Access Family Services is a private non-profit 501c3 agency that exists to provide families with the tools necessary to empower themselves while transitioning from domestic violence and homelessness to that of independence and self-sufficiency.
Services available for all Essex County residents.
(973) 766-1303
220 South Harrison Street
East Orange, NJ 07017
Email: bessiemachca@gmail.com
Primary health care for family, women’s wellness, and domestic violence.
Provides services to all Essex County residents.
The Family Justice Center model is designed to reduce the barriers and fragmentation of existing services and meet the diverse needs of victims by bringing government and non-government agencies together in one place. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) recognizes the model as a best practice in the field of domestic violence intervention and prevention.
Provides services to all of Essex County.
FAMILY Connections is a non-profit community based counseling and family service agency. Every day, we help children, adults and families transform their lives for the better through the provision of innovative counseling, skills-building, training and prevention services. No other agency offers our wide range of specialized services for all ages. We are leaders in the industry.
adultsandfams3Our goal is to serve the complex needs of our communities. This includes early childhood social and emotional development, adolescent development and safety, trauma, mental illness, addiction, unemployment, poverty, domestic violence, child abuse and neglect.
Available to all Essex County Residents.
La Casa de Don Pedro offers a comprehensive, proven, nurturing solution that addresses the social determinants of health, providing safety, stability, tools, resources, and opportunities that enrich peoples’ lives and builds social capital, helping them overcome their adverse experiences and become economically prosperous. La Casa meets people physically, culturally, and psycho-socially, where they are, and are flexible to their needs.
La Casa de Don Pedro provides prenatal care and parenting education, gives children a head start with Early Head Start, Head Start and preschool, addresses food insecurity, enriches youth with education, recreation, the arts, and advocacy. La Casa counsels families facing psycho-social issues, builds supportive networks for marginalized people (often immigrants), empower domestic violence victims, and prevents illnesses with health education, screenings & care. La Casa builds and sell quality, affordable homes, prepares adults for homeownership, higher education, training and workforce, helps immigrants adapt to the US with English, citizenship, and legal immigration assistance, revitalizes neighborhoods, repairs homes, helps families conserve energy, and provides emergency financial assistance.
LaCasa’s 2 Family Success Center
282 First Avenue
Newark, NJ 07107
973-482-9002
Director: Jessica Viera
Email: jviera@lacasanwk.org
FSC Email: lacasafscs@gmail.com
Website: www.lacasanwk.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LaCasaFamilySuccessCenters/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lacasafsc/?hl=en
La Casa de Don Pedro offers a comprehensive, proven, nurturing solution that addresses the social determinants of health, providing safety, stability, tools, resources, and opportunities that enrich peoples’ lives and builds social capital, helping them overcome their adverse experiences and become economically prosperous. La Casa meets people physically, culturally, and psycho-socially, where they are, and are flexible to their needs.
La Casa de Don Pedro provides prenatal care and parenting education, gives children a head start with Early Head Start, Head Start and preschool, addresses food insecurity, enriches youth with education, recreation, the arts, and advocacy. La Casa counsels families facing psycho-social issues, builds supportive networks for marginalized people (often immigrants), empower domestic violence victims, and prevents illnesses with health education, screenings & care. La Casa builds and sell quality, affordable homes, prepares adults for homeownership, higher education, training and workforce, helps immigrants adapt to the US with English, citizenship, and legal immigration assistance, revitalizes neighborhoods, repairs homes, helps families conserve energy, and provides emergency financial assistance.
LaCasa’s 1 Family Success Center
28 Broadway
Newark, NJ 07104
973-483-2703 ext. 2218
Director: Jessica Viera
Email: jviera@lacasanwk.org
FSC Email: lacasafscs@gmail.com
Website: www.lacasanwk.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LaCasaFamilySuccessCenters/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lacasafsc/?hl=en
NCST Programs
Mentoring Through Case Management: Outreach Workers provide mentoring to youth and young adult ages 14-30 with achieving short term life goals.
Skilled and trained Outreach Workers are the linchpin to success of this initiative. Outreach Workers work individually and as a team to prevent community-based violence. We help residents with:
Hardship Assistance – Each participant has access up to $200 to address emergency needs.
Life Management Skills – Participants can receive up to 40 hour of life skills training and support.
Social Service Assistance – Participants are given assistance with acquiring birth certificates, Social Security cards, and other important personal documents.
Wellness Support – In partnership with the Department of Health and Community Wellness, participants are given access to confidential wellness evaluation and therapeutic counseling
Legal Support – In partnership with Rutgers University Newark Law Fellows, outreach workers and participants are provided with free legal services to address barriers to employment and self sufficiency.
Crime Survivor Support Services – In partnership with New Jersey Crime Victims’ Law Center, our advocates will facilitate the Victims Compensation Fund application process for mentees and survivors of crimes and connect them to support services.
Employment/Education Referrals – In partnership with Newark Jobs Connect and relationships with employers, participants are given priority referral and job training opportunities
High Risk Intervention (HRI): The High Risk Interventionist team’s primary responsibility is to respond to community based violence incidents based on intelligence from the community or law enforcement. HRI connects those engaged in violence to supportive counseling, crisis intervention assessment and mediation, referrals and resource information in order to restore peace and avoid arrest and incarceration.
Hospital Violence Intervention Program (HVIP): Outreach Workers are embedded in the University Hospital Trauma Center and connect victims and their families to supportive services Outreach workers also connect to the high risk intervention team and victim services in order to prevent repeat or retaliatory violence.
Safe Passage: NCST provides Safe Passage at schools with hot spots of violence surrounding select contracted schools. Outreach Workers are deployed in teams at key exit and entry points of the school, bus stops, stores and intersections where youth congregate in and around the school. Safe Passage allows Outreach Workers to develop relationships with the youth and their parents, intervene in and mediate potential conflicts, and ensure that students arrive to and from school in a safe and timely manner.
Trauma Recovery Center (TRC): The NCST Trauma Recovery Center (TRC) is a national award-winning program that is the first of its kind in Newark, NJ. It is designed to help victims of violent crime overcome barriers to accessing mental health treatment, health care, and legal resources in the acute aftermath of trauma. The TRC serves recent victims of violent crime, including survivors of physical assault, sexual assault, gunshot wounds, stabbings, domestic violence, and human trafficking.
mauryncst@gmail.com, middletonsncst@gmail.com
Rachel Coalition provides a variety of services to assist victims of domestic violence, intimate partner violence, and individuals living in high conflict relationships. We improve the lives of those most affected by abuse – the victims, their children, their families. Our domestic violence professionals provide guidance, support, and safe alternatives through counseling and legal services.
Domestic violence does not discriminate. It touches everyone, regardless of age, gender, race, culture, religion, socioeconomic status, or education. Domestic violence affects us all.
Get help today with Rachel Coalition. Call Rachel (973) 740-1233.
Services available to all NJ residents.
24 HR Hotline: 973-759-2153
Email: safehouse@rwibh.org
Open to Essex County, NJ residents
Available Services
The Safe House is an emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence and their children. The Safe House has 12 rooms and can shelter 12 women and 24 children at any one time. A 24 hour hotline is operational and 24 hour admission to the shelter is available.
The Safe House program provides:
counseling, case management, legal advocacy, a comprehensive children’s program, food, clothing, personal necessities, transportation, financial assistance through welfare, housing advocacy, parenting classes, support groups, medical care, a pre-school program, a summer day camp, immigration referrals and linkage to an extensive number of community services on an as needed basis. Non-residential counseling is also provided.
Bi-Lingual staff is avaulable (Spanish) and we have access to the Language Line if needed.
The Safe House provides shelter in a safe and supportive environment for families in crisis and provides the help, education, advocacy & guidance needed to empower women to live safe and productive lives.
University Hospital’s Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program (HVIP) works with community partners, as ONE, to decrease victimization in our community. Being a victim of crime increases a person’s chance of becoming a victim again.
University Hospital is home to New Jersey’s busiest Level 1 Trauma Center and the Hospital’s HVIP serves patients at University Hospital who have suffered an injury due to a violent crime, such as gunshot wounds, stabbings, and assaults.
In collaboration with Newark Community Street Team (NCST) and Newark Community Solutions (NCS), HVIP provides care coordination services to survivors of interpersonal violence.
Wynona’s House revolutionized the process endured by children and families of Essex County coping with the aftermath of abuse and neglect. We are a collaboration of more than 70 multi-disciplinary advocates helping the children of Essex County who have been abused or neglected. Wynona’s House coordinates a cross-systems collaboration that leverages both public and private resources to improve outcomes addressing the problem of child abuse, neglect and maltreatment within the 22 municipalities of Essex County, including Bellville, Bloomfield, Caldwell, Cedar Grove, East Orange, Essex Fells, Fairfield, Glen Ridge, Irvington, Livingston, Maplewood, Millburn (and Short Hills), Montclair (and Upper Montclair), Newark, North Caldwell, Nutley, Orange, Roseland, South Orange, Verona, West Caldwell and West Orange). The multi-agency collaboration serves 789,565 county residents and provides direct services to more than 600 abused or neglected children each year.
Receptionist@WynonasHouse.org