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Northvale Municipal Alliance Parents. The Anti-Drug Newsletter Please see the newsletter below from the website of “Parents. The Anti-Drug.” It provides useful information that you may want to share. Parents. The Anti-Drug Newsletter Future News to Come • Deadline for 2009 Municipal Alliance Program Modifications 9/15 Plant the Prommise
Municipal Alliance Mission Statement The Northvale Municipal Alliance is a coalition whose goal is to prevent and reduce drug and alcohol use among our youth through quality school programs, parent education, alternative recreational and service activities for children, and coordination of prevention efforts among town organizations. Feel free to contact us at NVMAC@boroughofnorthvale.com Comprehensive Behavioral Healthcare, Inc. CBHCARE
ANNOUNCES FAMILY EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS Lyndhurst, NJ (January 12, 2009) Intensive Family Support Services (IFSS) of Bergen County, a program administered by Comprehensive Behavioral Healthcare, Inc. (CBHCare) is pleased to announce its first Family Educational Workshop Series of 2009 These workshops are for families who have a relative diagnosed with a serious and persistent mental illness. This 8-week program meets 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesday evenings at BERGEN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: Behavioral Health Pavilion, Room E218, 230 East Ridgewood Ave., Paramus, NJ 07652. The series is FREE and open to the public; however advance registrationis required. Please call Lara Zucker, IFSS Coordinator, CBHCare, at (201) 646-0333 for additional information or to register. WEEK 1: January 20, 2009 WEEK 2: January 27, 2009 WEEK 3: February 3, 2009 WEEK 4: February 10, 2009 WEEK 5: February 17, 2009 WEEK 6: February 24, 2009 WEEK 7: March 3, 2009 WEEK 8: March 10, 2009 Intensive Family Support Services is a county-wide support program for families of relatives with mental illness. The program is based on the belief that, despite recent improvements in treatment and community services, family members often take an active role in care for a mentally ill relative. This can be an especially difficult and challenging task - IFSS provides tangible coping skills to address these challenges. IFSS is open to all Bergen County families with a mentallyill relative; the family member does not have to be in treatment for the family to receive services. Founded in 1969 in response to the critical need for counseling services in the community, CBHCare is a private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the highest quality of behavioral health care services to the people of New Jersey. Over the past 40 years, CBHCare has expanded its services to all ages - from children to seniors. With treatment centers in Lyndhurst, Hackensack and River Edge, CBHCareoffers quality mental health services including individual and family counseling; rehabilitation; alcohol and substance abuse treatment; the Valley Brook Center for Geriatric Partial Care; residential, and preventive services - making CBHCare one of the most vital and importanthealthcare resources in northern New Jersey. Photos from the Michael Pritchard Event October 2008
First Statewide Youth Helpline Launched 2NDFLOOR serves as key component of crime prevention initiative TRENTON - Department of Children and Families (DCF) Commissioner Kimberly Ricketts announced today the launch of New Jersey’s first statewide youth helpline, 2NDFLOOR, a key component of the Governor’s Strategy for Safe Streets and Neighborhoods announced last year. “Improving the well-being of our children is the most important investment we can make,” Governor Corzine said. “The 2NDFLOOR youth helpline gives young people a place to turn to before violence or tragedy occurs. It’s important for kids to know that they can call about anything, anytime, anywhere.” The new youth helpline is available 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week to children and young adults ages 10-24. Youth can either call the helpline, 1-888-222-2228, or access the interactive Web site www.2NDFLOOR.org. Calls to the 2NDFLOOR youth helpline are anonymous and confidential except in life-threatening situations. A statewide review had found no existing helplines in New Jersey were interactive with a professional counselor, universal in scope, and designed for teens and young adults. “Before the statewide launch of 2NDFLOOR, there was no one place youth could call where no topic was off limits,” DCF Commissioner Kimberly Ricketts said. “Now youth can call to talk through any challenges they might be facing - whether the issue is substance abuse, domestic violence, self-esteem, eating disorders, family conflict, racism, bullying, gangs or peer pressure.”In addition to providing guidance and direction, 2NDFLOOR youth helpline counselors provide important information and referrals to other resources DCF and other community groups throughout the state have to offer to help teens. “This is a giant step forward for New Jersey in its prevention efforts and it is very exiting to be leading the way,” Anna Diaz-White, 180 Turning Lives Around’s executive director, said. DCF awarded $626,000 to 180 Turning Lives Around, Inc. a nonprofit organization based in Monmouth County, NJ to expand the 2NDFLOOR youth helpline statewide, a helpline that had been serving youth in Monmouth, Mercer and Union Counties since 2003. This award was part of the $13.7 million DCF allocated in state and federal funds, matched by $1 million from the Department of Human Services, to support critical components of the Governor’s initiative. 2NDFLOOR youth helpline has also secured nearly $800,000 in federal funding through a federal Housing and Urban Development grant and support from New Jersey’s bipartisan representation in the U.S. Congress. 2NDFLOOR youth helpline is also supported by a $100,000 grant from both the Philip D. and Tammy S. Murphy Foundation and New Jersey Natural Gas. In October 2007, Governor Corzine announced a broad plan to prevent crime and deter gang involvement in New Jersey by investing in key prevention programs serving at-risk youth in communities experiencing a high incidence of violence and gang activity. For more information on the full plan, visit: http://nj.gov/oag/crimeplan/ |
