Asian American Pacific Islander Coalition of North Bay
Description
The primary mission of the Asian American Pacific Islander Coalition of North Bay is to celebrate culture, empower the community, and promote positive change for the Asian American Pacific Islander Community in the four North Bay counties–Sonoma, Marin, Napa, and Solano counties to the north of San Francisco Bay Area.
Organization
Asian American Pacific Islander Coalition of North Bay
Type of Resource
To Celebrate Culture, it seeks to highlight and empower all AAPI perspectives by learning and sharing histories as well as personal stories of AAPI people. To Empower the Community, it focuses on identifying and addressing the needs and strengths of the community by bringing forward healing in education and celebratory spaces. To Promote Positive Change, it advocates for the AAPI community by addressing racism and leading discussions surrounding current AAPI issues.
Region
All of Sonoma County
Population Served
The Asian and Pacific Islander community in the four North Bay counties–Sonoma, Marin, Napa, and Solano counties.
The Community Baptist Church of Santa Rosa provides community services to all with programs.
Organization
Community Baptist Church of Santa Rosa
Type of Resource
Santa Rosa’s Community Baptist Church, the first Black church admitted to the Southern Baptist Convention, was established in 1951 to serve Santa Rosa's black community.
Corazón is a Healdsburg-based non-profit with a mission is to build a compassionate and just community by empowering and dignifying individuals and families, advocating against injustices, and uniting people to celebrate diversity.
Organization
Corazon Healdsburg
Type of Resource
Corazón operates a bilingual family resource center and offers family-centered case management, as well as a cradle-to-career approach to education for all ages. It amplifies the local Latin-American voice, and host community events, trainings and discussions to promote and celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Region
Northern Sonoma County
Population Served
Its staff works with hundreds of low-income families from the communities of Healdsburg, Windsor, Cloverdale, and Geyserville. The individuals and families it supports are 100% low-income, 95% are Latin American and approximately 75% are monolingual Spanish speakers.
La Luz creates and promotes, free of charge or low-cost cultural events, forums and workshops to connect and strengthen the Sonoma Valley community.
Organization
La Luz Center
Type of Resource
Provides family strengthening services, parent-child education programming, mental and behavioral health counseling, crisis counseling, civic engagement opportunities, English language training, employment counseling, construction training certification, financial/housing support, computer education, citizenship classes, small business development and lending, food distribution, medical services, legal and immigration services, and multicultural event programming.
Nonprofit organization focused on promoting professional development within the Latino population by collaborating with community partners to engage, collaborate, and exchange valuable information; to increase awareness of available resources, access to programs and services; to influence public policy, delivery of services, enhance inter-agency communication; and to promote professional development within the Latinx community
Organization
Latino Service Providers
Type of Resource
Resource, internship, monthly newsletter with job postings, resource, and community events
Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline and microgrants 501(c)(3) non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community.
Provides supportive services for LGBTQ individuals, their partners, and families. Offers counseling for individuals, couples, and families. Other services include: parent support groups of transgender transitioning youth, LGBTQ mental & psychiatric evaluations, insurance coverage under Medi-Cal Beacon medical insurance, support groups and monthly social mixers.
Organization
The Spahr Center
Type of Resource
Individual counseling, couples counseling, family counseling, support groups
Region
N/A.
Population Served
Individuals identifying with Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, and Queer,
We lead the development of a local Community Information Exchange Model Network and advance a multi-pronged approach to increasing mental and physical health equity through supporting both direct services and systems changes. We convene community members, resource providers, and service providers to form systems-change-focused Action Teams to address fragmentation of resources and structural racism.
Organization
Sonoma Connect - Sonoma Unidos
Type of Resource
Sonoma Connect | Sonoma Unidos (SC|SU) is a coalition of community leaders and multi-sector partners, working together to prevent and heal adverse childhood experiences and trauma caused by social determinants of health (SDOH).
