Counseling and Mental Health

CFFS Family Intervention: Resource, Support, and Therapy (FIRST A)

FIRST A provides in home individual and family treatment and counseling, case management (including advocacy, life skills educations and employment assistance) and 24-hour crisis-intervention to Camden County youth (and their families) with behavioral and/or mental health problems that put them at risk of being removed from their homes.

Steininger Center for Behavioral Health

Services are offered to adults and children who are experiencing problems associated with a severe mental illness or emotional disturbance. Counseling is also offered to those caring for a mentally ill person. Treatment ranges from temporary housing to outpatient counseling.

Nueva Vida Behavioral Health Center

Nueva Vida is a multilingual/multicultural Health Center that provides bilingual mental health services to people of all ages.The Center offers Psychiatric Evaluations, Mental Health Evaluations, Counseling, Family Therapy, Group Therapy, Medication Management. They see clients for depression, anxiety, insomnia, Attention Deficit Disorders (ADD), addictions, marital problems, learning disabilities, parenting problems.

Housing with a Heart

Provides supportive housing services to individuals from Camden County who are homeless and who have a serious mental illness. This is a shared living program, which provides the resident with the privacy of his or her own bedroom, while offering common space for other activities of daily living. While residing in Housing With A Heart, the resident will be required to attend a daytime activity, such as a partial care program, work, school, or vocational rehabilitation

South Jersey Behavioral – The PACE (Providing Addictions Counseling and Education)

This program is an adult partial care program for individuals with a dual diagnosis of mental illness and chemical abuse. The program, which operates five days per week from 9a.m. to 3p.m., offers both an intensive outpatient component and full partial care services.

South Jersey Behavioral – COSTAR

This program offers services to the homeless who are mentally ill. The program was designed to recognize the fact that traditional services do not always reach all of those who need support. This unit operates a drop-in center in Camden City, which offers counseling, psychiatric services and MICA services. COSTAR also provides outreach and in-home services including counseling, linkage and referral services for financial aid, housing food, and medical services.

South Jersey Behavioral Health

Offers a coordinated, comprehensive range of outpatient mental health services that include, but are not limited to: Individual, Group and Family psychotherapy, Marriage Counseling, Psychiatric Evaluation and Medication Monitoring, and Assessment and Referral.

Hispanic Family Success Center

Provides regular activities that are open to the public for families such as picnics, game nights, movie nights, cooking classes, etc.

Hispanic Family Center Family Counseling Clinic

Provides English or Spanish counseling for mental illness, families, adults or adolescents, but not to children. Clients are placed either in an intensive program or non-intensive depending on initial assessment.

Catholic Charities Behavioral Health Center

Catholic Charities’ Behavioral Healthcare Services ministers to those who may have exhausted their personal resources to overcome barriers to personal happiness, by providing them professional, spiritually-competent, strength-based, systems-oriented psychotherapy, supportive services, and opportunities for personal growth, healing, and reconciliation.