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. 

Achieving Consistent Excellence (ACE): Youth Mentoring Program

Program Overview

ACE (Achieving Consistent Excellence) is a multi-component prevention program provided to Gloucester County males ages 8-23 years old who are on probation and their families. ACE staff members will provide crisis support, career and academic guidance, financial management, sobriety support, and aid in building up life skills including time management, physical and nutritional well-being.

Evaluating and Supporting Caregiver Recovery for Child Safety

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.

Children’s Partial Care: Structured Youth Behavioral Health Programs

Program Overview

Children’s Partial Care program is a community-based, structured partial care program, designed to support and encourage youth experiencing emotional and behavioral challenges and their families. Children's Partial Care builds on individual strengths and helps young people enhance their self-image, overcome challenges, take responsibility for their actions, make effective choices, set goals, and improve peer and family relationships.

Together Across Generations Help for Relative Caregivers

The TAG program provides support to grandparents and other relatives over age 55 who are raising children. Counselors help grandparents and other relatives learn how to better communicate, resolve conflict, negotiate, and problem solve, with a focus on keeping children happy and healthy. The TAG program also helps clients access services to meet financial, social, recreational, educational, and healthcare needs.

A TAG support group for grandparents and other relatives raising children meets twice a month.

The SAFE Program In Home Elderly and Disabled Adult Support

SAFE provides in-home counseling and case management to Camden County seniors and disabled adults to improve their quality of life, prevent institutionalization, and help them remain living in their own homes and communities.

Hotline Services: Crisis Intervention & Referral Lines

Services include state-wide and county based hotlines designed to give callers information and support for a variety of issues.

NJ PRISM - 844.NJPRISM (657.7476) - provides statewide information and referrals to the LGBTQIA+ community between 9 am-5 pm.

Street Outreach Services and Homelessness Prevention for Youth

Street Outreach is a street-based outreach program offering crisis intervention, counseling, advocacy, and prevention services. Counselors work to help teens who are facing homelessness, have runaway or are couch-surfing find a safe and stable home. The program also provides education and public speaking workshops about high-risk behaviors to schools and other organizations.

Street Outreach offers teens up to age 22 a variety of services including: