FRC Shares Its Impact in the Tri-City Community

The Fremont Family Resource Center (FRC) wants to take this opportunity to highlight the impact of some of the programs collaborative agencies offered throughout fiscal year 22-23 in our Tri-City community. Founded in 1999, the FRC is celebrating its 25th year of business and combines the best efforts of 23 State, County, City and non-profit social service organizations. The FRC works to build a vibrant Tri-City community with strong, healthy individuals, families and children. Services and education at the FRC enable individuals and families to regain control of their futures, improve their mental health, find employment, strengthen their finances, get food, obtain legal and immigration services and much more.

For a list of the 23 FRC agencies, see our FRC Agency Directory.

FRC Welcome Center -

Bilingual, Bicultural Staff Help Visitors

Fremont Healthy Start (FHS), a program of the East Bay Agency for Children, staffs the FRC Welcome Center/Information Desk and assists the public with obtaining public benefits, translation assistance, referrals to other agencies, school enrollment, and other basic needs. In fiscal year 22-23, they served 1600 people in 11 different languages.  Download the Welcome Center Schedule.

Afghan Coalition's Youth Program

The Afghan Coalition's youth program served 352 youths in FY22-23, mostly new arrivals from Afghanistan. Partially funded through the City of Fremont's Afghan Refugee Help Fund, the program provided various activities and events including a tutoring club, summer camps, teen girls’ support group, health fairs, cultural events, monthly events at the Age Well Center, and a boys' soccer team. The children are able to speak Dari or Pashto and meet other Afghan children. Additionally, the Afghan Coalition provided 3,415 referrals to resources and other agencies including those at FRC. 

WIC Supports Young Children, Pregnant and Postpartum Women 

CityServe's Compassion Network's Thursday Soup Talk

Over 2,400 people

are served every month by the Women, Infants & Children (WIC) at the FRC. WIC provides nutrition education and breastfeeding support to families with children ages 0-5 and pregnant and postpartum women. WIC also offers healthy food benefits.

3000 Hot Lunches

were served to unhoused community members by CityServe's Compassion Network at their weekly Soup Talk program last year. Soup Talk is run completely by volunteers from ten different Christian congregations.

Fremont’s Youth & Family Services Launches New Journey Program

City of Fremont, Human Services Department's Youth and Family Services Division (YFS) is proud of their "New Journey" Outpatient Adolescent & Youth Adult Substance Use Treatment program. It serves youth in the Tri-City area. Youth and their families can receive individual and group counseling as well as recovery support services. In FY22-23, New Journey provided drug and alcohol education to over 600 students, and intensive individual and group services to 55 youth.  

Pars Equality Center Helps Thousands with Immigration Legal Services

Last year, the FRC's newest agency, Pars Equality Center, provided over 1600 immigration consultations at the FRC to mostly Afghan newcomers. They also provided immigration legal services to individuals in the areas of asylum, green cards, citizenship, Temporary Protected Status, Family Petitions as well as other immigration legal services. These services were provided for free and helped hundreds of individuals obtain permanent status in the United States.   

Welcome Back Veterans Services

Free After-School Program for Kinship Clients

The Alameda County Veteran Services office helps veterans and their families identify and apply for benefits they may be eligible to receive. Their FRC satellite office was closed for several years but it re-opened late last year to thunderous applause and has already served 59 Veterans and Veteran families. The Fremont office is open on Tuesdays from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. and available by phone the rest of the week.

The Lincoln Families Kinship Support Program provides support to families taking care of a relative's child. This is a great program to know if you're a grandparent, aunt, uncle, sibling, or cousin caring for a family member's child. One of Kinship's many services is a free after-school program at the FRC. In FY22-23, they served 58 caregivers and 26 youth. 

Fremont Fair Housing and Landlord/Tenant Services - Informs and Facilitates Housing Solutions

Fremont Fair Housing and Landlord/Tenant Services is a satellite office for non-profit Project Sentinel that promotes fairness and equality of housing opportunities for all persons and advocates for the peaceful resolution of disputes.

In FY22-23, the Landlord/Tenant Services Division provided counseling and assistance to 741 housing seekers, tenants, and housing providers regarding repairs and habitability, security deposits, evictions, rent increases, non-payment of rent, and made referrals to government and non-profit agencies, small claims court, legal aid, or private attorneys. 

The Fair Housing Division opened 19 housing discrimination cases, and in addition to their investigative work, they conducted community outreach and education, and operated a fair housing hotline.

Lastly, Project Sentinel HUD Housing Counseling offered mortgage counseling such as reverse mortgage and pre-purchase counseling. 

La Familia Counseling Services - A Pathway to Employment

La Familia’s VESL (Vocational-ESL) program at the FRC helps newcomers increase their employ-ability by providing employment services and English classes. La Familia provides job readiness workshops and they utilize local adult schools for ESL classes. For FY22-23, LaFamilia enrolled 353 participants into VESL and celebrated 154 job placements.

FERC Serves Family Members & Caregivers of Loved Ones with Mental Health Conditions

Behavioral Health Vocational Services Helps People with Mental Health Conditions Pursue Jobs

400 Families served

by Family Education and Resource Center (FERC) in FY22-23. FERC provided Family Advocates, a warmline, support groups, classes on mental health, mental health events and activities to promote wellbeing and self-care, community outreach, and mental health education and advocacy throughout the county.

300 People received vocational assistance

from Alameda County Behavior Health Vocational Services. They provided help to those wanting a better life by getting a job and/or going back to school. Vocational Rehab coaches individuals on their resume, joins them on job interviews and remains onsite after the person is hired to encourage and assist clients who are rejoining the workforce.

South County Housing Resource Center (HRC) Serves Hundreds with Drop-in Services

The City of Fremont's Human Services Department, Family Resource Center Division (FRC) runs the Housing Resource Center with a team of social workers and housing navigators. In FY22-23, they enrolled 181 households into Coordinated Entry, (the county-wide system which provides housing matches for the most vulnerable unhoused community members), completed 151 crisis assessments and completed 180 housing needs assessments.

Access Point services have been augmented through partnerships with

• Ohlone Tri-Cities Career Center offering resume support, referrals to job placement opportunities, and appointments for future career and employment coaching;
• Bay Area Legal Aid providing benefits advocacy, information on eviction and preserving housing, and re-entry support;
• Bay Area Community Health (BACH) mobile health van providing hygiene supplies, vaccines and non-emergency care. 

The HRC is open Thursdays from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. and 1-3 p.m. in the FRC Millennium Conference Room. Details are in the HRC flyer.

Community Resources for Independent Living Improves Lives

Community Resources for Independent Living (CRIL) is a peer-based disability resource organization that advocates and provides resources for people with disabilities. In FY22-23, they focused their services in three key areas: Housing Search, Assistive Technology, and Travel Training. CRIL Fremont served 198 consumers in the Tri Cities area. 

Social Services Has Temporary Homeless Assistance

Alameda County Social Services has a Temporary Homeless Assistance Program for eligible CalWORKs participants who are experiencing homelessness or are at risk of homelessness. This program provides funds for a temporary hotel stay and provides for security deposit costs and assistance with up to two months of back rent. Check their website for additional eligibility requirements.

For the complete list of agencies at the Fremont FRC, see our FRC Agency Directory. For more information on the Fremont FRC and our programs, visit our website.

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