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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.

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.

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.

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.

Provides a range of Foster Care and Adoption services, including 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.

Provides children, teens and families living with emotional/behavioral issues or a developmental disability the support needed to improve quality of life at home, school and in the community.