Resources

These are all of our resources. You may find it helpful to view by selected Community and Health Services using the main navigation. Or, you can search by location and keyword!

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Connecting NJ

PO Box 001
Trenton
Anchor Family Success Center 101 Prosper Way Unit 10
Brick

Connecting NJ is a network of partners and agencies dedicated to helping New Jersey families thrive. We provide mothers, fathers, grandparents, and guardians free or affordable access to people, organizations, and other sources of information needed to raise healthy children.

Cancer Education & Early Detection Program (CEED)

(732) 933-3952
597 Park Avenue
Freehold

The Monmouth and Ocean County NJ Cancer Education and Early Detection (CEED) Program provides comprehensive outreach, education and FREE to low-cost screening services for breast, cervical, colorectal and prostate cancers.

Positive Development

(833) 587-1784
299 Cherry Hill Rd
Parsippany
1215 Route 70, Ste B-02A
Lakewood
1930 Marlton Pike East, Bldg P/Q
Cherry Hill

Positive Development provides neurodiversity affirming services to youth (birth-21) diagnosed with autism using an evidence-based developmental model of care --delivered by an integrated team of Mental Health Clinicians, Occupational & Speech Therapists & Developmentally-Trained Paraprofessionals. Approved by Medicaid.

Advocates in Action

(609) 384-9309
1 Main St
Eatontown

Advocates in Action provides a variety of services to our community. Currently, we offer Support Coordination Services in Monmouth, Ocean, Middlesex, Warren, Morris and Passaic Counties. Advocates also provide comprehensive leadership and training programs for caregivers, leadership, and staff. 

New Jersey Peer2Peer Program: EnlightenMENT

(609) 695-6274 x 159 
635 South Clinton Avenue
Trenton

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. 

Behavioral Health Matters

(908) 300-8532
293 Route 18 Suite D-328
East Brunswick

BHM provides innovative training on mental health, substance use, intellectual disabilities, and co-occurring disorders to service providers, treatment teams, and educators designed to enhance outcomes for service recipients and students.  Our live seminars and "CE's on the Go" are offered virtually and in-person (depending on the presenter).

Ocean Ride

The Department of Transportation Services county transit system, Ocean Ride, includes two major services. The Reserve-A-Ride Program and local bus routes. Reserve-A-Ride provides door-to-door, non-emergency medical transportation services to seniors (age 60 and over) and persons with disabilities. This service is offered by advanced registration basis primarily to destinations within Ocean County. Pre-registration is required.

Ocean County Board of Social Services

(732) 349-1500
1027 Hooper Avenue
Toms River
225 4th Street
Lakewood Township
333 Haywood Road
Manahawkin

The Ocean County Board of Social Services provides eligible county residents with financial, medical, and social services assistance. Assistance can be granted for emergency circumstances, as well as to meet ongoing needs.

Karen Gesicki, LCSW

(609) 597-3424
400 North Main Street
Manahawkin

Psychotherapy services provided in an office setting.

National Disability Institute (NDI) Assistive Technology

202-449-952

National Disability Institute (NDI) can provide affordable loans to help people with disabilities purchase the assistive technology that best meets their needs. If you are a resident of New York
or New Jersey, you may qualify. Contact: Laurie Schaller lschaller@ndi-inc.org or 202-449-952.

United Family Services

(856) 332-4698
1 Lupton Ave
Woodbury

Our staff assists parents or guardians to establish control and guidance of their family, identify natural supports in their family and community and learn and practice skills needed to negotiate through the years leading to adulthood.

First Children Services: Transitions School Refusal Program

(856) 888-1097
1256 Marlkress Rd
Cherry Hill
250 S Franklin Ave
Berlin

The Transitions Program is a full day, small group, center-based home instruction educational program for students grades 5-12 with school refusal due to anxiety and/or depression.

Fulfill Monmouth & Ocean

(732) 918-2600
3300 Route 66
Neptune
1769 Hooper Ave
Toms River

The FoodBank of Monmouth & Ocean Counties is now Fulfill. We’ve changed our name, because we’re doing more than ever to change lives in our communities for the better. Ending hunger in our communities is a complex challenge, so Fulfill provides a full suite of programs to provide the resources people need to become self-sufficient.

Garden State Art Studio

(848) 207-8402
2055 Route 88
Brick

At Garden State Art Studio, we provide professional art instruction for ages 5 up to adults. We have age appropriate classes for children, teens, and adults. Each student is provided with an individually created curriculum that is developed based on their needs and interests as an artist.

Heat Hub NJ - Spanish

Encuentre lugares en NJ para mantenerse fresco en los dias calurosos. Visita nuestra nueva aplicacion Chill Out NJ! Información sobre: parques estatales, piscinas, parques del condado, playas para nadar, areas de rociado y salpicaduras, centros para adultos mayores, y bibliotecas. bit.ly/chilloutnj

Heat Hub NJ

Find places in NJ to stay cool on hot days. Check out the new Chill Out NJ app! Including info on: state parks, swimming pools, county parks, swimming beaches, spraygrounds & splash pads, senior centers, and libraries. Visit: bit.ly/chilloutnj.

Lunch Break

(732) 747-8577
121 Drs. James Parker Blvd
Red Bank
765 Newman Springs Rd, Lincroft, NJ 07738 732.224.2345
Lincroft

Lunch Break freely provides life's basic necessities-food, clothing and fellowship for our community members in need. Our mission is to alleviate hunger and lead those we serve to self-sufficiency and healthier lifestyles. We serve everyone, with compassion and dignity.  

Hearts of Mercy

(609) 339-2341
364 N. Main St.
Manahawkin

We break the poverty cycle through learning and enrichment programs that motivate at-risk children to create a better tomorrow. Our offerings, free to income-eligible children and families, include one-on-one tutoring and mentoring, an arts program. summer camp, sports, music, dance, gardening, and community activities and events.

Children's Home Society of New Jersey

(609) 695-6274
635 South Clinton Ave
Trenton

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. 

Saint Peter School

(732) 892-1260
415 Atlantic Avenue
Point Pleasant Beach

For over 100 years, we have been committed to academic excellence, providing a family-focused, co-ed, authentically Catholic education to Pre-K to 8th-grade students in the Catholic Diocese of Trenton.

NJ FamilyCare (Ocean County)

(866) 411-7782
300 American Metro Blvd
Hamilton
1027 Hooper Avenue
Toms River

NJ FamilyCare is a federal and state-funded health insurance program created to help qualified New Jersey residents of any age access to affordable health insurance. NJ FamilyCare is for people who do not have employer insurance.

Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of New Jersey (PLAN|NJ)

(908) 575-8300
PO Box 547
Somerville

Planned Lifetime Assistance of New Jersey (PLAN/NJ) is a unique, not-for-profit agency that provides practical solutions, thus lessening the fear and anxiety families experience when planning for the future. We help deliver the legal, financial, and independent living supports people need and deserve.

NJ4S COMPASS Ocean County, Preferred Behavioral Health Group

(732) 961-4354
245 Atlantic City Blvd
Beachwood

COMPASS is a local program from Preferred Behavioral Health Group serving Ocean and Monmouth Counties under the umbrella of New Jersey Statewide Student Support Services (NJ4S). NJ4S is a new statewide initiative from the New Jersey Department of Children and Families (DCF), and was designed to enhance access for students to prevention and mental health screening services.