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Offers an Angel Tree program for the Christmas season. Families who live in Perth Amboy or the surrounding area, can come and sign up their children to receive a toy for the holidays.   

Provides a wide variety of athletic, therapeutic, and recreational activities for children, youth, and adults. Services include aerobics classes, aqua running and water exercises, aquatic therapy, including a separate program for individuals with Arthritis, ballet, basketball, climbing, fencing, soccer, swimming lessons for all ages, ranging from preschoolers to adults, swim orientation classes for infants and toddlers, T-ball, Tae Kwon Do, and wrestling.   

Provides learning opportunities that integrates hands-on experience in small classrooms sizes and in outdoor learning spaces. 

Provides on-site sensitivity training covering various topics. Aims to create equal communication access for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals.

Offers benefits counseling to determine the economic status of older adults for eligibility to various assistance programs. This can include separate benefits to older veterans as well. 

Provides a safety awareness and promotion program designed for individuals with Alzheimer's disease and dementia who have a greater personal safety risk due to their impairment in memory and cognition. Provides individuals and families with educational information and resources about home and personal safety and provides professional education and training about Alzheimer's and dementia to New Jersey law enforcement and emergency first-responders.   

Aids community needs through recruiting and placing volunteers, ages 55 and over, who are pursuing meaningful activity, in non-profit organizations, public agencies, and proprietary health-care organizations. The program also contains some information and referral elements.   

Provides cooling vests and accessories for individuals diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). A cooling vest is a lightweight garment that contains insulated pockets which hold small ice packs that help to cool the body.

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

Provides a full day summer camp program for children and teens ages 5 through 13. Activities include weekly trips, recreation, educational activities, swimming, athletics, computer instruction, and nutrition. Breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack included.

Provides a partial care program for adults with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders.

Provide medical care and direct services at MDA-funded clinics, supporting patients with neuromuscular diseases through diagnosis, physical therapy, and medical and social counseling, while advancing research into these conditions.

Access addiction treatment in as little as 90 minutes. For individuals experiencing homelessness, housing assistance is provided following treatment. Inpatient care and transportation services are also available for those in need. Additionally, clients can receive medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder remotely, with prescriptions available by phone.

Provides food assistance to low-income families to help buy groceries via a benefits card. Card is accepted in most food retail stores and some farmers markets.

Provides a psychosocial rehabilitation program for adults living with mental illness. Participants work collaboratively to run day-to-day operations of the clubhouse to learn applicable work skills.

Offers free or low-cost health care that may help pay for medical bills, doctor visits and prescriptions. For certain low-income individuals or families.     

Supports children and adolescents with emotional, behavioral, and developmental disabilities a wide range of services. Services are available to children up to age 21, or their families and caregivers, for behavioral health and developmental disability needs.

Provides support services that assists families of individuals with disabilities in maintaining stability, independence, and community integration. Offers information, advocacy, care coordination, respite support, and assistance accessing community resources.

Assists active WFNJ and TANF clients referred through the Board of Social Services in finding and funding quality childcare. Trained counselors offer guidance on childcare options and conduct vacancy checks at licensed centers and family childcare homes. Participants may also qualify for the Transitional Childcare Subsidy (TCC), extending child care support for two years for employed clients.