Community & Culture

Sidra Community Wellness provides culturally sensitive prevention and early intervention mental health services for Middle Eastern and North African communities in Alameda County. Sidra offers preventive counseling, support groups, psychoeducational, educational, and cultural workshops, community events, outreach and promotion, and referrals and linkages to support wellness and mental health. Sidra also offers mental health consultations to local organizations, providers, and community leaders about how to support wellness and mental health issues while building the program’s capacity to provide these services in a culturally responsive way for MENA communities. Services are school- and community-based.

A curated collection of valuable resources to support healthcare professionals, refugees, and immigrants. From multilingual health materials to educational programs and advocacy tools, these links connect you to essential information and services worldwide.

Offers a holistic array of culturally-sensitive bilingual services that support the mental health and well-being of refugee and immigrant clients who have multiple layers of complex needs.

A rapid response, legal services, and community education project to support safety and justice for immigrant families in Contra Costa County.

Street Level Health Project (SLHP) is an Oakland-based community center dedicated to improving the wellbeing of underinsured, uninsured, and recently arrived immigrants in Alameda County.

Dr. Gary Chapman introduced the concept of the Five Love Languages to help individuals express and receive love in meaningful ways. By understanding and speaking your partner’s primary love language, relationships can grow deeper and more fulfilling.

The Five Love Languages:

💬 Words of Affirmation – Expressing love through verbal appreciation and encouragement.
🤝 Acts of Service – Showing love through helpful actions and thoughtful gestures.
🎁 Receiving Gifts – Giving meaningful gifts as symbols of love and appreciation.
⏳ Quality Time – Spending focused, undivided attention with loved ones.
🤗 Physical Touch – Using affectionate touch, like hugs or hand-holding, to connect.

Visit us for more details: The Five Love Languages: Building Stronger Relationships | AllyNetwork

The Latina Center empowers local Latinas to identify important health issues in their community and enhances their own abilities to address these health issues with concrete solutions based on the strengths of their communities.

The LGBT community center has social events, educational programs, health programs, and counsellors. There are support groups for young people, queer people, bisexual people, and transgender people. There are trainings and workshops for help with jobs. There is free therapy, art classes, yoga classes, and support for mental health.

The Unity Council is a non-profit Social Equity Development Corporation with over 50 years of history in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland. Our mission is to promote social equity and improve quality of life by building vibrant communities where everyone can work, learn, and thrive.

Aims to support and amplify the voices of the people of Afghanistan and to help better serve Afghan refugees resettling in northern California.

We Breathe provides expertise on working with LGBTQ communities, preventing and reducing tobacco use among LGBTQ Californians, and addressing tobacco-related health disparities within LGBTQ communities, to help funded projects reach their goal to eliminate tobacco use by 2035 in California.

Wellness in Action is a community workforce training and development program for paraprofessional community mental health advocates from unserved and underserved refugee and new immigrant communities in the Bay Area.