Getting the Help You Need
If you answer yes to any of these questions you may need our services:
- Is your child is demonstrating social, emotional, and/or behavioral issues that are impacting their education, i.e. not going to school, bullying, isolating?
- Is your child angry, aggressive, lashing out, yelling, or slamming doors?
- Has your child experienced a death, divorce, relocation, or traumatic event and is not adjusting well?
- Is your child living with a developmental disability that is difficult to manage?
- Has a friend, teacher, or other trusted adult expressed concerns about your child?
- Is your child leaving at night, coming home with expensive items they cannot afford, or gone for a few days at a time?
- Is your child getting high?
Knowing How to Get the Help You Need
Call PerformCare at (877) 652-7624. They are available 24/7.
PerformCare is the contracted administrator for the services and supports offered through the NJ Children’s System of Care partners, like Circle of Care. It is like a triage center or an access department. When you call PerformCare a trained and licensed Care Coordinator will ask you some basic questions to help determine if your family needs immediate assistance. They are capable of communicating with you in all languages. You, as the parent/guardian, must call PerformCare yourself, though someone may assist you when you do so.
On the call, the Care Coordinator will listen to you and may determine that…
- There is a crisis and you need immediate assistance to de-escalate a crisis and they may dispatch Mobile Response and Stabilization services to your home. A crisis worker can show up at your home within an hour of dispatch. However, if anyone is at risk of harming themselves or others, call 911.
- The challenges you are having could be met in a community based mental health clinic and will provide you with resources, names, and contact info.
- More information is needed to gain a better understanding of your situation. They will authorize a licensed clinician to contact you, speak with you, develop an assessment of your challenges with your child, and provide recommendations. In this case, your child could be referred to the Circle of Care.
What You Can Expect from Circle of Care
- Your child can remain safe at home, in school, and out of trouble.
- You and your child will decide what resources and services will be used.
- We can assist you in achieving the vision you have for your family.
- Your participation with Circle of Care is totally voluntary.
- Circle of Care is mandated to report all child abuse and neglect.
Circle of Care is dedicated to working with youth and families so that they can achieve their family vision. To understand us further, please watch this 3-minute video to understand the NJ Children’s System of Care and the PerformCare referral process by which your family can receive services
Scroll down for more helpful links for you and your families.
Helpful links for parents |
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| My Troubled Teen |
| Getting Help |
| Division of Children’s System of Care |
| Division of Child Protection and Permanency |
Federal Government Links |
| Medicaid |
| Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration |
| National Alliance for the Mentally Ill |
Passaic County Links |
| Passaic County Official Website |
| Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office- Juvenile Justice |
| Department of Human Services |
| Family Support organization of Passaic County |
| First Call 211 |
| PassaicResourceNet.org |
Other CMOs |
| Bergen County Dean Pastras, Executive Director Bergen’s Promise 218 Rt 17 North, 3rd Floor Rochelle Park, NJ 07662 Phone: (201) 712-1170 Fax: (201) 712-0425 |
| Burlington County Michael Dallahan, Executive Director Partners for Kids and Families 122 Burrs Road Mt. Holly, NJ 08060 Phone: (609) 518-6800 Fax: (609) 518-6900 |
| Camden County Charles Brown, Executive Director Camden County Partnership for Children 221 Laurel Avenue, Suite 300 Voorhees, NJ 08043 Phone: (856) 482-6222 Fax: (856) 482-8568 |
| Cape May/Atlantic Counties Alan DeStefano, Executive Director Cape/Atlantic Integrated Network for Kids (I.N.K) 1413 Cantillon Blvd Mays Landing, NJ 08330 Phone: (609) 829-2038 Fax: (609) 829-2886 |
| Caring Partners of Morris/Sussex, Inc. Jim Mahoney, Executive Director Caring Partners of Morris/Sussex, Inc. 200 Valley Road , Suite 406 Mount Arlington, NJ 07856 Phone: (973) 770-5505 Fax: (973) 770-5557 |
| Cumberland/ Salem/Gloucester Counties Chuck Goldstein, Executive Director CSG Family Partnership 445 Woodbury/Glassboro Road Sewell, NJ 08080 Phone: (856) 716-2100 Fax: (856) 716-2109 |
| Essex County Victor Alvarez, Executive Director Partnership for Children for Essex 100 Executive Drive, Suite 130 West Orange, NJ 07052 Phone: (973) 323-3000 Fax: (973) 323-3015 |
| Hudson County Robyn Gorman, Executive Director Hudson Partnership 110 Meadowlands Parkway Floor 2 Secaucus, NJ 07094 Phone: (201) 537-1460 Fax: (201) 537-1452 |
| Mercer County Debra Megaro, Executive Director Capitol County Children’s Collaborative 3535 Quakerbridge Road Hamilton, NJ 08619 Phone: (609) 584-0888 Fax: (609) 584-6258 |
| Middlesex County Suzanne Kreie, Executive Director Coordinated Family Care 30 Silverline Drive, Suite 1 North Brunswick, NJ 08902 Phone: (732) 572-3663 Fax: (732) 246-1468 |
| Monmouth County Kathy Collins, Executive Director Monmouth Cares, Inc. Monmouth Park Corporate Ctr., 185 State Route 36 Suite B1 West Long Branch, NJ 07764 Phone: (732) 222-8008 Fax: (732) 222-9305 |
| Ocean County Mary Jo Buchanan, Executive Director Ocean Partnership for Children 1610 Rt. 88 West, 3rd Floor Brick, NJ 08724 Phone: (732) 202-1585 Fax: (732) 202-0665 |
| Tri-County (Huterdon, Warren, Somerset) James Parauda , Executive Director Tri-County CMO 575 Route 28, Suite 100 Raritan, NJ 08869 Phone: (908)-526-3900 Fax: (908)-526-5278 |
| Union County Richard Hlavacek, Executive Director Families & Community Together 1170 Route 22 West Mountainside, NJ 07092 Phone: (908) 789-8500 Fax: (908) 789-8508 |