La Familia Receives Grant from Eden Health District to Develop Primary Healthcare Clinic in Hayward for Unsheltered and Underserved Community Members HAYWARD, Calif. – La Familia is launching a multi-phase project to establish a Federally Qualified Health Center Look-A-Like (FQHC-LAL) to provide primary and behavioral health care. This effort recently received $420,000 in seed funding from Eden Health District. La Familia’s licensed clinical teams will provide services in a culturally responsive, patient-centered model leveraging their lived experience and La Familia’s reputation as a trusted provider. Services will focus on unhoused populations, formerly incarcerated people, individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities,...
It was a beautiful day at TPC Stonbrae at our inaugural La Familia Charity Golf Classic Tournament 2022! Gorgeous-manicured course, spectacular views, live Mariachi music, the Warrior Dancers, great food and drink, incredible trips and prizes, and Franco Finn as our celebrity auctioneer—what is not to love? Thank you to all our participants, sponsors, volunteers and supporters who made this event a success, and loads of fun. Money is still coming in, as we eclipse our fundraising goal of $100,000! We are already planning the 2023 tournament, we hope to see you again next year! Catch some of the photo...
La Familia Has 2,000 Pfizer Vaccines Available for Alameda County – Cherryland Clinic April 27-April 30 La Familia has brought back a COVID-19 vaccine clinic to our Cherryland facility at 20095 Mission Blvd. in Hayward. This clinic is FREE and open to all community members who work or live in Alameda County ages 16 and older. Any eligible recipient under 16yrs must bring a consenting adult in order to be vaccinated. This operation will only be available through Friday April 30 and will be offering the Pfizer vaccine. La Familia is asking the community to share this vital information with all of their networks and...
Marco A. Lozano, Psy.D. 07/28/1970 – 07/05/2018 On Friday, September 21, 2018, La Familia hosted a Celebration of Life Service to honor the life of our fellow colleague and friend, Dr. Marco A. Lozano. La Familia staff, former staff, clients, and members of the community came together to share stories and create an altar in honor of Dr. Lozano. Dr. Lozano joined La Familia’s Outpatient Program in 2005 as a postdoctoral intern and became a staff therapist upon completion of his postdoctoral hours. He earned his license in psychology in 2008 and in 2012, he became the Clinical Director of the Outpatient...
La Familia is grateful for the generous donation of $10,000 from Columbus Craft Meats. Pictured left to right are: Bob Peppler; Friends of FESCO Committee Member, Sarah Voit; FESCO, Aaron Ortiz; CEO La Familia, Ileana Pacheco; Sr Human Resources Business Partner with Columbus Meats, Tom Wider; Plant Manager with Columbus Meats, Edymir Guerrero; FESCO, and Sharon Luther; Friends of FESCO Committee Member. We recently received this donation from Columbus Craft Meats for support of our meals program in the shelter and housing of Les Marquis and Banyan House. We are grateful always to our community and corporate partners whose generosity supports...
La Familia Supports Listening Sessions Ashland Cherryland Together (ACT), a community collaborative supported by La Familia staff, joins ALL IN Alameda County in their effort to end poverty. ALL IN is funding Listening Sessions throughout Alameda County to hear directly from residents about what’s working, what’s not working, and what should change in their communities. These listening sessions are guiding discussions related to affordable housing, early care and education, economic empowerment, and healthy food access. Ashland Cherryland Together (ACT) will be conducting two listening sessions this month (March 2018) in partnership with Resources for Community Development. The discussion topics will be...
La Familia’s Cultura y Bienestar (CyB) and Youth and Family Opportunity (YFO) programs have been providing an annual Summer Camp for youth ages 5-10 years, since 2011. This was created in order to ensure that all children had a safe place to do safe educationally interactive activities during some of their summer weeks while school was out. This year we held a camp for only two weeks (due to staff shortage), despite the shortened time of camp we had 57 youths with 18 student volunteers. Aside from making summer camp fun, the CYB and YFO teams strive to make summer camp educational. For...
Hayward Unified School District (HUSD), in partnership with La Familia, provides HUSD parents and guardians with the opportunity to develop leadership and advocacy skills while supporting parent engagement and the academic success of HUSD students. The Parent Ambassador program helps to increase the district’s capacity to build a community of leaders that support outreach to parents and families, refers and links youth and their families in the HUSD program to health services and other school site programs and resources. The Ambassadors are a representative body that acts as a liaison between the district and the parent community with an overall...
Are you interested in participating in our summer giveaway series? Here are the brief guidelines for the contest (additional details after the flip): How to Enter and Win: Instagram: Follow La Familia on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lafamiliaop/ Add a comment below the Giveaway post and tag one person in each comment. Each comment with a different tagged user is one (1) entry into the giveaway. This may be repeated each week of the Giveaway. In order to win you must be following @LaFamiliaOP on Instagram; in order for your tagged user to win, they must ALSO be following @LaFamiliaOP. If your comment is...
Established in 2007, the FACES for the Future at St. Rose Hospital program (FACES St. Rose), located in Hayward, CA, is a two-year program which motivates and prepares underrepresented youth for entry into careers in all areas of the health professions. Partnering with the Eden Area Regional Occupations Program in Hayward, FACES provides high school students with unique opportunities to learn from healthcare professionals in various hospital settings and explore career options in the health professions. Additionally, students benefit from academic enrichment opportunities, including individualized tutoring and college preparation activities, leadership training, and multi-faceted psychosocial support services, including one-on-one case...
La Familia and Hayward Center for Education and Careers (HCEC)-Adult School have received three years of continual funding to expand mental health related services to provide culturally sensitive prevention and early intervention mental health services to those who are wanting to learn to speak English as a second language or receive their GED. Within the three years of the partnership between La Familia and Hayward Center for Education and Careers (HCEC)-Adult School have been able to go above and beyond meeting the outreach, education, consultation, and early intervention quotas required by the county to the ESL (English as a Second Language)...
On Friday May 26, Executive Director, Aaron Ortiz and, Youth Mental Health Educator, Stephanie Madrid were invited to be part of a panel for the graduates of the dual Immersion program at Junction K-8 in Livermore. The questions asked by the panel were in both English and Spanish so that the students could show their improvement from being in the dual immersion program for many years. It was a very unique event to be a part of and La Familia was more than honored to be a part of the panel. Students were able to recognize the importance of being...
