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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

• 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

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! 

This past year has been a trying time for people of all ages. COVID19 has been particularly stressful for teenagers. Depression, anxiety, and feelings of social isolation have increased dramatically in teens this year. This group will focus on helping teens to normalize their feelings and to understand that they are not alone. The teenage years are pivotal and defining. It is essential that these young adults know that they have support. "A Whole New World" will offer teens guidance and hope for a brighter future.

As the father of an adult child with autism, Dr. Naseef provides compassion and understanding of the challenges for men and insight into building the father-child relationship. This presentation helps develop involvement and support for fathers and offers insight into the family impact.

Free - Registration Required

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.

• 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 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.

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

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.

Our society is obsessed with dieting. Period. If you feel like you are one of those people that are constantly on a diet or if you have struggled with poor body image, this group is for you. Together, we will read one of my favorite books, "The Fu*k It Diet" by Caroline Dooner. This book is witty, straight-forward, and honest. It has helped me and millions of other people to stop dieting and start living. As a group, we will read specific pages and then reconvene and discuss our feelings towards the content. Let's change the way we think about body image and start to believe that every body is beautiful!

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 

Isolation is something that many people encountered for the first time during the global pandemic. But the state of being isolated from friends, family, or even kind strangers is something older adults, persons with disabilities, and family caregivers have experienced for a very long time and will likely continue to experience after the world reopens.

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!