Children Aid Family Service

Family Counseling Service, a division of Children's Aid and Family Services, provides comprehensive therapeutic counseling and crisis intervention programs for families in northern New Jersey. The services offered by the center enable children and adults of all ages to solve individual difficulties, improve their relationships, and engage in healthy family dynamics. Family Counseling Service offers more than 30 experienced counselors. Its team of professionals includes licensed clinical social workers, a clinical nurse practitioner, certified alcoholism counselors, board-certified child and adult psychiatrists, family life educators, geriatric specialists, licensed marriage and family counselors, certified school social workers, early childhood educators, and clinical psychologists. Children's Aid and Family Services has been serving the communities of New Jersey since 1899. The organization's services include adoption, foster care, group homes, child care, counseling services and educational programs and workshops.

Children's Aid and Family Services, based in Paramus, N.J., is a regional provider of human services and child welfare programs. Established in 1899, it serves the communities of northern New Jersey. Its experienced professionals include licensed clinical social workers, child psychiatrists, family life educators, licensed family counselors and early childhood educators. In conjunction with the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services, it has developed a program to supplement the agency's group homes in caring for disturbed children, adolescents and pregnant teenagers. They receive therapeutic care under the guidance of trained foster parents and live in their homes. It also offers counseling to birth parents to help them make an informed decision as to whether they wish to make an adoption plan for their child. In addition, it offers postadoption counseling services, providing individual, family and group counseling for the adoptive family, as well as the adoptees.

Children s Aid and Family Services is one of the largest, regional providers of human services and child welfare programs in northern New Jersey. Operational for more than 100 years, the agency offers early education, counseling, community, crisis response, and foster, elder and child care services. It administers programs and services that meet the social, educational and emotional needs of children, young adults and senior citizens. Children s Aid and Family Services coordinates an older child adoption program for families interested in adopting a child over the age of 5. The agency s Baby Basics program serves low-income families in Bergen County in New Jersey and provides parenting education and nutritional and hygienic assistance services for babies. Its division, Turell Child Care & Early Learning Center, is a fully licensed, nonprofit child care facility.