Classes are held in both English and Spanish Tuesdays at 6 pm and Wednesdays at 9 am.

Our 2021 Virtual Teen Conference is an interactive, self-guided, virtual learning experience for high school students, advised by high school students, and featuring high school students for self-care & well-being. Teachers can access to free lesson plans and resources, and parents can access our interactive virtual learning program.

May 18th is the New Jersey voter registration deadline for the June 8, 2021. Voters can register online at the State website, https://voter.svrs.nj.gov/register, or by completing the Voter Registration Form from http://MonmouthCountyVotes.com.

Parents/caregivers of these adolescents facilitate seeking services for adolescents and understand them in ways that healthcare providers do not. Researchers at Villanova University want to hear your experiences, positive and negative, seeking mental health treatment for your adolescent during and after a suicide crisis.

The Mourning Meeting is a podcast dedicated to young adults. Interviews include information about grieving at college, pandemic grief, advanced directives for young adults, suicide loss, and much more.

Hosted by Ken Verni. Occurs every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

This virtual 8-week program is for youth ages 14-18 who live in Bergen, Essex, Morris, Sussex or Passaic.  Youth must have Medicaid.

• 5/11-An Overview of the Abilities Day Habilitation Programs
• 5/18-Heigh ho, heigh ho, it's off to work we go!
• 6/1-Let's get Person Centered
• 6/8-Supports Brokerage Services
• 6/15- Housing Opportunities
• 6/22-Getting a guardian
• 6/29-Financial Planning

Unplug, Unwind, Calm Your Mind

This free support group is for parents who are now on the clock 24/7 because of COVID-19! Conversations are led by you! MUCCTC is a free online counseling service staffed by supervised Monmouth University clinical social work graduate interns! 

Welcome Faith-Based Community Leaders ~ We invite you to come together for ongoing conversations on the challenges of life as religious leaders in a pandemic world to our New Jersey Clergy Peer Group

MAY is Mental Health awareness month, and in Honor of MHA, COC is hosting a few great events. Flip the Script is a series of motivational, uplifting, and family oriented events. That allows children to not only create but to engage with one another and their families all together. Please join us on May 19th @ 4pm, as we channel our inner Picasso! 

Hosted by DCF's Youth Council, this free 2-hour event will feature a financial literacy course and a youth forum with Commissioner Christine Norbut Beyer.

A webinar for students who are seeking help with prepping for finals and will go over many things such as how to study, gathering materials to study from, and more. This event will be hosted in Spanish. No RSVP needed, feel free to reach out with any questions about our initiatives or our webinar at [email protected]

Join Disability Rights New Jersey for a virtual presentation about New Jersey’s designated protection and advocacy system for people with disabilities

Community experts will provide an overview of the crisis model being developed and implemented in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, and will offer background on how to get started locally on the implementation of a new crisis system.

A guided panel discussion and Q&A moderated by NAMI’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Ken Duckworth will follow the discussion.

• Tuesdays-10 a.m. Peer to Peer Rap Group 3 p.m. Hearing Voices
• Wednesdays-3 p.m. Coronavirus Support Group 4:30 p.m. Men's Group
• Thursdays-3 p.m. Stress Management 7 p.m. Healthy Eating
• Fridays-3 p.m. Mindfulness 7 p.m. Women's Group
• Saturdays- 3 p.m. Health Group 4:30 p.m. Journaling our Recovery

ID 480 494 4894     CODE 216467    Contact [email protected]

Join us for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Walk Your Way – Virtual Walk in honor of Children’s Mental Health Awareness Month

Creative Healing is a therapeutic modality that combines powerful counseling techniques along with art-making to help improve emotional, mental health, promoting self-regulation. This group is for adults 18 years old + meets Sundays from 10:30 am to 11:25 am.

The Food Service Training Academy (FSTA) is a 14-week job-skills program at the Community FoodBank of NJ located in Hillside, NJ. Graduates leave with over 500 hours of kitchen experience and a ServSafe Food Protection Manager Certification.

The presenter for this free Zoom is Tim Schoemaker, MS. For more information, contact the Wall Alliance at 732-520-4792, or email [email protected]  

Alex Gitter MS, M.ed, LAC, NCC will present:

Parent's role in Sex Talk

Facts and Autism and Sexual Development

Explore concerns and questions

Tips to teach sexual health

Special needs planning is a subset of estate planning. Estate planning may bring to mind families with great wealth, but that is not true. In the special needs planning context, it simply means organizing your estate (whatever its size) to meet the needs of the entire family as efficiently and economically as possible, knowing that special considerations are needed for a particular family member. The requirement for special needs planning can strike at any age and with any family member. However, the goal for families with a member requiring special consideration is the same: to create and provide a more certain future for the individual with the special need as well as for the rest of the family. But, most times, it is for a child that we can most effectively plan for because you have the benefit of time to get the right advice and to develop and implement the appropriate plan.

Virtual Tours of Animal Sanctuary

YTB scheduled two free Virtual Tours of Animal Sanctuaries--one on Wednesday, May 26th and another on Friday, June 4th . The sessions run from 3:30-5:00 p.m. with the first 30 minutes for Q&A and updates on YTB activities followed by the Virtual Tours starting at 4 p.m. Anyone is welcome to join these virtual sessions.

In this webinar we will take a deeper dive into how nature supports children's mental wellbeing including strengthened self-esteem and confidence, enhanced positive emotion and reduced negative emotion, stress reduction, restoration, social benefits, and resilience. We will share tips for getting the most out of nature activities to promote children's mental health.

Purpose: To offer the youth and young adults in our community a safe place to come together and have meaningful discussions around current events such as: Black Lives Matter, racism, social injustice etc.

First Thursday of EVERY month 3-5pm. Registration is required 

This 2 CE seminar will explore the impact of eating disorders in the Jewish community and provide evidence-based tools and creative strategies for clinicians to utilize in their practice.

Join the Brain Injury Alliance of New Jersey on Thursday, June 3, 2021, from 12 PM to 1 PM for "Implications and Treatment of the Long-term Neurological and Cognitive Effects of COVID-19." A Certificate of Attendance will be provided for one Professional Development Hour. For more information contact [email protected]

Learn how to track your child's developmental milestones! Learn how your child grows, talks, plays, learns, and interacts with their world.

All Families receive a FREE Developmental Tool Kit!

This 4-hour certification course is designed to promote rapid uptake of digital peer support and is designed specifically to address the needs of the current COVID-19 crisis. A knowledge test is presented at the end of the educational section that requires 80% correct answers to achieve the Digital Peer Support Certification.

This FREE event will feature educational, interactive, and fun activities including Brain Injury and Covid Awareness: What You Need to Know, Arts and Crafts, Transportation Information and Resources, and Mindfulness. Questions regarding this event can be directed to [email protected] Funding for this event was made possible by the New Jersey State Department of Human Services, Division of Disability Services Traumatic Brain Injury Fund.

All mental health conditions should be approached with the utmost care in considering the basic ethical practices common to each clinical discipline--confidentiality and informed consent, operating within one's scope of competency and ensuring practices that do not cause harm to our clients. However, the numerous ethical issues facing eating disorders practitioners may differ significantly from those ethics conundrums that arise in work with a general client base.

Join C.A.S.T. for Kids for a free fishing event for kids with special needs.  A joyful day of fishing brings kids with special needs, their families, and community volunteers together for an explosion of fun!  

Saturday June 19th, 2021 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

This 2-day conference includes guest speakers and learn from the experts about services that support youth/caregivers and professionals in the transition process of entering the adult world of I/DD services and experts about services that support youth/caregivers in the transition process of entering the adult world of I/DD services.  More Info here!