Program Key
- Service Access Point
- Homelessness Prevention
- Crisis Services
- Community-Based
- Landlord Engagement
- Full Service Partnership
- Recuperative Care
- Permanent Housing
Fremont Homeless Wellness Center
The HWC provides supportive housing services, classes and support from peers, safe space to spend the day, and is a point of entry for the Coordinated Entry System in South Alameda County.
- Phone: 510-657-7425
- Location: 40963 Grimmer Blvd, Fremont, CA 94538
- Get Connected: Visit during business hours.
Hedco Wellness Center
Welcoming & accessible community hub for services including behavioral health support, employment, housing resources, peer-led groups, and more.
- Phone: 510-247-8235
- Location: 590 B Street, Hayward, CA 94541
- Get Connected: Visit during business hours.
Housing Resource Center in Hayward
Housing Resource Centers (HRC) coordinate County and local resources to connect high-needs people with housing. HRCs are a point of entry for the Coordinated Entry System in Alameda County. All visitors can access housing problem solving, assessments, and linkage to resources.
- Phone: Call 2-1-1 for more information
- Location: 590 B Street, Hayward, CA 94544
- Get Connected: Visit during business hours.
Housing Resource Center Oakland
Housing Resource Centers (HRC) coordinate County and local resources to connect high-needs people with housing. HRCs are a point of entry for the Coordinated Entry System in Alameda County. All visitors can access housing problem solving, assessments, and linkage to resources.
- Phone: Call 2-1-1 for more information
- Location: 629 Oakland Ave, Oakland, CA 94612
- Get Connected: Visit during business hours.
North County Housing Resource Center
Housing Resource Centers (HRC) coordinate County and local resources to connect high-needs people with housing. HRCs are a point of entry for the Coordinated Entry System in Alameda County. All visitors can access housing problem solving, assessments, and linkage to resources.
- Phone: Call 2-1-1 for more information
- Location: 2809 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705
- Get Connected: Visit during business hours.
South County Wellness Center
Welcoming & accessible community hub for services including behavioral health support, employment, housing resources, peer-led groups, and more.
- Phone: 510-657-7425
- Location: 40963 Grimmer Blvd, Fremont
- Get Connected: Visit during business hours.
Towne House Wellness Center
Welcoming & accessible community hub for services including behavioral health support, employment, housing resources, peer-led groups, and more.
- Phone: 510-658-9480
- Location: 629 Oakland Ave, Oakland, CA 94612
- Get Connected: Visit during business hours.
Valley Wellness Center
Welcoming & accessible community hub for services including behavioral health support, employment, housing resources, peer-led groups, and more.
- Phone: 925-484-8457
- Location: 3900 Valley Ave, Suite B, Pleasanton CA 94566
- Get Connected: Visit during business hours.
Keep People Housed – Oakland
Keep People Housed prevents residents who are at-risk of becoming homeless and/or who have been displaced from losing their housing.
- Phone: 510-899-9289 (call or text)
- Location: 629 Oakland Ave, Oakland, CA 94609
- Apply for assistance online: https://keeppeoplehoused.org/, or visit Towne House
NET Growth
NET Growth is part guaranteed income pilot, part comprehensive service network, to help former foster youth in Alameda County transition into adulthood with the financial stability, personal strength, and community backing they need.
- Phone: 510-229-2786
- Get Connected: Contact us at NETGrowth@bayareacs.org
Shallow Subsidy Program
BACS prevents homelessness for housing-insecure, low-income, severely rent burdened community members by providing shallow cash subsidies to close the gap in their housing costs.
- Email: ShallowSubsidy@bayareacs.org
- Location: Serving Oakland and Hayward
- Get Connected: Participants are referred through the Keep People Housed application process. No longer accepting new participants.
Amber House Crisis Residential Treatment
BACS’ Amber House is a short-term residential alternative to psychiatric hospitalization, or support following hospitalization, for individuals in active psychiatric distress who need support to cope and heal.
- Phone: 510-613-0330
- Get Connected: Email referrals@bayareacs.org. Walk-ins not welcome.
Amber House Crisis Stabilization Unit
BACS’ Amber House Crisis Stabilization Unit is a short-term (under 24 hours) assessment and triage unit for individuals in active psychiatric distress who need community support.
- Phone: 510-379-4179
- Location: 516 31st Street, Oakland, CA 94609
- Get Connected: We take all referrals and triage over the phone & at the door.
Woodroe Place Crisis Residential Treatment
Woodroe Place is a short-term residential alternative to psychiatric hospitalization, or support following hospitalization, for individuals in active psychiatric distress who need support to cope and heal.
- Phone: call ACCESS at 1-800-491-9099
- Location: Located in Hayward, CA
- Get Connected: Referrals at bayareacs.org/crisis-residential-treatment or call ACCESS at 1-800-491-9099
Rental Assistance Landlord Engagement (RALE)
RALE woks with landlords to create more units of affordable housing in the community and fill their units with people in need. We provide guaranteed rental assistance, incentive fund, landlord/tenant mediation, and a 24/7 hotline for housing emergencies.
- Get Connected: To rent a unit you own or learn more, email us at BACS@bayareacs.org.
Fremont Navigation Center
Fremont Navigation Center provides short-term housing to help people transition from encampments to permanent housing, with support for mental health, hygiene, physical health, and job needs.
- Location: Located in downtown Fremont, CA
- Get Connected: Residents are referred through the Coordinated Entry System (CES). Visit your nearest Housing Resource Center for a CES Assessment.
Hayward Navigation Center
Hayward Navigation Center provides short-term housing to help people transition from encampments to permanent housing, with support for mental health, hygiene, physical health, and job needs.
- Location: Located in Hayward, CA
- Get Connected: Residents are referred through the Coordinated Entry System (CES). Visit your nearest Housing Resource Center for a CES Assessment.
Henry Robinson Center
The Henry Robinson Center is a rapid-rehousing program that helps people transition from encampments and other un-sheltered living situations into permanent housing. While residents live with us, we stay focused on finding permanent housing while helping participants establish benefits, find employment, access mental and physical healthcare supports, and more.
- Phone: 510-205-1016
- Location: located in Oakland, CA
- Get Connected: Residents are referred through the Coordinated Entry System (CES). Visit your nearest Housing Resource Center for a CES Assessment.
The Holland
The Holland is a rapid-rehousing program that helps people transition from encampments and other un-sheltered living situations into permanent housing. While residents live with us, we stay focused on finding permanent housing while helping participants establish benefits, find employment, access mental and physical healthcare supports, and more.
- Phone: 510-205-1016
- Location: located in Oakland, CA
- Get Connected: Residents are referred through the Coordinated Entry System (CES). Visit your nearest Housing Resource Center for a CES Assessment.
STAIR Center
The STAIR Center is a rapid-rehousing program that helps people transition from encampments and other un-sheltered living situations into permanent housing. While residents live with us, we stay focused on finding permanent housing while helping participants establish benefits, find employment, access mental and physical healthcare supports, and more.
- Location: located in Berkeley, CA
- Get Connected: Residents are referred through the Coordinated Entry System (CES). Visit your nearest Housing Resource Center for a CES Assessment.
Enhanced Care Management/Tier
Expanded services at no cost to Medi-Cal members who have complex needs and challenges including homelessness, severe behavioral health challenges, and more. Support navigating the system of care and accessing additional resources.
- Get Connected: Requires referral from Alameda Alliance for Health.
Intensive Case Management
Level One Case Management Program that Provide intensive case management that supports people’s ability to access psychiatric care, medical care, substance use treatment, housing resources, financial resources, employment opportunities, and advocacy within the legal system.
- Phone: Call ACCESS at 1-800-491-9099
IPS Supported Employment
Using the Individualized Placement and Support 9IPS) evidence-based model, we support people with complex needs, behavioral health challenges, and/or who are experiencing homelessness to find and maintain competitive, satisfying employment.
- Get Connected: Visit a BACS Wellness Center to get started.
Oakland Project Connect
OPC provides supportive services (including individual and group counseling, housing coordinating, financial support, and community linkages to permanent housing) to unhoused adults in Oakland who are living with mental health and substance use challenges.
- Phone: call ACCESS at 1-800-491-9099
- Contact: CMHReferrals@bayareacs.org
Re-Entry Treatment Team
The Re-Entry Treatment Team provides supportive services (12-24 months of intensive mental health treatment and care coordination, benefits assistance, benefits advocacy, independent living skills & community-building) to individuals with behavioral health issues and a criminal justice history.
- Email: CMHReferrals@bayareacs.org
SAGE
SAGE helps people achieve stability through benefits advocacy and linkage to housing and other resources that improve well-being and empower individuals to achieve their goals. SAGE program works directly with legal advocates to assist people through the process of securing SSI benefits.
- Phone: 510-613-0330
- Get Connected: Referrals must come from legal advocates. Reach out to HAC or BALA for referrals.
Circa60
Full Service Partnerships support partners in every aspect of their life, breaking systemic mental health, housing, and community barriers. FSPs help people achieve lasting mental health stability through community support, rather than relying on expensive, uncoordinated inpatient and emergency services. Circa60 helps older adults (ages 60+) in Alameda County.
- Phone: Call ACCESS at 1-800-491-9099
- Get Connected: Call ACCESS at 1-800-491-9099
HEAT
Full Service Partnerships support partners in every aspect of their life, breaking systemic mental health, housing, and community barriers. FSPs help people achieve lasting mental health stability through community support, rather than relying on expensive, uncoordinated inpatient and emergency services. HEAT serves people ages 18+ who are experiencing homelessness and have severe and persistent mental illness in Alameda County.
- Phone: Call ACCESS at 1-800-491-9099
- Get Connected: Call ACCESS at 1-800-491-9099
LIFT
Full Service Partnerships support partners in every aspect of their life, breaking systemic mental health, housing, and community barriers. FSPs help people achieve lasting mental health stability through community support, rather than relying on expensive, uncoordinated inpatient and emergency services. LIFT serves justice-involved individuals who are experiencing a mental health crisis, who are not getting the support they need, and who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in Alameda County.
- Phone: Call ACCESS at 1-800-491-9099
- Get Connected: Call ACCESS at 1-800-491-9099
PAIGE
Full Service Partnerships support partners in every aspect of their life, breaking systemic mental health, housing, and community barriers. FSPs help people achieve lasting mental health stability through community support, rather than relying on expensive, uncoordinated inpatient and emergency services. PAIGE serves TAY (ages 18-24) who are experiencing a mental health crisis, who are not connected to services or not getting the support they need, and who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in Alameda County.
BACS has FSPs focusing on: unhoused community members, justice-involved community members, transition aged youth (ages 18-24), justice-involved transition aged youth, and older adults (ages 60+) in Alameda County.
- Phone: Call ACCESS at 1-800-491-9099
- Get Connected: Call ACCESS at 1-800-491-9099
RISE
Full Service Partnerships support partners in every aspect of their life, breaking systemic mental health, housing, and community barriers. FSPs help people achieve lasting mental health stability through community support, rather than relying on expensive, uncoordinated inpatient and emergency services. RISE serves justice-involved TAY (ages 18-24) who are experiencing serious mental illness and other significant challenges in Alameda County.
- Phone: Call ACCESS at 1-800-491-9099
- Get Connected: Call ACCESS at 1-800-491-9099
Medical Respite in Oakland
BACS’ Recuperative Care program offers a short-term (up to 4 weeks) safe, supportive place for community members experiencing homelessness or other complex needs to recuperate after an illness and hospital stay.
- Phone: 510-759-4289
- Location: Located in Oakland, CA
- Get Connected: Clients are referred by a case manager or social worker during a hospital stay. Walk-ins not welcome.
Project Reclamation
BACS buys single-family homes and small apartment buildings to create permanent housing for people who would otherwise be homeless due to complex needs. Each resident has a private bedroom and a Care Coordinator to support with their unique needs.
- Location: Dozens of homes located throughout Alameda County.
- Get Connected: Through local coordinated entry system. Visit your local Housing Resource Center for more information.
Administration/Headquarters
- Phone: 510-613-0330
- Location: 390 40th Street, Oakland CA 94609
- Get Connected: Visit during business hours.