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Provides support by trained advocate to assist parents of disabled children at IEP meetings. Also offers SPAN Resource Parent Trainings, workshops, and other activities to encourage inclusion.

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Disability Related Parenting Programs
Individual Advocacy
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.
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.

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Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Disability Related Parenting Programs
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.

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Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Disability Related Parenting Programs
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.

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Student Disability Services
Disability Related Parenting Programs
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.

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Disability Related Parenting Programs
Health/Disability Related Counseling
CSOC serves youth under age 21 with emotional and mental health care needs, substance use challenges, and/or intellectual/developmental disabilities and their families. CSOC provides community-based, culturally competent services and supports based on the needs of the youth and family.

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Disability Related Parenting Programs
Therapeutic Group Homes
Independent Living Skills Instruction
In Home Supportive Services Subsidies
Assistive Technology Expense Assistance
Student Disability Services
Central Intake/Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Scholarships
Summer Camps
In Person Crisis Intervention
Case/Care Management
Central Intake/Assessment for Mental Health Services
Therapeutic Camps
Psychiatric Mobile Response Teams
Caregiver/Care Receiver Support Groups
Adolescent/Youth Counseling
Child Guidance
Provides early intervention and family services to infants and toddlers in natural environments.

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Sign Language Interpretation
Sign Language Instruction
Disability Related Parenting Programs
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
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.

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Disability Related Parenting Programs
Child Guidance
Special Education Assessment
Adolescent/Youth Counseling
Student Disability Services
Parent Child Interactive Therapy
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Assists parents and caregivers raising children, ages birth through 21, who face emotional, behavioral, and mental health challenges. Advocates for collaboration with agencies like DCP&P, DDD, Juvenile Justice, etc. Offers peer support, education, advocacy, mediation training, accompaniment to court appointments, IEPs, etc. Extends the services of the county Family Support Organization and provides information and referrals for healthcare professionals, special education schools, legislators, and substance abuse programs.

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Special Education Advocacy
Parent Support Groups
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Disability Related Parenting Programs
Self Advocacy Support
Empowers parents, grandparents, foster parents, adoptive parents, and caregivers by offering a free five-week Professional Parent Advocacy Training program. Participants enhance their understanding of family-serving systems, rights, responsibilities, and advocacy skills. The training equips them to effectively navigate these systems, advocate for their communities, and ensure children receive suitable care and treatment. Approved for foster, adoptive, and kinship training credit through NJDCF, the program includes lunch.

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Parent Counseling
Disability Related Parenting Programs
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.
Offers developmentally appropriate ABA based home programs for newly diagnosed toddlers and preschoolers with autism.
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.

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Disability Related Parenting Programs
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Delivering treatment to children and adolescents experiencing mild to severe symptoms of depression.

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Depression Screening
Individual Counseling
Group Counseling
Prescription Medication Monitoring Systems
Child Guidance
Clinical Psychiatric Evaluation
Disability Related Parenting Programs
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.

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Adult Out of Home Respite Care
Adult Day Program Centers
Children's Out of Home Respite Care
Home Health Aide Services
Therapeutic Camps
Disability Related Parenting Programs
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.

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Pediatric Developmental Assessment
Prenatal/Postnatal Home Visitation Programs
Disability Related Parenting Programs
Food Pantries
Parenting Skills Classes
Literacy Programs
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 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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Adolescent/Youth Counseling
Adoption Counseling and Support
Child Guidance
Psychiatric Day Treatment
Home Based Mental Health Services
Therapeutic Group Homes
Family Counseling
Disability Related Parenting Programs
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Child/Adolescent Residential Treatment Facilities
Children's Out of Home Respite Care
Supervised Living for Older Youth
Teen Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Foster Home Placement
Family Preservation Programs
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.

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Disability Related Parenting Programs
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.

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Disability Related Parenting Programs
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
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.

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Disease/Disability Information
Disability Related Parenting Programs
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. The program implements a 3-Tier community placement system, including Transitional Employment, Job Coaching, and Supported Employment, with ongoing support. Collaborates with other service providers, such as psychiatric, medical, occupational therapy, and physical therapy as needed.

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Disability Related Parenting Programs
Autism Therapy
Adult Day Program Centers
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Disability Related Center Based Employment