Eden Autism is a primary resource for autism information, education, training, and support. Since 1975, Eden, a not-for-profit organization, has provided early intervention, education, employment training, and residential services for children and adults with autism. Eden offers both in-person and online support and training programs for families and professionals. Recognized nationally, Eden is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

Community Services for Children, Inc., a private nonprofit organization in Allentown, Pa., prepares young children and their families to succeed in learning and in life through innovative, comprehensive, leading-edge services. CSC is the only provider of Head Start services in the Lehigh Valley, operating more than 50 classrooms of Head Start, Early Head Start and Pre-K Counts in Lehigh and Northampton counties. Our Head Start program, which dates back to 1965, serves more than 1,200 low-income children and their families, ensuring children enter school eager and motivated to learn. Early Head Start serves pregnant women, children birth to age 3 and their families. This program includes a home-based element, as well as SafeStart, a therapeutic classroom program for abused infants and toddlers. CSC operates Early Learning Resource Centers in 17 counties across the state, providing families and child care providers with information and resources to support access to high-quality early education.

The Arc of Essex County is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to helping children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities participate in every level of our society and enjoy fuller, more independent lives. Founded in 1948 by a group of innovative parents and community leaders, The Arc of Essex County provides a wide variety of programs and services that support nearly 1,500 people throughout Essex County from birth to their senior years. For more information or to make a donation, visit www.arcessex.org.

Preferred Behavioral Health Group is the leading behavioral healthcare organization in central New Jersey. The organization oversees the provision of programs and services that teach, improve, enhance and maintain mental health and healthy lifestyles for children, teens, adults and seniors. A complete array of behavioral healthcare is encompassed, ranging from preventing substance abuse and other forms of abuse in children and teens to substance abuse and mental health counseling, outpatient and residential services for children, youth and adults to programs geared specifically to meet the changed needs of senior citizens.

Founded in 1990, Zufall Health is an award-winning, nonprofit, state-licensed community health center that provides access to high-quality, affordable medical, dental. and behavioral treatment to people and communities who experience barriers to care. Nearly 45,000 patients are served at its headquarters site in Dover as well as offices in Bridgewater, Flemington, Franklin Township, Morristown, Newton, Plainsboro, Somerville, Hackettstown, West Orange, and on its Highlands Health Van and Zufall Health Delta Dental Mobile.

For nearly 100 years, Easterseals has been the indispensable resource for people and families living with disabilities. Throughout all life’s moments – from the extraordinary to the ordinary and everything in between – Easterseals is here to help people and families realize and reach for their full potential. Across the nation, we remove physical, cultural, attitudinal and legal obstacles so people with disabilities have every opportunity to live meaningful and productive lives, on their own terms. We exist to provide the best services and opportunities for people with disabilities in communities nationwide. Easterseals serves people and families who face a wide range of disabilities, including physical emotional, intellectual, social and educational.

Assess, Treat, Empower... Child Guidance Resource Centers is a private, non-profit community behavioral healthcare organization with over 60 years of service dedicated to providing quality care and educational services that best meet the needs of children, youth and their families in the Delaware Valley. Join our Talent Network Today! Keep up to date about open positions at Child Guidance: http://www.jobs.net/jobs/cgrc/en-us/

The mission of The Arc, Ocean County Chapter, Inc. is to advocate, provide opportunities and supports necessary for all individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to be accepted and valued as citizens of the communities in which they choose to live, learn, work and play. Established in 1955, The Arc Ocean County Chapter currently serves 1,500 individuals with disabilities in Ocean County and their families in residential services, vocational services, clinical services, family support, and recreation. For more details on the support services we provide visit www.arcocean.org.

Alternatives, Inc. is a community-based; non-profit organization dedicated to assisting individuals with special needs reach their highest level of independence and integration into the community by providing residential opportunities coupled with comprehensive support services. If you are seeking services and supports for a loved one with intellectual or developmental disabilities or a mental health diagnosis contact us at (908) 685-1444 or visit www.alternativesinc.org. Alternatives, Inc. provides employment, vocational services, adult training, community living programs, behavioral health care, social services and an abundance of enriching recreational activities.

Project HOME (Housing, Opportunities for Employment, Medical Care, Education) empowers people to break the cycle of homelessness, address the structural causes of poverty, and attain their fullest potential as members of society. We strive to create a safe and respectful environment where we support each other in our struggles for self-esteem, recovery, and the confidence to move toward self-actualization.

Norwescap engages and works with individuals and families who are low to moderate income in communities throughout Northern New Jersey, offering services and creating strategies to help them transform poverty into opportunity. We offer programs across six domains - Education; Employment; Financial Empowerment; Health & Nutrition; Housing & Community Development; and Volunteerism & Civic Engagement – and we take a comprehensive approach to serving our neighbors with low- to moderate income, weaving together our dozens of programs to meet basic needs while also helping people build resiliency and progress towards self-sufficiency. From Head Start centers to adult education scholarships; from our Food Bank distributing to 100+ pantries to family nutritional support through WIC; from financial literacy and tax preparation to matched savings for a family’s first home or car, every Norwescap program provides someone with the opportunity to move forward. Altogether, our work positively impacts the lives of over 30,000 individuals each year.

Project Hospitality, a private not-for-profit organization based in Staten Island, New York, provides comprehensive services for hungry and homeless and inadequately housed people, especially those who are living with multiple diagnoses such as HIV, substance use, and/or mental illness. As the only comprehensive homeless service provider in the borough of Staten Island, Project Hospitality serves more than 5,000 Staten Island residents each year. Project Hospitality operates with more than 300 staff and a corps of more than 600 student, community, religious, and corporate volunteers. For a copy of Project Hospitality's Annual Report, contact the office of the Executive Director, Reverend Terry Troia at [email protected] It is the mission of Project Hospitality, Inc. to reach out to community members who are hungry, homeless or otherwise in need in order to work with them to achieve their self-sufficiency — thereby enhancing the quality of life for our community. Project Hospitality seeks to realize its mission both by advocating for those in need and by establishing a comprehensive continuum of care that begins with the provision of food, clothing and shelter and extends to other services which include health care, mental health, alcohol and substance abuse treatment, HIV care, education, vocational training, legal assistance, and transitional and permanent housing.