Union City Family Center - Approved

• The Union City Family Center provides an innovative community school model. As the anchor organization for over 40 regional partners, we collaborate with educators, employers, public officials, social service providers, and community residents, to provide an integrated system of care, utilizing evidence-based practices, to support our community from cradle to retirement.
• • Owner
    Precious Offu
  • Created On
    07-17-2023
  • Updated On
    06-18-2024
  • Update Reminder
    07-01-2025

• How To Contact

  • Name
    General Information/Questions
  • Phone
    (510) 476-2770
  • Fax
    (510) 475-1941
  • Email
    unioncityfamilycenter@nhusd.k12.ca.us
  • Address
    725 Whipple Rd
  • City
    Union City
  • State
    CA

• More Information

  • Start Date
    07-17-2023
  • Expiration Date
    07-31-2025
  • Eligibility
    free
  • Fee
    0.00
  • Organization
    Union City Family Center
  • Zip Code
    94587

• Helpful Links

  • Main Program URL
    https://www.unioncityfamilycenter.org/
  • Resource List
    https://www.unioncityfamilycenter.org/resourceslist
  • Event Calender
    https://www.unioncityfamilycenter.org/events

• Detailed Information

  • SERVICES:

    • SCHOOL-BASED SUPPORT 

    • The Union City Family Center has Family Service Assistants at every New Haven Unified School District (NHUSD). They help support school enrollment, and build and advance family-school engagement and school attendance. The Family Center also supervises extended-day afterschool programs at NHUSD sites. These afterschool programs are offered for free to students from low-income households through state funding. For more information please call us at 510-476-2770.

    Listed below are additional academic resources for our community.

    Union City Library

    Migrant Education

    Adult Education

    • NUTRITION, HEALTH & DAILY NEEDS

    • The Union City Family Center provides multiple supports to address the urgent living needs of our community. In the past two years we have provided more than 6 million pounds of food, serving more than 600 families monthly.

    • Since 2019, we have been identified as one of the largest school food distributors in Alameda County. Our partner, Washington Hospital, co-locates a mobile health clinic for services, during food distribution days. We also offer other hygiene, annual school supplies, and a clothing pantry. We help navigate resources for immediate and long-term solution, for families, displaced and-or housing insecure. 

    Listed below are more agencies and services for urgent living needs.

    • Alameda County Community Food Bank

    • Tri-City Volunteers

    • Women, Infants & Children (WIC)

    • Centro de Servicios

    • CalFresh

    • Centerville Dining Room

    • Dollie's Closet

    • Tri-City Breakfast Program

    • Union City Apostolic Church

    
    

    • ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT 

    • We partner with multiple agencies to support the economic development and financial stability of our community. SparkPoint Financial Resources provides free counseling services to help families understand how to build credit, save for their future, and make sound budget choices. We work with multiple organizations to identify apprenticeship opportunities including Cypress Mandela Training Center (pictured right), the New Haven Adult School, and Fremont Adult Education.

    • Tri-Cities One Stop Career Center, Fremont

    • Eastbay Works

    • New Haven Adult School

    • Fremont Adult Education

    • Cypress Mandela Training Center, Inc.

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    • TODDLERS & CHILDCARE

    • Find out about our events. View our calendar in English and Spanish. Through the support of First 5 Alameda County, the Union City Family Center has built a thriving neighborhood based multilingual community, supporting, empowering and engaging caregivers for children from birth to 5 years of age, in order to prepare children and their caregivers for a successful transition to school.

    • We offer virtual and in person events in English and Spanish. Currently (February 2023) Tot Time Storytime are held every Tuesday in person at
      the Union City Family Center in classroom B8.

    0-2 year old infants & crawlers 8:30-9:30 am
    2-5 year old children 10:00-11:30 am
    Join us on Tuesdays

    • These events are held for caregivers and their children in both English and Spanish. We also have a Father and Father Figure online group; and weekly learning sessions on social emotional health for parents and their children.

    • We also provide hygiene supports, diapers, children’s clothing, childcare links, and connections for families from infants to transitional kindergarten.\

    • The Union City Family Center offers dynamic virtual programming. On a weekly basis, we host online storytime for children in English and Spanish, weekly learning events for parents and caregivers, and monthly sessions devoted to Fathers and Father Figures. We are also accessible by phone and email for our families. 

    
    

    • NEIGHBORHOODS READY FOR SCHOOL

    The Neighborhoods Ready for School is a place-based initiative launched by First 5 Alameda County in 2018 to support equity and neighborhood-led investment, programming, and policy related to early childhood development, family health and well-being, and kindergarten readiness. You can find out more about the programming and the impact their resources have had on the Union City Family Center, here.

• Eligibility Information

  • States
    • CA
  • Counties
    • Alameda County
  • Cities
    • Alameda, CA
    • Castro Valley, CA
    • Emeryville, CA
    • San Leandro, CA
    • Sunol, CA
    • Newark, CA
    • Union City, CA
    • Piedmont, CA
    • Oakland, CA
    • Livermore, CA
    • Dublin, CA
    • Berkeley, CA
    • San Lorenzo, CA
    • Pleasanton, CA
    • Hayward, CA
    • Albany, CA
    • Fremont, CA
  • Zipcodes
  • School Districts
  • Age Groups
    • All Age Groups
  • Languages Served
    • English
    • Spanish
  • Family Incomes
  • Insurance Providers

• Files