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NJPC Professional Parent Advocacy Training | New Jersey Parents Caucus

5 Cedar Terrace, Wharton, NJ 07885

Eligibility
Open to parents, grandparents, foster parents, adoptive parents, and other caregivers raising children with emotional and behavioral challenges.
Required documents
None
Hours
Website is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
908-994-7471
Voice·

Main Phone

973-994-7005
Fax·

Fax

908-994-7257
Voice·

Alternate Phone

Application process
Call or email to register. Visit the website to check the current course dates and times.
Fees
None
Service area
NJ

Empowers parents, grandparents, foster parents, adoptive parents, and caregivers through a free five-day Professional Parent Advocacy Training program. Participants gain insights into family-serving systems, rights, responsibilities, and advocacy skills, enabling effective navigation of these systems and advocacy for their communities to ensure children receive appropriate care. Approved for foster, adoptive, and kinship training credit by NJDCF.

Providing organization
New Jersey Parents Caucus

Ensures that every family who has children with special emotional and behavioral needs is given an opportunity to play a strong and active role in the conceptualization. This includes development and delivery of effective and timely services within the mental health, special education, juvenile justice and child welfare systems.

NJPC Professional Parent Advocacy Training | New Jersey Parents Caucus