Our Funded Partners

4C's of Alameda County

Provide parent education and support program for Spanish-speaking families. Offer developmental screening using the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) and link families with community resources.

4C's of Alameda County

Funding to provide community based staff that assist with the Integrated Child Care Quality Support System, including the following positions: Career Advocate, Training Coordinators, and Inclusion Service Coordinator

Abode Services

Increase access to developmental and depression screenings, referrals, parenting education, and respite/enrichment activities in order to support the social-emotional and developmental well-being of children whose caregivers are homeless or formerly homeless.

ACMHS Community Consultation Asian Focus

Funding to provide support to providers who work with Asian families serving children 0 – 5 year old

Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services - Harris Training

Funding to recruit participants in the Harris ECMH Training Program; develop and deliver training curriculum; facilitate consultation group; provide supervision and monitor service delivery.

Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services - Harris Training

Funding to recruit participants; develop and deliver training curriculum; provide supervision and monitor service delivery for the Early Childhood Mental Health Training Program.

Alameda County General Services Agency

Funding to assist in Phase 1 planning of CARES plus

Alameda County General Services Agency

Funding to support the development of an Alameda County Action Plan for the California Department of Education Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge.

Alameda County Health Care Services Agency - No Wrong Door Fund

Funding to administer the "No Wrong Door" fund

Alameda County Health Care Services Agency - Special Start

Funding to provide intensive, multidisciplinary support services for medically fragile infants through age three.

Alameda County Public Health Department - Asthma Start

Provide in-home case management and education program for children with asthma. Provide assessments of asthma triggers, education on asthma management, tools that help control asthma, and referrals to other services as needed.

Alameda County Public Health Dept. - ABCD in CHDP sites

Contractor have been retained to work with the Medical Home Project who will connect with pediatric practices on implementing standardized developmental screening and referral pathways for children with specialized health and developmenal needs. In addition, Contractor will support First 5 programs that need additional trainings on referral pathways for children with special health and developmental needs.

Alameda County Public Health Dept. - Your Family Counts

Home Visiting Program for Preganant and Parenting families in Alameda County referred by the Hospital Outreach Workers.

Alameda Recreation and Park Department

Offer parent-child playgroups in English and Spanish, provide Library-in-a-Bag literacy kits to preschool classrooms, and facilitate parent-child playgroups for families of children with special needs.

Alta Bates Summit Foundation

Increase knowledge/abilities of parents whose children have been discharged from the NICU in the areas of healthy child development, parental coping skills/self-care, and access to timely interim and long-term early intervention services. 

American Education Research Corporation (AERC)

Funding to provide translation and evaluation services to early care and education professionals who have received formal education in a foreign country.

Ann Martin Center

Funding to increase linkages with kindergarden and OUSD; increase parent engagment and outreach; provide assessments and mental health services.

Applied Survey Research

Funding to complete the fourth year of a School Readiness evaluation design

Asian Community Mental Health Services

Provide developmental playgroups and parental cultural enrichment and advocacy program for low income, immigrant Cambodian, Chinese and Vietnamese parents and their children with developmental and social/emotional concerns.

Asian Health Services

Provide linguistically and culturally competent prenatal classes, labor coach support, and parenting workshops in multiple Asian languages.

Asian Health Services

Funding to provide health care interpretation services to FIRST 5 providers

BANANAS, Inc.

Provide support and education to parents in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Vietnamese through, on-going workshops, support groups and classes.

BANANAS, Inc.

Funding to provide community based staff that assist with the Integrated Child Care Quality Support System, including the following positions: Career Advocate, Training Coordinators, and Inclusion Service Coordinator

BANANAS, Inc. - Spanish translation review

Funding to provide services to translate and/or review written materials as well as provide interpretation services when needed

Bay Area Hispano Institute for Advancement, Inc. (BAHIA)/Centro VIDA

Provide a Saturday Bilingual Preschool program and facilitate Spanish Parenting Education sessions that support child growth/development and school readiness.

Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network (PLAN)

Train providers to deliver Parents Ready for School, a curriculum that develops parent leadership and advocacy skills.

Berkeley Unified School District

Funding to promote effective school transition and parent education practices by implementing the Summer Pre-K program within the Berkeley Unified School District

Black Adoption Placement and Research Center

Enhance and improve parenting skills of homeless families using the Circle of Care wellness curriculum.

Brazelton Touchpoints

Funding to equip multidisciplinary providers to successfully support parent child relationships, support all domains of child development, and engage families in a strength - based way to engage parents in networks that promote social emotional resilience.

Brighter Beginnings

Funding to provide face-to-face, family centered early intervention services to infants born to adolescents or teens and their families.

Brightstar Ohlson

Funding to provide facilitation services and technical assistance to the Alameda County Early Connections 0-5 System of Care for planning meetings and full partnership meeting facilitation

CALICO Center (Child Abuse, Listening, Interviewing and Coordination Center)

Provide caregivers of abused children support in order to connect with informal and formal social supports needed to heal from trauma and increase families’ awareness and connections to therapeutic interventions available in the community.

California State University East Bay - BA Program

Funding to provide services to coordinate and provide the support services for  scholarship students  majoring in Human Development with the Early Childhood Development option, in addition to improve the systems that serve ECE students at CSUEB

California State University East Bay - MS Program

Funding to provide services to develop and implement a Masters Degree Program for early care and education professionals at California State University East Bay

Castro Valley Unified School District

Funding to implement the Summer Pre-Kindergarten program

Causa Justa: Just Cause

Funding to provide door to door phone outreach to 150 family child care providers and surnevy needs.

Centerforce

Integrate an early childhood mental health and development perspective into case management for pregnant and parenting mothers in Santa Rita jail during incarceration and up to 18 months after release.

Chabot College/Las Positas

Funding to provide Professional Development Program to work with faculty and student support programs, collaborate with the broader ECE and family support communities, identify and promote resources for improving the professional development and service delivery systems in Alameda County

Child Care Links

Funding to provide community based staff that assist with the Integrated Child Care Quality Support System, including the following positions: Career Advocate, Training Coordinators, and Inclusion Service Coordinator

Children's Hospital & Research Center at Oakland

Increase adequate asthma management by implementing health promotion services for children with the most poorly controlled asthma.

Children's Hospital & Research Center at Oakland - Community Consult Spanish

Funding to offer support to providers who work with Latino families serving children 0-5 years old.

Children's Hospital & Research Center at Oakland - Harris Training

Funding to recruit participants; develop and deliver training curriculum; provide supervision and monitor service delivery for the Early Childhood Mental Health Training Program.

Children's Hospital & Research Center at Oakland - Parent-Infant Program

Provide intervention through play to young children from Spanish speaking families who are not in early care and education settings and are experiencing some developmental or social-emotional delays.

Children's Hospital & Research Center at Oakland - Special Start

Funding to provide intensive, multidisciplinary support services for medically fragile infants through age three.

City of Berkeley, Recreation Div.

Provide play-based preschool activities to enhance literacy and self-regulation, parent-child drop-in playgroups, and parenting workshops to educate parents about Kindergarten Readiness, community resources, and nutrition.

City of Fremont, Youth and Family Services

Provide parenting classes in English and Spanish with Fremont Unified School District (FUSD) preschool teachers through the “Preschool Parent Academy” (PPA), a partnership between FUSD and ITP.

City of Pleasanton

Funding to implement the Summer Pre-Kindergarten program

City of Union City Leisure Services

Offer neighborhood playgroups conducted in English and Spanish with language support for Chinese and Hindi speaking families; parent education classes, and literacy events designed to increase readiness for Kindergarten.

City Slickers Farms

Funding to provide services to increase participation in children’s gardening, cooking, and manual skills exposing children and their families to healthy foods within ECE settings

Clínica de La Raza, Inc.

Implement the Centering Parenting model of group pediatric care and parent education for patients at Clinica Alta Vista, a teen clinic.

Crux Design

Funding to enhance First 5 Alameda County’s web presence through revamping both the front end and administrative functionality of First5ecc.org.

Crux Design

Funding to provide web based programming and graphics design assistance for the 2010-2011 annual report.

East Bay Agency for Children

Provide dual-language (English/Spanish) programming at Hawthorne Family Resource Center that develops and increases literacy and social-emotional skills to prepare low literacy Mam (Indigenous Guatemalan) and Latino children and their families for Kindergarten.

Eden Information & Referral, Incorporated

Funding to provide training to First 5 providers on referral services and also provide 2-1-1 services to children age 0-5 and their families in Alameda County.

Emergency Shelter Program, Inc.

Provide developmental screening, mental health services, and parent education to families that have experienced or witnessed domestic violence, children that have been exposed to drugs and/or alcohol, monolingual non-English speaking families and homeless families.

Family Paths

Funding to provide mental health consultation in early care and educations setting with a focus on developing greater expertise and a more consistent approach, based on best practices, to prevention and early intervention in the early care environment

Family Resource Network - Family Navigation/Community Support

Funding to provide community support services to families with children with special needs and educate providers and professionals about the services for, and needs of, this population, and provide family navigation services through the Alameda County Children’s SART (Screening, Assessment, Referral and Treatment) System

Fremont Unified School District

Funding to continue year-round school readiness programs and transition services including summer pre-kindergarten programs

Hayward Public Library

Provide Spanish-language and bilingual English/Spanish  caregiver-child playgroups  and story times and parent education workshops

Hayward Unified School District

Funding to continue year-round school readiness programs and transition services including summer pre-kindergarten programs

International Contact

Funding to provide language assistance services to First 5 programs and selected providers.

Interpreters Unlimited

Funding to provide health care interpretation services to FIRST 5 providers

Jewish Family & Children's Services of the East Bay

Provide family support services and mental health treatment to mothers and their young children at one residential recovery program, two emergency shelters and one safe house.

Jewish Family & Children's Services of the East Bay

Funding to expand (MHC) services to ECE sites in E. Oakland and develop greater expertise and a more consistent approach, based on best practices, to prevention and early intervention in the early care and education environment. 

Jewish Family & Children's Services of the East Bay

Funding to provide Mental health consultationot child care places a mental heath consultant in an Early Care and Education (ECE) setting where the consultant provides classroom consultation to assess the impact of the ECE evironment on young children's behavior and support ECE providers to improve the classroom enviornment by working wiht staff and parents. All sites will have recieved 4-8 months of Quality Counts coaching prior to receiving ECMHC services.

Jewish Family & Children's Services of the East Bay

Funding to provide mental health consultation in early care and educations setting with a focus on developing greater expertise and a more consistent approach, based on best practices, to prevention and early intervention in the early care environment

Jewish Family & Children's Services of the East Bay

Funding to to expand (MHC) services to ECE sites in E. Oakland to reach a minimum of 100 children.  In addition, the program helps to develop greater expertise and a more consistent approach, based on best practices, to prevention and early intervention in the early care and education environment. 

Kidango

Funding to provide mental health consultation in early care and educations setting with a focus on developing greater expertise and a more consistent approach, based on best practices, to prevention and early intervention in the early care environment

Kidango - ECE Screening Training & Technical Assistance

Funding to provide training and technical assistance to identify early care & education providers on integrating developmental screening and to assist the Children’s SART initiative in institutionalizing universal developmental screening in Early Care and Education settings

Lan Do & Associates

Funding to provide interpretation services when needed.

Leading Spirit

Funding to provide consultation on change management for First 5 staff.

Lifelong Medical Care (Howard Daniel Clinic)

Funding to implement group prenatal care, periodic developmental screening, and provide family navigation services for children in need of accessing community support services.

Livermore Joint Unified School District

Funding to continue year-round school readiness programs and transition services including summer pre-kindergarten programs

Lotus Bloom

Facilitate School Readiness Playgroup for children ages 3-5 years old; program includes literacy activities, parent workshops, and two fieldtrips per year.

Loved Twice

Provide free boxes of baby clothes to newborns in need, distributed through Alameda County delivery hospitals, clinics, and shelters.

Low Income Investment Fund

Funding to administer capital grants to child care programs

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital - Medical Home Project

Funding to identify and address policy issues related to implementing standardized developmental screening at pediatric sites and refferal pathways for children with specialized health and developmental needs

Luna Kids Dance Institute

Provide parent-child dance classes at residential centers, community centers and public libraries and offer professional education and training in early childhood dance education for artists, educators, and social services providers.

Marcus A. Foster Educational Institute

Offer Kindergarten Readiness Series with a fatherhood component for caregivers. Program combines parenting education workshops with one-on-one culturally- and linguistically- appropriate parent coaching.

Merritt College

Funding to provide Professional Development Program to work with faculty and student support programs, collaborate with the broader ECE and family support communities, identify and promote resources for improving the professional development and service delivery systems in Alameda County

New Haven Unified School District

Funding to implement the Summer Pre-Kindergarten program

Newark School District

Funding to promote effective school transition and parent education practices by implementing the Summer Pre-K program within the Newark Unified School District

Oakland Parents Together

Oakland Ready To Learn

Provide parent support, a parent-child playgroup, enriched children's activities and a Kindergarten Readiness Summer Camp at Oakland Housing Authority's Lockwood Garden Housing for families living in or near Lockwood and Coliseum Gardens in East Oakland.

Oakland Unified School District

Funding to continue year-round school readiness programs and transition services including summer pre-kindergarten programs and participation in Project LAUNCH, a federally funded program for children 0-8 years of age and their families

Our Family Coalition

Provide parent education workshops, information, referrals, support groups, parent-child activities, community-building events and parent leadership trainings to LGBT families.

Pacific Interpreters

Funding to provide translation services when needed.

Raising A Reader, San Francisco and Alameda Counties

Implement early literacy program in classrooms and early care and education environments to support interactive book sharing and library usage.

Regents of the University of California/ Lawrence Hall of Science

Provides science classes for families attending playgroups at Lotus Bloom Family Resource Center and the Alameda Point Collaborative. Program includes play-based science activities that promote school readiness and literacy.

San Leandro Unified School District

Funding to implement the Summer Pre-Kindergarten program

San Lorenzo Unified School District

Funding to continue year-round school readiness programs and transition services including summer pre-kindergarten programs

Silva Pediatric Clinic

Provide uninsured toddlers with comprehensive and continuous access to dental care and improve the overall well-being of underserved children and families through outreach, primary prevention and education.

The Dental Health Foundation, Office of Dental Health, Public Health Department

Provide family oral health education, assessment, fluoride applications, hygiene instruction anticipatory guidance and case management at WIC.

The Link to Children

Funding to provide mental health consultation in early care and educations setting with a focus on developing greater expertise and a more consistent approach, based on best practices, to prevention and early intervention in the early care environment

Through the Looking Glass

Provide developmental, mental health, and family support services for infants and children and their families with disability or medical issues who are “falling through the cracks” of the intervention system. 

Tibetan Association of Northern California

Offer early childhood Tibetan Language Kindergarten Readiness class for Tibetan and Himalayan children using songs, arts, music and story telling and offer parent support groups.

Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center

Funding  to provide face-to-face, family centered early intervention services to infants born to adolescents or teens and their families

Tri-City Health Center

Provide dental health promotion and preventive services to reduce the burden of dental disease through efficient integration of: health promotion; preventive services; and access to disease management and treatment services to underserved children in Southern Alameda County.

United Way- Earn it, Keep it, Save it

Funding to provide families with children age 0-5 at 17 Earn It Keep It Save It sites in Alameda County with free tax preparation services to increase the number of eligible tax filers who receive Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit and asset development information.