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Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury (PATBI) | Disability Rights New Jersey (DRNJ)

Ensures that individuals with TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) and their families have access to: information, referrals and advice; individual and family advocacy; legal representation; and specific assistance in self-advocacy. The program prioritizes reaching communities of color and underserved urban and rural populations.

What's Here

Legal Representation
Specialized Information and Referral
Brain Injuries
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Self Advocacy Support
Individual Advocacy

Resource Center for Families With Children | SPAN Parents Advocacy Network

Provides information, resources, support, and advocacy to families, professionals, and Parent Center colleagues. Those resources cover essential areas including child abuse prevention, educational workshops, development training, and support in child welfare, juvenile justice, and mental health.

What's Here

People With Disabilities/Health Conditions
Parenting Skills Classes
Health/Disability Related Counseling
Child Abuse Prevention
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Specialized Information and Referral
General Mental Health Information/Education
Child Development Classes
Special Education Advocacy
Individual Advocacy

Alzheimer's Resources | Alzheimer's Association

Offers a 24 hour, 7 days a week helpline, support groups, family and professional caregiver training, multi-cultural outreach, advocacy, Medicalert, and a safe return program to people with Alzheimer's disease, their caregivers, health care professionals and the public.

What's Here

Families/Friends of People With Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias
Individual Advocacy
Caregiver Consultation and Support
Adult Out of Home Respite Care
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Dementia Management
Aging/Older Adult Support Groups
Medic Alert

Family Success Center | Jefferson Park Ministries

Operates a one-stop shop that provides wrap-around resources and supports for families. Core services include access to information on child, maternal and family health services, linkage to publicly-funded health insurance programs, referrals to local health care services, development of plans which address strengths and challenges that threaten to undermine family stability.

What's Here

Parenting Skills Classes
Housing Search Assistance
Child Abuse Prevention
Individual Advocacy
General Health Insurance Information/Counseling
Personal Financial Counseling
Physician Referrals
Family Resource Centers/Outreach
Career Counseling
Specialized Information and Referral
Case/Care Management
Family Counseling

Family Success Center | Newark Emergency Services for Families (NESF)

Hosts a family success center where individuals and families can receive program and service referrals. They will be able to apply for the Affordable Healthcare, receive assistance with online applications for government benefits; and receive needed items for infants and children.

What's Here

Individual Advocacy
Housing Search Assistance
Specialized Information and Referral
Parenting Skills Classes
General Health Insurance Information/Counseling
Family Resource Centers/Outreach
Physician Referrals
Family Counseling

Promise Neighborhood Family Success Center | Center For Family Services

Empowers community residents by providing a community-based, family-centered gathering place. Residents can access family support, information, and services in a safe and supportive home-like environment designed to strengthen the family unit, build relationships, enrich lives, and fortify neighborhoods.Services offered at the center include applying for stipends to cover utility expenses through the Assistance for Gas and Electric (PAGE) program, linking families to community resources, hosting cross-cultural family dinners, organizing parent-child activities, providing referral services, offering information on family health, delivering housing-related services, facilitating family goal setting, conducting budgeting and goal-setting sessions, hosting parenting workshops, providing life skills training, offering job search, resume building, and interview tips, organizing parent and community cafes, and engaging in advocacy and home visits.

What's Here

Child Abuse Prevention
Specialized Information and Referral
Job Interview Training
General Health Insurance Information/Counseling
Family Resource Centers/Outreach
Individual Advocacy
Job Search/Placement
Housing Search Assistance
Resume Preparation Assistance
Family Counseling
Case/Care Management
Parenting Skills Classes
Personal Financial Counseling

Family Success Center | Palisades Family Success Center

Establish a community-based, family-centered neighborhood gathering place, The Family Success Center, providing support, information, and services to strengthen families and neighborhoods. Offer access to child, maternal, and family health services, linkage to publicly-funded health insurance, referrals to local health care, and development of stability plans.

What's Here

Career Counseling
Parenting Skills Classes
Housing Search Assistance
Physician Referrals
Case/Care Management
Family Counseling
General Health Insurance Information/Counseling
Individual Advocacy
Personal Financial Counseling
Family Resource Centers/Outreach
Specialized Information and Referral

Adult Services | United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) of Hudson County

Provides developmentally disabled adults with a wide range of support and advocacy services. Service options include day habilitation, pre-vocational training, aftercare/afterwork socialization programs, and community integration training.

What's Here

Adult Day Program Centers
Individual Advocacy

Victim, Survivor Services, and Human Trafficking Services | AVANZAR

Eases the physical, psychological, and emotional trauma while preventing the recurrence of domestic violence, sexual assault, incest, and human trafficking for victims and their families.Includes services such as operating a 24-hour hotline for crisis intervention, emotional support, information on emergency shelter, counseling, legal advocacy, and other community and social service resources

What's Here

Domestic Violence Shelters
Temporary Restraining Orders
Sexual Assault Hotlines
Crime Victim Support
Anger Management
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Child Sexual Abuse Counseling
Human Trafficking Shelters
Counseling for Children Affected by Domestic Violence
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Counseling
Individual Advocacy
Sexual Assault Counseling
Domestic Violence Hotlines
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Sexual Assault Shelters

Intensive Family Support Services (IFSS) Program | Acenda Integrated Health - Woodbury

Provides support services to the families of the mentally ill through a network of social, community and group gatherings. IFSS services include educational presentations, one-on-one counseling and intervention, advocacy, various workshops, information (housing, employment, relapse, crisis intervention), as well as respite care to lighten the load for families caring for mentally ill loved ones.

What's Here

Family Counseling
Individual Counseling
Adult Out of Home Respite Care
Caregiver Counseling
Self Advocacy Support
Mental Health Related Support Groups
General Mental Health Information/Education
Individual Advocacy

Advocacy | Association for Special Children and Families (ASCF)

Assists and supports parents of disabled children at IEP meetings. Also offers SPAN Resource Parent Trainings, workshops, and other activities to encourage inclusion.

What's Here

Individual Advocacy
Disability Related Parenting Programs

Legal Services | Salem County Office on Aging

Provides assistance with cases involving governmental benefits and entitlement. This includes landlord/tenant relationships, protective services and pensions at no cost to senior and disabled individuals.

What's Here

Individual Advocacy
Landlord/Tenant Dispute Resolution
Adult Protective Services
Elder Abuse Prevention
Elder Law
General Legal Aid

Bayside Family Success Center | Jewish Renaissance Foundation

Supporting families in managing parenting stress and everyday challenges, the FSC promotes positive outcomes for children, youth, and families, fostering increased involvement through formal and informal support networks. Family activities offered include parenting classes, resume building, job search support, ESL and citizenship tutoring, community advisory, movie nights, financial literacy, healthy living classes, family crafts, and a moms support group.

What's Here

Individual Advocacy
Resume Preparation Assistance
Citizenship Test Preparation
Job Search/Placement
English as a Second Language
Family Resource Centers/Outreach

Integrated Case Management Services (ICMS) in Newark | Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Newark - Mt Carmel Guild Behavioral Health Services

Integrated Case Management Services provides case management services designed to engage and support adults with serious and persistent mental illness, while striving to help them integrate into the community. Case Managers work with individuals to facilitate access to and utilization of needed resources and supports. ICMS Services include outreach, assessment, linkage to community resources, crisis intervention, substance abuse education and intervention, psycho-education, and advocacy.

What's Here

Case/Care Management
Individual Advocacy

Legal Assistance | Northeast New Jersey Legal Services

Provides free legal services and legal counseling to low-income individuals. Assists with consumer rights and debt cancellation, domestic violence and sexual assault, education, elder justice, expungements (Clearing Your Record), family and relationships, federal taxes, HIV/AIDS (rya white project), housing, immigration, public benefits, seniors, and veterans.

What's Here

Welfare Rights Assistance
Divorce Assistance
Bankruptcy Assistance
Workers Compensation Benefits Assistance
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Elder Law
Individual Advocacy
General Legal Aid
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Labor and Employment Law
Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
Unemployment Insurance Benefits Assistance
Legal Representation
Housing Complaints
Criminal Record Expungement Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Eviction Prevention Assistance

Benefits Advocacy | American Legion

Helps veterans and their families understand and apply for a VA disability benefits claim. Also provides clients with benefits information such as employment and business, death, and education.

What's Here

Individual Advocacy

Alzheimer's Resources | Alzheimer's Association

Offers a 24 hour, 7 days a week helpline, support groups, family and professional caregiver training, multi-cultural outreach, advocacy, Medicalert, and a safe return program to people with Alzheimer's disease, their caregivers, health care professionals and the public.

What's Here

Families/Friends of People With Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias
Individual Advocacy
Caregiver Consultation and Support
Adult Out of Home Respite Care
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Dementia Management
Aging/Older Adult Support Groups
Medic Alert

Family Success Center | FOCUS Hispanic Center for Community Development

Provide family-centered services at the FOCUS Family Success Center in Newark, including referrals, life-skills training, parent-child activities, housing support, job assistance, advocacy, youth programs, and emergency help to strengthen families and prevent child maltreatment.

What's Here

Job Search/Placement
General Health Insurance Information/Counseling
Career Counseling
Housing Search Assistance
Physician Referrals
Case/Care Management
Family Counseling Agencies
Personal Financial Counseling
Individual Advocacy
Specialized Information and Referral
Family Counseling
Family Resource Centers/Outreach
Parenting Skills Classes

Hudson Pride Center | Hudson Pride Center

Provides a range of services, including social/educational groups for LGBTQ youth and seniors, specialized support groups, HIV prevention support for women of color, linkage to HIV care, treatment adherence counseling, HIV Pre-Exposure Prevention (PrEP) counseling, transgender-affirming counseling, brief support counseling, LGBTQ-affirming service referrals, mentoring, and career development. Additionally, offers LGBTQ intern programs, community events, youth-focused education on HIV/STI prevention, substance abuse prevention, intimate partner violence, LGBTQ history, healthy relationships, and anti-bullying, along with continuing professional education programs for health, academic, and social service providers.

What's Here

Specialized Information and Referral
Individual Counseling
Housing Search Assistance
Resume Preparation Assistance
Individual Advocacy
HIV Testing
Physician Referrals
General Benefits and Services Assistance
AIDS/HIV Prevention Counseling
LGBTQ2+ Support Groups
Addictions/Substance Use Disorder Support Groups
Neighborhood Multipurpose Centers
Job Search Techniques

Legal Assistance | Northeast New Jersey Legal Services

Provides free legal services and legal counseling to low-income individuals. Assists with consumer rights and debt cancellation, domestic violence and sexual assault, education, elder justice, expungements (Clearing Your Record), family and relationships, federal taxes, HIV/AIDS (rya white project), housing, immigration, public benefits, seniors, and veterans.

What's Here

Welfare Rights Assistance
Divorce Assistance
Bankruptcy Assistance
Workers Compensation Benefits Assistance
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Elder Law
Individual Advocacy
General Legal Aid
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Labor and Employment Law
Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
Unemployment Insurance Benefits Assistance
Legal Representation
Housing Complaints
Criminal Record Expungement Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Eviction Prevention Assistance

Integrated Case Management Services (ICMS) in Cranford | Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Newark - Mt Carmel Guild Behavioral Health Services

Integrated Case Management Services provides case management services designed to engage and support adults with serious and persistent mental illness, while striving to help them integrate into the community. Case Managers work with individuals to facilitate access to and utilization of needed resources and supports. ICMS Services include outreach, assessment, linkage to community resources, crisis intervention, substance abuse education and intervention, psycho-education, and advocacy.

What's Here

Individual Advocacy
Case/Care Management

Family Success Center | AtlantiCare Behavioral Health (ABH) Hammonton Family Success Center

Offers comprehensive mental health and substance abuse treatment across numerous Atlantic County locations. As the leading provider in New Jersey, it furnishes services for mental health, substance use recovery, addiction recovery, and family care social services.

What's Here

Personal Financial Counseling
Case/Care Management
Family Counseling
Housing Search Assistance
Career Counseling
Individual Advocacy
Specialized Information and Referral
Physician Referrals
Family Resource Centers/Outreach
Parenting Skills Classes
General Health Insurance Information/Counseling

Student Veteran Support | Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW)

Provides various support programs for student veterans. Services include: scholarships, support grants, and the VFW-SVA Legislative Fellowship.

What's Here

Individual Advocacy
Scholarships

Family Support Services | Women Rising, Inc.

Provides short-term counseling to assess needs and assist individuals and families in goal setting, information on and referral to other services, crisis intervention/management, and advocacy.

What's Here

Individual Counseling
In Person Crisis Intervention
Family Counseling
Individual Advocacy
Specialized Information and Referral

Caregivers of New Jersey Advocacy | Caregivers of New Jersey

Provides advocacy services for all individuals in New Jersey with caregiving issues, including the aging, developmental and physical disability, chronic illness and mental health communities.

What's Here

Individual Advocacy