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National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
1-800-273-TALK (8255)
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National Helpline
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Weekly no-fee support group offered.

Please join us on Mondays at 12 noon. During these difficult and challenging times, it is comforting to know there is support available.

If you are interested in joining please email events@acapnj.org to register.

2nd floor Youth Help Line

888-222-2228

2NDFLOOR is a confidential and anonymous helpline for New Jersey's youth and young adults. We are here to help you find solutions to the problems that you face and we are available 24/7 365 days a year.

NJ Adolescent Mental Health Treatment

Seize the Awkward: How to talk about suicide

More than Sad featuring GRHS

Helping Teens Prepare for College

Making a Difference in a Mental Health Career

Gender Identification Trans Student Educational Resources

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Local Mental Health Providers

Psychiatric Emergency Screening Services

Clara Maass Medical Center

Clara Maass is the provider of Psychiatric Emergency Services to Western Essex County as the Designated Screening Center. The new crisis hotline number to access all services Mobile Response to school or home for screening

(973) 844-HELP (4357)

Newark Beth Isreal

Mountainside Hospital

Crisis counselors are available 24/7 to provide skillful interventions for mental health emergencies and crisis for individuals of any age. A psychiatrist and full complement of medical staff are also available to provide stabilization.

Helpline Telephone # (973) 429-6963

Outpatient, Individual and Group Counseling

Individual , group and family sessions for children, adolescents, adults and geriatric clients. For an appointment, contact (973) 429-6813

799 Bloomfield Avenue

3rd Floor

Verona, NJ

Saint Clares Hospital

Psychiatric Emergency and Psychiatric Screening Services are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. These services are designed to meet the needs of those in acute emotional crisis, in which immediate psychiatric intervention is needed. A person seeking Psychiatric Screening Services will initially be seen in the medical emergency department for a medical screening exam. The purpose of this exam is to rule out a medical / metabolic condition that may cause current symptoms. Upon completion of the medical screening exam, the person will be referred to Psychiatric Emergency Services for a clinical interview and assessment of current mental status. The Psychiatric Screeners will interview the designated client, collateral resources, and all relevant clinical data will be documented. The staff will subsequently call the on call psychiatrist for a case discussion and disposition. Potential outcomes of disposition may be outpatient services, inpatient services (voluntary / involuntary), partial hospitalization, the children’s inpatient crisis intervention unit, and the detoxification unit.

Care Plus School Clearances

Care Plus provides assessments with written determination that the student involved does, ore does not present as a danger to himself or others. This letter is provided to the guardian following completion of the assessment if the student is cleared. Specialized services

Assessments conducted by a licensed professional clinician
Appointments available within 24-48 hours to ensure less time out of school
Clinician provide recommendations for follow up services and direct linkages to mental health services as needed
Clinician provides immediate follow up phone call to school referral source for support planning

Call Rose Velez (201) 797-2660 x5602

Baker Street Behavioral Health

Since our inception, Baker Street Behavioral Health® has been focused on building a strategic, quality, and diversified mental health practice. We incorporate a whole-person approach into each service we provide. Our unique, comprehensive programs are designed to improve overall health and well-being. Our clinicians emphasize the use of traditional, cutting-edge, and empirically supported therapies

Services are available for children, adolescents, adults, and families. www.bakerstreetpsych.com

ASPIRE Counseling

Located on Route 23 South in Pompton Plains, N.J.

Elisa Warren - Director of Adolescent Services Cell: 862-377-3469

ASPIRE will specialize in adolescent substance abuse treatment as well as co-occurring disorders. We will offer PHP, IOP, and OP levels of care with a psychiatrist on staff that specializes in working with adolescents. Along with the evidence based approaches of CBT, DBT, and Motivational therapy, we will offer experiential based therapies, such as:

Equine Therapy: Students will visit a horse farm bi-weekly and be working with an equine assisted therapist. I am very excited about this offering!
Art and Music Therapy
Emotional Freedom Technique(tapping):This service will be offered to parents as well as the students.
Tai Chi, Yoga, Meditation

The academic part of the PHP program will be structured with the highest regard for the student and school system. We will not allow a student to fall so behind with their school work that they set themselves up for a return to use due to feeling overwhelmed. We will incorporate not only a lead teacher but tutors in major subjects to meet one on one with students. Family conferences with the lead teacher will be scheduled weekly. Communication with the school will be priority and mandatory.

Aspire takes Medicaid and also provideds transportation.

GenPsych Mental Health and Addiction Urgent Care

Crisis Stabilization for ALL ages

Immediate evaluations (Psychiatrist & Child Psychiatrist available)

Monday -Friday 9am - 5pm

ALL Insurances accepted

5 Regent Street Suite 518 Livingston, NJ (855) 436-7792

www.genpsych.com

GenPsych Adolescent

Welcome to the G.A.P. Team! GenPsych’s Adolescent Program provides an accepting and encouraging environment for children (8-12) and teens (13-18) to receive the mental health care they need. Our comprehensive adolescent mental health treatment program equips young people with the confidence and skills necessary to reach their full potential.

Cooperative Counseling Services, LLC

Since 2005, Cooperative Counseling Services has been dedicated to youth and their families as an Intensive In-Community service provider. As part of an effort to serve various needs of communities, we opened our Outpatient facility in 2011. At Cooperative Counseling Services, we are committed to helping youth with emotional - behavioral health concerns, maintain stability and achieve personal goals. Treatment, care and support services are provided in a context that is youth centered, family-focused, strength based, culturally competent and responsive to each child's psycho-social, developmental, and treatment care needs. Youth and their families are involved in every step of the treatment process and drive the goals, interventions and strategies. We strive to provide the most effective evidenced-based treatment interventions while understanding that our youth and families may be vulnerable and require patience, compassion, and care.

Stress and Anxiety Services of NJ

Specializes in the Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of anxiety disorders, including:

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Social Anxiety Disorder
Panic Disorder and Agroaphobia
Specific Phobias
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
We also provide services for Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors, including:

Trichotillomania (compulsive hair pulling)

Dermatilliomania (compulsive skin picking)

We offer:

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Services fro Children, Adolescents and Adults
Individual and Group Therapies -groups are forming now!

Our Clinical Staff:

New Jersey licensed psychologists
Graduates of the Behavior Therapy Training Institute, the country's foremost OCD training program, sponsored by the international OCD Foundation
Certified by the Trichitillomania Learning Center
Hold Active leadership positions in OCD New Jersey, a non-profit organization and affiliate of the International OCD Foundation

Care Plus

Healthy minds, healthy bodies, for all ages.

That’s the goal at CarePlus: to help children and families who are struggling with social, behavioral, and mental health challenges get to a place of balance of healthy mind and healthy body. Our variety of out-patient programs and support groups help you to manage stress, modify behaviors, and establish a positive sense of well-being.

Resilience Therapy Collaborative

The Women’s Therapy Service of Montclair, LLC

Serving Essex County for 20 years, is your experienced and premier psychotherapy practice for quality mental health treatment for the entire family – Young Children, Teens, and Adults.

We are here to support you and your family during your toughest times.

We want to help put you and your family back on the path toward wellness as efficiently and expertly as possible, so you can live your live worth living.

Utilizing cutting-edge Evidenced-Based treatments – Comprehensive DBT, CBT, Mindfulness, Stress-Reduction, and the Expressive Arts Therapies, our qualified therapists offer:

Evaluation and Treatment of Eating Disorders

Comprehensive Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

DBT TEEN Skills Groups

DBT YOUNG ADULT Skills Groups

Child/Adolescent/Family Therapy

Women’s Issues and Maternal Mental Health

Speaking Engagements for the Community

Training and Supervision for Professionals

Anxiety & Sleep

This guide gets at the link between anxiety and sleep and covers several anxiety disorders that interfere with sleep and which can be alleviated with sleep: generalized anxiety disorder (GAD); social anxiety; obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD); phobias; post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); and panic disorder. It offers solutions to the sleep deprived anxiety sufferers, from treatment options, through online forums, tips regarding healthy sleep hygiene and banishing anxious thoughts, to medical associations that can help.

Sleep Help, a site devoted to spreading awareness of sleep health and wellness. We’ve created a resource guide all about how sleep impacts our moods and our mental well-being, available here:

https://www.sleephelp.org/mood-emotions-sleep/

Sleep quality and mental illness can greatly impact each other. Purple.com created this guide to educate people on how to achieve a good night’s sleep while living with an anxiety disorder.

https://purple.com/blog/sleep-guide-for-anxiety

Transgender Healthcare

Healthy Transitions, LLC Diane Bruessow

50 Church Street Montclair, NJ

House Calls

(908) 647-1688 OR (718) 894-0301

healthytransitions.org

The Kraft Group thekraftgroupinc.org/

Cassandra Merklinghaus Adolescent Therapist 973-727-1597

The Kraft Group specialize working with LGBTQI+ youth and helping families understand what adolescents experience during this journey. Offers work with individuals who have experienced trauma, mental health, self harm, and addiction. Includes individuals from 5 to 18 years old to help youth understand their journey in “coming out” in a healthy way. Provides the ability to access youth for insurance purposes to begin their transition services. If you have any questions at all please feel free to reach out