Reentry Resources & Services

Education and Careers

  • Bay Area Community Resources (Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco): support for justice impacted individuals to prepare for education and careers.

  • Five Keys Transitional Employment & Reentry (Alameda, San Francisco): support for finding permanent employment, progressing along educational pathways, or enrolling in job training.

  • Project Rebound: supports the higher education and successful reintegration of formerly incarcerated individuals wishing to enroll and succeed at the California State University.

  • Reentry SF (San Francisco): offers employment services, transitional housing help, case management and peer support, medication management and support groups.

  • Rising Scholars Network: a network of community colleges across California serving and supporting students who have been impacted by the criminal punishment system.

  • Underground Scholars (Alameda): creates a pathway and provides support for incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and system impacted individuals at UC Berkeley.

  • Young Women’s Freedom Center (Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, Santa Clara): provides support, mentorship, training, employment, and advocacy to young women and trans youth of all genders in California who have grown up in poverty, experienced the juvenile legal and foster care systems, have had to survive living and working on the streets, and who have experienced significant violence in their lives.

In-patient and Out-patient Addiction Treatment

  • Advent Group Ministries (Santa Clara): free residential recovery program for teenagers and adolescents.

  • Aldea Substance Use Disorder Behavioral Health Services (Napa, Solano): free out patient addiction treatment programs for youth and young adults.

  • Asian American Recovery Services (Alameda, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara): provides an array of culturally competent services to the Asian and Pacific Islander and other ethnically diverse communities of the San Francisco Bay Area. AARS is dedicated to reducing the impact and incidence of substance use in the Bay Area.

  • Athena House (Sonoma): provides residential treatment for women and non-binary people leaving jail or dealing with CPS cases.

  • Bay Area Community Health (Alameda, Santa Clara): provides health and social services for communities. Accepts MediCal and provides assistance with enrollment.

  • Buckelew Programs (Marin, Napa, Sonoma): provides a range of behavioral health and recovery services.

  • Delancey Street (San Francisco): residential treatment and support for formerly incarcerated people and people seeking substance abuse treatment.

  • East Bay Community Recovery Project (Alameda, Contra Costa): supports the self-sufficiency and wellness of individuals and families by providing comprehensive and integrated services for mental health, substance use and related health conditions while addressing housing and employment. Accepts MediCal (enroll).

  • FindTreatment.gov: search for treatment facilities from a nationwide database, curated by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

  • Integrated Medication Assisted Treatment (IMAT) (San Mateo): medication assisted treatment program for San Mateo County.

  • John Muir Behavioral Health Center (Contra Costa): in-patient and out-patient programs for addiction, including services for adolescents. Accepts MediCal (enroll).

  • Lifeline Treatment Services (Alameda): out-patient addiction recovery programs, including a postpartum program. Accepts MediCal (enroll).

  • New Life Recovery Centers, Inc. (Santa Clara): provides affordable in-patient and outpatient treatment for alcoholism and drug addiction.

  • Options Recovery Services (Alameda): out-patient and sober living programs. Accepts MediCal (enroll).

  • Pathway Society Inc. — Mariposa Lodge (Santa Clara): provides free and low cost in-patient and out-patient treatment programs.

  • Reentry SF (San Francisco): offers employment services, transitional housing help, case management and peer support, medication management and support groups.

  • Santa Clara County Behavioral Health (Santa Clara): offers in-patient, out-patient, medically assisted treatment. Also offers programs for children.

  • Saved By Grace (San Francisco): reentry program that is faith-based. Offers assistance with transitional housing, education, recovery classes, resume building, and more.

  • Walden House (San Francisco): offers outpatient treatment and residential mens treatment for individuals in the justice system and dealing with mental health.

  • Women's Recovery Services of San Mateo (San Mateo): offers out-patient, residential, perinatal, and transitional recovery services for women in San Mateo County.

  • Women’s Recovery Services (Sonoma): an in-patient treatment program for pregnant and parenting women.

  • Ujima Family Recovery Services (Contra Costa): in-patient treatment programs, out-patient treatment programs, and children’s programs for families impacted by addiction. Accepts MediCal (enroll), offers financial aid, and provides sliding scale payment assistance.

Resources (food, shelter, medical, legal aid, case management)

  • ​Berkeley Free Clinic (Alameda): health services provider with a range of programs including assistance using health insurance and food benefits.

    • Outreach & Syringe Services Program: twice per month, volunteers will be handing out hot meals, hygiene supplies, and harm reduction items (e.g. glass pipes/clean needles/Narcan) to folks in need.

  • California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP): monitors and challenges the abusive conditions inside California women’s prisons, fights for the release of women and trans prisoners, and supports women and trans people in their process of re-entering the community.

  • Catholic Charities (Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo): assists with homelessness and housing, immigration services, youth & child development, and aging support services.

  • Catholic Charities (Napa, Sonoma): assists with homelessness and housing, immigration services, youth & child development, and aging support services.

  • East Bay Community Recovery Project (Alameda, Contra Costa): provides services for people experiencing homelessness, including medical care.

  • GLIDE (San Francisco): helps people meet their basic needs through a range of programs, including food, legal, health, and children’s programs.

  • HealthRight360 (Contra Costa): a network of reentry services for residents.

  • HIV Education and Prevention Project of Alameda County (HEPPAC) (Alameda, Contra Costa): provides free medical services and education programs in non-clinical settings for people who use drugs and their families.

  • Hospitality House (San Francisco): provides peer-based and culturally sensitive employment, shelter, and wellness programs for residents of San Francisco’s Tenderloin, Sixth Street Corridor, and Mid-Market neighborhoods struggling with homelessness, poverty, and the range of other socioeconomic issues facing residents here.

  • Homeless Outreach Team (SFHOT or HOT Team) (San Francisco): DHSH works to engage and stabilize the most vulnerable individuals by voluntarily placing them into shelter and housing or connecting with other available resources.

  • Homeless Youth Alliance (San Francisco): outreach, medical services, education programs, and syringe access/disposal for young people experiencing homelessness.

  • National Harm Reduction Coalition: search for naloxone and syringes near you.

  • Needle Exchange Emergency Distribution (NEED) (Alameda): a volunteer based syringe service program.

  • Reentry SF (San Francisco): offers employment services, transitional housing help, case management and peer support, medication management and support groups.

  • Reentry Success Center (Contra Costa): provides free services to justice impacted men and women and their families.

  • Saved By Grace (San Francisco): reentry program that is faith-based. Offers assistance with transitional housing, education, recovery classes, resume building, and more.

  • Service League (San Mateo): provides post-incarceration and re-entry services for individuals released from the San Mateo County jail, within 48 hours of their release.

  • The Spahr Center (Marin): provides resources for the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ and HIV+ to prevent HIV and Hepatitis C, including PrEP navigation and Marin’s only syringe access program.

  • Transitions Clinic Network (TCN) (San Francisco): designed for and staffed by formerly incarcerated people, TCN provides medical care and social work assistance to people in need, and trains and hires formerly incarcerated people to staff the clinic.