Family Counseling

Our clinical staff is made of up of licensed clinicians, pre-licensed counselors and practicum trainees. Our clinical staff have a wide range of clinical experience, degrees and cultural competencies. 

We primarily offer family counseling for families with youth between the ages of 7 to 18 years old. Our counseling services are partially funded with longstanding support from Alameda County Probation Department-Delinquency Prevention Network-Youth Service Centers Grant funding (ACPD-DPN-YSC webpage link). Family counseling looks different for every family. Sometimes, counseling sessions are one-on-one with the youth or the parent, and other sessions will be with the whole family. We offer up to 12 counseling sessions at no charge to our families.

Interested? Contact us confidentially here for our Counseling services.

Reentry SERVICES

Umoja Reentry Family Unity Project - supporting families with formerly incarcerated parents. Subsequent to our summer 2020, spring 2021 and Spring 2022 virtual Umoja Community Healing circles, we secured funding to hold additional Umoja Community Healing Circles safely outside in-person in our private courtyard duirng spring 2023. To be contacted about the upcoming spring 2023 In-person Umoja Community Healing Circles, please complete the confidential Interest Form!

This programming is made possible with financial support from City of Oakland Department of Violence Prevention’s Mini-Grant Program (FY 22-23 Mini-Grant Projects List_#43 on list_webpage link). Please click here to see our Umoja Community Healing Circles webpage for more details and to complete the confidential Interest Form.

Case Management

Our Clinical Case Manager(s) meet with youth and their families to make a plan to address and prioritize identified immediate needs, as well as underlying risk factors that may be contributing to the reasons for a youth’s referral. Our case management services are partially funded with longstanding support from Alameda County Probation Department-Delinquency Prevention Network-Youth Service Centers Grant Funding (ACPD-DPN-YSC webpage link). Case Manager(s) also provide appropriate resources and services to promote a self-help model to aid youth and their families in negotiating systems and access services in the community.

Interested? Contact us confidentially here for our Case Management services.

Truancy support SERVICES

We offer family counseling and case management services to students referred by the Oakland Unified School District Student Attendance Review Board (OUSD SARB) and the Alameda County Truancy Mediation Program to help habitually truant students improve school attendance and avoid justice system involvement. Our truancy support services are partially funded by longstanding support from Alameda County Probation Department-Delinquency Prevention Network-Youth Service Centers Grant Funding (ACPD-DPN-YSC webpage link).

crisis intervention

We offer crisis intervention services for youth that are placed at a local crisis receiving home with longstanding support from Alameda County Probation Department-Delinquency Prevention Network-Youth Service Centers Grant Funding (ACPD-DPN-YSC webpage link). Our goal is to reunify the youth with their families when safe and appropriate to do so.

Diversion

We provide required psychoeducation hours to support youth with marijuana possession citations under the Proposition 64 diversion program for youth with funding from Alameda County Probation Department-Delinquency Prevention Network-Youth Service Centers Grant funding (ACPD-DPN-YSC webpage link) The program is a non-punitive response to a youth's misconduct in order to help keep youth out of the justice system. We are also a community-based service provider for the innovative pilot of the Neighborhood Opportunity & Accountability Board (NOAB) to divert Oakland youth who have been arrested with certain misdemeanor crimes away from the justice system (NOAB diversion pilot weblink). We offer case management support and counseling services to the youth that participate in both of these diversion programs.