Resources: Families
Alameda County Public Health Department Data
ACPH Data/Reports Webpage http://www.acphd.org/user/data/DataRep_ListbyCat.asp?DataRepdivId=2&DataRepdivcatid=39
A Profile of Family Violence in Alameda County - Update December 2005
http://www.acphd.org/AXBYCZ/Admin/DataReports/data%20report%20(updated%2011-29-05).pdf
A Profile of Family Violence in Alameda County: A Call for Action - May 2003
http://www.acphd.org/AXBYCZ/Admin/DataReports/dvinac_may03.pdf
Domestic Violence Resource Guide (Updated 9/27/05) (phone numbers, contact info, etc.)
www.acphd.org/AXBYCZ/Admin/Publications/documents/EN_SP_DV_resource_guide_non_folding_000.pdf
Violence Prevention Blueprint
http://www.acgov.org/pdf/AC_VP_Blueprint_7_06_05_Overview.pdf
Alameda County Shelters
A Safe Place
Offers a comprehensive program that provides both shelter and professional support services for battered women and their children, including individual and peer group counseling. They also have a 24-hour crisis and shelter referral and information line.
website: www.asafeplacedvs.org
phone: 510-536-SAFE (7233)
Building Futures with Women and Children
Provides a full continuum of emergency and support services to battered women in Alameda County, including those suffering from homelessness, substance abuse, and/or mental illness. In addition to shelters, BFWC offers support groups and advocacy.
website: www.bfwc.org
phone: 866-A-WAY-OUT (292-9688)
Emergency Shelter Program
Provides shelter for women and children. Services include: food, a 24-hour crisis line, information and referrals, housing, counseling, job search and employment assistance, and child and infant care.
phone: 510-786-1246
toll free: 888-339-SAFE (7233)
Shelter Against Violent Environments (S.A.V.E.)
Serves Mid- and Southern Alameda County, as well as Silicon Valley. In addition to shelter and transitional housing, S.A.V.E. offers legal assistance and support groups.
website: www.save-dv.org
phone: 510-794-6055
Tri-Valley Haven for Women
Provides shelter and counseling for battered women and their children, a 24-hour crisis line, and operates the only rape crisis center in the Tri-Valley area. Services include a food pantry, life skills education classes for homeless families, and community education and violence prevention programs.
website: www.trivalleyhaven.org
phone: 925-449-5842
toll free: 800-884-8119
counseling services: 925-449-5845
Women’s Refuge
Provides shelter for homeless women without children in the East Bay. Services include case management, advocacy, and support groups.
phone: 510-547-4663
Legal Assistance
Alameda County Bar Association
Offers a lawyer referral service, in addition to their Volunteer Legal Services Corporation (VLSC). VLSC provides free legal assistance to low-income residents in Alameda County in the areas of family law, immigration and debt collection. Spanish-speaking intakes are available every Wednesday from 1-3.
website: www.acbanet.org
phone: 510-893-7160
Alameda County Superior Court
Their website offers several family law forms online, including: divorce, separation, child custody, child support, spousal support, visitation and paternity.
website: www.co.alameda.ca.us/courts/index.shtml
Family Court Facilitator: 510-208-4969
Family Court Clerks: 510-208-4935
Family Court Services: 510-272-6030
Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach
Provides free and sliding-scale legal services to the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in more than a dozen languages and dialects including Cantonese, Chiu-Chow, Hindi, Ilocano, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Urdu, and Vietnamese. Their practice is currently focused in the areas of family law/domestic violence, immigration and immigrant rights, senior law/elder abuse, trafficking, and civil rights.
website: www.apilegaloutreach.org
phone: 510-251-2846, 415-567-6255
Bay Area Legal Aid (BayLegal)
The largest provider of free civil legal services in the Bay Area, BayLegal has seven regional offices that work together to provide high quality legal assistance to low-income people regardless of their location, language, or disability. Staff attorneys speak Mandarin, Spanish, Cantonese and Vietnamese. BayLegal is uniquely positioned to help people across county lines. They assist people in the areas of housing, public benefits, health access, and domestic violence.
website: www.baylegal.org
phone: 510-663-4744
Catholic Charities
Provides a variety of services including housing, counseling, refugee resettlement, detention ministry, and special programs for youth, seniors, and Asian communities. Legal services are available regarding immigration.
website: www.cceb.org
phone: 510-168-3100
counseling center: 888-970-2232
International Institute of the East Bay
Through its legal and social services, the Institute helps newcomers with immigration, English language acquisition, and employment needs, and meets a critical need for information on their rights and opportunities as newcomers to the United States. Programs include immigration legal services, ESL and child care classes, community education, and resources for battered immigrant women.
website: www.iieb.org
phone: 510-451-2846
Youth Counseling
La Clínica de la Raza
Offers support groups for girls and boys, free individual counseling for teens, medical advice, OB/GYN services for girls under 21 years, and HIV testing. All services are confidential.
website: www.laclinica.org
phone: 510-535-4000 or 510-535-4230
Pediatric Care
Individual counseling for teens – fee is on a sliding scale. Services available for children and families dealing with life-threatening illness and loss.
website: www.ebac.org
phone: 510-531-7551
Scotlan Center
Girl Power support group where teen girls talk about everything. Family case management services also available.
phone: 510-832-4544
Sexual Minority Alliance of Alameda County (SMAAC) Youth Center
Support groups for queer youth (male, female, and transgender), HIV testing, poetry workshops, dance classes, social movie nights.
phone: 510-834-9578
Alameda County Child and Family Services
Report Child Abuse: 510-259-1800 or 800-843-5200
website: www.co.alameda.ca.us/assistance/children
Youth Crisis Lines
Teen Crisis Line
Covenant House is the largest privately-funded childcare agency in the United States providing shelter and service to homeless and runaway youth. In addition to food, shelter, clothing and crisis care, Covenant House provides a variety of services to homeless youth including health care, education, vocational preparation, drug abuse treatment and prevention programs, legal services, recreation, mother/child programs, transitional living programs, street outreach and aftercare. Their crisis line offers referrals for a variety of situations.
website: www.covenanthouse.org
phone: 800-999-9999
YouthLine
Telephone hotline and online databases provide information about youth programs and services in the Bay Area. Their service covers San Francisco, Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
website: www.youthline.org
phone: 888-977-3399 (4-10pm)
