Bergen County

Special Note: There may be resources available that are not listed here. 
                      For more information, please contact the NJ ARCH Warm Line at:
                                      warmline@njarch.org  OR call: 1.877.427.2465
 

Adoption Agencies

Bethany Christian Services

Children's Aid and Family Services, Inc.

Homestudies & Adoption Placement Services

Children's Crisis Intervention Services

The Children's Crisis Intervention Services (CCIS) listed below provide inpatient
psychiatric services in a hospital setting for children in "acute" crisis situations
including homicidal or suicidal episodes.  Children can be admitted voluntarily
or committed by an appropriate agent.  Each one provides services to specific
counties in New Jersey.

Bergen Regional Medical Center, Paramus, NJ



Family Support Organization

Family Support Organization of Bergen County



Mobile Response and Stabilization Services (MRSS)

This crisis intervention service is a single, integrated, comprehensive system of
mobile response, stabilization intervention and transition to community supports.  This
system is available to children and youth whose escalating emotional or behavioral issues
require timely interventions to prevent disruptions to their current living arrangement,
including out-of-home placement.  Primarily, the mobile response system is a face-to-face
delivery of service at the site of the escalating behavior, whether this is in the child's home,
a group home, or other living arrangement, including resource and foster family homes. 
Mobile Response Services are focused, time limited, intensive, preventive and include
behavioral and rehabilitative interventions designed to specifically diffuse, mitigate and
resolve a crisis.

For more information call: 1-877-652-7624

MRSS Bergen County
 

Family Service Association of New Jersey

Children's Aid and Family Services, Inc, Bergen County, Paramus, NJ



Legal Services

American Academy of Adoption Attorneys


Medical Services

Nalven, Lisa,  MD, MA, FAAP, Ridgewood, NJ



Mental Health Professionals

Borders, Nancy, LCSW, Ridgewood, NJ

Castaldo, Debra, Ph.D., Englewood, NJ

Dykstra-Powers, Nancy, MSW, LCSW, Midland Park, NJ

Gunar, Anne, MSW, LCSW, Paramus, NJ

Lukas, Susan, MSW, LCSW, Ridgewood, NJ

Nadelman, Alice, Ph.D., Teaneck, NJ

Neuman, Ann R., LCSW, Teaneck, NJ

Novick, Sue, MFCC, Teaneck, NJ, New York City

Panozzo, D.David, LCSW,  Woodcliff Lake, NJ

Peritz, Beth, MSW, LCSW, Ridgewood, NJ

Philibosian, Donna, MSW, LCSW, Oradell, NJ

Salzer, Linda, P. MSS, LCSW, Englewood, NJ

Pre and Post Adoption Counseling Services

These Pre and Post Adoption Counseling services are provided FREE of charge
by private agencies granted contracts and referrals from DYFS.  Please note that
the free Pre Adoption services are only available for families with children placed
through DYFS and with a referral from DYFS.  The free Post Adoption services are
available to all New Jersey families who have adopted children up to the age of
18; whether from DYFS, a private agency or some other means. 
Available services may differ from county to county.

Children's Aid and Family Services, Inc., South Orange, NJ

The Center for Adoption, Attachment, and Fostering


Resource Family Recruitment

Foster and Adoptive Family Services, Statewide, NJ



Support Groups

Adoptive Parent's Committee, Ridgewood, NJ

Art Therapy Support Groups, Waldwick, NJ

Children's Aid and Family Services Birth Parent Support Group, Ridgewood, NJ

Foster and Adoptive Family Services, Bergen County, NJ

Full Circle Triad Support Group of North Jersey, Paramus, NJ