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.

The Caregiver Task Force has been charged with a one-year mission to develop recommendations to the legislature to help New Jersey's caregivers. This survey is open to all caregivers of aging residents. Surveys are available in English, Spanish, Gujarati, Korean, and Chinese.

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.

West End Market is a local farmers' market featuring fresh local produce and locally crafted food items. Thursdays starting June 17 through October.

Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach caregivers, family members, school staff, law enforcement, faith leaders, and other caring citizens how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. 

Come celebrate the opening on Long Branch's 2nd fully accessible beach at West End.

Lunch will be provided after the ribbon cutting!

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

Please join us for this NJ Spotlight News virtual roundtable as we discuss with administrators and educators what the return to classrooms will look like this fall followed by a live Q&A chatroom with our panelists including Gov Murphy.

This will be an online event only. Please register to have a viewing link emailed to you Tuesday, 6/22, at 3pm and at 4pm.

• 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

Doll-making therapy group for teens ages 12 - 16 striving to embrace their creative identity.

Now more than ever, the importance of self-care and wellness need to be part of our daily routines. If you have never practiced yoga, learn from the foundation up and build your practice. Join us, connect with people and try something new!

Support Groups are a place where families, parents, and caregivers can come to be encouraged, laugh, cry, and share with other families whose children are experiencing emotional and behavioral challenges.

Support Groups are a place where families, parents, and caregivers can come to be encouraged, laugh, cry, and share with other families whose children are experiencing emotional and behavioral challenges.

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.

Join us for an opportunity to hear from key representatives from the Department of Education and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as we discuss schools safely reopening in the fall for in-person learning. Learn the process to get our children with and without disabilities back in the classroom, testing and vaccines safety.

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!

Join our weekly NJ SNAP-Ed cooking Classes. Today is WATERMELON WEDNESDAY. Come join us for a healthy, creative recipe sure to be a hit during the summer!

BRITE helps to engage and inform clients about the meaning and impact of trauma and how to adapt resilience-building skills and strategies to improve mental health, substance use, physical wellbeing, and social connections. Most importantly, BRITE emphasizes strengths and self-direction throughout the curriculum.

Join us for this informative event with Disability Rights NJ Managing Attorney, Michael Brower of our Community Inclusion Team, in collaboration with Ryann Siclari, Counsel to Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C., and a member of the firm’s Wealth Preservation Group. 

Rainbow Pride Series for LGBTQ Youth to discuss Self-Care: LGBTQ Edition

A Support Group for Parents/Caregivers of LGBTQ Youth! This group will bring parents/caregivers of LGBTQ+ youth together to share information, experiences, and resources to help support each other and their children.

To register call 732-491-1596 or email [email protected]

Support Groups are a place where families, parents, and caregivers can come to be encouraged, laugh, cry, and share with other families whose children are experiencing emotional and behavioral challenges.

The City of Asbury Park, in conjunction with Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center, will be offering walk-in vaccinations regardless of immigration status or insurance. Open to all Monmouth County Residents. For questions call 732-775-0960

Virtual therapy group offering discussion topics centered around men's issues for males in their 20s & 30s.

• 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]

All events are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM unless the trucks fill first. Please remove large binder clips; staples and small paper clips can remain. The limit per person is 100 lbs, which is the size of 4 office paper boxes or 4 large trash bags. No businesses allowed. Free to Monmouth County residents only. 

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.

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 

NJ Center for Tourette Syndrome and Associated Disorders announces the Wednesday Webinars series for 2021 featuring presentations by medical and mental health professionals, education specialists, and other leaders in their field. These Wednesday Webinar seminars are for parents, educators, and professionals

Register your 11-15-year-old youth for an online virtual enrichment group with mindfulness/self-care activities. 4-week program. Virtual groups will be offered to youth in Bergen, Morris, Essex Sussex, and Passaic Counties. Runs Monday -Thursday from 10:00 -11:30 am Starting on July 12 and end on August 6. To register, email [email protected]

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

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!