About Community Villages INC
The Vision
Founded in 2019, Community Villages was established out of a profound commitment to alleviate human suffering, dismantle oppression, and meet the foundational needs of underserved, marginalized communities.
Recognizing a critical systemic gap, we set out to reconnect our local ecosystem through the power of deliberate human kindness. While our initial focus centered on mental health advocacy and supporting our unhoused neighbors, we dynamically expanded our scope to address the intersecting crises of severe food insecurity and the complex challenges faced by the re-entry population. Today, we deliver holistic, trauma-informed resources designed to restore dignity, stability, and hope to those who are too often overlooked.
Community Villages INC El Sobrante, CA 94803 510-400-6570
Activities - Bringing Change
Team Works-Mental Health Advocacy (now offering mental health 101 workshop trainings)
At Community Villages, we are deeply dedicated to expanding access to comprehensive mental health support. We break down the barriers to care by focusing heavily on direct linkage to mental health services, ensuring that individuals and their families are never left to navigate complex care systems alone. Our dual-layered care model ensures that every participant receives the exact level of support they need. Our clinical team members offer direct mental health services utilizing specialized therapeutic modalities tailored to individual healing and trauma recovery. Our trained, non-clinical, peer-led team members empower participants with practical coping mechanisms, emotional regulation, and resilience training. We specialize in proven frameworks, including cognitive behavioral strategies, solution focused and seeking safety interventions.
We believe that mental health does not exist in a vacuum. Our team champions holistic support systems that increase access to mental health care not just for the individual, but for their entire family unit—fostering sustainable, long-term healing within the home.
Homeless (Unhoused) Outreach
Unhoused Outreach
At Community Villages, we believe housing is a fundamental human right and essential to one’s quality of life. We focus heavily on integrating housed and unhoused communities, breaking down social silos, and meeting individuals exactly where they are.
Recognizing that housing instability is often a temporary circumstance rather than a permanent state, our team works to alleviate the immense friction of navigating housing systems by providing immediate relief alongside long-term strategic placement. Our continuum support involves linkage and warm hand off supports to trusted external partners like S.O.S. Richmond (Safe Organized Spaces): Connecting participants with grassroots mobile showers, outreach teams, and transitional workforce pathways, Glo's Independent Living: Routing individuals toward stable, accessible, and community-minded independent housing solutions, etc.
Community Food Pantry
Food and Nutrition Program
We believe that a healthy community begins with access to fresh, nourishing food. We are dedicated to stabilizing our neighborhoods by providing the basic food essentials needed to reduce food insecurity and promote long-term wellness during these challenging times. In partnership with Dr. Akongua Hemaa and organizations like Fawohodze, we teach healthy living options through Flowtarian lifestyles. Flowtarian Life is a holistic wellness lifestyle rooted in conscious nourishment, natural healing, ancestral wisdom, and harmony with the body, spirit, community, and Earth. It encourages living in flow with nature through hydrating foods, fresh fruits, herbs, mineral-rich liquids, intentional fasting, mindful movement, breathwork, and emotional balance.
Re-Entry Program & Vocational training program (coming soon!
Our Goal
To build an equitable, compassionate community where marginalized individuals are seamlessly connected to essential daily resources, empowering them to heal, thrive, and break cycles of systemic neglect.
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Our Team
Our Mission
Our “Why”
Our amazing team of regulars and part-time volunteers are committed to helping others. We take our convictions and turn them into action. We have volunteers that are committed to making a difference within their community. Your engagement in your community makes it a better place to live within. Think you would be a good fit? Get in touch for more information!
Our “Why”
Our Mission
Our “Why”
Seeing a need for energetic, nonprofit work in this area, we formed our organization to provide sensible, community-oriented focus on building a healthy-community based organization. We acknowledge and accepted the challenges on being the change within our local community to empower and develop resiliency within the change process.
Our Mission
Our Mission
Our Mission
To improve access to basic life essentials by reducing barriers that impact one’s quality of life.
