Provides guidance to youth who may be experiencing emotional, behavioral and/or psychological difficulties. Services that are provided incluse housing, health and wealth-building services to our neighbors who are experiencing, or are at imminent risk of, homelessness.

Provides counseling, educational, recreational, medical, and mental health services. Placement in the Youth Shelter is temporary until children return to their homes or are placed in a foster home, group home, or residential school or program.

Provides a short-term, non-categorical residential facility that offers a safe haven for youth in Mercer County. Staff works closely with the children and their families in an attempt to resolve the problems that led to admission. Family reunification is a priority but when not possible the Family Court, DCP&P and other professionals help to identify alternative aftercare.

Transitions Treatment Home, a community-based program, establishes a caring and supportive healing home with diagnostic assessment for youth, ages 13 through 17, from the southern region of New Jersey. The program:- Provides a comprehensive structured group home environment for 45 to 75 days.- Conducts a comprehensive assessment to identify strengths, capacity, and future placement needs for each child.- Works closely with youth, their family/caregivers, and the Division of Child Protection and Permanency.- Aims to identify the least restrictive, most appropriate level of care upon discharge.- Prioritizes family reunification whenever possible.- Engages highly qualified counselors to offer diagnostic assessment, counseling, educational services, social skills training, and job readiness training. Transitions Treatment Home offers:- Short-term safe, supportive, supervised living.- Strength-based diagnostic assessments.- Family reunification services.

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.

- 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.

Empower young men at Benson House to build a strong foundation for a positive future by providing essential tools and resources. Serving ages 15-19 in southern New Jersey, Benson House offers a safe home environment and comprehensive services including counseling, education, job readiness training, substance abuse assessment, life skills education, advocacy, and community service assignments to foster self-sufficiency over six months to one year.

Empowering female youth (ages 11-19), Envision facilitates community-based long-term residential treatment. Spanning three supportive homes, the program offers intensive therapy, education, and job readiness training. Over nine months to one year, counselors collaborate with girls and families, providing advocacy, individual/group/family therapy, health services, and social skills training. The goal is reunification or a safe living environment. Envision offers diagnostic assessment, family strengthening, educational placement, career exploration, life skills, advocacy, and youth leadership activities.