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Grants clients who are experiencing a financial hardship with partial payment assistance for utility, gas, food, furniture, vehicle registration, drivers license fees and others. Grant amounts vary by emergency and need.

Provides a variety of programs for families with young children, age 0-5 years. Information on HMG playgroups and various activities available on Facebook page. Offers virtual and in-person parenting classes and workshops, and activities for families such as art, music and more. Clients can meet with a community resource specialist and socialize with other parents. Center offers Kinder Readiness classes, ages and stages developmental questionnaire and HMG playgroup.

Works with parents and guardians to ensure children and families receive court-ordered financial and medical support. Services provided include, locating a parent; establishing paternity (fatherhood); establishing, modifying and enforcing a court order for child support and health insurance coverage; and enforcing spousal support orders in conjunction with child support. Website has extensive information regarding child support, including a link to open a child support case online.

Acts as the liaison between a pregnant woman and the services needed to provide the child a healthy start and the mother a healthy pregnancy. Coordinates initial prenatal appointment and referrals to programs for pregnant women i.e. WIC. Makes referrals as needed, offers genetic counseling, prenatal testing, brief counseling on substance abuse issues and community outreach.

Provides a food pantry for Walnut Creek residents.

Provides legal and other advocacy assistance to people with disabilities including information and referral to other sources of assistance, peer and self-advocacy services, representation in administrative and judicial proceedings, investigation of abuse and neglect, legislative advocacy; and training. Legal assistance must be directly related to the individual's disability. Website contains extensive information.

Behavioral health services include psychiatry, short-term individual and family therapy, support groups, and crisis management and referral into long-term treatment for children and adults.

Behavioral health services include psychiatry, short-term individual and family therapy, support groups, and crisis management and referral into long-term treatment for children and adults.

Provides food assistance and other resources as available to anyone in need on a first come first serve basis.

Provides a a virtual service where teens and young adults can get confidential one-to-one support sessions via video, audio or chat from a peer mentor of choice. Mentors are individuals who share clients identity, background, and/or lived experiences, and has been trained to help others going through something similar. Mentors (ages 18-35) come from very diverse backgrounds (over 50% identify as LGBTQ+ and/or BIPOC) and have firsthand experience with a wide range of mental health challenges ranging from anxiety and depression to addiction, trauma, eating disorders, evolving gender/sexual identity and more. Also offers peer-led group sessions on selected topics.

Provides community-based comprehensive range of intensive support services and housing referrals in Contra Costa County for transition age young adults ages 16 - 25 that have significant mental health issues and are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness. This includes young adults who are currently undocumented immigrants. TAY's purpose is to help youth to be able to achieve their individualized, recovery-focused goals and to be able to function as self-sufficiently as possible within their homes and communities. The program supports youth with accessing a variety of housing referrals. TAY is a collaborative partnership of the Fred Finch Youth Center, Contra Costa Youth Continuum of Services, Greater Richmond Interfaith Program's and The Latina Center, as well as Contra Costa County Mental Health Services.

Provides outpatient counseling services, specializing in the treatment of children and families, as well as individual and couple counseling for problems that may include behavior disorders, school avoidance, abuse, family conflicts, marital conflict, depression and adjustment problems, parent child interaction therapy. Counseling also available at Martinez location.

Provides juvenile diversion program for Antioch, Brentwood and Oakley police departments. Offers free drug testing services. Runs substance abuse treatment program for students at Pittsburg High School.

Provides mental health/wraparound/psychiatry services to children and youth ages 5 through 18 who are West Contra Costa residents, including early intervention for children, birth to 5.

Offers free pregnancy testing and counseling to women on all reproductive health options including STI screenings for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea and limited ultrasounds. All services are free and confidential.

Facilitates "Stepping Stones," a specialized support group for parents of children ages 0–5 with developmental disabilities.

Offers one-to-one behavioral intervention mental health program. Works in collaboration with children, youth, parents, caregivers, foster parents, group home staff and school personnel to reduce and manage challenging behaviors, as well as strategies and skills to help child and youth in their current environment. Provides children and youth transition assistance to lower levels of care.

Provides shelter and counseling for battered women and their children. Counseling for survivors of sexual assault, molestation, and domestic abuse is also provided at the Community Building. Answers a 24-hour crisis phone line for domestic violence survivors, victims of sexual assault or molestation. Line is open to anyone in a threatening or abusive environment and who are not in immediate physical danger. Operates a restraining order clinic and a food pantry for needy families. Provides temporary shelter for homeless families in a safe, supportive environment including a shelter for single fathers with kids.

Supports child care programs by facilitating and increasing access to care. Services include assistance with finding and selecting child care and family resources, guidance and support applying for subsidized child care, technical assistance to child care professionals, child care needs assessment upon request, and parent education opportunities.

Provides a wide variety of health care services for women that include free pap smears, breast exams, birth control and STD/HIV testing to all women who qualify.

Provides an active social and recreational program for adolescents with special needs, age 7-22 years. To meet the daycare needs of working families, the program operates year-round and services are provided on shortened school days and non-school days. Program hours for regular school days are 2:30-6pm, shortened school days are 1-6pm and on non-school days 9-6pm.

Provides direct childcare and emergency shelter services and wraparound support. Crisis Day Services offers emergency childcare services for up to 30 days in a 6-month period—60 days per year. A child can attend for the full day or just a couple of hours. Provides crisis residential overnight program in which parents can utilize this service for up to 30 days per crisis situation. Offers respite overnight program for parents experiencing stress, or who have used BACN’s services, can visit the Nursery for short-term monthly visits. These visits range from 1-3 days. Also provides food and diaper bank available to all community members in need of food, diapers, and formula. The BACN Boutique is a fully stocked, free boutique filled with children’s furniture, toys, books, clothes, and more for families participating in a program. Eligible parents may be experiencing a crisis or feel overwhelmed by parenting young children, lost their childcare provider or cannot afford childcare services, dealing with unemployment and underemployment, overwhelming parental stress, homelessness, escaping violence, or are suffering from a mental health disorder or physical illness.

Provides administration over all city parks and recreational activities, aquatic facilities and community centers. All parks are open from sunrise to sunset. Park restrictions are listed online including special reservations.

Provide support services, specialized instruction, and educational accommodations to students with disabilities so that they can participate as fully and benefit as equitably from the college experience as their non-disabled peers. Offers vocational counseling, educational planning, sign language interpreters, real-time closed caption, note-taker services, testing accommodations, adaptive computer technology and a variety of other aids and services to eligible students. Provides testing and courses in reading, math, spelling, writing, learning strategies, and computer technology. Provides van transportation on campus.

Provides in-home, low cost broadband Internet service for families that have a child in grades K-12 who are currently enrolled in the Free or Reduced Lunch Program, or families that qualify for housing assistance, Medicaid, SNAP, SSI, and others. The program offers Internet service for $9.95 per month (plus tax), the option to buy a computer for under $150 (plus tax), free access to online, in print and classroom Internet training, no activation fees or equipment rental fees, guarantee of no price increase so long as an eligible child is enrolled in the free lunch program during their K-12 attendance and no credit check requirement. Website has extensive information about the program.