Our Partners
Our mission is strengthened through the collaboration and support of our dedicated partners. Together, we work to expand access to life-saving resources, promote health education, and empower communities. We are proud to stand alongside these organizations in our shared commitment to making a lasting impact.
Featured Collaborative Partners
CPR F.A.S.T.
CPR F.A.S.T is a CPR / First Aid Safety Training agency that provides CPR / First Aid / AED Training and Instructor Certifications for employees at Contra Costa County Health. CPR F.A.S.T provides on-site CPR courses in accordance with American Heart Association (AHA) requirements. CPR classes are taught by Healthcare Professionals.
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All Healthcare employees will be certified with a 2 year - AHA BLS certification upon completion of the training and will be up to date on current compliance protocols.
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Non-Healthcare employees can be trained with Medic First Aid (Health Safety Institute) 2-year certification. Also, a Hands only CPR training can be provided for non-healthcare employees.
CPR F.A.S.T is a CE Provider (CE Provider #07-0032) and can issue Continuing Education Units for the Healthcare Providers. Its mission and vision are:
MISSION: To become a leader in CPR Training, career preparation, in - service training and career development to individuals, members of the fire service, law enforcement, emergency medical services and industrial safety fields. Teaching Community how to save a life and to provide resources for HealthCare professionals.
VISION: To become a part of your ability to save a life if needed during a critical situation. Teaching Life Saving Skills.
Full Circle of Choices
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Full Circle of Choices is a Contra Costa based CBO that serves community members with developmental disabilities that seek to live empowered, self-determined lives of quality and choice. Full Circle was established in the late nineties and is now celebrating its 25th year of innovative, person-centered support and has helped hundreds of individuals live, work, and play in communities of their choice!
The DJF is embarking on a partnership with Full Circle of Choices on a mission to improve the availability and access of strategically placed, community facing AED’s & First Aid Kits, train historically underserved community members on lifesaving techniques, and promote efforts that protect and enhance the lives of area residents with Intellectual and/or developmental disabilities by establishing vocational pipelines into healthcare!
Save a Heart CPR
We are proud to partner with Save a Heart CPR, a nonprofit organization committed to equipping individuals with essential life-saving skills such as CPR, first aid, AED, and emergency preparedness training. Their mission to empower communities and turn bystanders into heroes aligns perfectly with our shared goal of creating safer, more prepared neighborhoods.
The Save A Heart Partnership seeks not only to continue the lifesaving work of the Darius Jones Foundation, but to enhance its work while at the same time providing a healthcare career pipeline to community members intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (I/DD) living in Contra Costa County.
Through the combination of the Darius Jones Foundation’s well established model of community training, partnership, AED deployment and support, with Full Circle of Choices’s expertise in supporting individuals with IDDs in pre-vocational and vocational support, the Save A Heart Partnership will provide AED devices and layperson training to underserved communities in the Los Medanos Health Area. Additionally, by training and empowering Save a Heart Staff (Vocational Trainees) to be the deliverer of services, we will be challenging community perceptions and assisting in the general wellness and agency of an equity seeking group.
The Save A Heart Partnership will:
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Provide training by certified trainers with developmental disabilities in CPR and First Aid to at least 150 individuals.
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Fully Service at least 40 existing AED’s previously deployed in the community by the Darius Jones Foundation (e.g., battery test and pad replacement).
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Install at least five new AED devices in underserved communities in the Los Medanos Health Area.
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Provide at least three vocational trainees with part time employment throughout the grant cycle.
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Certify at least three vocational trainees with developmental disabilities to deploy and service community-facing AEDs.
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Certify at least three vocational trainees with developmental disabilities to act in a training capacity to teach layperson CPR and First Aid in the community.
Finally, while striving to achieve the above outcomes, the Save A Heart Partnership will be working diligently to establish new partnerships within CCHS and the greater community as well as leverage existing partnerships and systems of support (LMHA, Department of Rehabilitation, CCC EHSD, Regional Center of the East Bay, etc.) to explore braided funding mechanisms and business partnerships to shift the partnership from a pilot/proof-of-concept into an ongoing and sustainable program.
Other Partners
We are grateful to all of our partners for their support in helping us achieve our mission. Below are the logos of our other valued partners who contribute to our shared goal of saving lives and empowering communities.
