Neighborhood-based gathering places where any community resident can find family support, information, and services. The purpose of the Center is to enrich the lives of children by making families and neighborhoods stronger. Services include employment, information and referral, parent education, health care, parent-child activities, home visiting, life skills training, advocacy, and housing.
70% of families improve their ability to provide for their children as evidenced in successful linkages to formal and informal supports.
70% of families are strengthened as evidenced in their ability to reach goals on their family success plan.
Parent Community Advisory Boards (PCAB) operates with 70% of parent involvement as evidenced in parent and community members taking leadership roles.
Domestic Violence Services
Includes the lead domestic violence program, including a shelter with a 24-hour hotline and response in each county. Also provide information and referral, counseling, support groups, financial, legal, housing, and general advocacy, children’s services and community education.
65% of DV survivors have strategies for enhancing their safety
65% of DV survivors have knowledge of available community resources
75% of children show improved emotional, cognitive and behavioral functioning (Peace as a Learned Solution [PALS])
75% of school aged children show improvement in school functioning (PALS)
Strengthening Families
Provides a set of tools for early care and education programs that helps them deepen their work with the families of the children they serve. When early care and education programs adopt the Strengthening Families approach to working with children and families, they frame their work around building five, research-based Protective Factors with families.
65% of the child care center staff will have established phone trees, car pools, baby-sitting co-ops and play groups
80% of the Strengthening Families Early Care and Education (SFECE) centers will have parent classes, regular postings on bulletin boards, take home materials or specific information available to all their parents
100% of all SFECE centers will have work plans in place and will be able to show progress from the previous year
Family Support Organizations
Family-run, county-based organizations that provide direct family-to-family peer support, education, advocacy and other services to family members of children with emotional and behavioral problems.
TBD% change in caregiver needs at 18 months
TBD% of “remained stable/improved” outcome status at 18 months
TBD% of youth in youth partnership
TBD% of CFT meetings attended
TBD% of hours of peer support
To report suspected child abuse or neglect, please call 1-877-NJ Abuse (652-2873)
