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Provides a variety services supporting foster, adoptive and kinship families in NJ.Services include: advocacy and support services for foster, adoptive and kinship parents, recreational events for foster and kinship families, a scholarship fund for foster and adoptive youth, education and training for caregivers, enrichment programs for children and youth who are, or were, in foster care.

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Adoption Counseling and Support
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Scholarships
- Provides home and community-based services for children with developmental disabilities, offering in-home supports, counseling, and family preservation.- Delivers partial care services for preschoolers (age 2-5) and youth (age 5-18) with emotional and behavioral disturbances, including assistance for parents with mental illness.- Offers foster care and adoption services, recruiting foster parents, placing foster children, providing family support, and offering intensive counseling to adoptive families.- Provides support and transitional housing for youth exiting out-of-home placement.- Offers residential services (ages 5-21) such as psychiatric community homes, detention alternative homes, residential treatment homes, and group homes for children with developmental disabilities. Additionally, operates a respite home for children with developmental disabilities.

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Family Preservation Programs
Adolescent/Youth Counseling
Psychiatric Day Treatment
Adoption Counseling and Support
Child Guidance
Family Counseling
Teen Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Therapeutic Group Homes
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Disability Related Parenting Programs
Children's Out of Home Respite Care
Child/Adolescent Residential Treatment Facilities
Home Based Mental Health Services
Supervised Living for Older Youth
Foster Home Placement
Offers a variety of comprehensive services, including Division of Child Protection and Permanency referrals and contracted services such as parenting and anger management groups, individual, couple, and family counseling. Additionally, it provides substance use disorder services like intensive outpatient and co-occurring disorders treatment, along with psychiatric services. Mental health outpatient services feature one-on-one therapy and anger management sessions, while the Family Crisis Intervention Unit delivers brief counseling to children in the Newark school system. Furthermore, the program offers individual and group counseling for domestic violence victims.

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Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Counseling
Parent Counseling
Anger Management
Youth Enrichment Programs
Adolescent/Youth Counseling
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Community Mental Health Agencies
Child Abuse Counseling
Youth/Student Support Groups
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Parent Support Groups
Individual Counseling
Youth Violence Prevention
Prescription Medication Monitoring Systems
Family Counseling
Clinical Psychiatric Evaluation
Offers behavioral and mental health services to individuals, couples, and families grappling with issues like domestic violence, juvenile delinquency, truancy, school challenges, and child abuse or neglect, providing essential support to victims. Services feature parenting groups, anger management classes, therapeutic youth groups addressing life skills, anger management, peer pressure, and conflict resolution, tailored trainings/workshops for agencies on team building, communication, and conflict resolution, psychiatric services with medication monitoring, and recruitment of and supportive services for Resource (Foster) Families.

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Youth/Student Support Groups
Individual Counseling
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Family Counseling
Community Mental Health Agencies
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Youth Violence Prevention
Child Abuse Counseling
Adolescent/Youth Counseling
Anger Management
Prescription Medication Monitoring Systems
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Counseling
Parent Support Groups
Parent Counseling
Clinical Psychiatric Evaluation
Youth Enrichment Programs
Offers information and application assistance to adults interested in becoming a foster parent for the Division of Child Protection and Permanency, DCP&P (formerly DYFS). Foster families provide a home for children who have been abandoned, neglected or abused. These children are in need of nurturing families who will help them heal and grow.

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Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Provides a range of Foster Care and Adoption services, including the Twin Oaks Foster Home Program for children and teens, Foster FLEX for mentoring and respite, Foster Home Support Specialists offering assessments and support to new resource families, The Jean Fredrickson Adoption Support Program providing short-term, home-based counseling, and Act II offering intensive, home-based counseling to adoptive families facing crises or contemplating adoption dissolution or residential care.

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Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Adoption Information/Referrals
Foster Home Placement
Adoption Counseling and Support
Recruits, assesses, and supports couples interested in offering consistent, flexible, and loving parenting to foster children with abuse and/or neglect histories. Treatment Parents undergo ongoing training in behavior management and therapeutic parenting. Additional supports include a 24-hour Emergency Access Phone Number, weekly visits from a Clinician or Counselor, "mentors" for newer families, connections with other families for mutual support, Respite Care, and live trainings at least 4 times a year with dinner and child supervision provided.