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Specializing in treating children and adolescents with depression, the Center for Children and Youth, staffed by therapists trained through The Center for the Advancement of Children's Mental Health at Columbia University, offers collaborative interventions by child psychiatrists and therapists. The Center provides comprehensive assessment, therapy, family support, and medication management for positive outcomes.

Provides advocacy for the under-served Hispanic community within the County of Passaic. It operates a support group for parents and guardians of children with complex emotional disturbances. The groups are geared toward self empowerment and individual guidance and support.

Offers developmentally appropriate ABA center based programs for newly diagnosed toddlers and preschoolers with autism. Provided at Paramus location.

Provides educational sessions for parents, while holding fun camp activities for children & teens with diabetes, while offering families the opportunity to meet with peers and share feelings and ideas on raising a child with diabetes.

Designed to provide support and encouragement to parents of children born with congenital heart defects and heart disease. Individual chapters are also looking at creative ways to reach patients of all ages.

Offers information and education on the development of blind and visually impaired children. Families can receive telephone support from the agency and network with other families that are part of the organization. The agency also sponsors seminars, trainings/meetings, and social events.

Conduct meetings where heart patients and families receive support in coping with the diagnosis, treatment or surgery for heart disease. Learning to understand and express shock, disbelief, anger or frustration is an important step in the patients' recovery process, and the supportive environment of group meetings provides a forum for these discussions. Chapters also invite healthcare professionals to present valuable information and answer questions.

Offers several supportive services for families of children with autism, including regularly scheduled home visits, programs targeting goals relevant to community and family integration, guidance in addressing challenging behaviors at home and in the community, sibling support and education and ongoing family education workshops and informational seminars.

Enhance the lives of adults on the autism spectrum through the Adults with Autism Day Program, fostering their success in a supportive environment. Services encompass skills assessment, family involvement in treatment planning, individual guidance, consultations with applied behavioral analysis consultants, activities of daily living and leisure skills training, social skills groups, community-based recreational activities, and pre-vocational and vocational training.

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

Empowering families, Regional Family Support Planning Councils facilitate informed decision-making tailored to their needs. These councils allow both family members and individuals with developmental disabilities to serve, aiding the Division of Developmental Disabilities in resource allocation for regional needs. Members receive reimbursement for travel and childcare expenses incurred while serving on the council.

Offers several supportive services for families of children newly diagnosed with autism. Services include on-site educational workshops for families of newly diagnosed children, in-home short term intensive parent training and education, clinical support and interventions to address challenging behavior and teach language and social skills.

Provides information and education sessions to parents who have a child with a disability. These information sessions can be in-person or webinar based. In addition, the agency runs a training calendar, which is an online portal that families and professionals can use to find local events. It is open to agencies who want to post their upcoming events, as well to individuals who are looking for opportunities.

Assists families with children with special needs through the transition process from school to adult services. The program includes a timeline, practical advice, and archived webinars.

Empowers parents, grandparents, foster parents, adoptive parents, and caregivers through a free five-day Professional Parent Advocacy Training program. Participants gain insights into family-serving systems, rights, responsibilities, and advocacy skills, enabling effective navigation of these systems and advocacy for their communities to ensure children receive appropriate care. Approved for foster, adoptive, and kinship training credit by NJDCF.

Offers workshops, consultation, and supportive services to parents, schools, and other agencies relating to issues concerning children with disabilities. Training and education are offered in three categories: professional development, workshops and seminars, and internships and field placements.

Provides behavioral therapy groups for children aimed at enhancing skills related to relationships, rules, limits, and decision-making, alongside family sessions to enhance communication and coping strategies. Additionally, offers medication consultations and management to aid attention and focus, with services covering diagnostic evaluations, individual and family therapy, school consultations, and computer-based training.

Provides an adult day habilitation program, after-school care, and in-home respite services for children and adults with physical and other disabilities. Services extend to families of disabled individuals, featuring programs like the Personal Assistance Services Program (PASP), after-school care, agency-based respite, in-home respite, adult day program, and teenage/adult recreation program offered twice a month.

Provides early intervention and family services to infants and toddlers with hearing impairments. Services are conducted in the child's in natural environments.

Supports parents and caregivers of children aged birth through 25 facing emotional, behavioral, and mental health challenges by advocating for collaboration with agencies such as DCP&P, DDD, and Juvenile Justice. Provides essential services including peer support, education, advocacy, mediation training, and assistance with court appointments and IEPs. Extends resources through the county Family Support Organization, offering information and referrals to mental healthcare practitioners, special education schools, and substance abuse programs.

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.

Provides a home visitation program utilizing the Parents as Teachers model. Also offers in-home parenting education and support, child development/health screenings, fatherhood and literacy programs, as well as a food pantry. The Parents as Teachers model aims to increase parent knowledge of early childhood development, provide early detection of developmental delays and health issues, prevent child abuse and neglect, and increase a child's school readiness and success.