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Alameda County’s Eastmont Self-Sufficiency Center, Suite 100, Temporarily Closed

“We continue to work on solutions to eradicate the ongoing rodent issue at the Eastmont Self-Sufficiency Center, but the problem persists despite our best efforts to date,” said Lori A. Cox, ACSSA Director. “We regret the inconvenience to the community and staff, and we will reopen as soon as it is safe to do so.”

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4 years ago

March 19, 2022

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By Sylvia Soublet

Effective March 15, 2022, the Alameda County Social Services Agency’s (ACSSA’s) Self-Sufficiency Center located at Eastmont Town Center, Suite #100, will be closed temporarily to protect the health and safety of the staff and public while a persistent rodent issue is addressed.

The public may access ACSSA services at the following office locations:

Enterprise Self-Sufficiency Center, 8477 Enterprise Way, Oakland (510-639-1090)
Eden Area Multi-Service Center, 24100 Amador Street, Hayward (510-670-6000)
Thomas L. Berkley Square, 2000 San Pablo Avenue, Oakland (510-891-0700)
Livermore Self-Sufficiency Center, 2499 Constitution Drive, Suite B, Livermore (925-455-0747)
Fremont Office, 39155 Liberty Street, Suite C330, Fremont (510-795-2428)

Case information and assistance may also be obtained by calling 510-263-2420 or 1-888-999-4772. More information is also available on the Agency’s website: www.alamedacountysocialservices.org

ACSSA staff who normally work at the Eastmont Self-Sufficiency Center will be temporarily relocated to other office locations.

This closure does not impact services provided by ACSSA’s Adult and Aging Services (AAS) department at the Eastmont Town Center. All AAS normal business operations will remain in place throughout the Self-Sufficiency Center closure.

Signage will be prominently displayed at all entrances directing the public to other ACSSA locations, and information will be posted on ACSSA’s social media and internet sites.

Sylvia Soublet is the Public Affairs director for the Alameda County Social Services Agency.

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Addressing more than 100 Black and Asian attendees, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie stated “San Francisco is reliant on the Black community, and we must invest in this community.”

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District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, Rev. Dr. Amos Brown, Pastor Emeritus of Third Baptist Church, SF Mayor Daniel Lurie. Photo by Linda Parker Pennington.

By Linda Parker Pennington

The Fillmore Community Ambassadors held its first annual Juneteenth Wesley Johnson White Horse Awards ceremony on June 19 inside the newly reopened Fillmore Heritage Center.

The event featured awards for former San Francisco mayors London Breed and Willie Brown, along with Third Baptist Church Pastor Emeritus, Rev. Dr. Amos Brown.

The Koret Heritage lobby at the newly reopened center at 1330 Fillmore St. held a standing-room-only, culturally diverse and multi-generational audience while the art gallery featured photos of Fillmore community members in action, red Japanese lanterns, art and calligraphy, and Chinese artwork, giving the space a multicultural feel.

Addressing more than 100 Black and Asian attendees, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie stated “San Francisco is reliant on the Black community, and we must invest in this community.”

District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood acknowledged that “the Fillmore community has had a difficult history. Thanks to Rev. Amos Brown’s continuous focus on accountability and resistance, you hold us accountable and continue to inspire us.”

Mahmoud is referring to the Fillmore’s Japanese residents who were forced from their homes and sent to concentration camps during World War II. Black people occupied those homes until the return of their Japanese neighbors and then gave them back, while homes that had been unoccupied were lost. The presence of the Asian community on Juneteenth is a testament to that shared history.

In receiving his honor, Amos Brown elicited a powerful spontaneous call-and-response, where members of San Francisco’s many Black churches proudly shouted out the names: “Bethel AME! Providence Baptist! Jones Memorial! Glide!”

Awards program Master of Ceremonies Shawn Richards of Brothers Against Guns warmly introduced Breed, highlighting her many accomplishments, particularly on “March 16, 2020, when she became the first mayor to shut down a major U.S. city due to COVID-19, saving thousands of lives.”

The audience was captivated by Breed’s emotional speech touching on past traumas, present conditions, and future hopes for the neighborhood where she grew up.

She recalled another trauma of the neighborhood during the City’s redevelopment era in the 1960s, where Black residents were forced to move with a promise of being able to return that was largely unfulfilled.

“We remember when this land was just a field because they bulldozed hundreds of Victorian homes that Black people owned. They built the Fillmore Center, where most Black people can’t afford to live or start their own business. But we are still here.”