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Reach to Recovery | American Cancer Society

Helps individuals cope with breast cancer through one-on-one peer support. The program pairs a breast cancer survivor with a recently diagnosed patient who has similar issues. Volunteers can help them express their feelings, fears and concerns, and can be an impartial sounding board for questions and matters that may be affecting them.Contact may be either a personal visit, a phone call, or online based on location.

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Peer Counseling
Health/Disability Related Counseling

Peer Respite - Middlesex County | Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey (CSPNJ)

Offers free, intensive, short-term support for individuals facing a mental health crisis, presenting an alternative to inpatient hospitalization. Staffed 24/7 by trained professionals, the house transforms crises into opportunities for enhancing personal wellness. Aimed at inspiring hope, the service assists guests in developing crisis self-management skills for handling current and future situations. Emphasizing self-care in sleep, rest, relaxation, nutrition, physical activity, and co-occurring medical or substance use issues, the program allows guests to stay for a maximum of 10 days. Alternatively, in case of a waiting list or if a guest prefers staying at home, the service provides continued contact and outreach for up to one month.

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Community Mental Health Agencies
Psychiatric Resocialization
Peer Counseling
Adult Residential Treatment Facilities
Comprehensive Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Case/Care Management

Community Wellness Center - Freehold (Freehold CWC) | Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey (CSPNJ)

Provides education, support, and resources, fostering a holistic lifestyle encompassing physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, social, occupational, environmental, and financial wellness dimensions. Additionally, it aids in preventing loneliness and isolation, offers avenues for empowerment and leadership, and serves as catalysts for personal growth.

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Peer Counseling
Mental Health Related Support Groups
Mental Health Drop In Centers

LGBT National Hotline | LGBT National Help Center

Provides telephone, online private one-to-one chat, and email peer-support for individuals who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or questioning. The agency also offers users information and resources for LGBT-friendly services/institutions across the United States.

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Peer Counseling
Specialized Information and Referral
LGBTQ2+ Support Groups

Community Wellness Center - Rio Grande (Learning Recovery Ctr) | Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey (CSPNJ)

Fosters a warm, welcoming environment for individuals diagnosed with serious mental illness to acquire skills and motivation for wellness goal achievement, offering education, support, and resources across various dimensions of wellness, including prevention of isolation, empowerment, leadership opportunities, and avenues for personal growth.

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Peer Counseling
Mental Health Related Support Groups
Mental Health Drop In Centers

Crossroad Crusaders - Older Adults | Madison Avenue Crossroads Community Ministries

Assists older adults keeping older adults informed of services available to them, and how to connect with those services, organizing monthly meetings for fellowship and education, planning periodic religious social activities, helping older adults who are not connected to a local church to do so, and meeting various other needs that are brought to the agency's attention.

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Peer Counseling
Aging/Older Adult Support Groups

CareLine | American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA)

Provides resources that support the complex needs of brain tumor patients and caregivers including options for treatment, and research information. Additional services include a peer-to-peer support pairing brain tumor patients and caregivers with mentors who have been through a similar experience with the condition.

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Disease/Disability Information
Brain Tumors
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Peer Counseling

Community Wellness Center - Vineland (New Horizons) | Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey (CSPNJ)

Establishing a nurturing environment, the center assists individuals with serious and persistent mental illness in developing skills and motivation to establish and achieve crucial wellness goals for recovery, providing avenues for accessing education, support, and resources essential for cultivating a wellness-centered lifestyle encompassing various dimensions, such as physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, social, occupational, environmental, and financial, while also aiding in preventing loneliness and isolation, offering empowerment and leadership opportunities, and facilitating personal growth through supportive pathways.

What's Here

Peer Counseling
Mental Health Drop In Centers
Mental Health Related Support Groups

Peer Respite - Passaic County | Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey (CSPNJ)

Provides free, intensive, short-term support as an alternative to inpatient hospitalization for individuals in a mental health crisis. Staffed 24/7, the house transforms crises into opportunities for enhancing personal wellness. Staff inspire hope and assist guests in developing crisis self-management skills for handling current and future situations. Focusing on self-care, the service addresses sleep, rest, relaxation, nutrition, physical activity, and co-occurring medical or substance use issues. Guests can stay for a maximum of 10 days, or, if there's a waiting list or a preference to stay at home, the service offers continued contact and outreach for up to one month.

What's Here

Community Mental Health Agencies
Peer Counseling
Psychiatric Resocialization
Comprehensive Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Case/Care Management
Adult Residential Treatment Facilities

Peer Recovery Warmline - Mental Health Association of Atlantic County | Mental Health Association of New Jersey (MHANJ)

Operates a peer-run service, providing ongoing telephone support to mental health consumers. Callers are introduced to a peer in their area to set up mutual ongoing support. This service also provides mental health information and referrals.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Peer Counseling
Mental Health Crisis Lines
Talklines/Warmlines

Enrichment Center for Women, Children & Families | Enrichment Center for Women, Children and Families (ECWCF)

Provides education, specialized information, and programs for the entire community.

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Peer Counseling
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention
General Health Insurance Information/Counseling
Women's Support Groups
Senior Centers
Specialized Information and Referral

Parent and Youth Support | Family Based Services Association of New Jersey

Provides education, advocacy, and support for parents with children facing challenges in mental health, substance abuse, or developmental disabilities. Services are provided regardless of family income or insurance eligibility.

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Peer Counseling
Parent Support Groups
Parent Counseling
Youth/Student Support Groups
Talklines/Warmlines
LGBTQ2+ Support Groups
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups

Community Outreach, Education, and Avocacy | Adler Aphasia Center

Conducts educational programs for individuals with Aphasia, caregivers, family members, healthcare professionals, students, community organizations, and businesses.

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Disease/Disability Information
Peer Counseling
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Health/Disability Related Counseling

Community Wellness Center - Hackensack (Bergen County Wellness Center and Community Outreach) | Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey (CSPNJ)

Provides avenues for accessing education, support, and resources, facilitating a well-rounded lifestyle encompassing physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, social, occupational, environmental, and financial wellness. Additionally, it actively combats loneliness and isolation, fosters empowerment and leadership, and serves as a catalyst for personal growth.

What's Here

Mental Health Related Support Groups
Mental Health Drop In Centers
Peer Counseling

Community Wellness Center - Neptune (CARE Center) | Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey (CSPNJ)

Provides avenues for accessing education, support, and resources, facilitating a well-rounded lifestyle encompassing physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, social, occupational, environmental, and financial wellness. Additionally, it actively combats loneliness and isolation, fosters empowerment and leadership, and serves as a catalyst for personal growth.

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Mental Health Drop In Centers
Peer Counseling
Mental Health Related Support Groups

Peer-to-Peer Support | Family Support Organization of New Jersey

Offers assistance and support to families enrolled with Bergen's Promise (Bergen County's Care Management Organization).

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Parent Counseling
Peer Counseling

Alternative to Incarceration | Urban League of Essex County

Offers a four-month program for juvenile offenders aimed at nurturing self-worth and self-esteem. Provides educational training, vocational instruction, and group counseling services to youth referred by the family court. Program includes educational training in classic skills and computers, vocational instruction through classroom training and job placement, counseling including group and individual sessions, field trips, and a re-entry program aiding return to school with marking period reviews and resume preparation.

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Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
Ex-Offender Employment Programs
Peer Counseling
Mentoring Programs
Youth Violence Prevention
Youth Employment Programs
Adolescent/Youth Counseling

LGBT National Youth Talkline | LGBT National Help Center

Provides telephone, online private one-to-one chat, and email peer-support for youth who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or questioning. The program also offers users information and resources for LGBT-friendly services/institutions across the United States.

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LGBTQ2+ Support Groups
Peer Counseling
Specialized Information and Referral

Hospital Wellness Center - Greystone (Woody Guthrie) | Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey (CSPNJ)

Establishing a nurturing environment, the center assists individuals with serious and persistent mental illness in developing skills and motivation to establish and achieve crucial wellness goals for recovery, providing avenues for accessing education, support, and resources essential for cultivating a wellness-centered lifestyle encompassing various dimensions, such as physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, social, occupational, environmental, and financial, while also aiding in preventing loneliness and isolation, offering empowerment and leadership opportunities, and facilitating personal growth through supportive pathways.

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Peer Counseling
Mental Health Related Support Groups
Mental Health Drop In Centers

NJ PREP (Personal Responsibility Education Program) | Partnership for Maternal and Child Health of Northern New Jersey

Offers comprehensive sexuality education to adolescents in target region. Cohorts are held within the following geographic target areas- Englewood, East Orange, Irvington, Jersey City, Newark, Orange, Passaic, and Paterson.

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Youth/Student Support Groups
Peer Counseling

Online Peer-Support Chat | LGBT National Help Center

Operates an online peer-support chat. Offers confidential, one-on-one peer support for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning people.

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Peer Counseling
Specialized Information and Referral
LGBTQ2+ Support Groups

Peer Outreach Support Teams (POST) | Mental Health Association of New Jersey (MHANJ)

Provides linkages to peers and supportive services for individuals with mental health diagnoses. Also provides advocacy at both an individual and systems level.

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Mental Health Related Support Groups
Peer Counseling

Community Wellness Center - Newark (Better Life Community Wellness Center) | Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey (CSPNJ)

Provides avenues for accessing education, support, and resources, facilitating a well-rounded lifestyle encompassing physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, social, occupational, environmental, and financial wellness. Additionally, it actively combats loneliness and isolation, fosters empowerment and leadership, and serves as a catalyst for personal growth.

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Mental Health Related Support Groups
Peer Counseling
Mental Health Drop In Centers

Specialty Consultations Hotline | Military OneSource

Offers specialty consultations for military members and their spouses, addressing challenges unique to military life such as deployments and frequent relocation. Delivered by individuals with personal military experience, these consultations cover various areas including life transitions, adoptions, special needs, adult disability and elder care, Wounder Warrior programs, relocation assistance, and health and wellness coaching encompassing weight management, fitness, nutrition, and stress management.

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Talklines/Warmlines
Individual Counseling
Nutrition Assessment Services
Peer Counseling

Peer Recovery Warmline - Mental Health Association in New Jersey | Mental Health Association of New Jersey (MHANJ)

Operates a peer-run service, providing ongoing telephone support to mental health consumers. Callers are introduced to a peer in their area to set up mutual ongoing support. This service also provides mental health information and referrals.

What's Here

Mental Health Crisis Lines
Specialized Information and Referral
Peer Counseling
Talklines/Warmlines