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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.  

Provide a safe, structured environment for adolescent boys (18–21) who are homeless, at risk, or aging out of foster care, offering individualized support to promote stability, self-sufficiency, personal growth, and a successful transition to adulthood and independence.

Provides case management services, such as accessing benefits and developing skills to live independently, for individuals with a documented severe and persistent mental health diagnosis. 

Offers financial assistance to county residents who are at risk of homelessness, but are INELIGIBLE for welfare programs. This includes: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), General Assistance (GA), or Supplemental Security Income (SSI).

Empowers children at Morris County childcare centers, serving infants through school-age children and their families, by providing support through the Early Childhood Resiliency Program. Mental health professionals and early childhood education specialists collaborate to offer classroom education, teacher mentorship, parent engagement, and skill development at home.   

Provides speech-language evaluations and therapy for individuals with communications disorders related to voice, fluency, articulation, stroke, and cleft palate, language learning disorders. Diagnostic audiological evaluations are conducted, and hearing aids are distributed.  

Provides information and resources on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Resources include: education, referrals, and resource navigation for individuals, families, educators, and professionals. Offers telephone assistance, educational materials, webinars, advocacy resources, and referrals to local chapters and support groups.

Provides a 5-bed semi-supervised transitional living program for youth years who are either considered homeless or aging out of systemic care. Clients are assisted with independent living skills that they will become sufficient adults and search for permanent housing. Referral for other types of service is provided.

Provides blind individuals with technology access. Serves as a platform for blind technology professionals and users to collaborate on programs, aiming to improve the overall condition and standard of living for blind individuals.

Provides support, counseling, education, information, and advocacy for families caring for a loved one with mental illness. Services include: counseling for setting realistic expectations, managing stress, securing housing, and planning for the future. Support groups and specialized sessions are available.

Provides personalized school supplies, clothing, and backpacks to over 1,500 local children facing homelessness and poverty. Helps ensure they start the school year prepared and confident.

Provides professional development, continuing legal education (CLE), legal research resources, legislative advocacy, networking opportunities, and public legal information resources to individuals in New Jersey.

Provides community-based case management and outreach services for adults with a serious and persistent mental illness that are homeless or are at risk of becoming homeless. Also provides targeted case management services for military veterans experiencing homelessness and mental health issues.

Provides supportive programs to students and their families. Services include: year-round academic support services, assistance with college/university applications and scholarships, tutoring, and counseling.

Offers temporary shelter through hotel placement to working families with dependent children who are homeless or at risk of losing their housing. Families are stabilized while they address barriers to independent living. Families who are receiving government assistance (TANF, SSI, SSD, or have a housing voucher) are ineligible.    

Works with the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and local health departments to monitor and investigate reports and outbreaks, provide consultations, and educate on diseases. Advises prevention strategies for reportable and other communicable diseases.

Offers a complete diagnostic service and a broad range of therapeutic services for children, adolescents, and their families. The center offers a wide range of services by providing evaluations and treatment recommendations for developmental delays in gross and fine motor skills, speech and hearing, socialization, perceptual, attention deficit, and hyperactivity disorders.   

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Offers a wide range of services for residents, including law enforcement, emergency services, tax information and collection, public health, environmental concerns, primary health care, animal control, street maintenance, waste management, document issuance, and public libraries.

Operates several supportive programs for senior citizens, and their families, who live in Atlantic County. Services include: Caregiver Support Group, Fix-It Program, Information and Assistance (Call Center), Legal Services, Medical Day Care, Recreation and Social Activities, State Health Insurance Program (SHIP), Social Day Care, and Social Security Administration On-Line Benefit Information.