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BACS Connections September 2018

September 24, 2018

Peet’s Partners with BACS

Local Bay Area company, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, is generously partnering with BACS by donating coffee and tea! Peet’s Coffee is a historical part of the Bay Area, starting in Berkeley in 1966, and have been an important part of the community ever since. We are so honored to partner with Peet’s Coffee, and are so grateful to the whole team at Peet’s. The coffee is going to our residential programs, our programs working to end homelessness, our Wellness Centers, and many others. Thank you Peet’s!

Teresa Drisker Celebrates 15 Years with BACS

This month, BACS is honoring Teresa Drisker for her 15 Year Anniversary at BACS! Teresa is an essential part of our Woodroe Place Crisis Residential Center team, and has helped hundreds of people through her years here. Woodroe first opened in 1996, and Teresa has lent her expertise to build a strong program! We threw a surprise party to celebrate with her, and appreciate her impact on Woodroe Place.

Bombas Socks

Bombas Socks, and their huge customer community, are making a difference at BACS with a major donation of socks! With winter approaching, one of the most important things for our programs is gear to help keep our participants warm. Bombas Socks donates a pair of socks for every pair of socks sold – so our thanks to the 1,500 people whose purchases made this donation possible! The donated socks are anti-microbial so they stay clean longer, which is so helpful for people who don’t have the luxury of putting on a clean pair of socks every day. Thank you Bombas!

BACS at Oakland Pride

BACS had a great time at Oakland Pride this year, representing our community! We were out and proud, and got to get our information to people in need.

Our staff, participants, and leadership are proudly filled with people who identify as LGBTQ. BACS is doing whatever it takes to make a difference, and everyone is welcome at BACS.

Program Anniversaries

This month, BACS is celebrating the 1 year anniversary of our Housing Navigation programs, a major expansion to BACS’ housing & homeless solutions work. Our Housing Resource Center, Housing Education & Counseling, and Landlord Liaison programs opened in 2017, and work with the people who need the most support. Learn more about BACS’ Housing Navigation here.

BACS is also celebrating the 4 year anniversary of the Hope Intervention Program (HIP), a prevention and early intervention program for youth, which opened in 2014. Learn more about our Prevention & Early Intervention programs here.

To all of our staff and partners who make these programs possible, happy anniversary, and congratulations on all your hard work!

Employee of the Month

BACS’ Employee of the Month is Willona Williams from the Thunder Road team! Willona has worked at Thunder Road since 2005. Willona loves getting to know the participants at Thunder Road, and having a part in helping them make good decisions and become a part of their community. She says, “I think Thunder Road matters because we have a lot of displaced youth in our communities who can use help with life making decisions and can use a little extra guidance to stay or get back on the right path.”

Congratulations, Willona, and thank you for all you and the Thunder Road NOC team do!

Invest in Your Community

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Our work has profound individual and community impacts. Every person that comes to BACS for help can achieve stability, move off of the streets, get a job, live safely with their mental health issue, or stay out of jail. And for each of those success stories, our community gets better. We see fewer people living on the streets or in poverty. We spend less on emergency medical services. We see less of our tax money going to prisons. Your investment in BACS, and in the people we help, transforms our community.

Donate to BACS online by clicking here, or via mail to 390 40th Street, Oakland, CA 94609. Make an ongoing impact by donating monthly.

Learn More About BACS

Kelly Miller, Program Supervisor for BACS’ Valley Wellness Center, is featured in a video giving a brief introduction to BACS’ work! She spoke with Pathway Community Church about our services and where the community fits in! See the full video here.

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BACS Connections September 2016

September 26, 2016

 Simply the Basics – Our Newest Partner!

Simply the Basics donation

Simply the Basics is partnering with BACS! Simply the Basics donated more than 150 hygiene kits, as well as feminine hygiene products and laundry detergent!  These products are so critical to the homeless participants we serve who have no other alternative to basic hygiene care when surviving on the streets.

The mission of Simply the Basics is to provide for individuals, organizations, and communities their most basic needs with dignity so that they can focus on bigger goals.

This donation empowers BACS to focus on our bigger goal – ending homelessness, permanently. Every year, BACS provides services to hundreds of over 1,000 individuals experiencing homelessness. We provide interim housing and rehabilitation services, while our Short-Term Housing team locates permanent housing. In the meantime, we provide mental health support, independent living skills development, employment support, respite services, and more.

To learn more about our amazing partner Simply the Basics, visit their website!

In-Kind Donation Drop-Offs

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Your donations change lives!

Our 2016 Drop Off Dates for in-kind donations are Wednesday, October 19 and Wednesday, December 14.

Donations will be accepted from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. at 559 16th Street in Oakland. If you have any questions, please email Nora Daly.

Everything you donate directly impacts our mission – to uplift under-served individuals and their families by doing whatever it takes. Learn more about in-kind donations to BACS!

Our Programs Work Together to Change Lives

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Daniel and Gina, 70 and 60 years old respectively, came to BACS in need of serious help. They were homeless, and did not have access to food, medications, or other services. Through the collective efforts of our dedicated teams in three programs, Daniel and Gina are no longer homeless and are receiving the services they need!

Read their full story, from homelessness to today, here.

Hope Intervention Program

HIP team receives award

BACS is pleased to celebrate the 2 year anniversary of BACS’ Hope Intervention Program (HIP).

BACS is the lead agency of a major pilot for Alameda County called TAY Triage and opened HIP, a prevention and early intervention program for youth, in 2014 to fill a crucial need in the community: mobile outreach and crisis intervention services to Transitional Aged Youth (TAY).

Our HIP team has made a huge impact on TAY in our community. Happy anniversary, and congratulations on all your hard work! Learn more about our Prevention & Early Intervention programs here.

Our team also just received a one year evaluation for the wonderful work we are doing. Some noteworthy statistics:

  • HIP enrolled 211 participants, and exceeded the program goal for enrollment by 110%! This means BACS was able to use our resources to help even more people.
  • 93% of our participants have been discharged from our program, often with a warm hand-off to other services. Of our discharged participants, 87% had no psychiatric hospital facility admissions within 90 days of discharge, exceeding our objective!

Thank you to our partners who made HIP possible including the State of California through Senate Bill 82, Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services, Stars Inc. TAY Programs, and West Coast Children’s Clinic, as well as Alameda County’s Health Care Services Agency CAPE Unit who has conducted deep research on the program.

Employee of the Month

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Bart Smid, Peer Counselor at Woodroe Place Crisis Residential, is our Employee of the Month for September!

Bart was nominated by his colleagues and leadership because of his commitment to the mission of BACS, and his daily demonstration and pursuit of the agency’s values. In particular, colleagues noted:

“Bart is the consummate professional. He engages residents at Woodroe with great integrity, welcoming approach and believes the best in people. He consistently encourages choice and fosters relationships with residents at Woodroe to build trust and encourage their growth. Bart has tremendous pride in the house and in his work. He is accountable and willing to share innovative ideas with his team.”

Bart says “the thing I like most about working at Woodroe Place is the support our team gives each other every moment of every shift, as well as the positive effect our program has on our residents mental health recovery. It feels great knowing that I play a partial role in our residents feeling better about themselves and their current situation.”

Congratulations, Bart!

Join Our Cause

Do you want to join BACS in our mission to uplift under-served individuals and their families by doing whatever it takes? The community has asked us to provide more services than ever, based on need. In 2016, help us make this possible!

Donate today!

Donate

Donate to BACS online by clicking here, or via mail to 629 Oakland Ave, Oakland, CA 94612.

Or, donate gently used blankets, canned goods, and other items to our housing  programs. Email us to learn more.

Work Here

BACS services are always expanding, and we are currently recruiting! Check out our job opportunities.

Learn more on our website or by calling 510.613.0330.

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Hope Intervention Program Receives Award

July 11, 2016

BACS’ Hope Intervention Program (HIP) has been awarded the 2016 Alameda County Mental Health Board Community Service Award in the category of Promising Innovative Program.  According to the Mental Health Board Awards Committee, “the HIP Program exemplifies the spirit of our community service awards.” [Read more…]

Tagged With: award, hip youth, hope intervention program, transitional aged youth, youth mental health

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