Valley’s Care After COVID program addresses persistent symptoms associated with COVID-19 infection.

This program coordinates the services of a multidisciplinary medical team who can help individuals struggling with coronavirus complications and long-term COVID-19 symptoms.

A FREE SUBSTANCE USE PREVENTION VIDEO IS AVAILABLE FOR YOU TO SHARE WITH YOUR COMMUNITY!

The Child Break is a one-hour, interactive, multimedia webinar that will inform, encourage, and empower parents, educators, and caregivers to effectively communicate with children about the dangers of drugs and alcohol.

The Nurtured Parent Support Group is a free peer-to-peer confidential support group that meets every Tuesday, from 10am-12pm. We are a safe place to heal and grow. Our members are individuals that share a common experience, challenge, or future goal.

Our 2021 Virtual Teen Conference is an interactive, self-guided, virtual learning experience for high school students, advised by high school students, and featuring high school students for self-care & well-being. Teachers can access to free lesson plans and resources, and parents can access our interactive virtual learning program.

For 2021, the Children's System of Care (CSOC) will be providing Summer Camp Services to eligible children, youth, and young adults under 21 years of age. These services include Financial Support toward Summer Camp Tuition and One-to-One Aide Services for Summer Camp.

Krispy Kreme is finding ways to be sweet as the U.S. continues to scale COVID-19 vaccinations. To show our support for those who choose to get vaccinated, starting Monday, 3/22, anyone who shows their COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card will receive a free Original Glazed® doughnut.

A compilation of local, state and national resources to support preventing and responding to prejudice, racism and facilitating social justice, social consciousness, humanity and unity in our community (homes, schools, health care practices, organizations).

Join the fight against Alzheimer’s today. Let New Jersey families know they are not alone in this difficult journey. When you walk with Alzheimer's New Jersey, 100% of your donations support New Jersey individuals and families.

Parents/caregivers of these adolescents facilitate seeking services for adolescents and understand them in ways that healthcare providers do not. Researchers at Villanova University want to hear your experiences, positive and negative, seeking mental health treatment for your adolescent during and after a suicide crisis.

Are you 55 or older and have an ongoing health condition or pain? Are you a caregiver for someone with a chronic condition?

Join us for this free VIRTUAL program to...

• learn strategies for managing symptoms
• learn strategies for working with health care professionals

Creative Healing is a therapeutic modality that combines powerful counseling techniques along with art-making to help improve emotional, mental health, promoting self-regulation. This group is for adults 18 years old + meets Sundays from 10:30 am to 11:25 am.

Learn strategies and get advice from the experts on how to live your life to the fullest- by getting control of it. In this series, you will learn how to protect your life from a legal and care perspective, how to declutter your life, and how to sweeten your life with the many ways you can stay active and connected to your community after retirement.

Would you like your parenting experience to be more enjoyable for you... and for your children? In 12 two-hour sessions, you will learn to keep the "loving connection" from infancy, through elementary school, throughout the difficult years of adolescence, and beyond.

Free Meal Distribution

Drive through box pickup is available for all New Jersey families with school aged children (18 and under) every Wednesday evening, 4:00pm to 8:00pm in the rear parking lot of Memorial Middle School (12-00 1st Street, Fair Lawn).

All products are kosher. First come-first served.

This FREE program supports children of parents with an addiction so they learn they are not alone, they didn't cause it, can't cure it, but they can learn to cope with it.

Join our Forest Friends puppets as they learn about feelings and communication.

Join our Footprint's soccer team as we learn about feelings, communication diversity and more!

BCC is hosting an 8-week Basketball Clinic for athletes between the ages of 10 and 15 who want to increase their basketball skills from April 21st to June 12th. We will have two groups (12 players per group).

Join our weekly online program for adults and children as we focus on strengthening our family values through activities. Registration is required!

Help educate parents, address their concerns, and encourage them to have an open dialogue about digital responsibility with their tech-savvy kids.

Hosted by Ken Verni. Occurs every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

VIRTUAL - NOW with optional parent information group

Group Goals:

• Improve skills in self-regulation and using effective coping strategies
• Identify personal stress responses and coping styles
• Build self-esteem and increase self-awareness
• Gain appreciation of similarities and differences with others
• Improve conflict resolution skills

May 18th is the New Jersey voter registration deadline for the June 8, 2021. Voters can register online at the State website, https://voter.svrs.nj.gov/register, or by completing the Voter Registration Form from http://MonmouthCountyVotes.com.

The Mourning Meeting is a podcast dedicated to young adults. Interviews include information about grieving at college, pandemic grief, advanced directives for young adults, suicide loss, and much more.

• 5/11-An Overview of the Abilities Day Habilitation Programs
• 5/18-Heigh ho, heigh ho, it's off to work we go!
• 6/1-Let's get Person Centered
• 6/8-Supports Brokerage Services
• 6/15- Housing Opportunities
• 6/22-Getting a guardian
• 6/29-Financial Planning

This free support group is for parents who are now on the clock 24/7 because of COVID-19! Conversations are led by you! MUCCTC is a free online counseling service staffed by supervised Monmouth University clinical social work graduate interns! 

Welcome Faith-Based Community Leaders ~ We invite you to come together for ongoing conversations on the challenges of life as religious leaders in a pandemic world to our New Jersey Clergy Peer Group

MAY is Mental Health awareness month, and in Honor of MHA, COC is hosting a few great events. Flip the Script is a series of motivational, uplifting, and family oriented events. That allows children to not only create but to engage with one another and their families all together. Please join us on May 19th @ 4pm, as we channel our inner Picasso! 

Hosted by DCF's Youth Council, this free 2-hour event will feature a financial literacy course and a youth forum with Commissioner Christine Norbut Beyer.

A webinar for students who are seeking help with prepping for finals and will go over many things such as how to study, gathering materials to study from, and more. This event will be hosted in Spanish. No RSVP needed, feel free to reach out with any questions about our initiatives or our webinar at [email protected]

Join Disability Rights New Jersey for a virtual presentation about New Jersey’s designated protection and advocacy system for people with disabilities

Community experts will provide an overview of the crisis model being developed and implemented in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, and will offer background on how to get started locally on the implementation of a new crisis system.

A guided panel discussion and Q&A moderated by NAMI’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Ken Duckworth will follow the discussion.

• Tuesdays-10 a.m. Peer to Peer Rap Group 3 p.m. Hearing Voices
• Wednesdays-3 p.m. Coronavirus Support Group 4:30 p.m. Men's Group
• Thursdays-3 p.m. Stress Management 7 p.m. Healthy Eating
• Fridays-3 p.m. Mindfulness 7 p.m. Women's Group
• Saturdays- 3 p.m. Health Group 4:30 p.m. Journaling our Recovery

ID 480 494 4894     CODE 216467    Contact [email protected]

The Food Service Training Academy (FSTA) is a 14-week job-skills program at the Community FoodBank of NJ located in Hillside, NJ. Graduates leave with over 500 hours of kitchen experience and a ServSafe Food Protection Manager Certification.

The presenter for this free Zoom is Tim Schoemaker, MS. For more information, contact the Wall Alliance at 732-520-4792, or email [email protected]  

Virtual Tours of Animal Sanctuary

YTB scheduled two free Virtual Tours of Animal Sanctuaries--one on Wednesday, May 26th and another on Friday, June 4th . The sessions run from 3:30-5:00 p.m. with the first 30 minutes for Q&A and updates on YTB activities followed by the Virtual Tours starting at 4 p.m. Anyone is welcome to join these virtual sessions.

In this webinar we will take a deeper dive into how nature supports children's mental wellbeing including strengthened self-esteem and confidence, enhanced positive emotion and reduced negative emotion, stress reduction, restoration, social benefits, and resilience. We will share tips for getting the most out of nature activities to promote children's mental health.

Purpose: To offer the youth and young adults in our community a safe place to come together and have meaningful discussions around current events such as: Black Lives Matter, racism, social injustice etc.

First Thursday of EVERY month 3-5pm. Registration is required 

This 2 CE seminar will explore the impact of eating disorders in the Jewish community and provide evidence-based tools and creative strategies for clinicians to utilize in their practice.

Join the Brain Injury Alliance of New Jersey on Thursday, June 3, 2021, from 12 PM to 1 PM for "Implications and Treatment of the Long-term Neurological and Cognitive Effects of COVID-19." A Certificate of Attendance will be provided for one Professional Development Hour. For more information contact [email protected]

Free Monthly event - First Thursday of the month, 3-5 PM
VIRTUAL TOWN HALL - Youth voices matter!
Registration Required
 

This 4-hour certification course is designed to promote rapid uptake of digital peer support and is designed specifically to address the needs of the current COVID-19 crisis. A knowledge test is presented at the end of the educational section that requires 80% correct answers to achieve the Digital Peer Support Certification.

An interactive experience for children and adults to lessen the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic through the use of storytelling, movement and song in Spanish and English.

This FREE event will feature educational, interactive, and fun activities including Brain Injury and Covid Awareness: What You Need to Know, Arts and Crafts, Transportation Information and Resources, and Mindfulness. Questions regarding this event can be directed to [email protected] Funding for this event was made possible by the New Jersey State Department of Human Services, Division of Disability Services Traumatic Brain Injury Fund.

All mental health conditions should be approached with the utmost care in considering the basic ethical practices common to each clinical discipline--confidentiality and informed consent, operating within one's scope of competency and ensuring practices that do not cause harm to our clients. However, the numerous ethical issues facing eating disorders practitioners may differ significantly from those ethics conundrums that arise in work with a general client base.

Join C.A.S.T. for Kids for a free fishing event for kids with special needs.  A joyful day of fishing brings kids with special needs, their families, and community volunteers together for an explosion of fun!  

Saturday June 19th, 2021 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.