Essex 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
Assoc. Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Nwk, Patricia A. Chiarello,
(201) 246-7378
Children of the World, Veronica Serio,
(973) 239-0100
Division of Youth & Family Services (DYFS)
Infant Foster Care & Adoption Program,
Phyllis Baumrind, (973) 395-0801
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
Medical services
Contact the KinKonnect Warm Line for more
information:
warmline@njarch.org OR call:
1.877.427.5463
Jeanine
Sierchio, BFA, MOT, OTR/L, Verona, Essex County, NJ
Mental Health Professionals
Laura
Alper, Millburn, Essex County, NJ
Anne Brodzinsky, Ph.D., Maplewood,
NJ
David Brodzinsky, Ph.D, Maplewood,
NJ
Esta Dalsass,
MSW, LCSW, Short Hills, Essex County, NJ
Emanuel Elfenbein, M.D., Roseland, NJ
Debbie Frank, LCSW, Verona, NJ
Kim Garfinkel, LSW, East Orange, NJ
Arlene Kappraff, South Orange,
Essex County, NJ
Personal Growth Center, Montclair, 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
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), East Orange, NJ
Lambda Families of NJ, Maplewood, NJ