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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.

Provides advocacy for individuals struggling with mental health or substance abuse disorders. Also offers advocacy for individuals experiencing homelessness, utilities, or food insecurity. Does not offer financial assistance directly, but offers assistance in obtaining it.

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.

Provides various services to veterans of overseas conflict. Services include: VA benefits application assistance, filing or reopening VA claims for service-related disabilities, application status follow-ups, claim disputes and appeals, and various medical benefits services.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Provides advocacy, crisis intervention, support services, linkages, and assistance for crime victims and witnesses, including domestic and sexual violence. Assists with obtaining the status and disposition of cases; accompaniment to the courtroom; childcare while in court; and referrals to social services, emergency services, transportation, and counseling.

Manages a variety of mental health programs for Atlantic County residents of all ages. This includes: Overseeing the Adult Services System, Administering the Children's System of Careand Conducting Youth Mental Health First Aid Classes.

Provides various financial assistance and advocacy programs to individuals in need. Services include: access to community services and programs, emergency financial assistance, summer camp scholarships, and refugee reception and placement.

Provides information and referral concerning mental health for children and adults. Serves as the administrative arm of the Mental Health Board, which oversees the funding and operation of the public mental health system. Mental Health Law Project provides free legal services to the chronically mentally ill and those who struggle with addictions in civil cases only.

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

Offers free bilingual resources and information on comprehensive health, housing, and food linkages, social and financial services. Some of these services include health Insurance application, applications for Food Stamps/SNAP, connections with social services and other agencies, utility payment programs, notaryservice, educational workshops, and free access to computers, internet and fax.

Provides a range of services for LGBTQ youth and seniors, specialized support groups, and people of color. Additionally, offers LGBTQ intern programs, community events, and professional education programs for health, academic, and social service providers.

Harbor House is a psychiatric rehabilitation program for individuals with a chronic mental illness. The program includes a day program, employment services, case management and advocacy, recreational/social activities, and a supervised and semi-supervised housing program. Beds for homeless mentally ill adults.

Advocating for improvements in Social Security disability programs and to ensure that individuals with disabilities applying for benefits have access to representation and receive fair decisions.

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.

Provides comprehensive social service information and referrals to clients and assistance with budgeting and credit repair, completion of government forms, advocacy and fair hearing preparation. Notary publics are also available. Services include but not limited to budgeting, immediate and long-term financial planning, job search advice, pre-authorization advice, referrals to public and private programs that assist with specific medical needs, case oversight.

Provides the information on offenders with intellectual / developmental disabilities, and acts as a liaison between the human service and criminal justice systems. Advocates for this population by providing the court system with a plan designed to be an alternative to incarceration. The program then provides case management services by monitoring the plan through the duration of the probationary sentence. In addition, the program provides consultation, education, training, technical assistance and program development to criminal justice and human service professionals.

Provides a range of services for LGBTQ youth and seniors, specialized support groups, and people of color. Additionally, offers LGBTQ intern programs, community events, and professional education programs for health, academic, and social service providers.

Provide peer-to-peer support, training, resources, and advocacy to caregivers of children/youth facing mental health, behavioral, developmental, or substance-use challenges, helping them engage effectively with schools and systems

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

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.

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