VISION
MISSION
Measure Y Safe Streets Program staff
making their nightly rounds


Life Skills Class Facilitators Carlos Webster (left),
Pastor Raymond E. Lankford
(Healthy Communities President/CEO),
and Earl Jacobs (right)

“Save A Life Wellness Center is where I go for my medical services. From the moment you enter you are greeted…Kudos, props and hallelujahs...”

--Betty Ubiles, Wellness Center Client        

The
Healthy Communities Integrated Health Care Services Model

■ Primary Care Medical Services
■ Chronic Disease Management
■ Dental Screenings
■ Mental Health Services
  (individual,  group and family counseling)
■ Alcohol and Substance Abuse  
   Treatment Services
■ Anger Management and
   Domestic Violence Prevention
■ Barbershop & Beauty Salon Services

■ e-Learning Center (Computer Lab)
■ Transportation Services
■ Violence Prevention Street Outreach
   Services and Programs
         ■ Measure Y Program
         ■ No More Excuses Campaign
         ■ Volunteers of America – Bay Area            (individual and group counseling)
 ■ Single Stop & Wrap Around Services
         ■ VITA Lab — free income tax preparation
         ■ Free Legal Assistance
         ■ Financial Counseling and
            Free Credit Reports
         ■ General Assistance (GA), Food Stamp             Enrollment, and SSI Enrollment
■ Family Support Services
         ■ Alameda County Faith Advisory Council and Faith Initiative Office for foster and adoptive parent recruitment


Healthy Oakland
Program Details

 

■ Save A Life Wellness Center
2580 San Pablo Avenue
Phone: (510) 444-9155
Fax: (510) 444-9955

Hours of Operation:
 Monday, Tuesday, & Thursday: 9 am - 9 pm
Wednesday & Friday: 9 am - 5:30 pm
1st & 3rd Saturdays: 9 am - 1 pm

■ Healthy Oakland Benefits Enrollment Center
2580 San Pablo Avenue
Phone: (510) 444-9655
Fax: (510) 444-9755

Hours of Operation:
Monday, Tuesday, & Thursday: 9 am - 9 pm
Wednesday & Friday: 9 am - 5:30 pm
1st & 3rd Saturdays: 9 am - 1 pm

■ Healthy Oakland Measure Y Program
2572 San Pablo Avenue
Phone: (510) 444-7144
Fax: (510) 444-9955

Hours of Operation:
Monday - Friday: 9 am - 5:30 pm

■ Healthy Oakland Barbershop
and Wellness Program
 Health Screenings, Health Education,
Health Materials, and Haircuts
2572 San Pablo Avenue
Oakland, CA 94612

Hours of Operation:
Tuesday-Thursday: 10 am - 8 pm

 

■ Behavioral / Mental Health Services
2572 San Pablo Avenue
Phone: (510) 444-9155

Hours of Operation:
Monday - Friday: 9 am - 5 pm

■ e-Learning Center (Computer Lab)
2572 San Pablo Avenue
Oakland, CA 94612
Phone: (510) 444-9655

Hours of Operation:
Monday Friday 9 am - 5:30 pm

■ VITA Lab (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance)
Free Tax Preparation
2572 San Pablo Avenue
Phone: (510) 444-9655

Hours of Operation:
By appointment only

■ Healthy Oakland Faith-West
Non-Profit Collaborative
Community Activism
3445 San Pablo Avenue

Hours of Operation:
Monday - Friday by appointment only

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Treating
the Whole
Person...
the Whole Community


■ The Save A Life Wellness Center is the centerpiece for Healthy Oakland's integrated health services model, providing quality care for our clients’ needs for primary care, success in managing chronic diseases like hypertension and diabetes, mental health services, family services, and wraparound services like income tax preparation, financial counseling, computer lab access, barbershop services, and public benefits enrollment. We believe in treating the whole person.

■ Established in October 2004, and licensed by California in 2009 as the first African-American, faith-based Community Medical Clinic, the Save A Life Wellness Center is approved by Medicare, Medi-Cal, Blue Shield, HealthPAC, Alameda Alliance and Family PACT to bill for its services in the underserved, low-income community of West Oakland.

■ Men often are nearly invisible within the health care system, especially if they belong to a minority group and are poor. That is why the Save A Life Wellness Center set its sights on serving men who otherwise would fall through the cracks. At Healthy Oakland, we have developed a capability that focuses on indigent men who have been in prison or jail and who need a wide range of services. Many suffer from hypertension and diabetes, have a history of substance abuse and mental health issues, and often lack stable housing and transportation.

■ Healthy Oakland’s No More Excuses campaign for its Urban Male Health Center has partnered with the Alameda County Urban Male Health Initiative to help reduce the rate of premature death among men and boys in the county. Addressing a key limitation for our reentry clients, our transportation services assist them in reaching Healthy Oakland for care.

■ Through Oakland’s Measure Y program focus on violence prevention, Healthy Communities began providing street outreach services in August 2008. Measure Y staff walk the streets of Oakland from Monday to Saturday during the hours of peak need ― nights and weekends. By working together with the Oakland Police Department, Neighborhood Service Coordinators, and Department of Human Services and doing incident and hotspot-specific outreach to many who typically don’t engage with police, fire, public health and others, Measure Y staff members have been able to forge partnerships to make a difference. Our street outreach efforts have now expanded to East Oakland.

■ Outreach workers maintain a consistent presence in these neighborhoods and, along with case managers, create relationships with high risk youth, youth offenders, and young adults connecting them to appropriate services and resources. Teams also work on the sustainable longevity of truce-negotiation and conflict mediation. Through Measure Y, Healthy Communities also makes available the full complement of Healthy Communities services to high-risk youth and young adults living in East and West Oakland.

Our vision is to be the best community-serving health and life-enhancing agency in every community we operate in—in the eyes of community members, stakeholders and staff. We expect, demand and apply the very best we have to offer by always keeping our values foremost in mind.





Our mission is to decrease violence and health inequities in people of color in every community in which we offer services.  We shall accomplish this by collaborating with other community conscious organizations, churches, businesses, and individuals.  We shall engage community and political leadership to foster lasting relationships and activities that build a stronger and safer community.