Bergen County
Special Note:
There may be resources available that are not listed here.
For more
information, please contact the KinKonnect Warm Line at:
warmline@KinKonnect.org OR call: 1.877.544.5463
Adoption Agencies and Contact Person
Bethany
Christian Services, Nancy Dykstra-Powers, (201) 444-7775
Children's Aid and Family Services, Inc., Marcia
Fisher, (201) 261-2800
Homestudies & Adoption Placement Services,
Marie Schukaitis, (201) 836-5554
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
- 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
Medical services
Lisa Nalven MD, MA, FAAP, Ridgewood, NJ
Mental Health Professionals
Borders Nancy, LCSW, Ridgewood, NJ
Castaldo Debra, Ph.D.,
Englewood, NJ
Dykstra Nancy, Midland Park,
NJ
Gunar Anne, Paramus, Bergen
County, NJ
Lukas Susan , Ridgewood, NJ
Nadelman Alice, PhD, Teaneck, NJ
Neuman Ann, Teaneck, NJ
Novick Sue, Bergen County, New York City
Panozzo Dadid D, Woodcliff Lake, NJ
Peritz Beth, LCSW, MSW, Bergen County,
NJ
Philibosian Donna, Oradell, NJ
Salzer Linda P MSS, LCSW, Englewood, NJ
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
The
center for Adoption , Attachment and Fostering
Resource Family Recruitment
Foster and
Adoptive Family Services, Statewide, NJ
Support Groups
Adoptive Parent's Committee, Bergen County, Ridgewood, NJ
Foster and
Adoptive Family Services, Bergen County, NJ
Post Adoption Support Group of New Jersey