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Provides a lifetime limit of 12 months of emergency assistance to prevent homelessness to recipients of WFNJ/TANF/GA and SSI. Extensions may be available and varies on a case-by-case basis. Benefits include but are not limited to: shelter and household furnishings, temporary rental assistance or back rent or mortgage payments, utility payments (such as heat, water, and electric), moving expenses, rapid rehousing for TANF recipients.

Provides a peer education program designed that helps connect teens who are experiencing problems, fears and frustrations with specially trained peers who can help lead them to solutions. Members reach out to teens in their own school and also assist health educators within their community. The program's members are carefully selected teens who are recruited from high schools.

Offers medical services to the community. Services include, but are not limited to: adult medicine, pediatric care, podiatry, and AIDS/HIV care. 

Works with law enforcement to divert nonviolent mental health consumers from the jail system to appropriate mental health services in the community. 

Provides help to stabilize symptoms of mental illness and restore quality of life. Intensive Outpatient Treatment and Support Services provides a more intensive level of care including individual, group and family therapy, case management and medication management. Services include individual counseling, medication management, case management services, and substance use treatment.

Provides financial incentives to produce business expansion in UEZ areas of the city.

Provides post-conviction interventions for individuals convicted of alcohol. This also includes drug-related DUI offenses.

Assisting residents' post-illness or injury, or due to advanced age, chronic illness, or disability, VNA home health aides provide personal care, daily activities, homemaking, companionship, communication, and errands. Working alongside primary caregivers, they deliver essential life services, encouragement, reassurance, and comfort under the supervision of visiting nurses who establish individualized care plans.

Offers a range of services for both HIV positive and negative individuals, including HIV prevention, community health worker support, client legal advocacy, housing placement assistance, medical/non-medical case management, STI testing, and wellness programming at Hyacinth.

Delivers nutrition and breastfeeding education, nutritious foods, and enhanced access to regular health care and social services for low and moderate-income pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding women, as well as young children with or at risk of nutrition-related health problems. The service actively promotes and supports exclusive breastfeeding, conducts health and nutrition screenings, facilitates referrals to necessary health care and community services, and offers personalized nutrition/health counseling through individual and peer/group sessions. Additionally, the program issues food vouchers containing essential nutrients to supplement deficient or lacking diets. 

Provides housing for low- to moderate-income individuals and families. Houses are priced below market rental rates.

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 once-per-year bill payment assistance to customers of NJ Natural Gas (NJNG). Assistance is based on available funding.

Offers behavioral and mental health services to individuals, couples, and families grappling with issues like domestic violence, juvenile delinquency, truancy, school challenges, and child abuse or neglect, providing essential support to victims.

Offers guidance and support for individuals who live in the community on their own or with family. Guidance is offered for daily living skills like shopping, cooking, scheduling and attending doctor appointments, banking, etc.  

Responds to crisis situations to stabilize youth, ages 3 through 21, in their current living arrangement to keep them in the community and prevent hospitalization. Services are limited to 72 hours during the crisis phase, and up to 8 weeks for the referral phase, and include: In-home crisis counseling, Crisis stabilization, Psychiatric assessment, Referral, advocacy, and linkage to community services.