Family paths offer parenting classes.

All types of parents-mothers, fathers, expecting parents, foster & kinship care providers, adoptive parents, LGBT parents, and others involved in parenting roles are invited to learn about positive parenting, child development, and more including self-care.

Date: Every Tuesday

Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM

Location: Virtual

Cost: Free

Contact: 800-829-3777

Link: Click here for more information.

This workshop is presented by BANANAS.

This class is designed to assist new parents with recovery after birth, provide a supportive community-centered environment, and awareness of self-care. With babies present, parents can focus on easing tensions, restoring alignment in the body, creating energy, and re-strengthening the core.

Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Time: 10AM – 12PM

Location: Virtual

Cost: Free

Link: Click here to register.

This workshop is presented by BANANAS.

This is a series designed to empower all fathers and help navigate relationships and social norms that may hinder effective parenting. It will also offer personal tools that define or redefine one’s sense of identity and purpose, and establish guiding principles for fatherhood. Participants will learn that everything we need to know about being a great dad is, and always has been, inside us. All we have to do is find it, share with our children, and make their future bright and promising.

Date: Every Tuesday

Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM

Location: Virtual

Cost: Free

Link: Click here to register.

Watch a movie at the Castro Valley Library.

Join in for a family friendly movie at the library! We'll be watching Dog Man. This movie is rated PG.

Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Time: 1PM – 2:30PM

Location: Castro Valley Library, 3600 Norbridge Ave., Castro Valley

Cost: Free

Link: Click here for more information.

Pick up free groceries from Unity Council.

Families can pick up free groceries to bring home. Operating on a first-come, first-served basis. Secure your spot in line by obtaining a numbered ticket starting at 8 am. Bring your own bad.

Date: Every Wednesday

Time: 10AM – 12:30PM

Location: Unity Council, 3301 E12th St., Oakland

Cost: Free

Link: Click here for more information.

Register for BANANAS’ Virtual Playgroup.

Come and join BANANAS virtually for movement and music, crafts, story time, virtual discovery, special guests and more! Open to all Bay Area residents, for children 0-5 years and caregivers.

Date: Every Wednesday

Time: 11:30AM

Location: Virtual

Cost: Free

Link: Click here to register.

Learn about rainforest animals at Castro Valley Library.

See unusual and awe-inspiring animals and come to better understand the tropical rainforest and its plants, wildlife and people, presented by Wildmind Science.

Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Time: 1PM – 1:45PM

Location: Castro Valley Library, 3600 Norbridge Ave., Castro Valley

Cost: Free

Link: Click here for more information.

Celebrate Pride at the San Lorenzo Library.

Join the library as they celebrate Pride with books, songs, and movement; this storytime program is designed for babies, toddlers, and preschool aged children. However, all kids are welcome.

Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Time: 11:30AM – 12PM

Location: San Lorenzo Library, 395 Paseo Grande, San Lorenzo

Cost: Free

Link: Click here for more information.

Drive-thru food pantry available to Cherryland, Ashland, San Lorenzo, Hayward, Castro Valley, and Union City families.

The food pantry is available to families in the listed cities above. Families can bring home a free bag of groceries.

Date: Every Tuesday & Thursday

Time: 2PM – 4PM

Location: South Hayward Parish, 27287 Patrick Ave., Hayward

Cost: Free

Link: Click here for more information.

Dance your heart out at Albany Library.

Get your ya-yas out! Let's all have fun together dancing to songs the little ones know and love and other music that's new to them. Parents, caregivers, toddlers and preschoolers are all welcome to hit the dance floor and move their bodies at this inclusive event.

Date: Every Thursday

Time: 10:30AM – 11AM

Location: Albany Library – Edith Stone Room, 1247 Marin Ave., Albany

Cost: Free

Link: Click here for more information.

TVH provides free groceries for families.

Tri-Valley Haven Food Pantry distributes free groceries to low-income Tri-Valley residents.

Date: Every Monday and Thursday

Time: 1PM – 5PM

Location: 150 N. L St., Livermore

Cost: Free

Link: Click here for more information.

This workshop is presented by BANANAS.

Transforming Anger and Anxiety Join the Calm and Connected workshop and learn how to rewire emotional responses. Parents will dive deep unlocking a powerful approach to understand their nervous system, discovering how past experiences shape current reactions, and develop practical strategies to interrupt automatic stress patterns. By exploring the roots of anger, anxiety, and emotional triggers, participants will learn techniques to break intergenerational cycles of reactive behavior. This workshop is about empowering parents to create intentional, connected, and resilient relationships with themselves and their children.

Date: Every Thursday

Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM

Location: Virtual

Cost: Free

Link: Click here to register.

This workshop is presented by BANANAS.

Why is it that parents aren’t supposed to complain about their kids? Parents know their children are a blessing and what they’ve signed up for. It doesn’t mean raising children isn’t sometimes difficult. Sharing a struggle doesn’t make a parent ungrateful. This workshop provides a safe space to express your parenting challenges, to share ideas and resolve with other parenting adults.

Date: Thursday, June 13, 2025

Time: 10AM – 12PM

Location: Virtual

Cost: Free

Link: Click here to register.

Visit Fremont Library for a special musical performance.

A fun, interactive music performance the whole family will enjoy! Experience the unique sound of the kalimba played by Kalimba King, Carl Winters. Space is limited. Free tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis and will be distributed at the ticket line located outside the library 15 minutes before the program starts.

Date: Friday, June 13, 2025

Time: 1PM – 2PM

Location: Fremont Library-Fukaya Room A & B, 2400 Stevenson Blvd., Fremont

Cost: Free

Link: Click here for more information.

Join the Youth Advisory Commission (YAC) for an outdoor movie night.

Stop by for a night out featuring the movie, Disney Cars. Enjoy a fun, family-friendly evening under the stars as we race into summer! Bring your own blankets and chairs!

Date: Friday, June 13, 2025

Time: 7:30PM – 10:30PM

Location: Washington Manor Park, 14900 Zelma St., San Leandro

Cost: Free

Link: Click here for more information.

The Recreation Division is hosting free outdoor movies in parks of Berkeley.

Bring blankets, sleeping bags, and/or low-back beach chairs with a maximum height of 9 inches off the ground, so the view of others is not blocked. A flashlight or headlamp makes walking out at the end of the night easier. Before the movie begins there will be a shoreline clean up starting at 6:30pm. Movie begins at 8:30pm.

Date: Friday, June 13, 2025

Time: 8:40PM – 11PM

Location: James Kenney Park, 1720 8th St., Berkeley

Cost: Free

Link: Click here for more information.

Check out the outdoor movie happening at Mt. Eden Mansion.

Moana 2 begins after dark between 8:00-8:15 pm. Bring the entire family, picnic dinner, low-back small chairs and/or blankets, flashlights (keep them low!).

Date: Friday, June 13, 2025

Time: 8PM – 10PM

Location: Mt. Eden Mansion, 2451 W. Tennyson Rd., Hayward

Cost: Free

Link: Click here for more information.

Visit Fremont Hub for free train rides.

The Kiddo’s Chu Chu Train Rides are back at Fremont Hub this summer every Friday. Families are invited to hang out in the plaza near Five Below.

Date: Every Friday

Time: 12:30PM – 2:30PM

Location: Fremont Hub, 39281 Fremont Hub, Fremont

Cost: Free

Link: Click here for more information.