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Founded in 1988, First Place for Youth is a nonprofit organization located in Oakland, Calif. It offers counseling, youth community, and housing and academic enrichment programs. The organization additionally provides programs on self-esteem, self-reliance and skills development. First Place for Youth also offers housing, training, case management, mental health and advocacy services. In addition, the organization provides educational and employment counseling, soft skills training, job development and support services. It organizes health care and wellness workshops that includes the topics of nutrition, healthy relationships and domestic violence prevention. First Place for Youth offers financial aid assistance, as well as books and supplies for foster youths.
The Urban Services YMCA is comprised of the Eastlake YMCA, the M. Robinson Baker YMCA and the YMCA Teen Center. It conducts health and wellness, youth development and cultural arts programs at three YMCA centers and nearly seven school campuses. The organization offers yoga and aerobics classes to improve physical fitness and mental health of adolescents. The Urban Services YMCA additionally organizes workshops for youths in the areas of drugs and alcohol and anger management. It provides tutoring and homework assistance to students. The organization offers opportunities to participate in arts and crafts projects. In addition, the Urban Services YMCA offers a variety of sports programs that include baseball, basketball, football, tae kwan do, and track and field. The organization is located in Oakland, Calif., and is owned and operated by the YMCA of the East Bay.
Faith Network of the East Bay founded in 2001, is a collaboration of organizations, congregations, businesses, educators, civic leaders and concerned individuals mobilized to invest their time and other resources to improve the whole health of children and families. We seek to develop these partnerships and challenge people to act on their values to help schools, families and communities develop students who have acquired the skills and attitudes that will maximize their full potential and enhance their participation as responsible, contributing members of society. Through its Urban School Adoption program Faith Network, in response to needs expressed by school principals and teachers, provides tutors, mentors, classroom assistants, library helpers, teacher appreciation events, family support, summer camp for city kids and more.
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EBAYC envisions all young people growing up to be lifelong builders of a just and compassionate multicultural society. Our mission is to support all youth be to be safe, smart, and socially responsible. We believe that if we partner with public and private institutions to provide young people with a continuum of high-quality support and opportunities and if we engage families to actively participate in the public arena to improve the quality of neighborhood life; then our young people will be safe, smart, and socially responsible. Thus, EBAYC builds strategic partnerships with schools, city and county governments, and community organizations; and establishes trusting relationships with families to provide seamless services to support youth. Our diverse menu of services include youth violence prevention, expanded learning, and civic and community engagement.
Seneca Family of Agencies was founded in 1985 by advocates who wanted to better meet the needs of children in group homes and foster family care. Seneca established itself as an innovative leader in the provision of unconditional care through a comprehensive continuum of school, community-based and family-focused treatment services for children and families experiencing high levels of trauma who are at risk for family disruption or institutional care for the children. Seneca's continuum of care includes: in-home wraparound; foster family-based treatment; adoption and foster care; mobile crisis response; kinship care; integrated day treatment and special education services; after-school therapeutic recreation programming; public school-based mental health services; therapeutic mental health services; intensive and preventive treatment for at-risk children and families; family finding for foster children; and home-like residential treatment. More than 6,000 children in the SF Bay Area require foster care, and few if any counties have enough foster/resource parents to fill the need. Seneca strives to recruit, train and approve foster/resource parents who are skilled, patient caregivers with an unwavering commitment to serving the needs of these children. In turn, we offer foster/resource parents unconditional support as they create a home life for children that is meaningful and life-changing.
Children’s Council of San Francisco offers a variety of services to support your family including finding child care that meets your needs and securing financial assistance to pay for it. Families are also offered individual counseling in-person, by phone or via email, free referrals to licensed child care programs in San Francisco, information on various types of child care and how they differ, placement services for children with special needs and a full range of family support and child development workshops. For child care providers, we help market your services and connect with families who receive subsidies, provide nutrition and wellness support for children in your program, utilize technology, like texting, email and social media to connect with families, create a child care business that serves your community and is financially sustainable and personally rewarding, and help you plan for emergencies and to save for the future.
Strengthening our community through Youth Development, Healthy Living and Social Responsibility.
