Language Access

La Familia Counseling Services
La Familia is a community outreach nonprofit in the greater Bay Area, California. We provide services throughout Alameda and Contra Costa and Stanislaus counties, with a comprehensive selection of programs to meet a variety of mental health and community support needs.
Service Area
Bay Area
Lao Family Community Development, Inc.
Lao Family Community Development, Inc. (LFCD) assists diverse refugee, immigrant, limited English, and low-income U.S. born community members in achieving long-term financial and social self-sufficiency. We encourage our community members to establish goals, believe in themselves, and become active, contributing members of society.
Service Area
Bay Area
Legal Aid at Work
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Legal Aid at Work’s Workers’ Rights Clinic provides low-income and unemployed people with free, confidential information about their legal rights related to work in California including wage protection, working conditions, and unemployment benefits. They provide services in Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, and other languages.
Service Area
Statewide
Listos California
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Engages a statewide network of community-based organizations, tribal governments, and community emergency response teams across the state to boost resiliency, provide accessible in-language information and advance a new culture of disaster preparedness.
Service Area
Statewide
Maitri
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Maitri is a free, confidential, nonprofit organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area that primarily helps families and individuals from South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives) facing domestic violence, emotional abuse, cultural alienation, or family conflict.
Service Area
Statewide
Mental Health Association for Chinese Communities
MHACC is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to raise awareness of mental health within the Chinese community through advocacy, education, research, support, and services. We represent the wide spectrum of Chinese families and individuals affected by mental illness, and help them develop meaningful and productive lives in the future.
Service Area
Alameda County
Multilingual Counseling Center
In recognizing the need for cultural and language specific mental health services in the Bay Area and the lack of multi-lingual speaking counselors, we created the Multi-lingual Counseling Center to serve the needs of our growing multi-lingual community. Our mission is to provide mental health services and treatment to individuals suffering from different mental health symptoms such as depression, PTSD, bipolar disorder, anxiety, ADHD and all other mental health diagnosis.
Service Area
Bay Area
Multilingual Trauma Resources – The Child Mind Institute
The Child Mind Institute has prepared free trauma resources available in multiple languages to aid parents, educators, and other adults in talking to children and adolescents about potentially traumatic events and identifying those who might benefit from more focused professional attention. Our children can be more sensitive to challenges around them because of their life experience and they need our support.
Service Area
Global
Pacific Center for Human Growth
Pacific Center for Human Growth is the oldest LGBTQIA+ center in the Bay Area, the third oldest in the nation, and operates the only sliding scale mental health clinic for LGBTQIA+ and QTBIPOC people and their families in Alameda County.
Service Area
Alameda County
PARS Equality Center
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Provides ESL, home-based tutoring, immigration services, social services, interpretation services, employment assistance services.
Service Area
Bay Area
Partnerships for Trauma Recovery
Provides culturally aware, trauma-informed and linguistically accessible mental health care for international survivors of human rights abuses from all cultural, ethnic and linguistic groups residing throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area.
Service Area
Bay Area
Sidra Community Wellness (Diversity in Health Training Institute)
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.
Service Area
Alameda County
Society for Refugee Healthcare Providers
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.
Service Area
Global
Support for Afghan Financial Empowerment (SAFE) Initiative -(International Rescue Committee))
An initiative to empower newly arrived families as they begin their journey to financial stability and economic security in their new homes across the U.S.
Service Area
National
Survivors International (part of the Division of Trauma Recovery Services at UCSF)
Provides free psychosocial and psychological support to adult survivors of persecution and torture who reside in San Francisco.
Service Area
Bay Area
Tarjimly
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By providing on-demand remote language support that’s free for refugees and affordable for humanitarians, Tarjimly eliminates language barriers and dramatically improves the speed, equity, and cost-effectiveness of worldwide humanitarian support and social services.
Service Area
International
The 5ive Pillars
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An Afghan-American-led organization that aids in the resettlement of newcomer migrants in Northern California.
Service Area
Northern California
The California Department of Developmental Services (DDS)
All Californians are entitled to services to support people with developmental and intellectual disabilities under California’s Lanterman Act, after their eligibility is established by a nonprofit regional center and the use of other possible help has been completely explored. As of February 2025, the use of these services usually does not interfere with the immigration status of non-citizen participants.
Service Area
Statewide
The Unity Council
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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.
Service Area
East Bay
Vietnamese American Community Center of the East Bay (VACCEB)
VACCEB's mission is to address the needs of refugees and immigrants within hard-to-reach & underrepresented communities. We achieve this through a variety of educational, cultural, and social services that promote economic self-sufficiency and assimilation into American society.
Service Area
East Bay
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