| Service Name | Description | Location | Program | Agency |
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| Hudson County Div. of Welfare-Board of Social Services | The Hudson County Board of Social Services is committed to providing economic and social services to individuals and families residing in Hudson County based upon eligibility criteria.
| Hudson County | Hudson County Div. of Welfare-Board of Social Services | Hudson County Div. of Welfare-Board of Social Services |
| Intensive Family Support Service -IFSS | At the Mental Health Association in Passaic County, we recognize that caring for a family member with a serious mental illness can be stressful and lonely. When you are a client of Intensive Family Support Services, you do not have to cope with the challenges of caregiving alone. Our program will provide the support, education and advocacy you need to cope effectively and help your relative. You will learn about mental illness and the mental health system, how to care for yourself while caring for your relative, how to reduce stress and how to strengthen your problem solving skills. | Passaic County | Intensive Family Support Service - IFSS | Mental Health Association of Passaic County |
| Intensive Family Support Services | Intensive Family Support Services is designed to provide families of mentally ill consumers with the information, skills training, support and advocacy needed to make informed decisions regarding themselves and their mentally ill family members. Services include in-home family support and consultation, education on an individual basis or in a group setting and advocacy and linkage to community services. | Cape May County | Intensive Family Support Services | Cape Counseling Services |
| Intensive Family Support Services -IFSS | is a free program that helps families with a mentally ill member to cope with day t oday living and conquer their feelings of anxiety and fear through education and support.
| Hunterdon County | Intensive Family Support Services -IFSS | Hunterdon Medical Center |
| Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | Catholic Charities Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS provides single-family consultation, psycho-educational and family support groups, respite care, advocacy, and service linkage to families of the seriously mentally ill.
| Burlington County | Access Center | Catholic Charities Diocese of Trenton |
| Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | provides support services to the families of the mentally ill through a network of social, community, and group gatherings. IFSS services include educational presentations, one-on-one counseling and intervention, as well as respite care to lighten the load for families caring for mentally ill loved ones. | Gloucester County | Beacon Division | New Point Behavioral Health Care |
| Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | IFSS provides individual family supportive services for parents, spouses, siblings, and children of people with a primary psychiatric diagnosis. IFSS provides knowledge, skills and supports, which are identified as useful to the family's overall functioning and sense of control. In addition, IFSS strives to reduce the stigma sometimes associated with mental illness. IFSS helps families maintain and develop their relationships, especially in times of crisis. | Somerset County | Behavioral Health Services | Easter Seals Society in NJ |
| Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | Intensive Family Support Services provide support, information and education provided for family members of mentally ill consumers.
| Cumberland County | Community Based Program | Cumberland County Guidance Center |
| Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | Families are often the primary care providers for their loved ones who are mentally ill. Saint Clare's Intensive Family Support Services (IFSS) provides support and education to family members or caretakers of adults diagnosed with serious mental illness. The program focuses on enhancing the strength and stability of the family system. Mental health professionals are available to respond to your individual needs during daytime, evening and weekend hours, with access to service 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Services include:
Psycho-education about mental illness
Family consultation to assess a family's needs
Family support groups for mutual support and interaction
Family retreats that offer respite care for family from the caretaking role
Advocacy and assertiveness training to navigate the mental health system
Referral and service linkage for obtaining mental health and non-mental health assistance for their ill family member.
| Morris County | Community Based Program | Saint Clare's Hospital |
| Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | Support for families who have a member with a serious and persistent mental illness. Services include outreach, consultation, psycho education groups and workshops, family counseling and support, advocacy. This project is provided in collaboration with NAMI Mercer New Jersey. New component geared to families with a member in jail. | Sussex County | Community Based Program | Saint Clare's Hospital |
| Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | Steininger works closely with the Camden County chapter of the National Alliance of the Mentally Ill (NAMI) to offer mental health education, coping skill strategies, and linkage to services and resources for families caring for an adult relative with mental illness. Family Specialists teach families how to advocate on their own behalf and for their relative. They also facilitate educational and support groups to increase knowledge of mental health issues and resources, to improve problem solving, and to ease isolation.
| Camden County | Community Based Program | Twin Oaks Community Services |
| Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | Support for families who have a member with a serious and persistent mental illness. Services include outreach, consultation, psycho education groups and workshops, family counseling and support, advocacy. This project is provided in collaboration with NAMI Mercer New Jersey. New component geared to families with a member in jail. | Mercer County | GTBHC Programs | Greater Trenton Behavioral HealthCare |
| Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | Offered to Hudson County residents, the Intensive Family Support Services program helps families, caregivers, and relatives of people living with mental illness. With a special emphasis on families in crisis, the program provides services in homes, in the community, or on-site. They include single-family consultations, multi-family support groups, medication education, information about community resources, and referrals.
| Hudson County | Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Newark-CCS |
| Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | IFSS is a county-wide support service for the families of relatives with mental illness. The program is based on the knowledge that family members often take an active role in caring for their mentally ill relative. This can prove to be a difficult and frustrating responsibility. IFSS was designed with extensive input and assistance from families caring for relatives with a long history of serious mental illness.
| Bergen County | Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | Comprehensive Behavioral Healthcare, Inc. |
| Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | created and designed as a source for educating and assisting families with a mentally ill member. Using a family centered approach, the program has 3 core functions, each of which offers services to families as needed for their unique situation.
A. Psycho-Educational Program This 6 to 8 week course will provide families with mentally ill members basic facts about specific mental disorders and how the illness is likely to affect the family.
Intensive In-home Services Incorporating a multi-faceted approach to provide intensive in-home services, the social worker will utilize outreach, general monitoring, counseling with family members, and case management/service linkage/liaison services.
Respite Care: This service is a limited non-emergency planned time away from the ill member living at home.
This program is available to families residing in Salem County regardless of ability to pay or whether the ill member is involved with Healthcare Commons, Inc.
Individuals interested in ISSF services should call (856)299-3200 for a free confidential telephone assessement and referral.
| Salem County | Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | Healthcare Commons Family Health Services |
| Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | To empower people with psychiatric disabilities, link people who have mental health treatment needs to available services & resources, & increase public awareness of mental health and mental illness. Esperanza Support Groups and Family, Spouse & Sibling Support Groups professionally run through IFSS programs. | Union County | Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | Mental Health Association In New Jersey |
| Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | To empower people with psychiatric disabilities, link people who have mental health treatment needs to available services & resources, & increase public awareness of mental health and mental illness. Esperanza Support Groups and Family, Spouse & Sibling Support Groups professionally run through IFSS programs. | Union County | Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | Mental Health Association In New Jersey |
| Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | Intensive Family Support Services - a comprehensive program of supportive services and activities designed to assist families who have a relative with mental illness.
| Atlantic County | Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | Mental Health Association of Atlantic County |
| Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | Intensive Family Support Services provide support and information to families and caretakers concerned about a loved one's mental illness. Professional clinicians offer families supportive counceling, coping strategies, advocacy and linkage to community resources. Services are free and accessible being implemented in the home or the office. Additionally, IFSS professionally facilitates ongoing family support groups and serveral psycho-educational groups.
| Essex County | Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | Mental Health Association of Essex County |
| Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | The Mental Health Association (MHA) of Monmouth County is a private, nonprofit, citizens' advocacy organization dedicated to improving services for children and adults with mental illness.We provide free individual or family consultation and multi-family group education, counseling and services by trained professionals. Most meeting times are flexible and convenient and are scheduled when needed unless indicated otherwise
| Monmouth County | Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | Mental Health Association of Monmouth County |
| Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | is a free program that helps families with a mentally ill member to cope with day to day living and conquer their feelings of anxiety and fear through education and support.
| Ocean County | Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | Ocean Mental Health Services, Inc. |
| Intensive Family Support Services-IFSS | Population Served: Family members of mentally ill adults (mentally ill member must be 18 or over) residing in Middlesex County.
Referral Source: Any source, families or individuals seeking service can refer themselves; referrals are also accepted from outpatient or inpatient providers and other social service agencies.
Funding Source: New Jersey Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS)
Number Served: 150 new families per year, with a total of 250 families receiving various services per year.
Service Provided: Family support, advocacy and education, multi-family groups, educational conferences, referral and linkage.
Length of Service: Depends on individual case needs and preferences.
| Middlesex County | University Behavioral Healthcare-UBHC | Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care |
| Intensive Family Support Services Program-IFSS | The Intensive Family Support Services Program (IFSS): This program was established in 1997. The program works with family members of the seriously mentally ill and provides them with a variety of psycho-education and support services designed to help them improve family functioning and coping. Services are delivered both off-site in the community at families' homes, and in the Center's three locations within the County. Services include group and individual psycho-education, family support groups for families, individual consultation, opportunities for families to meet with a psychiatrist, a psychiatric nurse and other professionals to discuss medication and related mental health issues, respite services for ill family members, referral and linkage, and advocacy. During the first nine months of operation, IFSS staff was able to work with concerned families to develop Warren County's first NAMI-NJ chapter. The IFSS program serves approximately 180 family members each year.
| Warren County | Intensive Family Support Services Program-IFSS | Family Guidance Center of Warren County |
| Intensive Family Support Services Program-IFSS | The Intensive Family Support Services Program (IFSS): This program was established in 1997. The program works with family members of the seriously mentally ill and provides them with a variety of psycho-education and support services designed to help them improve family functioning and coping. Services are delivered both off-site in the community at families' homes, and in the Center's three locations within the County. Services include group and individual psycho-education, family support groups for families, individual consultation, opportunities for families to meet with a psychiatrist, a psychiatric nurse and other professionals to discuss medication and related mental health issues, respite services for ill family members, referral and linkage, and advocacy. During the first nine months of operation, IFSS staff was able to work with concerned families to develop Warren County's first NAMI-NJ chapter. The IFSS program serves approximately 180 family members each year.
| Warren County | Intensive Family Support Services Program-IFSS | Family Guidance Center of Warren County |
| Intensive Family Support Services Program-IFSS | The Intensive Family Support Services Program (IFSS): This program was established in 1997. The program works with family members of the seriously mentally ill and provides them with a variety of psycho-education and support services designed to help them improve family functioning and coping. Services are delivered both off-site in the community at families' homes, and in the Center's three locations within the County. Services include group and individual psycho-education, family support groups for families, individual consultation, opportunities for families to meet with a psychiatrist, a psychiatric nurse and other professionals to discuss medication and related mental health issues, respite services for ill family members, referral and linkage, and advocacy. During the first nine months of operation, IFSS staff was able to work with concerned families to develop Warren County's first NAMI-NJ chapter. The IFSS program serves approximately 180 family members each year.
| Warren County | Intensive Family Support Services Program-IFSS | Family Guidance Center of Warren County |
| NAMI Bergen County | NAMI provides education, support and systems advocacy to empower families and persons with mental illness. Affiliate self-help and grassroots advocacy groups located in each county offer emotional support, information and advice about treatment and community resources.
| Bergen County | NAMI New Jersey | NAMI New Jersey |
| Refugee Resettlement Services | assist newly arrived person to USA. Services designed to enhance self-sufficiency via arrange/furnish homes, employment training & placement, transportation, register children in school, ensure access to medical care & finance and budgeting.
| Camden County | Refugee Resettlement Services | Catholic Charities Diocese of Camden |
| University Behavioral Healthcare | Dedicated to excellent providing mental health services while providing services for: addiction; voluntary in/outpatient; psych emergency, in/outpatient geriatric services as well as offering a vast experience in peer support for first responders. | Middlesex County | University Behavioral Healthcare | University Behavioral Healthcare |
