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:

Promoting Success provides in-home or in-community counseling and supportive services to families with children who have been impacted by mental illness or substance use disorder. 

Services include:

  • Individual and family therapy 
  • Assessment and evaluation 
  • Psychoeducation Services
  • Medication management
  • Connections to community resources 

All services are free 

Center For Family Services offers a variety of counseling services throughout New Jersey designed specifically to meet the needs of children. If you or a loved one is in need of counseling services for a child or teen, call our Access Center at 877.922.2377 or email access@centerffs.org to learn more. 

Stepping Stones to Resiliency

Counseling services are available to help you and your child cope, manage grief, build resiliency, and navigate your recovery journey. 

A family member's addiction can affect everyone in the home with children being among the most vulnerable. Services are available to help you and your child cope, manage grief, build resiliency, and navigate your recovery journey.

Life can get turned upside down when a parent or another family member struggles with addiction or when the family loses a loved one to an overdose.

The Traumatic Loss Coalition for Youth is an interactive, statewide network that offers collaboration and support to professionals working with school-age youth. The dual mission of the Traumatic Loss Coalition is excellence in suicide prevention and trauma response assistance to schools and youth organizations following unfortunate losses due to suicide, homicide, accident, and illness or traumatic events such as community violence.

The Family Outreach Program provides free, in-home support services for families with children up to 18 years old who are struggling to meet basic needs. 

Services include:

  • Counseling
  • Psychoeducation
  • Active Parenting Groups
  • Advocacy
  • 24/7 on-call crisis support (as needed)  
  • Connection to community services

Program goals include:

Safe, supportive, and compassionate counseling and support services are available to guide individuals, families, and communities through the process of healing and recovery as they deal with grief and bereavement due to:

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. 

Evolutions

Evolutions provides young men dealing with both substance abuse and mental illness with a safe place to live while they develop coping skills to become self-sufficient.

The program offers a serene, home-like setting for up to five young men between the ages of 13-17. During their 6- to 9-month stay, young men receive supportive services from our highly-qualified team so they can be successfully reunited with family or transition into an independent living situation.

Services for youth living at Evolutions include:

Peaceful Tomorrows provides counseling and therapeutic services for children and families who experienced violence, including domestic violence, family violence, or dating violence. Peaceful Tomorrows provides a safe environment where children and their non-offending parents can heal from the effects of trauma. Services are designed to bring families together and build supportive networks.