The Harm Reduction Center is a welcoming, low-barrier community resource dedicated to reducing the harms associated with substance use while empowering individuals to make informed decisions about their health and future. The center recognizes that every person has inherent worth and deserves access to support, regardless of their circumstances, substance use, housing status, recovery goals, or life experiences.
Exchange Parent Aide (EPA) is a supportive and educational in-home services program for parents and caregivers with children ages 0-17. The program is designed to increase safety and reduce risk factors associated with child abuse and neglect.
Families and caregivers will be provided with individualized support, including:
Crisis Diversion Home
The Crisis Diversion Home provides compassionate care to New Jersey adults 18 and older who are experiencing mental illness. The program aims to stabilize those at risk of hospitalization or who have previously experienced frequent hospitalizations to help them remain in the community.
During the 30-day stay in the group home, individuals will receive the following services from highly trained clinicians:
JOBS
JOBS connects adults with a history of justice involvement with employment resources with the goal to gain and retain employment.
Services include:
The HOPE Center
The HOPE Center provides an array of services to strengthen belonging and community.
H - Healing
O - Opportunity
P - Progress
E - for Everyone
Services through The HOPE Center include:
Great Abilities - IIC is an intensive in-community program. Services improve the quality of life and well-being of children and families. The program offers short-term, in-home services for infants, children, and adolescents with behavioral and mental health challenges. Experienced clinicians work together with each child and family to identify strengths and accomplish goals.
Services include:
Peer Recovery Support services are available for individuals currently involved in Center For Family Services' CPSAI program or who have been referred by DCP&P.
Peer Recovery Support is a totally voluntary, peer-to-peer program for individuals struggling with drugs and alcohol. Our Peer Recovery Support Specialists will provide assistance to individuals in all areas of recovery, serving as their biggest advocate. Through lived experience, Peer Recovery Support Specialists will help individuals embrace a life in recovery.
ReWork
ReWork connects people with employment resources. If you have a friend, family member or personal history of opioid use, Rework can provide you with employment services including:
The Kinship Navigator program provides information, referral, financial assistance, and legal services to caregivers raising children. The Kinship Navigator program provides caregivers with services and supports that help their children in their care. Kinship Navigator offers services to grandparents, other relatives, and family friends providing support in connecting caregivers to the services that best support the child in their care. Kinship can also provide assistance to caregivers seeking to obtain legal guardianship through family court.
When a person uses drugs or alcohol, it can affect how they maintain relationships and connections with family members and friends. Often, loved ones of the person are left seeking ways to cope with the that stresses addiction causes in their own lives.
ReConnections is a program that offers peer-to-peer coaching and support services to family, friends, and loved ones of individuals struggling with addiction.
