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Provide a food pantry for individuals and families in need
Provides assistance to individuals unable to make mortgage payments, at risk of foreclosure, or already in the foreclosure process. Services are provided through counseling on how to have discussions with a landlord regarding rental situations.
Assist low-income households in managing energy costs and maintaining safe, affordable utility service through the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and the Universal Service Fund (USF).
LIHEAP Overview
Assists with heating and medically necessary cooling costs during designated program periods. Provides regular seasonal benefits and may offer emergency assistance for households facing shut-off or fuel shortages. Payments are typically made directly to the utility company or fuel supplier, ensuring continuity of service.Available to both homeowners and renters who meet income and residency requirements.
USF Overview
Offers monthly credits on electric and/or gas bills to reduce ongoing energy costs. Designed for households that spend a significant portion of their income on energy. Helps prevent service interruptions and promotes long-term affordability.
Provides a wide range of counseling services and programs, offering individual, group, and family counseling for all ages, from child to senior citizen. Services encompass alcohol and drug addictions/testing, attention deficit disorder, marriage counseling, eating disorders, smoking cessation, parent support and education groups, mental health and psychological testing, depression, grief and loss, stress, and loneliness.
Offers a number of courses for seniors or those about to become seniors on everything from fitness to estate planning to elder law to Medicare to getting the services needed to remain independent.
- Conducting Rapid HIV Testing: Offering a free and confidential service with results available in 20 minutes, accessible on-site and through the Mobile Testing Unit traveling across Monmouth and Ocean Counties.
- Offering Harm Reduction Services: Providing free syringes and injection equipment for individuals injecting drugs and/or hormones, along with harm reduction counseling and overdose prevention counseling. The program also facilitates low-threshold buprenorphine induction for eligible individuals seeking medically assisted opioid treatment.
- Providing PrEP Counseling: Offering counseling services to gay and bisexual men who perceive themselves at high risk for HIV, with counselors available both in-office and within the community.
Operates an online peer-support chat. Offers confidential, one-on-one peer support for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning people.
Offer holistic, person-centered training in technology, job readiness, travel, money and time management, volunteerism, and job coaching to promote employment, independence, and community inclusion.
Provides professional development, continuing legal education (CLE), legal research resources, legislative advocacy, networking opportunities, and public legal information resources to individuals in New Jersey.
Trains and employs approximately 20 adults with autism, acquired brain injuries, and other intellectual/developmental disabilities. The program is available statewide.
Provides temporary cash assistance, employment services, and supportive services through the Work First New Jersey (WFNJ) program to individuals and families with limited income. Supports self‑sufficiency by offering job readiness, training, job placement, child care assistance, and referrals to education, housing, and other community resources for eligible participants.
Provides immediate assistance to veterans suffering from psychological or emotional distress as well as those having difficulty re-assimilating back into civilian life following active duty. Helpline can help veterans get same-day and expedited appointments for preventative health care, physical exams, women's health care, and behavioral health, and provide paperwork assistance and follow-up for those appointments.
Provides structured and supervised intensive outpatient substance abuse programs, depending on the level of treatment needed. Services include: 12-Step meetings, relapse prevention services, and life skills training.
Offers a wide range of outpatient services which may be coordinated by a case manager and may include individual and group counseling, 12-step meetings, social and recreational activities, educational and vocational services, life skills training, relapse prevention services, a continuing care program and supportive services (such as childcare, transportation and parenting skills development).
Provides programs for community youth in effort to enrich their lives through social engagement, sports, and arts and crafts classes. Programs include but are not limited to: football camp, summer baseball camp, summer mini soccer league, playgrounds, tennis, big brother program, track, bowling, and canvas painting.
Provide mobile and clinic-based outreach for HIV/STI prevention, harm reduction, syringe exchange, PrEP education, testing (HIV, Hep C, chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, TB), treatment referrals, and chronic disease support for adults, youth, LGBTQ+, IDUs, homeless, and uninsured individuals.