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Provides developmentally disabled adults with a wide range of support and advocacy services. Service options include day habilitation, pre-vocational training, aftercare/afterwork socialization programs, and community integration training.

Assists and supports parents of disabled children at IEP meetings. Also offers SPAN Resource Parent Trainings, workshops, and other activities to encourage inclusion.

Provides information, resources, support, and advocacy to families, professionals, and Parent Center colleagues. Those resources cover essential areas including child abuse prevention, educational workshops, development training, and support in child welfare, juvenile justice, and mental health.

Leads the NJ State Sexual Violence hotline, aiding counties. Provides crisis intervention, advocacy, and counseling. Advocates accompany to hospitals, law enforcement, and court. Offers short-term crisis counseling and adult/teen support groups. Advocates prevention through community outreach and education on sexual violence, ensuring survivors' rights with free, confidential, culturally sensitive, and bilingual services. Provides hotline, accompaniments, counseling, prevention for schools/community, and awareness training for service providers.

Provides advocacy, crisis intervention, support services, linkages, and assistance for crime victims and witnesses, including domestic and sexual violence. Assists with obtaining the status and disposition of cases; accompaniment to the courtroom; childcare while in court; and referrals to social services, emergency services, transportation, and counseling.

Provide family-centered services at the FOCUS Family Success Center in Newark, including referrals, life-skills training, parent-child activities, housing support, job assistance, advocacy, youth programs, and emergency help to strengthen families and prevent child maltreatment.

Offers a 24 hour, 7 days a week helpline, support groups, family and professional caregiver training, multi-cultural outreach, advocacy, Medicalert, and a safe return program to people with Alzheimer's disease, their caregivers, health care professionals and the public.

Provides various financial assistance and advocacy programs to individuals in need. Services include: access to community services and programs, emergency financial assistance, summer camp scholarships, and refugee reception and placement.

Provides support services to the families of the mentally ill through a network of social, community and group gatherings. IFSS services include educational presentations, one-on-one counseling and intervention, advocacy, various workshops, information (housing, employment, relapse, crisis intervention), as well as respite care to lighten the load for families caring for mentally ill loved ones.

Provides free legal services and legal counseling to low-income individuals. Assists with consumer rights and debt cancellation, domestic violence and sexual assault, education, elder justice, expungements (Clearing Your Record), family and relationships, federal taxes, HIV/AIDS (rya white project), housing, immigration, public benefits, seniors, and veterans.

Provides assistance in obtaining adaptive devices, individual client advocacy, housing, information and referral, medical mobility, recreation, self-help groups, social security and other social assistance programs, transportation. Sign language is used by staff. Also has employment services, switchboard operations, and company store.

Provides the information on offenders with intellectual / developmental disabilities, and acts as a liaison between the human service and criminal justice systems. Advocates for this population by providing the court system with a plan designed to be an alternative to incarceration. The program then provides case management services by monitoring the plan through the duration of the probationary sentence. In addition, the program provides consultation, education, training, technical assistance and program development to criminal justice and human service professionals.

Provides a wide range of programs for individuals with a disability. Some of the programs include but not limited to, independent living skills, information and referral, individual/system advocacy, peer support, health and wellness, and transition services.

Provides support networks for families to aid in stress management through various services. Services include: parenting classes, resume building, job search support, ESL and citizenship tutoring, community advisory, movie nights, financial literacy, healthy living classes, family crafts, and a moms support group.

Provides various support programs for student veterans. Services include: scholarships, support grants, and the VFW-SVA Legislative Fellowship.

Integrated Case Management Services provides case management services designed to engage and support adults with serious and persistent mental illness, while striving to help them integrate into the community. Case Managers work with individuals to facilitate access to and utilization of needed resources and supports. ICMS Services include outreach, assessment, linkage to community resources, crisis intervention, substance abuse education and intervention, psycho-education, and advocacy.

Provides assistance with cases involving governmental benefits and entitlement. This includes landlord/tenant relationships, protective services and pensions at no cost to senior and disabled individuals.

Provides advocacy services for all individuals in New Jersey with caregiving issues, including the aging, developmental and physical disability, chronic illness and mental health communities.

Operates a one-stop shop that provides wrap-around resources and supports for families. Core services include access to information on child, maternal and family health services, linkage to publicly-funded health insurance programs, referrals to local health care services, development of plans which address strengths and challenges that threaten to undermine family stability.

Offers a 24 hour, 7 days a week helpline, support groups, family and professional caregiver training, multi-cultural outreach, advocacy, Medicalert, and a safe return program to people with Alzheimer's disease, their caregivers, health care professionals and the public.

Establish a community-based, family-centered neighborhood gathering place, The Family Success Center, providing support, information, and services to strengthen families and neighborhoods. Offer access to child, maternal, and family health services, linkage to publicly-funded health insurance, referrals to local health care, and development of stability plans.

Provides legal representation and non-legal advocacy, systemic advocacy, and outreach to individuals with disabilities. For those who are denied access to assistive technology devices and/or assistive technology services.

Helps veterans and their families understand and apply for a VA disability benefits claim. Also provides clients with benefits information such as employment and business, death, and education.

Advocating for improvements in Social Security disability programs and to ensure that individuals with disabilities applying for benefits have access to representation and receive fair decisions.

Provides basic social services in Dover and Morristown, such as: information and referral, social service referrals, translation of documents, notarization services, and advocacy. Also provides assistance with completing applications or court forms, such as child support.