The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey is a nonprofit organization that helps at-risk infants, children, youth, and families achieve their potential. We protect abused or neglected infants and children, strengthen families, and strive for stable, permanent, and loving homes for every child. 

The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey was founded in 1894 and our mission was to find loving families for children, to protect children from harm, and to help parents find better ways to be parents so they can keep their children. It is our vision that all children have secure, caring families, good health, and function well cognitively, emotionally, and behaviorally.

To this end, our programs include behavioral health/ mental health, permanency planning, community/ neighborhood based services, school based services, and early childhood and parent education services. We provide services for children and parents at risk, including prevention, support, childcare, referral, and treatment. Our programs address the developmental continuum from pre-natal to adult.

• Adoption & Birth Parent Services
• Counseling Services
• Ocean County CCR&R, Childcare Subsidy & Early Childhood Education
• Maternal Child Health & Family Success Centers
• Kinship Services
• School Based Services
• Head Start & Early Head Start

Last Updated: 02/28/25