Annual Report
BACS is excited to unveil our Annual Report, highlighting the powerful outcomes achieved by our team, volunteers, donors, funders, partners, and community advocates.
We celebrate the sheer number of people we have served and their achievements of health, wellness, and housing. We celebrate our phenomenal efficiency, delivering one of the most effective and low-overhead interventions in our ecosystem, ensuring that more funds go directly to the streets. We celebrate our role as a significant employer in Northern California, supporting colleagues who wake up every day to do “whatever it takes.” These are the very people you would want to care for your loved ones or yourself in times of tremendous need.
We encourage you to read the full annual report for 2023. As you read, know that you are a significant part of the fabric of BACS. You have supported, inspired, been served by, or served our community.
Major Milestone: 100% of Circa60 Partners Housed!
BACS is thrilled to share this profound accomplishment!
Circa60 is a BACS “full-service partnership” program, the highest level of support you can receive in the community. Circa60 helps 100 older adults experiencing severe and long-lasting mental illness, co-occurring substance use disorders, medical frailties, and who are experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity. Usually, people in the Circa60 program have been unhoused for 10 years or more.
Thanks to our incredible program staff and leadership, we already have another program on its way to this same incredible achievement. BACS solutions work. And BACS’ team is out on the streets, in doctor’s offices and hospitals, and wherever else we need them to be doing “whatever it takes” to uplift individuals, families, and communities.
New Get Help Page
BACS is very excited to share our re-imagined “Get Help” page! Now, anybody who needs help can start with where they are, then look more closely for what kind of help they need, and get in contact the best way or plan their visit to one of our sites.
If you need help, check out the new page here! And if you want to support any of the 50+ programs doing “whatever it takes” to uplift our community, please make a gift today.
BBQ Social for Transition Aged Youth
BACS works to build community, engagement, and joy into all of our behavioral health services. Last week, BACS brought out all the TAY (transition-aged youth ages 18-24) for a beautiful BBQ at Lake Chabot.
Some partners even decided to test their luck fishing in the lake! We are deeply committed to getting partners out into their community, connecting with their environment, and continuing to work towards stability and independence.
Progress Towards Solving Homelessness in Hayward
The City of Hayward recently announced that it is showing progress in sheltering of people experiencing homelessness. “According to Point in Time (PIT) Count estimates, which were arrived at based on a physical count carried out across the County on the morning of Jan. 25, Hayward is sheltering 44 percent of its homeless population—up from 30 percent in 2022, 24 percent in 2019 and 21 percent in 2017.”
BACS is proud to be involved in many of these efforts – including participating in the Point in Time Count, providing the Hayward Housing Navigation Center, and our upcoming work of purchasing single-family homes to end homelessness as part of Project Reclamation!
Thank you to the City of Hayward for being such active leaders in addressing homelessness in our neighborhoods.
Community Events
BACS has had a busy month of community events! Some folks caught us out at DripFest in San Francisco, we got lots of love at the Oakland Community Block Party, others came to the Spring Luncheon we hosted at Towne House in Oakland, and potential landlord partners came to our Contra Costa County Landlord Appreciation Breakfast. Where are you going to find BACS next? Keep in touch with upcoming events by following us on social media!
