Atlantic County Council for Young Children provides parents, caregivers, and community members with an opportunity to improve the Health and Education outcomes for children from birth through 8 years of age. Atlantic CCYC educates families through workshops and trainings specific to their needs. Parent leadership opportunities and initiatives are community driven. The Council meets regularly throughout Atlantic County in Egg Harbor Township, Hammonton and Pleasantville to identify challenges and concerns. Families can enroll by contacting Clecy Romen (info below) or by completing the registration form.
Atlantic
Our Counseling and Wellness Centers offer weekly mental health counseling to children, teens, families, and adults as well as parenting and psychiatric services. Individual therapy is offered as well as family therapy, group therapy, and medication management. Acenda is now accepting new clients for counseling services both in-person and via telehealth—a remote phone or online therapy & counseling solution. Medicaid, Aetna, AmeriHealth, and other insurances accepted.
Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem
Qualified Acenda staff work with families to better parenting skills and offer community resources for their children to receive the necessary care to grow and develop. Our focus is to promote positive parenting, child wellbeing, and strong family bonds. Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) PCIT is a fun, interactive therapy for children ages 2 to 8 and their parents. We help parents learn effective ways to get a child’s undesirable behaviors to stop. Undesirable behaviors exhibited by children include disruptiveness, acting out at school or home, failure to pay attention or follow simple directions, and having frequent temper tantrums. Parent Management Training Negative behaviors in the home can have long-term effects for both parents and teenagers/pre-teens. This evidenced based therapy helps families learn successful ways of interacting. Telehealth Services Our top priority is providing additional care for those experiencing stress and anxiety due to the stressors due to these extraordinary circumstances. Acenda is now accepting new clients for counseling services via telehealth—a remote phone or online therapy & counseling solution. Click here to learn more about our expanded Telehealth Services. Counseling & Wellness Center Locations Glassboro Egg Harbor Township Woodbury
Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem
The Family Counseling Program provides short-term family counseling for at-risk youth referred by Children’s Mobile Response, the Division of Child Protection and Permanency (DCP&P), and other agencies. The program is designed to address the needs of children and their families related to one or more of the following areas: family conflict, truancy, threats of running away, safety concerns and issues related to past or future legal involvement. The program works to stabilize the child and family and support positive behavioral change in the context of outpatient family therapy.
Gloucester
Family Outreach Program is an in-home therapeutic program, providing family-centered interventions to parents and children, psychoeducation, support, advocacy and linkages community resources to support and empower families. Therapists work with the whole family to provide them with tools they need to set and achieve life domain goals, support each other, enhance their protective factors and achieve long-term stability. Therapists help empower families to meet their needs and improve parent-child dynamics and enhance family functioning and well-being.
Gloucester, Salem
Family Outreach II consists of in-home treatment by a trained counselor who provides concrete services, case management, life skills training, advocacy, and service linkages. The counselor will also be on call for crisis intervention as needed. Services are targeted to: developing a strength-based assessment and specific and measurable service plan goals and objectives; provide comprehensive and detailed training including the teaching of skills to help deal effectively with issues such as: child behavior, communication, problem solving and household management; assist families by linking the parents and children to traditional and nontraditional supportive services during the intervention and as part of aftercare planning.
Salem
Family Preservation Services (FPS) is an in-home program intended to assist the Division of Child Protection and Permanency (DCP&P) in meeting the State's obligation to preserve the sanctity of the family and prevent the placement of children outside the home by strengthening families through the application of intensive family preservation services. The FPS program is mandated to provide services to families whose children are at imminent risk of placement, or whose children are being prepared for reunification. The FPS program works to ensure the safety of all family members, prevent the out-of-home placement of children considered to be at imminent risk of removal from their home, improve family functioning, reduce the recurrence of maltreatment, help families utilize community resources more effectively, and assist families with the process of reunification where separation or removal has already occurred.
Atlantic, Cape May, Mercer, Monmouth, Ocean, Salem
Family Success Centers are community-based, family-centered neighborhood gathering places where community residents go for family support, interactive workshops, activities, and groups. Family Success Centers are beautiful spaces designed to bring the community together to build relationships, strengthen the community and the families in it. They are places where residents and volunteers share their time and talent to build community capacity and enrich the lives of community members, and make families and neighborhoods stronger. A variety of family friendly events take place each month. We offer fun and educational workshops and activities, connection to resources, and volunteer opportunities. All services are free and open to all families in the community. LOCATIONS Bird’s Eye FSC 364 S Broadway Pennsville, NJ 08070 (856) 517-9100 www.birdseyefsc.org Mosaic FSC 110 E. High Street Glassboro, NJ 08028 (856) 347-4338 www.mosaicfsc.org Oceanside I FSC 201 Melrose Avenue, Unit 3 Atlantic City, NJ 08401 (609) 236-8800 www.oceanside1fsc.org Oceanside II FSC 3201 Atlantic Avenue Atlantic City, NJ 08401 (609) 594-4990 www.oceanside2fsc.org Orchards FSC 416 Sicklerville Road, Unit A-2 Sicklerville, NJ 08081 (856) 513-8829 www.orchardsfsc.org Oasis FSC 399 N. Main St. Manahawkin, NJ 08050 (609) 994-0200 Ext 651 www.oasisfsc.org Riverview FSC 157 W. Main Street Penns Grove, NJ 08069 (856) 517-0029 www.riverviewfsc.org Shore FSC 1046 B Route 47 Rio Grande, NJ 08242 (609) 778-6226 www.shorefamilysuccess.org
Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Gloucester, Ocean, Salem
Functional Family Therapy (FFT) is an in-home, evidence-based family therapy program for youths ages 11-18 and their families who are experiencing behavioral and relational problems at home and/or within the community. Functional Family Therapy providers engage each family with specific goals designed to develop and strengthen the unique characteristics of that family; taking a relational approach. This model-specific program is an effective treatment for a wide range of behavioral problems such as symptoms of conduct and oppositional defiant disorders, anxiety, depression, and more.
Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem
Gloucester County Prevention Program provides short term case management and support for families living in Gloucester County that have primary custody of at least one child under the age of 18 and are experiencing hardship or instability. Financial assistance to assist with instability is available as appropriate.
Gloucester
The Healthy Families program provides in-home education and supportive services to new and expectant parents. Home visitors work to link parents to existing social service and health care resources, and promote positive parenting and healthy child growth and development. The program typically lasts from pregnancy through the child’s 3rd birthday. Services are currently available in English and Spanish
Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem
Intensive Family Support Services (IFSS) provides support services to the families of the mentally ill through a network of social, community and group gatherings. IFSS services include educational presentations, one-on-one counseling and intervention, as well as respite care to lighten the load for families caring for mentally ill loved ones. IFSS can help your family navigate the mental health system to get access to the services you’re entitled to. IFSS also seeks to help reduce the burden and frustration that often goes hand in hand with caring for a family member with a serious mental illness. Our IFSS team is experienced in communicating on your behalf with other provider agencies that can be of value to your loved ones. Through IFSS, families can also learn skills to help them be effective advocates for themselves and their mentally ill relatives. We offer workshops throughout the year on medications, treatment options and coping strategies. Guest speakers cover a wide range of topics from relapse, crisis intervention and estate/future planning to employment and housing options.
Cape May, Gloucester
The Intensive Supervision program works with Family court and Cape May County Sheriff's department to provide around the clock supervision of youth that are awaiting sentencing.
Cape May
Keeping Families Together provides both short and long-term supportive housing for high risk families who have a current or ongoing history of homelessness, with children at risk of removal or soon to be reunified. The program provides housing resource specialty, case management, therapy and support groups to families who receive either a program-based or rental assistant voucher.
Atlantic, Cape May
NJ4S is a statewide, innovative hub-and-spoke model which supports youth mental wellness and promotes prevention of bullying, teen suicide, substance use, and more.
Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem
Acenda staff work with parents to enhance their parenting skills and offer them community resources to ensure that their children are receiving the necessary care to grow and develop. Our supportive staff work to promote positive parenting, child wellbeing, and strong family bonds. Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) PCIT is a fun, interactive therapy for children ages 2 to 8 and their parents. We help parents learn effective ways to get a child’s undesirable behaviors to stop. Undesirable behaviors exhibited by children include disruptiveness, acting out at school or home, failure to pay attention or follow simple directions, and having frequent temper tantrums. Parent Management Training Negative behaviors in the home can have long-term effects for both parents and teenagers/pre-teens. This evidenced based therapy helps families learn successful ways of interacting. Pre and Post Adoption Support Skilled therapists trained in the unique needs of foster, adoptive, and birth families work to ease all stages of the adoption process. Telehealth Services Our top priority is providing additional care for those experiencing stress and anxiety due to these extraordinary circumstances. Acenda is now accepting new clients for counseling services via telehealth—a remote phone or online therapy & counseling solution. Click here to learn more about our expanded Telehealth Services. Counseling & Wellness Center Locations Glassboro Egg Harbor Township Woodbury
Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Gloucester, Salem
The Strengthening Foster Children and Families (SFCF) program provides in-home counseling for children in out-of-home care whose goal is reunification with their biological family. The program works with both foster children and their resource parent(s), with the goals of enhancing the child and family relationship and improving the child’s behavior in order to stabilize the placement or reduce the number of disruptions. The program works with resource families who are in need of loss and separation education, building attachment, and improving their foster child’s home and school behaviors. All children who have experienced trauma would benefit. Resource parent participation is required.
Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem