Essex 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
Catholic Charities Family and Adoption Services of
the Archdiocese of Newark
Division of Youth & Family Services (DYFS)
Infant Foster Care & Adoption Program
Wide Horizons for Children Adoption Agency
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.
Newark Beth Israel Medical
Center, Newark, NJ
Trinitas Hospital,
Elizabeth, NJ
- 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 Essex County
Family Service Association
of New Jersey
The Bridge, Inc., Essex County,
Caldwell, NJ
Family Service League, Inc.,
Essex County, Montclair, NJ
Nutley Family Service Bureau, Essex
County, Nutley, NJ
Family Support Organization
Family Support Organization
of Essex County
Legal Services
American Academy of Adoption
Attorneys
Medical services
Contact the NJ ARCH Warm Line for more
information:
warmline@njarch.org OR call:
1.877.427.2465
Jeanine Sierchio, BFA,
MOT, OTR/L, Verona, Essex County, NJ
Mental Health Professionals
Laura
Alper, Millburn, Essex County, NJ
Jeanne Burstein, LCSW, Maplewood, NJ
Esta Dalsass, MSW, LCSW, Short
Hills, NJ
Emanuel Elfenbein, M.D., Roseland, NJ
Debbie Frank, LCSW, Verona, NJ
Arlene
Kappraff, South Orange, Essex County, NJ
Personal Growth Center, Montclair, NJ
Janet S. Hoffer, MSW, LCSW, West Orange, NJ
Other Services
Suburban Speech Center
Pre and Post Adoption Counseling
Service
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, South Orange, NJ
Family and
Children's Services, Elizabeth, NJ
Family Intervention
Services, Paterson, NJ
Resource Family Recruitment
Foster and Adoptive Family Services, Statewide, NJ
Support Groups
Foster and Adoptive Family
Services, Essex County, Newark, NJ
Foster and
Adoptive Family Services, Essex County (Suburban), West Caldwell NJ
Rainbow Families of NJ (formerly called) Lambda
Families of NJ