United Way of Camden County works to advance the common good. Our goal is to create long lasting changes by addressing the underlying causes of problems. There are basic things we all need for a good life: a quality education that leads to a stable job, income that can support a family through retirement and good health.
Education
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Burlington, Camden & Gloucester Counties
Program Name: Hispanic Mentoring Initiative
Program Summary: This initiative helps youth reach their potential through professional supported, mutually rewarding one-to-one mentor relationships with positive role models and with a measurable impact.
Genesis Counseling Center
Program Name: Comprehensive Adjustment Program (C.A.P)
Program Summary: The C.A.P program provides a one-stop transition program for juvenile parolees and probationers who would have otherwise been reincarcerated. The program provides drug and alcohol education and treatment, alternative high school education, life skills training, job readiness training, sexuality education, cooperative education credits, and linkage to apprenticeship programs.
Hopeworks ‘N Camden
Program Name: Hope Through School
Program Summary: This program serves in-school youth ages 14-18, combining technology training, literacy development, mentoring and jobs. The eight-week basic training program will develop the youth’s proficiency in computer usage, Internet, e-mail, and web-site design. Based on performance and progress youth can advance to earn an hourly wage.
New Jersey Academy for Aquatic Sciences
Program Name: Camden Aquarium Urban Science Enrichment (CAUSE)
Program Summary: CAUSE Junior Staff is a year-round program of science education and paid employment for at-risk youth in Camden and Pennsauken, focusing on addressing the emotional and social needs, as well as academic and financial needs.
One Accord, Inc.
Program Name: Kids Alley Learning Center – Enrichment Program
Program Summary: Provides interactive hands-on activities that assist young people in succeeding in their personal development, academics and society. The goal of this program is to improve knowledge in Language Art and Mathematics to put them on par with the average students in the States of New Jersey.
Urban Promise Ministries, Inc.
Program Name: Street Leaders Program
Program Summary: StreetLeaders hires students each year to work as tutors, coaches, mentors, food program administrators and peer supervisors within Urban Promise’s summer day camps and after-school programs. This program focuses on providing job training, academic enrichment, college readiness activities, character development, and life skills workshops to at-risk youth.
Woodland Community Development Corp.
Program Name: Mary Esther Williams Homework Centers
Program Summary: This program provides tutorial assistance for youth ages 5-14 at local Camden City schools. Activities include academic tutorial assistance, drug prevention programs, parenting classes to participating parents, art therapy and field trips.
YMCA of Burlington County
Program Name: School Aged Childcare
Program Summary: YMCA School-Age Child Care programs offer before and after-school care in local school. Each program is state-licensed and features structured, age-appropriate activities. Daily schedules include supervised free play, homework assistance, enrichment electives, relationship building, sports, group games, arts & crafts, and values activities – all led by caring, imaginative and well-trained staff with the necessary credentials to work and play with young people.
EDUCATION & EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
BPUM Child Development Centers
Program Name: Child Care
Program Summary: The BPUM Child Development Center operates five Child Development Centers in Camden County. BPUM services 330 children on average between the ages of 6 months to 6 years of age. Students receive age-appropriate educational experiences through storytelling, games, dramatic play, art, music and learning circles.
Broadway Family Center
Program Name: Child Care
Program Summary: Broadway Family Center provides developmentally age appropriate activities to infants, toddlers, and preschool children ages 2 months to 5 years.
Camden Day Nursery Association
Program Name: Child Care
Program Summary: Camden Day Nursery’s program enhances each child’s development through storytelling, games, dramatic play, art, music, and learning circles with a total of six classrooms. The center has a summer enrichment program that consists of curriculum based learning and play environment, which is combined with many themed day trips.
El Centro Comunal Borincano Day Care
Program Name: Child Care
Program Summary: Child care center which provides quality services to children and their families. It is a bilingual and a bicultural setting that allows each child to develop a cultural awareness and sense of pride.
Katz Jewish Community Center
Program Name: Infant & Toddler Day Care
Program Summary: Provides a nurturing, safe and loving environment where children between the ages of 3 months to 23 months can thrive socially, emotionally and academically.
Kingsway Learning Center
Program Name: Early Intervention program (EIP)
Program Summary: Provides early intervention services to newborns and up to the age of 3 with an identified developmental delay or a diagnosis that places the child at-risk of being developmentally delayed. The program’s specialists work together with parents, siblings and other significant caregivers to provide support and training to help each child develop new skills and reach new milestones.
Martin Luther King Child Development Center
Program Name: Child Care
Program Summary: Provides Early Care and Education Services to children 6 months – 6 years, whose parents go to work school, or are in a job training program.
Mary H. Thomas Child Development Center, Inc.
Program Name: Child Care
Program Summary: The Child Care Services program serves children of parents who work or are in school. Students receive age-appropriate educational experiences through storytelling, games, dramatic play, art, music and learning circles.
Mi Casita Day Care Center
Program Name: Child Care
Program Summary: Provides a high quality early child care and educational program for children between the ages of 18 months and 5 years old whose parents reside in Camden City and its vicinity. Also provides social services such as nutrition, health services, referrals and parent workshops designed to improve other family services and resources.
Respond, Inc.
Program Name: Child Care Services
Program Summary: The Child Care Services program offers comprehensive, affordable and high quality child care services. The program is designed to enhance each child’s development through storytelling, games, dramatic play, art, music, and learning circles.
INCOME
Abilities Center of Southern New Jersey
Program Name: Workforce Development – Vocational Assessment
Program Summary: This program consists of a mobile assessment of career objectives and identification of employment strategies, with qualified Vocational Evaluators utilizing career exploration and formal testing for persons with disabilities.
AIDS Coalition of Southern New jersey
Program Name: Phoenix Employment Program
Program Summary: In concert with the Social Security Administration – the ticket to Work Program and provides the opportunity for HIV+ and physically and mentally disabled individuals to receive employment counseling, resume assistance, and job skills training.
The Arc of Camden County
Program Name: Occupational Training Workshop Support
Program Summary: The Occupational Training Center’s goal is to provide vocational training, support service and job placement and follow up services, in the least restrictive environment possible, for adults with disabilities.
Boys & Girls Club of Camden County
Program Name: JobReady!
Program Summary: This program builds essential skills in teen participants to help them in the working world, while providing a road map to career interest. Through engaging experimental activities, demonstrations, role-playing, and practice sessions members develop competencies that are observable and measurable.
Camden County College Foundation
Program Name: Community Gateway Program
Program Summary: This program provides Camden City participants with a neighborhood-based learning environment and a pro bono 15-week course of basic instruction per semester that prepares them for employment specific skill development.
Catholic Charities, Diocese of Camden
Program Name: Bridge to Your Future
Program Summary: This program provides financial coaching and case management with a goal of financial sufficiency for people who are currently or were dependant on public and/or private assistance.
Center for Family Services, Inc.
Program Name: Services to Assist Families & Elderly
Program Summary: Services to Assist Families & Elderly is designed to help older and disabled adults maintain their autonomy and remain living in their own homes and communities for as long and as safely as possible.
Hispanic Family Center of Southern New Jersey
Program Name: Recursos Para El Trabajo Program
Program Summary: This program focuses on teaching participants English as a Second Language, computer skills, and civics. The program’s goal is to provide a holistic, customized approach to helping participants secure employment and assisting potential employers meet their hiring goals.
Mental Health Association in Southwestern New Jersey
Program Name: CAMWERCS
Program Summary: CAMWERCS works with youth ages 16 to 21 from Center for Family Services residential program to equip them with the skills they need to seek, obtain and sustain employment. Youth will learn about different vocations, how to complete a job application and create a resume, interview skills, and work appropriate behavior. Staff will work together with youth to develop a personal plan and an employment plan to track progress.
Parkside Business & Community in Partnership, Inc.
Program Name: HOPE Institute
Program Summary: Help participants acquire the skills and knowledge needed to manage their credit and work through budget issues. Topics such as household budgeting, credit clean-up, understanding the mortgage process and the responsibilities of home ownership will be covered.
Steininger Behavioral Care Services, Inc.
Program Name: Working for Self Reliance (WSR)
Program Summary: This program will provide case management services to mentally ill young adults between the ages of 18-25. The case management services will include individual assessment (clinical, work readiness, financial), service planning, linkage with services, monitoring, consumer education and support, consumer advocacy, and system advocacy.
South Jersey Legal Services
Program Name: Community Legal Education & Outreach
Program Summary: The Community Legal Education & Outreach program provides legal education seminars and materials to Camden County residents. The sessions enables clients to be able to support the family, preserve the home, maintain economic stability, experience safety, stability and health; populations with special vulnerabilities are free of legal problems; and clients experience access to justice.
Respond, Inc.
Program Name: Cooking With Teens
Program Summary: The NWJD Center will focus on training, job retention and employment that provide career ladder mobility. Specific training is planned in auto technology, culinary arts, home-based heath care, online entry-level banking service training, and entrepreneurial workshops for both students and adults. Programs that are open to community residents will include access to computers, workshops, financial literacy education, a clothing wardrobe, etc.
Work Group, Inc.
Program Name: Youth Corps. Program
Program Summary: This program provides full-time education and work readiness training designed for school dropouts from Camden County. It provides services to students transitioning into employment, post-secondary education, or technical skill training offering home check-ins, on-site job retention support, supervision, “lifetime” resume updates and replacement services, job matching, career coaching, access to an after-hours hotline, etc.
Health
AIDS Coalition of Southern New jersey
Program Name: Case Management
Program Summary: Case management provides clients who are HIV positive a care plan to assist toward the realization of life goals and desired outcomes.
American Red Cross Camden County Chapter
Program Name: Blood Services Program
Program Summary: The Blood Services Program provides nearly 100% of the blood needs of local hospitals. The Camden County American Red Cross provides the region with the second highest amount of donated blood outside of Philadelphia and has over 130 trained volunteers who staff blood drives.
The Bridge
Program Name: The Bridge
Program Summary: The Bridge is a teen lifestyle enrichment and prevention program, developed for teens by teens. It is designed for area youth, between the ages of 13-19, who are trying to change or do things ‘the right way’.
Cathedral Kitchen
Program Name: Cathedral Kitchen Capacity to Expand Services
Program Summary: The Cathedral Kitchen Capacity offers a hot and nutritionally balanced meal to all those who come to the door for dinner. The program provides a reliable source of nutrition for those who are homeless or living in temporary situations such as shelters, motels and rooming houses.
Center for Family Services, Inc.
Program Name: Camden City Curfew Project
Program Summary: The curfew project sends police officers into the community at least once a week to find juveniles who are out after 10pm. The youth are brought back to the curfew project location to wait for a responsible caregiver to come and get them. This program consists of case management that will improve the curfew project intervention for the youth found violating curfew, prevent child harm and increase family resources.
Center for Family Services, Inc
Program Name: Comprehensive Counseling Program
Program Summary: The Comprehensive Counseling Program provides outpatient services for low-income families in Camden City. The counseling office is located next to Cooper Hospital making access easy for clients, as well as providing a safe and friendly atmosphere.
CONTACT Community Helplines
Program Name: Crisis Helpline
Program Summary: The Crisis Helpline provides crisis intervention, empathetic support and information and referral to all residents of Camden County 24-hours a day, 365 days a year. Phone workers utilize empathetic, non-judgmental therapeutic listening to help callers process their problems and explore their options. Caller can dial (856) 795-2155.
Food Bank of South Jersey
Program Name: Agency Capacity Expansion Project
Program Summary: The goal of the Agency Capacity Expansion Project is to increase the network charitable feeding program capacity to support hungry South Jerseys with consistent, sustainable, safe nutritious food and nutrition assistance while providing opportunities for participants to achieve self-reliance. The program works closely with low capacity agencies to increase their effectiveness in four major areas: organizational development, operations management, fiscal management and food safety.
Interfaith Homeless Outreach Council
Program Name: Project Life
Program Summary: Project Life provides counseling and education which enables men in the Network and Transitional Housing Programs to develop the problem solving skills needed to obtain and maintain permanent housing and jobs to become committed to the recovery process.
Katz Jewish Community Center
Program Name: Active Aging for Seniors
Program Summary: Provides transportation, nutritional meals, health and wellness, socialization, recreational and educational services for senior citizens.
Larc School, Inc.
Program Name: Larc Special Needs Adult Program
Program Summary: The Larc Special Needs Adult Program is a twelve month day program providing transportation, occupational, physical and speech therapy, recreation, nursing services, meals and trips for individuals in the severe range of both physical and cognitive disabilities.
Maryville, Inc.
Program Name: Residential Sub-Abuse Treatment/Sub-Acute Detoxification Program
Program Summary: The Residential Sub-Abuse Treatment/Sub-Acute Detoxification Program provides 24-hour, 7 days a week observation, intervention, monitoring and treatment of substance abuse by licensed medical personnel and certified counseling staff.
New Jersey Association on Corrections
Program Name: Camden County Women’s Center (CCWC)
Program Summary: The Camden County Women’s Center is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. CCWC addresses the problem of domestic violence in the county by providing shelter and auxiliary services for women and their children who are leaving an abusive relationship. CCWC also operates a 24 hour crisis hotline (609) 396-8999 that offers non-residential services that include legal advocacy, counseling, case management, and community education.
New Visions Community Services of Camden
Program Name: New Visions Homeless Day Shelter
Program Summary: The New Visions Homeless Day Shelter services anyone who is homeless or at-risk of homelessness and in need of basic services addressing issues such as hunger, lack of clothing, personal hygiene, medical problems, and telephone access.
Samost Family & Children’s Service of Southern New Jersey
Program Name: Project Sarah
Program Summary: Project Sarah is designed to educate women in the tri-county area about the issue of domestic abuse. Project Sarah is a multi-pronged program that emphasizes individual counseling, support groups, and educational programs in an attempt to aid those struggling with this issue. To reach out to a Project Sarah call specialist, dial (856) 637-3200 and ask for Sarah.
Union Organization for Social Service
Program Name: 211 Information & Referral Service
Program Summary: 211 First Call for Help provides the residents of Camden County the ability to place a single phone call to connect them with important services and volunteer opportunities. 211 provide callers with information about and referrals to human services for everyday needs and in times of crisis. To connect with an information and referral specialist, dial 211.
Volunteers of America, Delaware Valley
Program Name: Family Violence Prevention
Program Summary: The Family Violence Prevention program provides an integrated response to intimate partner violence that includes treatment groups, individual counseling and accountability. This program relies on the successful treatment of the male perpetrators of domestic violence to pave the way for family and childhood health and stability, as well as better and more productive lives for the men who have been trained away from violent behaviors.
Our Lady of Lourdes Health Foundation, Inc.
Program: Project H.O.P.E. (Homeless Outreach Program Enrichment)
Program Summary: Project H.O.P.E.’s mission is to maintain and improve the health and well being of the homeless population, by facilitating their transition from homelessness to self-sufficiency. The program implements a Diabetic Model of Care to improve care and outcomes for homeless diabetic patients by creating well-defined measures and testing, as specified by the guidelines established by the Bureau of Primary Health Care.
Planned Parenthood of Southern New Jersey
Program Name: Teens on Track (TNT)
Program Summary: TNT uses a three-pronged approach that consists of recreation activities, sexuality education and health services for young men. Staff focuses on self-esteem, respect, decision making, communication skills, conflict resolution, violence prevention and career goals.
Planned Parenthood of Southern New Jersey
Program Name: Prenatal Care Program
Program Summary: The Prenatal Care Program works collaboratively with a host of other social service agencies to ensure that prenatal patients receive the care and services they need.
A nutritionist from the WIC program is available on site during prenatal care services and physicians from the Cooper Health System help provide care.
Promise Alternative Care, Inc.
Program Name: Adult Medical Day Care
Program Summary: The Adult Medical Day Care program provides nursing supervision and services, social and recreational activities, a nutritional noon meal, snacks, and door-to-door transportation. In addition, program participants can receive nutritional counseling, podiatry care, occupational and physical therapies on site through formal professional agreements.
South Jersey Eye Center
Program Name: Sight First for Kids
Program Summary: This program provides free and low cost vision care to needy and low income youth in Camden County. Specifically, this grant will assist with providing eye care to students at the Camden County Technical School, identifying potential eye health problem, such as farsightedness, nearsightedness, lazy eye, and astigmatism.
South Jersey Eye Center
Program Name: Adults & Seniors Eye Care Program
Program Summary: The Adults & Seniors Eye Care Program provides high quality comprehensive state-of-the-art free and low cost eye and vision care to needy, poor, low and moderate income, uninsured and underinsured residents of Camden County.
Samaritan Hospice
Program Name: Transitions Program
Program Summary: The Transitions Program is an in-home case management service that provides Camden County seniors who have progressive, life-threatening illnesses with medical and practical information, referrals for supplemental health care, community services, trained volunteers, and respite services for caregivers.
Volunteers of America, Delaware Valley
Program Name: Aletha R. Wright Vision of Hope Human Services Center
Program Summary: The Aletha R. Wright Center is an emergency shelter program for men. The program provides a “Safe Haven” for individuals needing emergency overnight and an Outreach Program to empower homeless adults by increasing their self-sufficiency through a task centered case planning and management process.
