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Personalized care to help people of all ages reach their full potential. Services available across New Jersey.

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Now enrolling children in early learning

Mosaic Early Learning

Enroll your child in Mosaic Early Learning, a child development and preschool learning community that supports comprehensive early child development and support services in the areas of:

  • Health & Dental Care
  • Nutrition 
  • Special Education 
  • Parent skill workshops
  • Social Services

Enroll your child today.

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Provide a temporary home to a child or teen

Helping Hands Homes

Shelter Homes parents do extraordinary things. There are many children in need of a temporary home while they await family reunificaiton. Learn about how you can help some of these children as a shelter home parent. 

Learn how to become a shelter home parent.
Find, maintain and enhance your life in recovery.

Living Proof Recovery Centers

Living Proof Recovery Centers - now in 2 convenient locations - are welcoming and safe places of hope for the recovery community offering

  • Connections to recovery resources
  • Wellness classes 
  • Peer mentoring & coaching 
  • Support groups  
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Enroll in affordable health insurance.

Navigator Exchange Program

Our trained, multi-lingual navigators can help you learn about your options for enrolling in affordable health insurance:

  • Discover what options are available for you and your family
  • Learn how to get covered after open enrollment is over
  • Understand information about your small business healthcare tax credits   
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Expanded footprint in North Jersey

Our reach across NJ has expanded

On January 1, 2020 Family Intervention Services  merged with Center For Family Services, increasing our staff to more than 1400 dedicated team members and expanding our reach to include specialized services in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Essex, Gloucester, Hudson, Morris, Passaic, Ocean, Salem and Sussex Counties.

For more information about the many programs that are part of our continuum of care at Center For Family Services visit our programs page, which includes search features and the option to search for services by county.

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Golden Cradle Adoption Closes

Important Updates

Golden Cradle closed effective June 15, 2022. 

The NJ DCF Adoption Registry will not be able to  provide the exchange of pictures, letters, and other items through their registry. 

Those who currently communicate via Golden Cradle who would prefer to shift to direct communication without an agency, please contact Desiree Huffnagle by 7/20/22  to discuss those arrangements 856-428-1180 or desiree.huffnagle@centerffs.org

All closed records will be transferred to the DCF Adoption Registry by July 29, 2022.   Their contact information is DCF Adoption Registry 609-888-7474 dcfadoptionregistry@dcf.nj.gov.

 

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Camden Promise Neighborhood

Camden Promise Neighborhood is a community-focused effort to improve access to opportunities for children in Camden. Through a collective impact approach, Camden Promise Neighborhood offers a series of programs designed to help support access to education, health, food, safety, and other needs. The Promise Neighborhood programs are designed to provide the community with resources and services for children at every age and stage, to create a neighborhood of opportunity where children can follow a pathway to college and career. Learn morea about the birth-to-college-and-career services designed to enable children in Camden to reach their full potential.

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Success Stories

This has become so much more than mentoring, he’s become like a son to me.

The strength of DaQuan and Tyrone’s relationship is remarkable. It is one full of trust, mutual respect, and ultimately, of friendship. It is the result of mentoring at its very best.  

“I became a mentor because I could have used one in my life when I was young,” recalls Camden Fire Department Captain, Tyrone Baker, “I was excited to become a part of a young person’s life and make a real difference.”

Tyrone found out about Center For Family Services mentoring program through the Fire Department in 2008. He was quickly matched up with then 12 year old DaQuan Johnson, also of Camden City.

DaQuan was struggling in school, constantly getting into trouble and succumbing to peer pressure. “I wasn’t being a leader,” says DaQuan, now an 18 year old... Read Full Story