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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 a residential setting for independent living skills training, including orientation and mobility skills, vocational readiness and pre-vocational skills for visually disabled individuals who have the potential for living independently. Instruction offered in cooking, cleaning, care of clothing, financial management, adaptive technology, communication, social and recreational skills and other related living skills. Length of time in program determined by individual need, but does not exceed one year. Services open to people from other states.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides an adult day program for adults with mild developmental disabilities. Students work on their reading, writing and math, and have access to the computer learning lab, art instruction, or the audio-visual room. RES SUCCESS has partnered with the Diablo Valley College to offer classes both at RES SUCCESS and on the college campus for the students. Students have access to the DVC Transit Center and are able to network with various volunteer opportunities in Central county.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

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.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides an adult day program for adults with developmental disabilities at this facility. Serves severe to profoundly disabled individuals, offering a multitude of learning and activities that promote self-expression, such as: arts and crafts, music and dance, access to computer lab and the Zen garden.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

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.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides services for deaf, hard of hearing, deaf-blind and deafened persons, parents of deaf children and people learning sign language or working with the deaf. Services include peer counseling, independent living skills, communication coping skills, interpreter information and referral, employment assistance, and programs for specific populations such as foreign born and seniors.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides program for ages 20+ which supports key skills for this 'transition' aged population. Group focuses on skill building in three main areas: Social/Friendship, Leisure/Recreation and Inter/Independent Living emphasizing positive communication and social values, personal awareness and empowerment through vital peer and group relationships, fitness and recreation and creative movement and the expressive arts.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides a twelve-week residential rehabilitation program for blind or severe vision disabled individuals to learn independent living skills. The adult students attend classes from 8:00 - 3:00, Monday through Friday and reside in a seven-day dorm during the time of their training. Curriculum addresses the acquisition of new skills such as adjustment to new vision disabilities, adaptive skills, and immersion in an atmosphere that is respectful of and knowledgeable about the abilities of blind and visually impaired people. The decision to apply to the Center occurs between a DOR consumer and their counselor.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides an adult day program for adults with developmental disabilities with higher cognitive skills. In addition to educational opportunities offered through the day program, students receive individualized training and can learn relevant job skills to promote independence in the community. Provides participants opportunities to learn job skills as community volunteers.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Teaches independent living skills such as hygiene, cooking, bill paying, etc. to developmentally disabled adults.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides comprehensive education and job training program developing each student's potential and independence. Students choose classes in the areas of Functional Academics, Community Independence, Independent Living Skills, Job Training and Social/Leisure Skills. Students may enroll in full day, morning, or afternoon only.

Contra Costa Crisis Center

Provides an adult day program for adults with mild developmental disabilities. Students work on their reading, writing and math, and have access to the computer learning lab, art instruction, or the audio-visual room.

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