speak to callers in over 140 languages. DCA's Take Charge California! consumer education Web site offers information about health, home, car, money, free and low-cost government and community services, scams, and much more. The site also offers detailed information to landlords and tenants.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides consumer information, education, and protection including maintaining files of verified information about businesses located in the counties of service, processes complaints and makes available reliability reports on companies and charitable or soliciting organizations. Website has listing of tips and alerts for consumers, videos and other resources for consumers and businesses. Provides a listing of charities and donors as well as taking complaints on charities. Provides a variety of services for businesses including dispute resolution services and accreditation information.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Develops and enforces standards for a variety of consumer products. The agency does not have jurisdiction over automobiles (including tires, trucks and motorcycles), car seats protecting children in on-road vehicles, foods, medicines, cosmetics, and medical devices (CPSC has authority for child-resistant packaging), dissatisfaction with business practices and certain other products; website lists contact information for these products. A consumer can file a complaint online about an unsafe product or call. Recent recalls and contact information are on website.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides free, non-legal advice and referrals on a wide range of issues, complaint referrals, provides consumer resources/publications (online and by mail) in multiple languages, advocates for consumers in the media and before lawmakers, and provides current comparisons of credit cards, bank accounts and long distance services. Website has extensive information.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Educates, empowers, and motivates people navigating behavioral health services to engage in their own individual wellness, recovery, and resiliency and become active in the community. Facilitates SPIRIT program which trains people with lived experience of behavioral health challenges (peers) and family members who have navigated services in support of their loved ones necessary skills to become peer support specialists in the system of care. It has both a classroom and an on-the-job internship component, and students receive nine hours of credit through Contra Costa College.

Contra Costa Crisis Center