Child Welfare, Resource Family Recruiting &
Youth Mentoring and a Linden Family Success Center
CIC provides a variety of programs that assist children, families, parents and other caregivers in promoting child welfare and promoting healthier families.
Resource Family Recruiting, Training & Retention Project
One of CIC’s missions (objectives) is to is to enhance opportunities available to parents, children and adolescents in crisis while assuring the children with safe housing and care through its Commissioned Youth Care System (CYCS). CIC has established this model integrated services program, in Essex and Union counties with emergent links in Hudson, Middlesex, Camden and Passaic counties. We identify families in the faith-based community who are interested in providing short and long term care, adoption or other permanent care for children. The CYCS project is operated in full partnership with the the NJ Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS), the New Jersey Family Courts and various county human service programs. Through this program CIC recruits, trains and retains resource families and identifies people who will provide respite care through a mentor to relieve the resource family for a few hours, to allow the resource family to emotionally recharge and become better prepared to handle the normal day-to-day challenges of parenting.
Family Teams Project
Oftentimes, families find themselves confronting crises that, while testing the family, do not rise to the level of intervention by agencies providing child protective services. Through structured family team meetings, CIC will assist families and their chosen community constituents in working together to identify their issues and develop action plans agreed upon by family members that will resolve their crises. The program includes built-in follow-up services to help families attain their desired outcomes in resolving their crises. Structured family teams often result in promoting family reunification and stability to families in crisis.
Youth Mentoring
CIC provides mentoring & life skills training to youth in our network faith-based organizations and communities. We reach them and present lessons that prepare them for the societal pressures they will face and learn ways to deal with life's situations. The youth & young adults participating in these projects are part of an educational and motivational program that offers original, age-specific activities and exercises intended to link participants to their peers, family members and the communities in which they live. We teach values as a basis of self-esteem, decision-making, goal setting, and relationship development using an evidenced based curriculum (ARISE).
This program is in collaboration with the Union County Youth Services Commission.
Youth Epitomizing Success (Mentoring/Coaching/Life-Skills approach)
The Y.E.S. project is a transitional work experience program aimed to train at-risk youth involved in New Jersey’s child welfare system (NJ Division of Youth and Family Services). In essence, Y.E.S. is an answer, in part, to youth violence with a goal to decrease the youth drop-put rate in public schools. Project participants live in Union and Essex counties and include youth who have the least opportunity and exposure in gaining proper insight for readiness skill for work and careers.
Linden Family Success Center
Linden And Vicinage
Because We Care 4 U
Family Success Center
Located At: First Baptist Church, 929 Dill Avenue, Linden NJ 07036 Phone (908) 447-9877 or (908) 447-1198
United Way of Greater Union County in
partnership with the NJ Department of Children and Families (DCF), the Union
County Department of Human Services (DHS), and The Nicholson Foundation—has
embarked on an ambitious effort to provide a comprehensive system of family
supports and services – the Union County Family Success Network.
In the network, United Way provides oversight and is charged with planning,
implementation and support of an integrated, local service delivery system –
Family Success Centers. Family Success Centers are at the forefront of the
effort to help families in need. These community-based, family-focused
centers provide an array of essential services, including prevention, family
support and early intervention.
Operated by Communities in Cooperation, Inc.
Contact:
Pamela B. Jones or David L. Jones at
becausewecare4u_linden@yahoo.com
Hours Of Operation:
Facility Open on Thursdays & Fridays.
Noon to 4 pm - ALSO 4-8pm by appointment only
Services available Monday evening, Tuesday evening and some Saturdays by appointment only
(appointments are made via phone and/or email on
an needed basis to meet client needs.)
Community activities and training: 3rd & 4th Fridays from 6 to 8pm.
(schedules subject to change- please call before coming - Phone (908) 447-9877 or (908) 447 1198)