Barbara Bernstein - COMMUNITY SERVICE

For more than 40 years, Barbara Bernstein has dedicated her life to assisting those most in need. She has managed programs providing low-income housing, employment and training, youth services and community outreach - lending energy and expertise to organizations such as the Bay Area Urban League, Alameda County Tranining & Employment Board, Oakland Housing Authority and Berkeley Unified School District. For the past 22 years, Barbara has served as Executive Director of the nonprofit Eden I&R (Information and Referral), a one-of-a-kind centralized source for health, housing and human services information that links people to vital services in the community. In this role, she developed and manages the 2-1-1 phone line that provides critical information and referrals to more than 100,000 Alameda County callers annually.

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