The Public Health Department focuses on community and population-level health, preventing and addressing root causes of health inequity across a range of communicable and chronic diseases.
The Environmental Health Department works to keep our air, water, and food safe; it regulates, protects, and promotes the health of everyone in Alameda County by enforcing environmental health codes to reduce exposure to toxins and diseases.
Housing & Homelessness Programs, Services and Resources
We offer a diverse range of programs, services, and resources in Alameda County to promote wellness, prevent disease, and enhance people’s quality of life.
Housing & Homelessness Programs, Services and Resources
The CARE Act authorizes specified adult persons to petition a civil court to create a voluntary CARE agreement or a court ordered CARE plan for persons with untreated schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.
Case management helps facilitate client wellness and autonomy through advocacy, assessment, planning, communication, education, money management, and service facilitation.
Our new center provides individuals experiencing unsheltered homelessness with respite services to recover from an injury or illness and a path toward permanent housing.
The Homekey Initiative is a state program that funds municipalities to convert hotels, motels, and vacant properties into permanent housing for unsheltered individuals.
Housing Resource Centers provide housing problem solving services and other coordinated entry services to people who are experiencing homelessness in Alameda County.
Shelter Health services are designed to bring the "front door" directly to shelter, recovery, and transitional housing locations and other places homeless individuals access services.