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Provides support, education, and connections to community-based mental health and social services for individuals with mental illness. Services include: mentoring and companionship for socialization and support; direct advocacy to link individuals with mental health, entitlements, housing, medical, legal, physical, self-help, wellness, educational, and recreational services; group services in boarding homes and other community-based locations; education; recreation; socialization; and advocacy. Engages in multicultural outreach to under-served populations and supports, advocates, and trains mental health service consumers to serve as advocates on community-based mental health boards, committees, and task forces.
Provides comprehensive services for the elderly and their families. Services include: care management, individual and marital counseling, information and referral, coordination of homemaker services, transportation, a widow/widowers support group, and volunteer services. Programs for families of the elderly include: consultation, family counseling, case management, assessment and planning, housing information, nursing home referrals, support and therapy groups, and Caring Connections. Also sponsors a Kosher Meals-on-Wheels program with opportunities for volunteers, and specialized assistance for Holocaust survivors.
Assists 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 adult primary care clinic offers primary care for adults and children. This includes radiology and phlebotomy, TB services, and clinics for colonoscopy, surgery, prenatal, orthopedics, and gynecology.
Provides information and education on how to protect people from environmental tobacco smoke, how to protect children from becoming smokers, and information on laws controlling smoking. Focuses on two goals: tobacco-free lives for children and smoke-free air for non-smokers.
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 various services to individuals with disabilities and their families to help secure a more independent lifestyle. Services include: information and referral, peer support groups, independent living skills training, advocacy, care management, employment services, health and wellness programs, and recreational activities.
Provides permanent supportive housing for youth and parenting youth, ages 18 to 21, who are at risk of homelessness and are currently, or were previously, involved with the Division of Child Protection and Permanency. Provides support services that aim to enhance life skills, education, employment, community supports, and stability.
Provides advice and information regarding veterans' benefits and aid in filing claims. Assists in the connection to counseling, and Homeless Vets Rehab Residential Programs. Services included: Assistance with filing disability claims, Connection to Veteran benefits and a copy of DD214 if needed, Death benefit claim filing assistance, Homeless Veteran information and referral information.
Provides food assistance for individuals in need.
Provides Northeast United States free air transportation to qualified patients and their families by arranging flight to non-urgent health care appointments. Ground transportation is available between airport and medical facility.
Provides home-delivered, nutritious meals to homebound older adults and individuals with disabilities who are unable to shop for or prepare food independently.
Processing complaints from utility customers after they first attempt to resolve billing or service issues with their gas, electric, telephone, or water provider, and offering support through the NJBPU Division of Customer Assistance when no resolution is reached.