what’s happening?
Healthy housing champions
We are a group of Havenscourt neighborhood residents, trained to serve as health ambassadors in the community. Our primary focus is on building community awareness and support for local policies that support better health through housing.
NEW Havenscourt Cub House VIDEO!
Hear from parents and staff about their experiences with the Havenscourt Cub House, located at the Family Resource Center at Lion Creek Crossings.
RESOURCES For Parents & Families
BANANAS offers monthly workshops, classes, and support groups in the Northern Alameda County cities of Oakland, Berkeley, Albany, Piedmont, Emeryville, and Alameda. Workshops help parents approach the child care selection process, improve their parenting skills, and learn new coping tactics for a range of issues.
Warm Line/ Parent coaching
If you are a Havenscourt parent of a child up to 5 years old, you can meet with a Bananas parenting expert in person or by phone for two FREE consultation sessions. To learn more, call or email Judy at 510-658-7353 ext. 142 or
judy@bananasbunch.org
Families are the Future: a parent-led Creative Action
The Bananas Bunch and HHC’s Creative Actions Workgroup are collaborating on a photo project, Families Are the Future, to showcase what families have been doing during this era of COVID-19. These images will be made into a virtual collage and shared.
transformative heroes art therapy club
At Lion Creek Crossings, a group of eleven students are developing emotional and cognitive resilience through a series of afro-futuristic coloring book activities during shelter-in-place. Through a summer of online and socially distanced outdoor instruction with an artist in residence, this weekly program guides students in developing a character that represents their own strength and adversity. This transformative character will reimagine and reinvent a future, overcoming the issues faced today.
Havenscourt Cub House
A space to connect parents with one another and build community at the Lion Creek Crossings Family Resource Center. Free weekly playgroups hosted by BANANAS support families to pretend, play, celebrate music, create art, and dream up inventions while gaining new parenting tools and learning about child development.
Havenscourt Youth JobS Initiative
The Havenscourt Youth Jobs Initiative is a partnership between the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) and United Way Bay Area (UWBA) to provide 100 young adults with career exploration programs, job readiness trainings, paid internship, and hiring fairs paired with financial coaching. This comprehensive program develops career readiness skills in high school age youth and provides direct employment to youth.
Artist Credit: Layeela Muhammad, @bylayeelah
block party 2020
Originally envisioned as a placekeeping festival at the Coliseum BART station, this collaboratively produced end-of-year showcase streamed on Zoom May 29 featuring a live DJ set, offerings from local businesses, performances and presentations by youth, residents and partners. This event was co-hosted by Destiny Arts Center, Black Cultural Zone, and Healthy Havenscourt.
Coliseum development Community forum
This workshop and informational session was co-hosted by Oakland United and Healthy Havenscourt in July 2019 to share out about the community benefits process for a proposed development project at the current Coliseum site.
Sparkpoint Oakland
SparkPoint Oakland builds financial health and increases access to good jobs for all Oakland residents. A regional initiative started by United Way of the Bay Area in 2008, SparkPoint Oakland is the first SparkPoint Center of twenty two in the Bay Area. The Centers are a collaborative of financial, workforce, and community based services that integrate supports to residents so that they can become economically prosperous. SparkPoint focuses on four areas: managing credit, reducing debt, increasing income, and building assets. SparkPoint is located at the Eastmont Mall and its partners are East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation, Operation HOPE, West Oakland Job Resource Center, and Laney College.