Community Resources/Crisis Resources
18 Reasons
18 Reasons is a non-profit focused on nutrition, food access, and cooking skills. Their Nourishing Pregnancy program is a free 16-week cooking and health program that serves pregnant and postpartum parents, with a focus on Black and Latine communities, giving them the tools to ensure healthier pregnancies and overall well-being. Participants receive bi-weekly food boxes, lactation support, mental health support, and sleep, exercise, and self care support.
American Indian Child Resource Center
AICRC is an American Indian led, American Indian serving, non-profit community service organization focusing on American Indian foster care, mental health, education & cultural protective factors. They offer Indian Child Welfare Act support by helping establish familial linkages, referring families to culturally-appropriate resources, providing direct support services, and advocating in court, and provide culturally congruent counseling services, case management, cultural therapy, seasonal camps, referrals, and specialized services to children who are victims of abuse and neglect, have been witnesses to domestic violence, and/or have been victims of community violence, including bullying.
APA Family Support Services
The mission of APA Family Support Services is to provide culturally appropriate family support services to promote safety, wellness, and economic stability to the SF AAPI community. Their programs address Community Development, Domestic Violence & Child Abuse Prevention, Wellness Promotion, and Economic Security.
Free parental stress hotline for speakers of Cantonese, Mandarin, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Samoan, Tagalog, and Laotian (415) 642-6850
Baby Loss Family Advisors
Baby Loss Family Advisors/Baby Loss Doulas/Bereavement Doulas offer compassionate and informed support to families facing the loss of a baby through miscarriage, stillbirth, and early infant death. Find an independent practitioner here, some are able to offer free or low-cost services.
Birth Companions Community Center
BCCC provides multilingual doula care, education, pregnancy support, and ancestral practices with respect for culture, race, immigration status, religion, gender, and beliefs. Find no-cost doula care, parent education, baby essentials, and food distribution. BCCC Doulas are trained in ancestral lineages from Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia, and Nicaragua.
Children's Council San Francisco
Children's Council provides a wide range of free programs to help families navigate their child care and preschool options and secure financial assistance to pay for it, and to provide home-based child care businesses and other early educators with the training and resources to succeed.
Chinatown Community Development Center
CCDC provides a wide range of services including translation, interpretation, education, low-income housing, and other services for low-income immigrants—seniors, single adults, and families with children representing a diverse range of languages— to assist them in understanding important documents that affect their benefits, housing status, and health.
City of San Francisco Housing Assistance Family Access Points
San Francisco Central City Family Access Point
Mission Family Access Point
Bayview Family Access Point
City of San Francisco help for families with minor children who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness, to find homelessness services, housing assistance, shelter, and resources.
City of San Francisco Survivors of Violence Access Points
Asian Women’s Shelter Access Point
SafeHouse Access Point
St. Vincent De Paul – Riley Center Access Point
City of San Francisco support and resources for survivors of various types of violence, including housing assistance, ID/documentation assistance, community referrals.
Compass Family Services
Compass offers a full range of support for families experiencing housing instability, including mental health services; basic essentials including food, baby supplies, toiletries, and household items; parenting support and education; workforce development services and employment support; and referrals to meet other needs.
Doula for the People
DFTP Collective is a non-profit organization with a mission of liberation through reproductive justice. DFTP provides underserved community members with In-home and virtual Postpartum doula care, nutritional support, educational resources, culturally centered community support groups, lactation consulting, and free abortion doula services.
Family Connections Centers
FCC provides community-driven, multilingual education and support programs to ensure children and families can thrive, and has a food distribution program. Services are available in Cantonese, Vietnamese, Spanish, English, and Tagalog.
Felton Institute's Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting Program (TAPP)
serves young parents under the age of 19 with a wide range of culturally and linguistically appropriate support services, including early care and education, school readiness, family support services, and assistance with community resources.
First Candle
First Candle is committed to ending Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and other sleep-related infant deaths while providing bereavement support to families who have experienced a loss. Call their Grief Line at 1-800-221-7437 and visit their site to find online peer-to-peer support groups, listen to a podcast geared towards Dads who have experienced loss, connect with a peer support volunteer, access the bereavement library, or search their network of licensed therapists and psychologists to find a provider.
Frontline Doulas
Frontline Doulas provides no-cost tele-health doula support to Black pregnant and postpartum families. Text “DOULAHELP” to 833-987-2908. Please note they do not handle emergencies.
HAND of the Bay Area (Helping After Neonatal Death)
HAND offers a variety of virtual and in-person support group meetings as well as one-on-one peer support by phone and email for those who would like individualized support, plus online resources for parents, friends and family, and healthcare providers.
Hand to Hold NICU Babies Parent Support
Online support groups, peer mentors, educational resources including support podcasts, for families with NICU babies and for bereaved families.
HealthRight 360
HealthRight 360 provides sliding scale medical, dental, mental health, and substance use disorder treatment. This includes women’s health care services, such as family planning, pregnancy tests, complete obstetrical services, breast and cervical cancer screening (mammograms, Pap smears), and children's dental services. Other social support services include housing counseling, employment skills, education services, financial planning, and legal referrals. Programs tailored to LGBTQ, Asian American, women, domestic violence survivors, and young adults.
Homeless Prenatal Program
HPP provides low-income and homeless families through perinatal services, housing support, parenting education and child development support, and job training and financial education.
HomeRise
HomeRise is a nonprofit offering high quality supportive housing and services to individuals, seniors and families experiencing homelessness. Services include case management, mental health services, food aid coordination, youth and family programming, family counseling, parent counseling.
La Casa de Las Madres
La Casa offers resources and support to women, teens, and children exposed to and at risk of abuse, including drop in centers and an emergency shelter which offer individual counseling, support groups, practical living skills development, resource advocacy, safety planning and risk assessment, housing assistance, and support service referrals. Shelter intake is conducted 24/7.
24/7 Adult Crisis Line 1-877-503-1850
24/7 Teen Crisis Line 1-877-923-0700
Text Crisis Line 1-415-200-3575, 8:30 am - 5 pm M-F
Mission Action
Among other services, Mission Action can help support families with landlord issues, help paying rent, and help with an issue with an SRO. Contact MA at 415-684-8316 (English), 415-746-9610 (Spanish).
Mothers-for-Mothers Postpartum Justice
MPJ is an intergenerational and Black-led collective of community members with a focus on building postpartum justice in the Black community. They provide postpartum care kits to care for the new mom and baby, operate a postpartum meal program for new Black mothers, and host in-person meetups at local black-owned cafes for postpartum moms to gather.
National Domestic Violence Hotline
Call 1-800-799-SAFE (7233), text "START" to 88788, or chat online at the link above. You can also find additional resources & information on their site.
National Maternal Mental Health Hotline
Text or call 1-833-TLC-MAMA for 24/7 support & referrals. Available in English and Spanish.
National Parent & Youth Hotline
Call or text 855-427-2736 for 24/7 support. You can also find prerecorded guided reflections and information on their website. Available in 240 languages including ASL.
Our Family Coalition
Our Family Coalition supports the full and expanding spectrum of LGBTQ families and children through playgroups, support groups, and workshops; direct food support for families; and healthcare access & referrals.
Postpartum Support International
PSI provides support for perinatal mental health through provider directories, support volunteers, online support groups, peer mentors, and weekly expert talks. Find support for perinatal individuals, dads, partners, queer & trans parents, BIPOC parents, adoptive and birth mothers, loss & grief support, postpartum psychosis, and deaf & hard of hearing resources.
RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline
Call 800-656-HOPE, text HOPE to 64673, or chat online at the link above.
San Francisco Black Infant Health Program
SFBIHP aims to improve health among Black mothers and babies and serves women 16 years or older, pregnant or up to six months postpartum at the time of enrollment, regardless of income. SFBIHP offers free services including life planning, prenatal and postpartum sessions, support groups, breastfeeding classes, Pack-N-Play crib & car seat, and resource referrals.
San Francisco Department of Early Childhood
Find free and low-cost child care, resources, playgroups, parenting classes, and developmental screenings and assessments. Free books for kids through the Dolly Parton's Imagination Library program. Early care and education from family childcare homes to childcare centers to SFUSD early education schools.
San Francisco Department of Public Health
SF DPH's Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health Division provides services to pregnant people and families with children including safe sleep education, help applying for WIC, nurse home visiting program, nutrition counseling, free pregnancy tests, child health & disability preventive health services, teen pregnancy and parenting program, childcare health program, and support, medical care, and dental care for foster children and children with medical and developmental challenges.
San Francisco Diaper Bank
The San Francisco Diaper Bank distributes FREE DIAPERS to eligible CalWORKs, CalFresh, and Medi-Cal families with children under 2 years old. The Diaper Bank is a program of Help a Mother Out. Their mission is to improve baby and family well-being by increasing access to diapers for families in need.
San Francisco Human Services Agency
SFHSA helps individuals and families get the supportive benefits you may qualify for, such as food, cash, employment, and health care assistance.
San Francisco Latino Parity and Equity Coalition
Provides cash grants to Latinx families in crisis in certain SF neighborhoods; operates the Bayview Family Resource Center providing parent support groups, fatherhood groups, family activities, and educational workshops
SF City Vitals
SF City Vitals Full-Spectrum Doulas provide low-income women and birthing people with pregnancy education, preparation for birth, comfort measures, and postpartum support, and additionally offer support through adoption, abortion, pregnancy loss, postpartum depression, and more.
SF-Marin Food Bank
Get immediate access to food at community markets and neighborhood pantries, and support with accessing CalFresh benefits.
SisterWeb
SisterWeb San Francisco Community Doula Network provides wrap-around care through pregnancy, labor, and postpartum at no cost for Black/ African American birthing people in San Francisco.
Stay Over Program
The Stay Over Program is a family shelter program located at the Downtown High School, Continuation School, for San Francisco Unified School District students and their families who are experiencing homelessness and are attending San Francisco K-12 public schools (not including charter or private schools). To inquire about availability, please contact: (628)215-2080 (Office Line 9 am-5 pm) or (415) 879-4316 (Shelter Line 7 pm-7 am).
Summer Meals for Kids
Provides parents and referral agencies with a list of locations where children may receive free nutritious meals during school vacation and off-track periods. Text “FOOD” to 877-877 or visit link for current sites.
Sunset Youth Services
Sunset Youth Services provides Family Success Coaches (one of whom speaks Mandarin) to meet weekly with families in crisis and help them identify needs, brainstorm options, establish parenting goals, and practice positive parent-child interactions. Our services include referrals, advocacy for children in the public school system and juvenile-justice system, research-based parent education workshops, parenting classes, family-bonding outings, diaper distribution, and a weekly food pantry.
UCSF Black Centering Program
The Black Centering Program addresses the significant health disparities, particularly in birth, postpartum, and infant outcomes, faced by Black families in the U.S. through midwifery-led, family doctor-led, and culturally affirming care. The program offers prenatal and postpartum group care, home visits, meals, transportation assistance, yoga classes, cooking classes, CPR classes, nature walks, literacy support, and baby exams, vaccinations, and developmental assessments.
UCSF Embrace Village Circles
Compassion After Loss Circle: This is a 6-part, bi-monthly, series for Black-identified birthing persons who have experienced an unexpected ending of a pregnancy. Does not need to be a recent perinatal loss. The series focuses on learning about different grieving styles in birthing & non-birthing persons, being in community, cultivating self-compassion following loss, and providing support in navigating difficult emotions you may be experiencing or have experienced.
Fertility Journey Circle: This is a monthly space for Black-identified birthing persons who are currently TTC for 1 year using any method or means, for any duration of time. Village space is also open to BIPOC and Non-BIPOC non-gestational partners and supportive persons to be present with birthing/gestational partner(s).
UCSF Life After Loss Support Group
A group for individuals who have ended a wanted pregnancy for medical reasons.
Meets via Zoom. There is no cost to attend, and the group is open to the community. To learn more about the group or request information on registering, contact:
Carly Kenyon, CGC (genetic counselor) at (415) 353-2004/carly.kenyon@ucsf.edu
Alicia Orta, MPH, MS, CGC (genetic counselor) at (415) 353-4071/alicia.orta@ucsf.edu
UCSF MILK-Mother & Infant Lactation Kooperative Support Group
MILK is a FREE weekly breastfeeding and mother support group. Moms and babies ranging in age from newborn to six months old are welcome. Share your experiences and learn how other mothers are adjusting to the demands of motherhood. MILK is offering in-person and Zoom sessions led by our board certified lactation consultants. Registration required. Space is limited, no drop-ins. To register call (415) 514-2670 or visit the UCSF member portal
UCSF Postpartum Online Support Group
A free, drop-in, peer-facilitated Zoom group to support postpartum parents, facilitate connecting with other families, and provide strategies for postpartum recovery. Registration required. To register call (415) 514-2670 or visit the UCSF member portal.
Women's Building
The SF Women's Building is safe, welcoming space providing resources & support for women, immigrants, and LGBTQIA+ individuals, including housing support, legal/immigration support, job search assistance, a food pantry, financial coaching, family reunification, and wellness classes.
Wu Yee Children's Services
Wu Yee’s Early Learning program enrolls income-eligible families in our subsidized early learning programs. Family resource centers offer activities like storytimes, dance classes, parenting groups, parenting workshops, children's book & toy library, perinatal support. Help with finding benefits and childcare you are eligible for, home visits for expecting families and families with children up to 36 months. Services available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, and Burmese.
YMCA Family Resource Centers
YMCA Family Resource Centers connect families with comprehensive support and resources including basic needs assistance including diaper & food distribution, couples and family counseling, parenting classes, parent & child activities & groups, case management assistance, support groups, and housing/educational/legal/employment assistance referrals.
YUP! Young United Parents
YUP! provides online information, resources, and peer community support for young parents aged 15-24.