Alameda

WriterCoach Connection is a program of the non-profit organization Community Alliance for Learning. The program focuses attention on the importance of writing for students, teachers and administrators and brings community support for writing into the public schools. The program trains and coordinates volunteer writing coaches who work with students individually in secondary-school English classes.

Healthy Communities (DBA Healthy Oakland) is a faith-based non-profit organization co-founded by Pastor Raymond E. Lankford, MSW and Bishop E. C. Reems-Dickerson as a result of escalating violence and health disparities in African-American communities in Oakland. After providing health screenings on a mobile health van throughout the Bay Area for two and a half years, Healthy Oakland opened a Family Resource and Save A Life Wellness Center to provide more comprehensive services and case management to at-risk individuals and families.

Street Level Health Project, in Oakland, is one of the only organizations serving as the entry point to the health care system for medically-uninsured immigrants in Alameda County. Community-based health clinics and hospital emergency rooms are important institutions that provide health care for the medically uninsured. Unfortunately, many recently arrived immigrants are hesitant to enter these safety net providers because of various barriers and challenges. Street Level is a critical missing link in the health care delivery model for medically uninsured immigrants, providing access to health care for all individuals and empowering individuals to navigate the health care system, thus minimizing these barriers.

Options Recovery Services focuses on intensive case management of hard-core addicts and alcoholics through substance abuse treatment, into employment, housing, and a meaningful life. They provide substance abuse and mental health treatment, transitional housing, health screening, drug testing and other services in Berkeley and Oakland.

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