Heading into 2022 Resilient Together.
We at Lincoln Families are excited to share some highlights of our work in 2021. These accomplishments would not have been possible without the hard work of our staff and the commitment of you and all of our partners.
Advocacy Update for National Kinship Care Month
National Kinship Care Month in September is where we come together to honor and support our kinship families across the community.
In Community, For Community, and By Community: Highlighting our Black-Led Community Partners
Lincoln pursues collaborative partnerships with mission-aligned organizations to find creative ways to empower and serve children and families. These partnerships allow for mutual strategic thinking, resource sharing, and problem-solving for greater collective impact in Lincoln’s service hubs in Contra Costa and Alameda counties.
Advocacy Update: Disrupting the School To Prison Pipeline
Traditional ways of thinking can exacerbate trauma and cause long-term mental health issues in students. The school-to-prison pipeline demonstrates that many kids with mental health needs or behavioral disorders are poorly supported in schools.
Lincoln Program Spotlight: Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant (ECMHC)
Lincoln’s ECMHC program works with some of Lincoln’s youngest children, serving mainly 3-5-year-olds. The model is preventative, relationship-based, and culturally responsive. We focus on early identification and building resiliency within families and school communities.
Lincoln Program Spotlight: Excellence through Counseling, Education and Learning (EXCEL)
March 13th, 2020, was the last day students roamed the halls of their campuses. It was the last day the school bell rang. On the last day cars and busses lined the streets creating traffic jams, and on the last day, students congregated in large groups without masks.
What? It's True! ROOT set for June 2 (rescheduled from April 23)!
Mark your calendars! We are thrilled to announce "At Home with Lincoln," a special virtual ROOT event on Wednesday, June 2, 2021, from 5:30 – 6:30 pm! Join us as we look back at a year, when many of us sheltered in place, worked from home, and had experiences in which all of our lives changed. Come celebrate the many stories of hope and resilience that have inspired us.
Lincoln Program Spotlight: Helping Open Pathways to Education (HOPE)
One of my favorite things about working for Lincoln is that the decisions are truly guided by the mission and values. Being strength-based, family-centered, and culturally aware are not just tag lines but the expectation for how you meet the youth and families where they are. We are invited to bring ourselves to the work, to be creative, and to bring our passions here because if we are inspired that energy is met and mirrored by the youth.
Lincoln Board Member Spotlight: Nate Moncrief
I'm inspired by the history of Lincoln, as well as the hard work and dedication of the Lincoln teams: yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Their work is extremely difficult and uniquely taxing, made even more so by the pandemic. The Lincoln team finds creative ways to confront new challenges and continues to deliver services to the families who need it most.
ACEs - Interview with Francine Ostrem
The ACEs Aware provider engagement grant lets us share a creative mind-body approach with school-based Medi-Cal providers and the youth they serve, all around the state, in a time of tremendous uncertainty, loss, and stress.
Lincoln Program Spotlight: Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS)
Meeting clients where they’re at, both literally and figuratively, is one of the hallmarks of community mental health, and the team in the Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS) program at Lincoln Families demonstrates this quality day in, day out. In TBS, we are charged with serving children and youth across Alameda County whose behaviors have resulted in them being at risk of losing their home placement.
Lincoln Program Spotlight: New Highland/RISE Family Resource Center
Unlike our community-based Mandela Family Resource Center in West Oakland, Lincoln pioneered a school-based model to serve our families in East Oakland in 2014.
Lincoln Program Spotlight: Park Middle School / La Tausha Wade, CPC Spotlight
When I accepted the position of Administrative Assistant at Lincoln in 2014, my goal was to play a small role in supporting mental health access in marginalized communities in Contra Costa County.
Lincoln Program Spotlight: Mandela Family Resource Center
For Chris Nguon, Supervisor of the Lincoln’s Mandela Family Resource Center, and Mandela’s entire team of Family Navigators and Residence Service Coordinators, West Oakland is not just the place wherein Mandela resides, nor is it merely the community they serve: above all, for Chris and many of the team, Mandela is home.
Lincoln Awarded $100,000 ACEs Aware Grant for Trauma-Informed PAINT Program from State Surgeon General’s Office
Lincoln has received $100,000 in grant funds from the California Surgeon General’s Office and the Department of Health Care Services to participate in the state’s ACEs Aware initiative.
Kinship Care in Alameda County: Highlights from Lincoln’s Mental Health Forum
During September’s National Kinship Care Month, Lincoln Families held a virtual forum on Kinship Care in Alameda County to discuss the state of hidden foster care in the county, the impacts of COVID-19 and remote learning, and how we can move forward together to better serve caregivers raising relative's children.
Lincoln Team and Board Member Spotlight: Kinship Support Services
Lincoln knows that children do best when they remain in the safe, stable, and familiar environment that relatives can provide.
Lincoln Program Spotlight: Oakland Freedom Schools Spotlight (OFS) Part 2
One reason Freedom Schools is so beautiful is that while it’s about literacy, it’s also about connection, celebrating who you are, and feeling pride for your community and culture.