We focus our efforts in East Bay communities where parents and children have limited resources. Our Family Strengthening Centers are located in Oakland, Richmond and Antioch.
Brighter Beginnings embraces the Life Course philosophy of family health, in which we believe that the health of an infant depends on the entire life development of the mother, rather than just the health of the pregnancy. Because we know that encouraging healthy development over a child’s lifetime requires more than focusing on a mother during the sliver of her life that she’s pregnant, Brighter Beginnings takes on a long-term approach.
We also embrace the Strengthening Families model to encourage the five factors that diminish the likelihood of child abuse or neglect. These five factors are: Parental Resilience, Social Connections, Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development, Concrete Supports in Times of Need, and Children’s Social and Emotional Competence.
If you are interested in serving at-risk families in the East Bay through education, counseling, referrals, and resources – contact us.
The City of Richmond is located 16 miles northeast of San Francisco on the western shore of Contra Costa County. Richmond was incorporated on August 7, 1905 and became a charter city on March 24, 1909. Richmond is best known for its unique history and role in the World War II home front effort. Between 1940 and 1945, tens-of-thousands of workers from all over the country streamed into the City to support wartime industries. The City was home to four Kaiser shipyards which housed the most productive wartime shipbuilding operations of World War II, launching 747 ships during the war. The City was also home to approximately 55 war-related industries - more than any other city of its size in the United States. Today, the City is an important oil refining, industrial, commercial, transportation, shipping and government center. The City operates a council-administrator form of government consisting six council members and a mayor - all elected at large to alternating 4-year terms.