New Jersey Peer2Peer Program: EnlightenMENT
(609) 695-6274 x 159
Trenton
The New Jersey Peer2Peer Program (NJP2P), also known as EnlightenMENT, provides young people ages 14-21, in the care of Child Protection and Permanency (CP&P), with peer support through trained professional staff and credible messengers with lived experience in NJ’s child welfare system. The NJP2P program delivers supportive services that offer advice, guidance, and empowerment strategies that support young people to navigate and thrive while involved in NJ’s foster care system.
The goal of NJP2P is for Peer Navigators to help increase a youth’s ability to articulate and work toward their goals, interact with professionals, and be able to initiate connections to resources on their own.
Frequency and duration of services are flexible to meet the needs of the youth. On average, Peer Navigators and youth have contact twice a month. Contacts can vary as the youth moves through the program and can be as frequent as once per week. On average, youth are in the program for one year; however, services can be extended based on need and goal status.
Program Outcomes
Youth have increased their social connectedness, perceived self-esteem, confidence to advocate for their future care, ability to maintain formal and informal assistance, and perceived level of collaboration with professionals in their lives;
- Youth have achieved positive developmental outcomes;
- Youth have increased resiliency; and
- Peer Navigators will have increased self-awareness
Children’s Home Society
Program Coordinator: Nicole Coburger, Director
Phone Number: (609) 695-6274 x 159
Email: ncoburger@chsofnj.org
| Eligibility | Populations To Be Served Young people, ages 14-21, that are in out of home placement for less than 18 months in the following counties: Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Essex, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Union. |
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Last Updated: 04/26/24
Children's Home Society of New Jersey
We provide adoption options, birth parent counseling, child abuse prevention and treatment, child care services, community, and neighborhood-based services, foster care, pre-and post-natal services, school-based youth services, child welfare services, early childhood, and parenting services, including ARC Grow and Trauma Focused CBT.
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