Family Resource Centers (FRCs)

Family Resource Centers (FRCs) offer a range of services, activities, and opportunities that respond to the family's needs and connect them to relevant, helpful resources. FRCs offer help with registering for CalFresh, MediCal, and utility subsidies; food and diaper banks; parenting and healthy relationship classes; child developmental screening, language translation; information about immigration; and more.

FRCs in South County:

• Alpha Resource Center
• Carpinteria Children’s Project
• Isla Vista Youth Projects
• Schools in Santa Barbara Unified School District and Hope Elementary School District [FSA]

FRCs in Mid County:

• Dorothy Jackson Family Resource Center in Lompoc [FSA]
• Santa Ynez Valley People Helping People

FRCs in North County:

• Cuyama Valley Family Resource Center
• Healthy Start Family Resource Center in Santa Maria [FSA]
• Little House by the Park in Guadalupe [FSA]

Additional organizations providing family support services:

• Children’s Resource & Referral
• CommUnify (Head Start and Early Head Start)
• Department of Social Services
• Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara
• Santa Barbara Unified School District
• St. Vincent’s
• Vandenberg Space Force Base Family Readiness Center