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Conduct meetings where heart patients and families receive support in coping with the diagnosis, treatment or surgery for heart disease. Learning to understand and express shock, disbelief, anger or frustration is an important step in the patients’ recovery process, and the supportive environment of group meetings provides a forum for these discussions. Chapters also invite healthcare professionals to present valuable information and answer questions. 

Provides information and education on the development of blind and visually-impaired children. Families may receive telephone support and network with other families. Also sponsors seminars, trainings, meetings, and social events.

Assists and supports parents of disabled children at IEP meetings. Also provides SPAN parent trainings, workshops, and other activities to encourage inclusion.

Provides emotional support, encouragement, and connection for parents of children born with congenital heart defects and heart disease. Offers peer support and outreach through local chapters that engage children, youth, and adults affected by heart conditions.    

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 a forum for families of individuals with developmental disabilities to share information, experiences, and resources about family support services. Advocates at the local and state levels on issues affecting individuals with developmental disabilities and their families.

Provides parenting education, home visitation, child development support, family resource connections, and supportive services for families with children. Offers family programs, fatherhood support, literacy resources, food assistance, and referrals to community resources.

Provides early intervention and family services to infants and toddlers with hearing impairments. Services are conducted in the child's in natural environments.

Provides behavioral therapy groups for children aimed at enhancing skills related to relationships, rules, limits, and decision-making, alongside family sessions to enhance communication and coping strategies. Additionally, offers medication consultations and management to aid attention and focus, with services covering diagnostic evaluations, individual and family therapy, school consultations, and computer-based training.  

Offers webinars on a variety of topics to support individual with disabilities, family caregivers, and professionals. These online sessions provide timely information, practical tools, and expert guidance.

Offers developmentally appropriate ABA center based programs for newly diagnosed toddlers and preschoolers with autism. Provided at Paramus location.

Provides educational sessions for parents, while holding fun camp activities for children & teens with diabetes, while offering families the opportunity to meet with peers and share feelings and ideas on raising a child with diabetes.  

Provides advocacy for the under-served Hispanic community within the County of Passaic. It operates a support group for parents and guardians of children with complex emotional disturbances. The groups are geared toward self-empowerment and individual guidance and support.   

Provides children, teens and families living with emotional/behavioral issues or a developmental disability the support needed to improve quality of life at home, school and in the community. 

Offers workshops, consultation, and supportive services to parents, schools, and other agencies relating to issues concerning children with disabilities. Training and education are offered in three categories: professional development, workshops and seminars, and internships and field placements. 

Specializing in treating children and adolescents with depression, the Center for Children and Youth, staffed by therapists trained through The Center for the Advancement of Children’s Mental Health at Columbia University, offers collaborative interventions by child psychiatrists and therapists. The Center provides comprehensive assessment, therapy, family support, and medication management for positive outcomes.

Provides an adult day habilitation program, after-school care, and in-home respite services for children and adults with physical and other disabilities. Other services include: Personal Assistance Services Program (PASP), after-school care, agency-based respite, in-home respite, adult day programs, and teenage/adult recreation programs.