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SOS (Street Outreach Services) | Center For Family Services

Delivers street-based outreach, providing crisis intervention, counseling, advocacy, and prevention services. Engaging with homeless, runaway, or couch-surfing teens, counselors strive to secure safe and stable housing while also offering education and public speaking workshops on high-risk behaviors to schools and organizations.Featuring a teen helpline, crisis intervention and counseling to prevent homelessness, referral and safe transportation to shelter facilities, life-skills training, connection to community support services, and prevention education and outreach programs in schools and the community.

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Youth Programs | Puerto Rican Association for Human Development (PRAHD)

Offers after school and summer school programs for children. Covers assistance with basic skills, personal development, and supervised recreational activities.

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Office of Education | New Jersey Department of Children and Families (DCF)

Provides intensive, 12-month educational services and supports to children and young adults, ages 3 through 21, who exhibit severe cognitive, physical, behavioral, or emotional disabilities; pregnant or parenting teenagers; and those at risk of school failure. the following services are managing two satellite hospitals, operating sixteen regional schools, transitional Educational Centers (TEC), an alternative, year-round educational program designed for at-risk high school students. Encourages diploma completion at their local high school or school district.Implementing Project TEACH (Teen Education and Child Health) an alternative, year-round educational program for pregnant or parenting teens at risk of school failure. Provides child care services while students work towards earning a diploma. Establishing the Technology for Life and Learning Center (TLLC): providing assistive technology to students with disabilities within the Office of Education's program.

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Youth Leadership | Police Athletic Leagues

Works to prevent juvenile crime and violence by building the bond between cops and kids. The types of programs offered is dependent on the discretion of the local branch.

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New Jersey Youth Corps of Newark | International Youth Organization (IYO)

Serves out-of-school youth between the ages of 16 and 25 in a combined academic-work program. Provides basic skills or high school instruction to students in all subjects necessary to earn a GED or High School diploma. Available year round and runs in cycles of 3 - 4 months.

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Managing Aggression and Violence | PEI Kids

Aims to help students recognize and correct unproductive violent behavior and foster self-worth, positive values, conflict resolution skills, respect for authority, and connections to protective factors in the community. Groups are available online and in-person.

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Family Programs | Prevention Resources

Enhances and improves family relationships through family programs and various services for children and parents. Utilizing a science-based approach, Strengthens Families (SFP) reduces problem behaviors and fosters positive parenting tools in 2-hour weekly sessions over 7 weeks. Unifying Families (UF) enhances home relationships through a 4-hour evidence-based program, meeting twice a month with dinner and childcare. Both programs, available in Spanish, host support sessions and quarterly parent training, and can be held at HPR or your site.

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Multi-Systemic Therapy (MST) | Bergen County Division of Family Guidance

Aims to address the needs of juveniles with severe behavioral problems by providing intensive in-home family therapy. Multi-Systemic Therapy (MST) is a comprehensive treatment program designed to serve multi-problem youth in their community.

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Southwest Council - Vineland Office | Southwest Council

​Provides prevention, education, early intervention, and outpatient treatment services focused on alcohol, tobacco, and other drug misuse. Includes programs for adults, students, families, educators.

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Functioning Family Therapy | Community Solutions, Inc.

Addresses the needs of at-risk youth and those in the juvenile justice system through Functional Family Therapy (FFT). Employing a unique, systematic, and individualized family-focused approach, FFT tackles issues related to juvenile crime, violence, and drug abuse. It encompasses diversion, probation, alternatives to incarceration, and re-entry programs for youth transitioning back to the community from restrictive settings. Additionally, FFT extends its impact to adolescents within the child welfare system and school settings.

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Youthbuild Job Training | Isles, Inc.

Trains at-risk young men and women (high school drop-outs) in the construction trades while rehabilitating vacant, inner-city houses. Offers peer-based vocational and academic training, team building, leadership development and job placement services.

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Youth Corps - Phillipsburg Location | New Jersey Youth Corps

Provides assistance in achieving a high school diploma for youth in the community. Also provides employment services like job search assistance.

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Comprehensive Juvenile Offender Outreach Services (CJOOS) | PEI Kids

Provides a community-based, delinquency-intervention program which helps juvenile offenders learn new skills, connect with better options, complete terms of court and probation, or avoid formal charges altogether. Services include: conflict resolution skills development, gang culture education and prevention, violence prevention, tolerance and critical thinking skills, and training in respect for authority.

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Alternative to Incarceration | Urban League of Essex County

Offers a four-month program for juvenile offenders aimed at nurturing self-worth and self-esteem. Provides educational training, vocational instruction, and group counseling services to youth referred by the family court. Program includes educational training in classic skills and computers, vocational instruction through classroom training and job placement, counseling including group and individual sessions, field trips, and a re-entry program aiding return to school with marking period reviews and resume preparation.

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Outreach to At-Risk Youth (OTARY) | Family Connections

Offers group-based prevention services for at-risk youth aged 10 through 21, addressing gang involvement, teen violence, and teen pregnancy. Prevention services provided through OTARY include age-appropriate group counseling, parent support groups, coordination and referrals to other services, convenient community-based groups, recreational outings, mental health services, peer mentoring, and transportation assistance via NJ Transit.

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Irvington Youth Safe Haven | Irvington Neighborhood Improvement Consortium

Offers an after school and summer program at the Eastward Recreation Center for youth, ages 6 through 14. The program is centered on two core programs, the Eisenhower Police Mini-Station and the Phoenix Curriculum and will aim to reduce the risk factors for violent behavior among school aged children by increasing protective factors and strengthening their capacity to adopt healthy behaviors.

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Youth Services Bureau | Paterson Department of Health and Human Services

Provides a positive environment for Paterson's juveniles who might be potential offenders or institutionalized by the Juvenile Justice System, assisting them to avoid further criminal involvement. Works with their families through programs such as Total Lifestyle, Evening Reporting Program, and Case Management. Aims to make families whole by working with both youth and parents.

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Youth Empowerment Program | Camden City Office of Youth Services

Reinforces positive behaviors in youth through counseling, referral assessment, internship/work experience, leadership development, and student empowerment. The program's goal is to keep youth in school and improve their overall quality of life.

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Recode Your Future | Hopeworks

Provides a combination of technical training, real business experience, and trauma-informed coaching and academic counseling to youth 17-26 to get back in school and earn permanent jobs. The program utilizes advanced training curriculum in website design/development, GIS and Salesforce, and real-world business experience.

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Ocean Academy | Bright Harbor Healthcare

Operates Ocean Academy, a small therapeutic school catering to students with mental and behavioral challenges. Provides psychiatric and therapeutic services and support for students and their families through the clinical team. Develops and implements individual treatment plans to enhance academic functioning while addressing underlying concerns impacting performance.

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Trenton Police Athletic League | Trenton Police Athletic League

Offers year round recreational and social activities that foster positive social and physical development of children in Trenton and the surrounding communities. Activities include juvenile delinquency prevention programs, mentoring, tutoring, baseball, basketball, bowling, etc.

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Milepost | Catholic Charities Diocese of Trenton - Mental Health

Provides specialized treatment and support services for high risk youth who have demonstrated sexually assaultive behavior. Individual, group, and family counseling are provided on an outpatient basis. Specialized risk assessments are also provided.

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School Based Youth Services Program (SBYSP) | Jewish Renaissance Foundation

Provides a variety of supportive programs to students of Perth Amboy High School and their families through the School Based Youth Services Program (SBYSP). Offers case management, assistance with college applications, community referrals for social services, immigration services, employment counseling, and recreational activities. Delivers intensive mental health counseling, including individual, group, and family sessions covering topics such as school, drugs/alcohol, abuse, family conflicts, peer pressure, relationships, eating disorders, and violence prevention. Collaborates with community health providers to teach pregnancy prevention and sexual education in ninth-grade health classes, and offers one-on-one sessions on risk reduction and healthy decisions.

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