Baby's Best Start is a free program to support you and your baby to get off to the best possible start. Utilizing a Nurtured Heart approach, sessions cover topics focused on your baby's health and development and the family unit. After the completion of the program, you and your family will be invited to a graduation and will continue to receive follow-up support, including home visitation (available in Essex County only).
Baby's Best Start provides:
This program provides an array supportive services to apartment residents in an effort to connect individuals to the resources that will benefit themselves and their families. Services include:
Our Child Protection Substance Abuse Initiative's top priority is the safety and well-being of children. By treating the alcohol/drug problems of the caregivers, we help provide a more secure environment for children.
Pathways to Recovery for Adults is an outpatient program providing a personal support plan for recovery and relapse prevention. The adult substance use program helps people experiencing problems with drugs and alcohol find the support they need to get their lives back on track.
Our certified professionals provide assessment, education, and treatment for adults and their families including:
Pathways to Recovery for Youth provides outpatient services and a personal support plan for recovery and relapse prevention. The adolescent substance abuse program helps young people who are experiencing problems with drugs and alcohol. Services help youth find the support they need to get their lives back on track.
YES Healing Homes - Michael's House & Carpenter's House - offers community-based, long-term residential treatment for young men ages 13-17. High qualified therapists and counselors work closely with adolescents and families to provide diagnostic assessment, therapy, educational services, social skills training, and job readiness training.
Together Youth Shelter offers short-term, walk-in emergency housing for youth age 11-17 in need of a safe place to live. Together provides 24/7 safe housing and basic needs support for youth who have experienced abuse, neglect, human trafficking or those youth who have run away or are in need of safe housing due to a variety of circumstances.
It starts with one. It starts with you. You can be the one to change a life. A child right here in your community is in need of support and a safe place to live. You can be the one to provide help and change a life.
