2010: Second Chances - Children's Aid and Family Services

What We Do
Children’s Aid and Family Services is one of northern New
Jersey’s leading nonprofit providers of human services and child
welfare programs. We primarily help children who don’t have
families able to care for them, and we support children, young
adults, the elderly and their families through the everyday
challenges and transitions in life. While placing children with
foster and adoptive families is still one of our core commitments,
we’ve evolved to keep pace with a changing world. Since
1899, we’ve been helping the most vulnerable people in our
community improve their lives. Our services include:
■ Foster care and adoption for infants, children and teenagers
with special needs.
■ Providing and supporting adoptive and foster families for
children who continue to heal from the trauma they’ve
endured, and are ready to live with a family.
■ Therapeutic foster homes for children and teenagers who can
no longer live with their birth families for a variety of reasons,
most commonly abuse and neglect.
■ Supplying nutritional formula and diapers to low-income
parents of children ages two and younger.
■ Offering scholarships to children of low-income parents so
they can attend Turrell Child Care & Early Learning Center
and have access to high-quality educational opportunities.
■ Providing in-home support services for children and young
adults with developmental disabilities.
■ Clinical support and coaching programs for children and
adolescents to help them make healthy and positive life
choices.
■ Helping young adults who are “aging out” of foster care to
obtain and maintain housing, medical services, education and
work.
■ Providing community and school-based education programs
about substance abuse, and advocating for responsive
prevention and treatment services.
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