Early Head Start Child Care Partnership and Program Collaboration

Center For Family Services, El Centro Comunal Borincano Daycare, Mi Casita, and Respond, Inc. have joined together to form the Early Head Start – Child Care Partnership (EHS-CCP). The EHS-CCP operates year-round and provides income eligible families with access to high quality, full day child care, including family child care.

Where families connect with resources and build community.

The Promise Neighborhood Family Success Center is a community-based, family-centered neighborhood gathering place where Camden’s community is welcomed to go for family support, information, and services. Promise Neighborhood Family Success Center serves families in a safe and supportive home-like environment and offer programs and workshops designed to strengthen the family unit, build relationships, enrich the lives of community members, and make families and the neighborhood stronger. 

Kaleidoscope LGBTQIA+ Community Youth Support Groups

LGBTQIA+ program providing support and guidance to New Jersey teens and young adults. 

Kaleidoscope is a community-based LGBTQIA+ program that offers monthly meetings and ongoing virtual platforms in a welcoming atmosphere of belonging, where teens and young adults like you can find support, guidance, and a sense of community. Kaleidoscope provides a safe, supportive environment for LGBTQIA+ and allied teens and young adults to gather, socialize, organize, and help each other. 

Connect4Peace 

Connect4Peace is a community-based and hospital-based violence intervention program.

Connect4Peace interrupts cycles of violence by deploying trained violence intervention specialists who are community residents with lived experience, known as credible messengers. The team mediates conflicts, de-escalates retaliation, and guides high-risk individuals toward life-changing resources. The hospital-based violence intervention staff work in tandem with the community-based team to prevent retaliation and future violence after someone is hospitalized. 

Building Bridges Family Success Center

The Building Bridges Family Success Center is a community-based, family-centered neighborhood gathering place where Camden County community members are welcomed to go for family support, information, and services. Building Bridges Family Success Center serves families in a safe and supportive home-like environment and offers programs and workshops designed to strengthen the family unit, build relationships, enrich the lives of community members, and make families and the neighborhood stronger.

Baby's Best Start Parenting Program

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:

Our Early Learning Community offers a nurturing and high quality education for children age 0-5 designed to prepare children for success in kindergarten and beyond.

Pre-k slots are currently available.