For 14 years, Lincoln has offered kinship services to all relative caregivers, their children (under 18), the kin children they are raising, and the children's birthparents in Alameda County. Last week, our U.S. Senate adopted the Kinship Care Month Resolution. This Resolution helps endorse the importance of kinship care services and family-based care. 

On the evening of Tuesday, October 13, 2015, many long-time volunteers gathered at Trader Vic’s in Emeryville to honor this year’s recipients of Lincoln’s James Mann Award. Since 1978, this award, named for Lincoln’s leader from 1957-1975, has annually recognized extraordinary contributions to Lincoln’s work in the community. 

The S.H. Cowell Foundation recently awarded Lincoln's Family Resource Center, located at the joint campus of New Highland Academy and RISE Community School, $70,000. A portion of this funding will be used to support the hiring of a new, part-time Program Coordinator, whose primary job will be to help gather program data and evaluations for more than a dozen services and programs offered at the FRC.

This month, we would like to highlight Annabella (Annie) Flores, the coordinator of Lincoln Child Center's Family Resource Center (FRC).

"We come in to support the family and child and the foster care system so the parents and child have what they need to be successful versus just sending the child to therapy. It’s a family approach." –Kim Catanzano, Lincoln program manager. 

The nearly three dozen teenage boys—laughing, dancing, chanting and singing—didn’t look like robbers, car thieves or vandals. They looked like goofy kids at summer camp. Read how Lincoln’s Freedom School program sets probation youth on a new path.

"When I got here, I don’t talk to nobody—I thought, I came here alone, I’m going to leave alone. But now I got all these friends and once we get out of here the team will stay together." Learn more about our very special Probation Freedom School at Camp Sweeney and how Lincoln blends our staff with employees and teachers from the Alameda County Probation Office and the Alameda County of Education to change lives. 

We are delighted to announce that Lincoln has been named a Top Workplace by Bay Area News Group for the third year in a row! The evaluation for the Top Workplaces program is based upon employee feedback gathered in a survey of approximately 6,000 workplaces in the Bay Area.

Hear KPFA’s About Health segment focusing on Lincoln’s mental health work.

KPIX 5 Morning Weather Anchor Roberta Gonzales answers the questions you never get to ask on-air.

Since 1949, Mental Health Month has been observed in May by reaching millions of people in the United States in hopes of understanding mental illness, increasing access to treatment, and ensuring those who are struggling to know they are not alone.

Lincoln leaders speak out at the Commonwealth Club about how to address the negative impact disproportionate discipline, trauma and truancy have on low-income students and communities of color at Commonwealth Club of California.

Every person responsible for treating and supporting a young person in care—therapists, psychiatrists, counseling staff, family members, case workers, friends and the young person herself—must work as a team towards the goal of that child having a permanent home.

For the third year, Lincoln convened California lawmakers, experts in children’s mental health and advocates for a forum on children’s mental health policy. Read more about the packed gathering and the community conversation about the critical need to address children’s mental health issues in California.

Hear KCBS' coverage of Lincoln’s forum focusing attention on youth mental health: 

This month, Lincoln Child Center is pleased to feature Tony Thurmond who has worked for Lincoln for four years. In his role as Senior Director of Community and Government Relations, Tony works with elected and government leaders to expand Lincoln’s service contracts and to establish community and corporate partners who can support its programs. 

After more than 25 years, Lincoln Child Center has transitioned away from providing nonpublic school and day treatment services through its Conyes Academy, while expanding its Excel program which provides services at public school sites.

We have officially moved! Our headquarters is now located at 1266 14th Street in West Oakland. As we have shifted our services to better meet the needs of children and youth in their homes, schools and communities, we have seen great results, with more children remaining with families, and in their schools.

Summer is in full swing and parents are looking to keep their children busy! Lincoln's Helping Open Pathways to Education (HOPE) Alameda program, which provides school-based early intervention and prevention mental health services to at-risk children, youth, and families in Alameda County, offers a 5-week therapeutic activities program each year to keep their students engaged during their summer break.