I want food or formula

• Alameda County Food Bank
• Bay Area Women's and Children's Center
• Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano Counties
• Homies Empowerment FREEdom Store (Oakland)
  
• Self Help Hunger Program (Oakland)
  
• Town Fridge (Oakland)
  

I want diapers

• Homies Empowerment FREEdom Store (Oakland)
• SF Diaper Bank (San Francisco)
  
• Check out the list of Bay Area groups that get diapers through Help A Mother Out

I want child care

• Children's Council (San Francisco)
  
• still looking for more resources

I want medical care for my child or myself

See our list of Bay Area community clinics

I want nursing/lactation support

• Native American Health Center (Oakland)
• Natural Resources (San Francisco)

Mother to Baby has information about medications and other exposures during breastfeeding

I want baby clothes

need this info

I want help leaving my partner

• My Sister's House (Sacramento)
  • List of additional resources with a focus on Asian Americans in the larger Bay Area
• A Safe Place (Oakland)
• MH First (Oakland, Sacramento)
  

I want parenting classes

• Homeless Prenatal Program (San Francisco)
• Natural Resources (San Francisco)
  

I want therapy

If The Liberation Institute offers sliding scale therapy in person in SF and Portland, and phone or internet sessions for people in California and Oregon

The Pacific Center in Berkeley offers sliding scale counseling for individuals and families.

Also check out this list of places that offer sliding scale therapy in the Bay Area

​If you need more immediate support, check out this list of text and talklines 

I want to support my trans child

Social:

• Oakland LGBTQ Center
  
• Pacific Center (Berkeley)
  
• PFLAG (national)
  

Medical: Kaiser or Benioff Children's

I want to support my sick or disabled child

• Breathe California resources by county (asthma, COPD, and other lung issues)
• California School for the Deaf
• Camp Sunburst (HIV)
• Kesem (cancer)
  
• LightHouse for the Blind

I want masks for COVID or smoke

Mask Oakland

I want help finding housing

• Abode (Alameda County)
• Berkeley Food and Housing Project​

I want help with my landlord

• ACCE Action (chapters in Oakland and Contra Costa (Richmond, Antioch, San Pablo, and Pittsburg)
• Causa Justa Just Cause (Oakland and San Francisco)
• Centro Legal de la Raza (Alameda and Contra Costa counties)
• Oakland Community Land Trust
• San Francisco Tenants Union

 

I want adoption information

• ​Choice Network
• Family Preservation Project
• National Pro-Choice Adoption Collaborative
• Planned Parenthood
• Spence-Chapin​​

I want a safe place for my kids to stay for a little while

• Bay Area Crisis Nursery
• Safe Families

If you didn't find what you need here, check out the resources at the Family Preservation Project