Housing
200 units of Navy housing have been completely rehabilitated to provide comfortable living environments. The housing is a mix of apartment buildings and small cottages featuring individual yards and common play areas. Half the housing is provided on a transitional basis for up to two years and the other half is for permanent residency.

Support Services
Each household is works with a support specialist who serves as a consultant, guiding residents through their transition from homelessness. Support specialists advocate for residents when needed and are a link to government agencies, doctors, schools, and other resources.

Employment Services
Locating and retaining fulfilling employment with a living wage is a critical step on the path out of homelessness and poverty. Recognizing the importance of overcoming barriers to employment as central to residents’ efforts to become self-sufficient, APC created the on-site Career Path Employment Program. Career Path builds on a continuum of strategies that begin with referral and continue through employment, including: Assessment and Individualized Employment Plans, Vocational Training and Education, Job Readiness, Job Search, On-the-Job Training, Job Placement, and Job Retention.

Life Skills Development
APC staff and partnering agencies provide training and workshops in financial education, budgeting, account set-up, housekeeping and locating permanent housing.

Mental Health
APC’s staff of counselors is dedicated to listening and providing a safe environment for residents to address mental health concerns and celebrate personal successes. In addition to one-on-one counseling, APC offers couples counseling, children and youth counseling, family counseling, assessments, education and referrals.

Substance Abuse Counseling
APC provides education and support to residents with chemical addictions so that life skills may be enhanced, housing is maintained, and quality of life improves.

Children and Youth Services
Like the adults in their families, APC resident children and youth are rebuilding their lives after a period of homelessness and trauma. Some have recently reunified with their families after a period of foster care or separation; all have been impacted by poverty, domestic violence, disabilities, or mental illness in their families. APC Children and Youth Services provide focused activities that support physical and emotional safety, encourage positive life skills, promote creativity and learning, and nurture self-esteem of resident children and youth. While adults receive support services, their children participate in parallel activities in a nearby youth room.

Community Building
APC contributes to community growth by providing meeting space, activities, and other events. APC staff and residents participate in more than a dozen activities each year including community service days, solstice celebrations, holiday parties, bonfires, Native American rituals, feasts, achievement ceremonies, and weekly community breakfasts.

Community Garden Co-op
The Community Garden was built by and for APC residents, students at a local charter high school, and neighbors. The garden provides healthy organic produce and a sense of one community among existing APC residents and their neighbors.

Ploughshares Nursery Project
The Ploughshares Nursery will be a retail organic plant nursery located on the site of the former military base in Alameda. While providing a needed service to a new community that is being built from the ground up, Ploughshares will generate revenue for APC's housing and service programs, provide job training and permanent employment for formerly homeless people, and transform neglected land to an ecologically sustainable use.

Community Arts Center
In May, 2003 a fire destroyed a building that was slated to be converted into our Community Arts Center, a major performance and art exhibit space for Alameda. One day soon, a new Center will rise like a phoenix from the ashes of the burnt out building.