The New Jersey Child Assault Prevention (NJ CAP) Program is an initiative to bring violence prevention strategies to New Jersey's youth and families statewide. Since 1985, NJ CAP has trained children, parents, and teachers around strategies to prevent bullying, peer-to-peer violence, child abduction, and maltreatment.
NJ CAP seeks to integrate the best resources of a community in an effort to reduce a child's or young person's vulnerability to verbal, physical and sexual assault. NJ CAP works closely with local school districts, parent / teacher associations, home school groups, and other community stakeholders to empower and protect New Jersey's young people. NJ CAP has a threefold educational approach to prevention which includes trainings in: staff in-service, parent programs, and individual classroom workshops for children and teens.
The Department of Children and Families is excited to align this historic initiative with the successful NJ Statewide Student Support Services (NJ4S) network, to further expand the service offerings and prevention programming of NJ4S and integrate NJ CAP into the regionalized hub-and-spoke model available throughout the state of NJ! NJ CAP will continue to be available to all schools, public and non-public, and all grade levels as it has in the past, with a continued focus on elementary schools.
Schools can sign up to receive NJ CAP programming at the online NJ CAP Application.
For more information about NJ4S, visit dcf/nj4s.html
