East Bay Agency For Children

Family and Community Wellness Services:A strong and stable family is critical to the long-term wellness of children. EBAC provides several types of services that strengthen families and children, building resiliency to face future adversity and, where possible, increasing the potential of preventing exposure to trauma in the first place. EBAC serves over 10,000 children, youth and family members annually through our Family and Community Wellness programming. Programs include:- Afterschool Programs - EBAC operates seven afterschool programs at elementary schools in the Oakland Unified School District. The program provides academic support along with enrichment activities, such as arts & crafts, cooking, gardening and music. Often,our program provides the only alternative for children in under-resourced neighborhoods to spend the afterschool hours in a safe, supervised and enriching environment.- Family Resource Centers EBAC operates family resource centers in Hayward, Oakland, San Leandro and Fremont. FRCs help connect families to critical resources including: concrete supports such as food and clothing; medical insurance enrollment; CalFresh Food enrollment, and referrals. Family Resource Specialists also provide case management and parent education to help families navigate services, understand their child's development and needs, and strengthen social connections.

Intensive Behavioral Health Services:EBAC's Intensive Behavioral Health Services provide safe, accessible, and supportive places for children and youth suffering from severe emotional difficulties while they restore abilities to return to mainstream school settings. These programs provide sanctuaries during times of crisis and act as alternatives to hospitalization and residential treatment centers. Intensive Behavioral Health Services programming includes: Intensive Counseling Enriched Classrooms, EPIC; and, Youth Empowerment Services.- Intensive Counseling Enriched Classrooms - Intensive Counseling Enriched classrooms are dual education and therapeutic classrooms that enable youth to learn techniques for self-regulation while in school. An EBAC behavioral health therapist works with each youth to achieve goals based on individualized plans. Approximately 70 students receive these intensive behavioral health services from EBAC annually in 5 classrooms in the Alameda Unified School District.- EPIC EPIC is a 10-Week intensive program for pre-school age children with challenges due to school readiness, including emotional regulation, peer relationships and sustaining focus. EPIC works with parents, guardians, and teachers to support pre-schoolers to manager their emotions, make friends, stay in school and be successful.- Youth Empowerment Services (YES) Case managers & counselors work with youth who are disengaged from school, need positive role models and to focus on positive activities. EBAC staff work collaboratively with young people and their families at home, in the community, and at school -provide life coaching, support academic planning and achievement, support school attendance, offer behavioral health counseling, and help build skills for developing caring relationships with adults and peers.

Trauma Transformed: Trauma Transformed works locally and nationally to change the way public health systems understand, respond to, and heal from trauma and oppression. Trauma Transformed works with organizations and government systems to provide training and leadership coaching, offer policy and practice change consultation, and lead convening's of system and community leaders.

Training Program:EBAC's Learning & Education Department offers opportunities for life-long learning to all people and organizations supporting youth and families to heal after experiencing trauma. The Learning and Education Division leads the work to develop a highly qualified, trained, and supported workforce to have the skills to be successful in meeting the needs of the children, youth and families. Our trauma-informed and culturally responsive course offerings teach foundational principles and best practices to support resiliency and recovery. We host a variety of trainings to address a wide spectrum of social justice issues necessary to address the systemic oppression experienced in our communities.