Nevada County Health and Human Services Agency partners with 211 Connecting Point to direct County residents to community resources. 211 offers help with housing and food resources and can help direct you to services for you or your family, such as CalFresh or rental assistance. Click on the Community Resources link for more information. 211 Also provides a Volunteer Hub for opportunities to give back to the community. 

Bright Futures for Youth, created by the merger of The Friendship Club and NEO in summer 2020, has three programs to address the issues and help youth in numerous ways, from after-school programs and a drop-in Youth Center to ensuring access to services. Our focus areas are health and wellness, healthy relationships, goal setting, self-awareness, self-sufficiency and community connectedness. 

FRCs are located on school campuses, they are intended to meet the needs of all families in the region, not just those whose children attend school at that location.  Each of the Family Resource Centers offers the following core services:

• Parenting Classes

• Lending Libraries with parenting and employment resources

• Child Development Information and parenting support

• Playgroups

• Clothes Closet

• Computer Lab including printers and fax

• Food Pantry in San Juan Ridge

• Diapers in Penn Valley and San Juan Ridge

• CalWORKS Housing Support Program Case Management

• Spanish speaking staff is available at the Penn Valley location

• Information and referrals to children and parents

For more than 100 years, Big Brothers Big Sisters has operated under the belief that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life. As the nation’s largest donor- and volunteer-supported mentoring network, Big Brothers Big Sisters makes meaningful, monitored matches between adult volunteers (“Bigs”) and children (“Littles”), ages 6 through 18, in communities across the country. We develop positive relationships that have a direct and lasting effect on the lives of young people. 

Our mission is to offer resources for building healthy relationships and to work with community partners to provide services for healing the effects of interpersonal violence.