Family Support Resources
New Jersey, community agencies, and national organizations work together to provide wrap-around resources and supports within communities to strengthen families.
1. Family Success Centers, Department of Children and Families (DCF)
Family Success Centers are “one-stop” shops that provide resources and supports for families before they find themselves in crisis. Family Success Centers offer primary child abuse prevention services to families and bring together concerned community residents, leaders, and community agencies to address the problems that threaten the safety and stability of families and the community. There is no cost to access services provided by Family Success Centers (FSCs).
2. Family Support Organizations, Department of Children and Families (DCF)
Family Support Organizations (FSO’s) are family-run, county-based organizations that provide direct family-to-family peer support, education, advocacy and other services to family members of children with emotional and behavioral problems.
3. Office of Child Care
The Office of Child Care (OCC) was established in 2010 and replaces the former Child Care Bureau. OCC partners with states, territories, and tribes to administer the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) program. Since the enactment of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act more than 30 years ago, the CCDF program has been helping low-income working families pay for child care and to improve the quality of child care for all children.
4. Grow NJ Kids
Grow NJ Kids is a state-sponsored initiative to raise the quality of child care and early learning throughout New Jersey.
Grow NJ Kids gives child care and early learning programs resources to assess and improve their programs, while providing parents with information that allows them to evaluate the quality of programs and make the best choices for their child. The goal is to create a system that encourages ongoing improvement.
5. New Brunswick Tomorrow (NBT)
NBT’s goal is to improve life outcomes for youth, ages 0–21. They desire for them to be supported in safe and healthy environments so they can achieve the highest levels of education, employment, health and self-sufficiency as adults.
6. New Jersey Child Care Resources
Resources to assist students with children
7. Resources Outside of Rutgers
There are a variety of resources for residents in New Jersey, many of which are right near the Rutgers-New Brunswick campus. Many of the resources may be beneficial to residents with dependents.
