Mental Health Support

Filipino Community Health & Wellness ensures that the Filipino community, particularly youth and young adults, caregivers, and immigrants in central and southern Alameda County have access to psycho-social and case management support to serve their needs as well as ensure additional culturally and linguistically sensitive preventative counseling and mental health referral support services.

Health, Wellness. and Mental Health Resources for the Afghan Community is a Google Spreadsheet with a growing list of resources compiled by EBRIF’s Health, Wellness and Mental Health Work Group.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Oakland's programs are designed to ensure that you, as a refugee, thrive in America--whether ensuring your children are enrolled in school, you as an adult is become self-reliant through employment or starting businesses, or families are receiving acute medical care you need to recover from trauma or illness. If you are in need, the IRC will help you to rebuild your life and regain control of your future in your new home community.

La Clínica provides multi-lingual, accessible full-scope health care services in the East Bay, no matter a patient’s income level or insurance status.

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.

The California Health & Human Services Agency provides links to mental health resources for youth, including Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, CalHOPE, Youth Crisis Line, LGBT Youth TalkLine, Trans Lifeline, and more!

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.

NCHRC is a clinic within Alameda Health System that primarily provides forensic medical and psychological evaluations (including FGM/C evaluations) for people seeking asylum and other forms of relief from deportation (e.g. protection under the Convention Against Torture, U-visas, etc.) who reside in the San Francisco Bay Area.

We believe that every individual is empowered to age with dignity and independence. Our mission is to relentlessly pursue quality of life and quality of care for older adults and their families.

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.

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.

An Oakland Therapist and Teacher, who specializes in energy therapy that can be very helpful for PTSD. Offers free workshops that teach people who are working with refugees simple techniques to help clear stress, trauma and shock.

Provides services for residents who are on Medi-Cal or are uninsured including children, youth, families, adults and older adults, for the prevention, early intervention, and treatment of mental illness and/or substance use conditions.

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.

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.

Dial 988 to access free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress.

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 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.

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.