Helping Hands East Bay

Employement preparation program: provides one-on-one training to adults with developmental disabilities to prepare them for employment which includes resume preparation, interview practice, online job search, visiting job fair/job sites, travel training to/from job site, on the job coaching whenhired. This program was funded by long foundation startup grant and ongoing revenue comes from contracts with ca state departmentof rehabilitation (government) and regional center of the east bay (private nonprofit).

Outreach & family support program: this program's goal is to outreach cantonese and vietnamese-speaking family members - caregivers, parents of adults with developmental disabilities who are consumers of regional center of the east bay to provide them with information, education, training and emotional support. We began in july 2017 with a grant from regional center of the east bay (private nonprofit) and later on transitioned to receive another grant from ca department of developmental services (government) in march 2018 to continue this work and expand to reaching other communities filipino and pacific islanders/samoan which are also experiencing disparities in accessing services. This program requires a yearly renewal application with ca state department of developmetnal services.