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CenterPath Wellness Offers Free Mental Health Services for Uninsured in NJ Via Telehealth and in Person at Plainfield Office Plainfield, NJ.

With mental health challenges across New Jersey on the rise and access to affordable care difficult, especially for uninsured individuals, CenterPath Wellness (CPW), an affiliated counseling service of Easterseals New Jersey, is partnering with NJMHAPPs, a state-funded initiative, to offer select no-cost mental health services to uninsured New Jersey residents.

NEW JERSEY– Easterseals New Jersey (ENJ), the largest disability services nonprofit in the state, announced the appointment of Colts Neck resident, Van Shell Jr. to its Board of Directors.

CHATHAM - Borough resident Jim Ankner has been appointed to the board of directors at Easterseals New Jersey, a Jamesburg-based disability services nonprofit. Ankner works as the co-president of Hummingbird Ventures, a communications and marketing services company.

(JAMESBURG, NJ) -- Easterseals New Jersey (ENJ), the largest disability services nonprofit in the state, announced four strategic appointments to its Board of Directors, joining an existent top talent group of community leaders and industry experts.

Mental Health & Substance Abuse Providers Call on New Jersey To Save Acute Outpatient Services Partial Care and Intensive Outpatient Services are in danger of disappearing, and thousands of New Jerseyans risk hospitalization in the inevitable fallout.

Since I first began working in the nonprofit space as a Direct Support Professional in 2017, I have felt a sense of joy going to work every day to support individuals with disabilities.

Lawmakers are seeking to index aid to social services organizations amid inflation and a pandemic that have winnowed the groups’ numbers and left staff in even shorter supply. In New Jersey, many nonprofits that provide substance abuse, mental health, and disability services draw the overwhelming majority of their funding from the state or other government units, but they say the politics of budgeting have left them with uncertain futures and financial woes.

A teenage actor from New Jersey who uses a wheelchair says that the custom chair was manhandled and damaged at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday.

It had us humming the Barenaked Ladies song “If I Had $1000000,” when the Powerball jackpot reached $1 billion this week.

Like most in the behavioral services sector, Matt Binder, an advocacy manager at Easterseals New Jersey, was thrilled with the funding boost New Jersey’s budget delivered this year.

Assemblyman Wayne DeAngelo visited the Hamilton Habilitation Center for Developmental Disabilities Month.