Resources

First 5 - Family Resource Centers

First 5 provides families of children five and under valuable services through the focus areas of family support, child development, and child health. Find a family resource center near you on their website.

24-Hour Crisis Line for Parents

Feeling stressed? Call the TALK Line for support, information, service referrals, or just to connect with someone who will listen. 

Laughter Yoga

This yoga class offer at the Osher Center incorporates deep breathing, stretching, clapping, and laughter exercises to improve well-being and health. 

Obesity Action Center

OAC is a more than 59,000 member-strong National non-profit organization dedicated to giving a voice to the individual affected by the disease of obesity and helping individuals along their journey toward better health through education, advocacy and support.

UCSF Obesity and Weight Management Clinic

The UCSF Weight Management Program offers customized plans to help adult patients achieve and maintain weight loss.

Headspace

Headspace is meditation application compatible with any smart phone. It 's made simple, teaching you life-changing mindfulness skills in just a few minutes a day.

Mindfulness for Teens at Osher Center

Mindfulness is a practice of relating to our present-moment experience with openness, curiosity and kindness. This eight-week class is specially designed to help teens learn powerful mindfulness-based tools to reduce stress, increase health and well-being, and follow through on what is important to them.

Cultivating Emotional Balance

Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) is an 8-week training that helps participants learn to build healthy emotional boundaries that enable the practice of living an empathic, compassionate life, while avoiding burnout.

MBSR at Osher Center

Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is an eight-week program that introduces you to mindfulness practice in the form of sitting meditation, body awareness, and mindful movement, modeled by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD.

East Bay Meditation Center

The East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC) is an independent center located in downtown Oakland, at 285 17th Street at Harrison, just 3 blocks from the 19th Street BART station. They offer meditation training and spiritual teachings from Buddhist and other wisdom traditions, with attention to social action, multiculturalism, and the diverse populations of the East Bay and beyond.  

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