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Family Support Services

Family Connections’ Family Support Services focuses on keeping families together, as long as it’s what is best for everyone in the family. We provide numerous parenting support programs and family counseling while always prioritizing the safety of the children in their homes.

 

Our Family Support Programs include:

Exchange Parent Aide Program (EPA): In-home services throughout Essex, Hudson, and Bergen Counties, for parents/caregivers of children from birth to 17 who are at-risk for abuse or neglect. Designed to increase parenting skills, social connections, social-emotional resilience, child safety and healthy development.

Family Crisis Intervention: Crisis stabilization and supportive counseling to improve communications and bonding for children and families referred by Family Court or the community.
Address: 395 South Center Street, Orange, NJ 07050
Contact Us: fcip@familyconnectionsnj.org

Family Preservation Services (FPS): Essex County’s office of the statewide FPS program model, delivering intensive, 24/7 in-home services to build concrete, practical parenting & coping skills, increase family bonding, safely reunify families separated due to abuse/neglect, and reduce further costly and traumatic out-of-home placements of children.

Positive Parenting Program (Triple P): Evidence-Based in-home/in-community support for parents/caregivers of children from birth to 12, who are involved in the child welfare system. Triple P employs both individual and group modalities to strengthen caregivers’parenting skills, social connections, and knowledge of social-emotional competency, child safety, and child development.

NJ4S-Essex: With a team of 50+ professionals, the Essex Hub of NJ Statewide Student Support Services delivers customized, evidence-based prevention and wellness services to students, parents, and educators in high need Essex County public schools and in the community.
Visit Our Website: nj4s-essex.org
Contact Us: infonj4sessex@familyconnectionsnj.org

Strengthening Family Bonds: Evidence-based parenting and family-strengthening program delivered at convenient community locations throughout Essex County.


Contact Us: sfb@familyconnectionsnj.org

Supportive Visitation: A continuum of therapeutic visitation services – in-home and in community – to safely re-connect families separated due to abuse or neglect.


Contact Us: svs@familyconnectionsnj.org

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