Strengthening Families Program
An evidence-based family skills training program that improves parenting practices, youth social skills, and family relationships while reducing substance use and behavioral health risks.
Mental Health First Aid
An evidence-based training program that teaches participants how to identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental health and substance use challenges.
Promotores de Salud (Community Health Worker Model)
Community health worker model adapted within Latino communities that uses trusted community members to deliver culturally and linguistically appropriate health education, navigation, outreach, and support services.
Healthy Native Communities Fellowship & Indigenous Wellness Models
Indigenous wellness approaches that integrate traditional knowledge, cultural practices, and community-defined health priorities to improve health and well-being.
Opioid and Stimulant Use Disorder Prevention and Education
Offers 12-month contracts of up to $200,000 for California organizations to implement inclusive programs addressing opioid, stimulant, and polysubstance use. Funded activities should support awareness, prevention, outreach, education, stigma reduction, and stronger referral pathways to treatment and medications for opioid use disorder. Direct treatment and recovery support services are not funded.
Respectful Language: Pregnancy & People
Everyone deserves to be treated and described with respect – and there is no exception during the period surrounding pregnancy. When communicating about pregnancy-related topics, it’s especially important to carefully consider language around gender, sex, and sexuality.
This resource offers guiding principles and suggested wording for respectful language to describe the people who experience pregnancy.