Be the team for kids with special needs & Donate to FRN.
Support transformative programs for kids with special needs in Alameda County and their families.
Support transformative programs for kids with special needs in Alameda County and their families.
Be the team that supports all kids. Say "yes" to every family who calls for help.
At FRN, we believe that every family — no matter how old their kid is or no matter their disability — deserves to have their call for help answered.
Sometimes in the nonprofit world, you make difficult choices. You can either say "no" to families who call for help because your funding doesn't cover them. Or you keep saying "yes" and turn to your community. At FRN, we always say yes - even it it means taking meetings on personal time. That's why we're fundraising to serve all families who have kids with special health care needs in Alameda County.
Do your programs work?
At FRN, we strongly believe in data and metrics - it's how we know our programs are working or not. Here's what our families say:
What is Family Resource Navigators?
We're a nonprofit organization dedicated to Alameda County families. We make it easier for families to navigate, advocate, get equitable access to resources - all so their kids with disabilities, development delays or special health care needs get what they need to flourish.
For over 25 years, we've worked with families living in one of the 20 cities that make up Alameda County - from Oakland to Pleasanton, from Newark to Albany. Everyday, our staff shares their own personal experiences and hard won skills with the families we partner with. They all have a passion and a fire for this work and deploy personal experience to improve the experience for someone else. We're unique because every single staff member is also a parent or guardian of a child with developmental delays, disabilities or special health care needs. Most of our staff are actually graduates of the very leadership programs we host.
Why does my donation matter?
For 20 years, FRN was housed under the auspices of Bananas, Inc. In 2017, we became an independent 501(c)(3) corporation in 2017. With a stellar reputation as a outcomes-based contractor with the state of California, we are currently seeking flexible funding that will help us reach our goal of serving all families who have kids with special health care needs in Alameda county who walk through our doors asking for help.
