Being a parent/guardian can be hard work! Sometimes, we may need some extra help and support in handling diverse student needs. Please see below a list of resources/websites that can be utilized to meet the needs of you and your family:
Being a parent/guardian can be hard work! Sometimes, we may need some extra help and support in handling diverse student needs. Please see below a list of resources/websites that can be utilized to meet the needs of you and your family:
Mental Health Resources for Parents of Adolescents & Young Adults
YMCA of Greater Monmouth County: Counseling & Social Services
Monmouth Rainbows -A free support group for children coping with family loss due to separation, divorce, death, or other painful crisis.
Coastal Communities Family Success Center -offers programs and services to the coastal Monmouth community. These programs and services include parent education, family literacy, life skills training, employment, parent-child activities, and outreach events.
Fulfill -The Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties. Click on the link to find a pantry or soup kitchen near you.
Using any mobile device's camera, your child can 'capture' a web address (using the QR code below) that will take them to a poster designed specifically for kids, with a list of important hotlines and helplines:
A support group for parents/
caregivers of LGBTQ+ youth
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Strengthening Families is a nationally researched program providing skill-building sessions and fun activities that will help with the toughest job in the world - Being A Parent! Incentives and child care for children under 5 is available while families complete the program. If interested, please see the flyer below for more information as well as the referral sheet!
Please see the flyer below for information on the program, Lasagna Love. This program is open to all families and is meant to give people a home cooked meal. The meals are more than just lasagna and can accommodate dietary needs. Families can receive a meal every 30 days! Please visit Lasagna Love for additional information.
New Jersey renters, landlords, and homeowners seeking information on the latest housing rules, assistance grants, legal assistance or help working out a rental repayment plan can find answers through this website by the Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey.
The website includes a toll-free phone number, 888-691-3002, that New Jerseyans can call to be connected with Volunteer Lawyers for Justice for legal help dealing with eviction filings, or with members of community group partners that can act as mediators if a tenant needs help working out a deal with a landlord to pay back rent in arrears without going to court.
There's also a field where readers can submit housing-related questions that staff members will monitor and answer or forward to partnering organizations, depending on the need.
Visit the Monmouth County Library!
Many of the Monmouth County Library's databases are multi-lingual. This feature will help to ease the transition for those readers entering school with a language barrier. Go to www.monmouthcountylib.org, click on Kids (blue header), and then you can change the language using the drop down at the top right corner of the page.
Tumblebooks is a favorite on their database list. It reads the story to you and is a lot of fun! There is a Spanish language version as well. Brainfuse is a database with live homework help. Check it out!
Integrated Care Concepts and Consultation in Eatontown is one of the only facilities in the country to embrace the total body healing modalities found in both Western/Eastern philosophies. Our team of licensed therapists and highly trained mind-body specialists use a host of mental wellness treatment modalities to provide holistic, trauma-informed care in an environment designed to offer calm, and the ideal space for transformation and growth.
www.integratedcareconcepts.com
The Integrated Adolescents program is located at Fort Monmouth in the JF Kiely Building. The program is held M-F 9 to 3 or M-Th 3 to 6 with a licensed therapist, child psychiatrist, and certified teacher. This is a family wellness program for teens/families experiencing anxiety, depression, and trauma, so there is an application/assessment for admission. For details and an application, please contact Alessandra Crane at 732-389-0697 X 806.
Please see the article to the left regarding working papers. They are now able to be accessed online and hard copies will no longer be administered at schools. Please see this link for an application: MyWorkingPapers.nj.gov
"Behind every child who believes in themselves is a parent/guardian who believed first."