WestCoast Children's Clinic

WestCoast Children's Clinic's Solidarity Statement

Inspirational words from President Obama about the importance of protest and action to make long-lasting change. https://medium.com//how-to-make-this-moment-the-turning-po

ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES NEEDED FOR FOSTER YOUTH Our staff at Alameda County’s Assessment Center continue providing care and comfort to children navigating the first hours of foster care, while practicing screening, social distancing, and disinfecting protocols to protect youth and staff. We have an urgent need for supplies to help both clients and staff stay healthy while at the Assessment Center. Clients are also given masks and care instructions to take with them when they leave. While we are working hard with our county partners to get needed supplies, due to shortages many are hard to obtain right now. We have created an Amazon Wishlist with our needed supplies. If you'd like to make a direct donation instead, go to www.westcoastcc.org/give.

WestCoast Children's Clinic is honored to be one of 15 grantee partners for NoVo Foundation's the Life Story Grants. The Life Story and NoVo center the voices of survivors to close on-ramps to commercial sexual exploitation and open off-ramps for survivors.

With Gratitude...

We are all inspired by the kids who travel universes to come through our doors, to find their superpower. With your support, we’ve helped over 25,000 kids do just that. Imagine what we can do next. Help us reach our goal by the end of the year!

TODAY!! WestCoast End of Year Career Fair//Open House! 4pm-6pm... 3301 E. 12th St, Suite 259, Oakland Come by and learn about our current career opportunities, enjoy yummy refreshments, and meet program staff! We look forward to connecting with you! -The WCC Team

It's not too late to support WestCoast this #GivingTuesday! Can you help us meet our goal today?

Can you help us meet our #GivingTuesday goal?

We are grateful for your support this #GivingTuesday!

We need your super power. ---------------------------- I made a shapeshifter. Then I made a snowflake. I used my mind and paper and pencil and scissors. I was inspired by my imagination. -10-year-old, WestCoast’s Children’s Community Art Exhibit ----------------------------... We all need inspiration. To feel that change is possible. Children traverse the worlds of make-believe and real. And use their superpower imagination to become something else: a car, a bird, a dragon. Sometimes they use it to survive. Shapeshift. At WestCoast Children’s Clinic, imagination may be a child’s only refuge. Luis makes himself invisible by blinking 3 times when he’s afraid. School is scary so his blinking power comes in handyespecially when he’s on his 5th new school this year. Kayla’s hoodie turns into a wizard’s cloak. She says it’s all she needs, but we know it isn’t. Elena is a superhero planning to break her mom out of the deportation center, if only she knew where it was. And Michael can make a bowl of Cheerios into a 3-course meal for his little sisters. They all use their imagination to survive. WestCoast Children’s Clinic provides mental health services and support to over 1,500 kids each year. We help them identify their superpower and develop their minds as their most powerful tool. We build optimism, guiding exploration through paper, pencil, and scissorsor through dialogue that might be difficult and require a different kind of shapeshifting. Through our training, public education, research, and advocacy, we remove barriers that make it harder for children to reach their potential. We train thousands of caregivers and professionals across the country to understand childhood signs of distress and respond earlier so kids suffer less. We publish groundbreaking research and translate it into action. Our kids aren’t always at the mic. But we are. We change laws and protect their right to grow up with freedom and dignity. It isn’t magic, but it is transformational. For 40 years you’ve made it possible by believing in what we do. We are all inspired by the kids who travel universes to come through our doors, to find their superpower. With your support, we’ve helped over 25,000 kids do just that. Imagine what we can do next. ------------------------------ www.westcoastcc.org/give