Empowering parents and family members, Baby's Best Start is a nine-week program ensuring babies receive the best possible start. Sessions run Saturdays from 10 am to 2 pm, offering breakfast, lunch, onsite childcare, safety tips, guidance on connecting with resources, insights into child development stages, and giveaways. Following program completion, staff maintain regular follow-ups through monthly home visits and phone calls.

Empowering parents and family members, Baby's Best Start is a nine-week program ensuring babies receive the best possible start. Sessions run Saturdays from 10 am to 2 pm, offering breakfast, lunch, onsite childcare, safety tips, guidance on connecting with resources, insights into child development stages, and giveaways. Following program completion, staff maintain regular follow-ups through monthly home visits and phone calls.

Assist parents by offering knowledge and skills for effective parenting, enhancing parent-child relationships, and encouraging the practice of effective discipline skills. Services provided by the Parent Resource Center include ongoing groups and workshops for infant, toddler/preschooler, and school-age parenting, with other groups available based on need, such as adolescent parenting and parenting of a child with ADHD. All services are free and voluntary, offering counseling services for individuals and families, support groups, parent enrichment workshops, parent training classes, and a variety of resources like books, videos, and information focused on parenting skills.

Empowers children at Morris County childcare centers, serving infants through school-age children and their families, by providing support through the Early Childhood Resiliency Program. Mental health professionals and early childhood education specialists collaborate to offer classroom education, teacher mentorship, parent engagement, and skill development at home.

Guides caregivers and their children (birth to 3 years) through assessment and treatment in the Early Steps to Success Program. Utilizes an evidence-based parenting scale to enhance relationships, focusing on communication, child development, bonding, and play techniques. Program staff meets weekly at Essex or Passaic locations for a comprehensive family assessment. An individualized plan is developed to enhance the evolving caretaker-child relationship. Families receive live therapeutic coaching, education, and support within a nurturing environment to achieve their goals.

Providing families, Center For Family Services Head Start offers a free, year-round preschool program for children aged three to five in Camden City and Camden County. Head Start delivers comprehensive early childhood education and support services, covering health, dental care, nutrition, special education, parent skill workshops, mental health, and social services. The program ensures a nutritious daily breakfast, lunch, and snack. The services include:1. Education: Providing a safe and engaging preschool learning environment, tailored to each child's interests, languages, cultures, and learning styles. Regular Parent/Teacher conferences and meetings are held.2. Special Education Services: Prioritizing enrollment for children with disabilities, ensuring an inclusive environment.3. Family Services: Assigning a Family Advocate to each family, aiding in goal setting, identifying strengths, and linking families to social services referrals for positive child development.4. Family Involvement: Encouraging family participation in individualized services, events, parent trainings, and volunteering, including serving on committees like the Policy Council.5. Mental Health: Offering mental wellness activities in classrooms and collaborating with families on their child's mental health and behavior.6. Health: Assisting families in accessing needed health services, ensuring children have required vaccinations, physical and dental exams, and hearing and vision screenings.7. Nutrition: Providing nutritious meals and involving families in menu development while offering guidance on instilling healthy nutrition habits at home.

Aims to foster optimal child development, enhancing a child's learning achievement. The program includes personal in-home visits, group activities, development screenings, and networking the family with community resources.

Empowers parents with tips and techniques for giving their child the best start in life. Parents receive personal visits, group connections, resource networks, and child health screenings-all free of charge. Equips parents with tools to enhance parenting practices, increase their child's early learning success, and set them on a path to school readiness by increasing knowledge about child development stages.

Offers a program that focuses on supporting parents as their childs first teacher. A Parent Educator will provide home visitation services that include information on child development, parent-child interaction, and family well-being through the use of curricula and activities. Group meetings are offered once a month to foster relationships with other families and the community. Families are welcome to participate until the child is 5 years old.

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.

Saint Francis Community Center offers an interactive program designed to meet the specific needs of participating parents. Films and group discussion encompass multiple aspects of child development. This program is provided at multiple sites throughout Ocean County.

Empowering parents and family members, Baby's Best Start is a nine-week program ensuring babies receive the best possible start. Sessions run Saturdays from 10 am to 2 pm, offering breakfast, lunch, onsite childcare, safety tips, guidance on connecting with resources, insights into child development stages, and giveaways. Following program completion, staff maintain regular follow-ups through monthly home visits and phone calls.

Facilitates parent-child interaction, encouraging development-centered parenting and promoting family well-bring. PAT educators visit the home twice monthly to monitor child development, answer parenting questions, and address other struggles that could interfere with a child's success in these crucial early years.

Provides in-home health education, parenting education, and supportive services. Focuses on supporting parents as their child's first teacher. A Parent Educator provides home visitation services that include information on child development, parent-child interaction, and family well-being through the use of curricula and activities.

Provides free parenting, family intervention, and low-cost violence prevention services to Ocean County families through the Family Support program. Services focus on supportive techniques to enhance family functioning and include: - Parenting in Recovery: Conducts groups supporting families with substance abuse histories, emphasizing effective parenting skills. - Parenting Workshops and Groups: Offers interactive programs tailored to meet the specific needs of participating parents, covering various aspects of child development at sites throughout Ocean County. - Anger Management Program: Conducts stress and anger management groups for Ocean County residents, aiding in trigger identification and coping skill enhancement. - Blissful Babies - Infant Massage Classes: Provides weekly classes for deep bonding between new mothers and babies, promoting healthy sleeping, assisting with elimination concerns, and reducing colic/gas. Classes, instructed by certified Infant Massage Instructors, are available with a provided schedule.