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Provide group-based support services focused on social skill development, emotional growth, and positive peer interaction for youth referred by child welfare or court systems.

Provides wrap-around resources and support for families and the community. Core services include health, social, legal services, education classes, information and referrals, parent-child activities, employment-ready programs, financial literacy, housing related services, and advocacy.    

Provides on-site and virtual training on identifying, preventing, and reporting child abuse and neglect, cyberbullying, and Internet safety.

Empower adults to create safe environments for children by preventing, recognizing, and responding responsibly to sexual abuse through education, awareness, and training programs.

Creates campaigns to raise awareness of child sexual abuse. Aids with training to help child-serving professionals and members of the public recognize and respond to the early warning signs of abuse.   

• Parenting in Recovery: Conducts groups supporting families with substance abuse histories, emphasizing effective parenting skills.

• Parenting Workshops and Groups: Offers interactive programs tailored to meet the specific needs of participating parents, covering various aspects of child development at sites throughout Ocean County.

• Anger Management Program: Conducts stress and anger management groups for Ocean County residents, aiding in trigger identification and coping skill enhancement.

• Blissful Babies - Infant Massage Classes: Provides weekly classes for deep bonding between new mothers and babies, promoting healthy sleeping, assisting with elimination concerns, and reducing colic/gas. Classes, instructed by certified Infant Massage Instructors, are available with a provided schedule.

Program provides intensive, in-home services to prevent out of home placement of children whose safety is at risk. Services offered include individual, family and group counseling for a minimum of 5 hours per week for approximately 6 months.    

Delivers intervention programs for families with children (birth to six years) at risk for child abuse and neglect. Services encompass parent education to enhance parenting skills and child development knowledge, client advocacy, linkage to additional supports and resources, assistance in developing and implementing plans for significant changes, classroom instruction for children covering various developmental areas, organized parent groups with outside speakers sharing community resources, and home visitor services to observe and reinforce child care and development.

Provides evidence-based trauma-focused therapy to children/adolescents and their caregivers. Traumas addressed may include, but are not limited to, abuse, exposure to violence, traumatic loss, medical trauma, and bullying. Evidence-based therapy is also provided to children under age 12 years who have exhibited problematic sexual behavior and their caregivers.

Delivers in-home intensive education, counseling, case management, and support services to prevent child abuse and neglect. Parents receive training on communication, problem-solving, and behavior management. By emphasizing family strengths, fosters stronger family bonds. Counselors assist in building effective relationships, developing positive parenting skills, accessing affordable medical care, managing household tasks, improving organizational skills, establishing structure and routine, ensuring a safe family environment, managing finances, and connecting with community resources.

Provides information, resources, support, and advocacy to families, professionals, and Parent Center colleagues. Resources include: child abuse prevention, educational workshops, development training, and support in child welfare, juvenile justice, and mental health.

Provides wrap-around family support, information, referrals, advocacy, parenting education, life-skills activities, health-resource connections, housing assistance, and employment support. Offers family-strengthening activities to help prevent crises.

Responds to situations that involve a serious threat to well-being and physical safety of a juvenile, a serious conflict manifested by disregard for parental authority, or misuse of parental authority. It also intervenes when there is an unauthorized absence by a juvenile for more than 24 hours and/or a pattern of repeated unauthorized absences from school by a juvenile. The unit is able to respond on a 24-hour basis.

Empowers community residents by providing a community-based, family-centered gathering place. Residents can access family support, information, and services in a safe and supportive home-like environment designed to strengthen the family unit, build relationships, enrich lives, and fortify neighborhoods. Services offered at the center include applying for stipends to cover utility expenses through the Assistance for Gas and Electric (PAGE) program, linking families to community resources, hosting cross-cultural family dinners, organizing parent-child activities, providing referral services, offering information on family health, delivering housing-related services, facilitating family goal setting, conducting budgeting and goal-setting sessions, hosting parenting workshops, providing life skills training, offering job search, resume building, and interview tips, organizing parent and community cafes, and engaging in advocacy and home visits.

Provides evidence-based trauma-focused therapy to children/adolescents and their caregivers. Traumas addressed may include, but are not limited to, abuse, exposure to violence, traumatic loss, medical trauma, and bullying. Evidence-based therapy is also provided to children under age 12 years who have exhibited problematic sexual behavior and their caregivers.

Program provides intensive, in-home services to prevent out of home placement of children whose safety is at risk. Services offered include individual, family and group counseling for a minimum of 5 hours per week for approximately 6 months.