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Pairs youth with mentors who act as positive role models, guiding them through conflict resolution, communication, and life skills. YDMP services include youth group meetings, mentoring by adults over 19 for a minimum of six months, parent workshops for improved parenting and communication, and provision of transportation and healthy meals.

Offers enrollees with a 2-month program that offers twelve hours of weekly after-school supervision, tutoring, counseling, job readiness, interview coaching, and employment referrals. Goals for the CEO Program include: decreasing interest in gangs and drugs, improving academic skills, increasing self-esteem, positively impacting attitudes about learning and school, improving school attendance, and providing personal encouragement and role models. 

Provides a coordinated response to traumatic incidents in the county. Seeks to address prevention of self-destructive behaviors of at-risk youth. Oversees the Traumatic Loss Coalition (TLC) of Mercer County. Part of this response includes suicide prevention awareness, education and outreach assistance for parents, professionals, and the general community.  

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.

Offers positive social and physical development activities for youth in Trenton and the surrounding communities.

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.

Provides supportive programs to students of Perth Amboy High School and their families through the School Based Youth Services Program (SBYSP). Services include: case management, assistance with college applications, community referrals for social services, immigration services, employment counseling, and recreational activities. Also delivers intensive mental health counseling in individual, group, and family sessions. Topics covered include: 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.

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.  

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. 

Provides families and children with tools to help successfully deal with daily stressors such as substance use, intimidation, and bullying. Programs include: life skills training, Character Counts, Keys to Innervisions, Al's Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices, Possibility Parenting, Strengthening Families, and the Prevention Coalition of Monmouth County (PCMC). Services are provided in both school and community settings.

Provides evidence-based alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention education. Offers early intervention, youth coalition initiatives, vaping prevention, wellness promotion, and community awareness programs for youth, adults, schools, families, and community partners. Programs are offered virtually and in person.

Offers individuals job readiness training, financial literacy, civic and social engagement, trade programs, and truck driving/CDL training. As means to assist individuals gain employment, attain stable housing, and reduce barriers to successful reentry. 

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.