HELPFUL RESOURCES
To support families in need, we have pulled together a list of
resources that can help you and your families.
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** These resources have no affiliation with ISCJ. Contact them at your own discretion.
NAME OF
ORGANIZATION
HOW THEY CAN HELP?
WEBSITE
CONTACT INFO
There are many programs that offer free baby stuff
for low income families such as an infant car seat,
Angie's Angel Help
free formula, free diapers, etc. This website provides
Network
information about how to obtain these items and
access various services.
http://angiesangelhelp
network.com/freeangie@angiesangelhelpnetwor
baby-stuff-for-lowk.com
income-families/
Bebe Bell
Bebe BELL (Baby Equipment Lovingly Loaned)
Equipment Lovingly provides cribs, car seats, strollers, high chairs,
Loaned
diapers, baby wipes, baby food, blankets and hats.
To be eligible a person must meet
financial guidelines that show
http://www.aecdc.org/ limited resources. An initial phone
call from the referral source starts
the process.
Catholic Charities
Central Jersey
Legal Services
Catholic Charities, Diocese of Metuchen, uses the
principles of quality, creativity, respect and
http://www.ccdom.org/
empowerment as the guiding forces behind the
agency's mission. Services Include: Basic Needs - This is a link to list of
Making Ends Meet, Child Care, Counseling
counties and services
Services, Disaster Relief, Foster a Child, Home
provider by Catholic
Parent, Housing & Shelters, Immigration, Maternity Charities:
Services, Out of Home Placement, Services
http://www.ccdom.org/q
Needing A Referral, Social Justice, Unity Square,
uick-ref-chart
Youth Services.
Central Jersey Legal Services provides free legal
help to low income people who live in Mercer,
Middlesex and Union Counties. CJLS Provides
Legal Assistance For:
- Housing Problems
- Eviction, foreclosure, rent collection, tenant repair
issues, Section 8 and other public housing problems,
and housing discrimination.
- Family Matters
- Help for victims of domestic violence. Divorce,
child custody, support and visitation, family
reunification, and DYFS actions.
- Consumer Problems
- Bankruptcy, collections, credit access, utility
billing/shut-offs, unfair sales practices, and predatory http://www.lsnj.org/cjls/
lending.
- Public Benefits & Employment
- Benefits such as TANF, GA, SSI/SSD, and Food
Stamps. Unemployment, improper job termination,
employment discrimination, and pay or
benefits withholding.
- Health & Education
- Medicaid/Medicare, Charity Care, prescription drug
coverage, private insurance, and access to health
care. School placement, special education,
residency, and bullying.
- Senior Citizens
- Powers of attorney, wills, guardianships, nursing
homes and other health care issues.
Tel: 1-732-324-8200
Call or visit one of the offices
between
9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.,
Monday
through Friday, to find out if you
qualify
for assistance.
Mercer County
198 West State Street
Trenton, NJ 08608
(609) 695-6249
Union County
60 Prince Street
Elizabeth, NJ 07208
(908) 354-4340
Middlesex County
317 George Street #201
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(732) 249-7600
313 State Street #308
Perth Amboy, NJ 08816
(732) 324-1613
HELPFUL RESOURCES
NAME OF
ORGANIZATION
HOW THEY CAN HELP?
** These resources have no affiliation with
ISCJ. Contact them at your own discretion.
WEBSITE
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CONTACT INFO
General information and questions,
including volunteer inquiries:
Phone: 609-396-9355
Fax: 609-482-4444
info@thecrisisministry.org
IN TRENTON
123 East Hanover St., Trenton, NJ
08608
716 S. Clinton Ave., Trenton, NJ
08611
IN PRINCETON
61 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ
08542
Crisis Ministry of
Princeton and
Trenton
Established to help secure the basic needs of food
and shelter and promote longer-term stability
Food Pantry Hours
through hunger prevention and nutrition education, http://www.thecrisis 123 E. Hanover St., Trenton & 714
housing stability and homelessness prevention
S. Clinton Ave., Trenton
ministry.org
services, workforce development, and driver’s
M – F: 9:30am – 12 noon
license restoration.
(volunteers please arrive by 9:00)
61 Nassau St., Princeton (lower
level of Nassau Presbyterian
Church)
M, W & Th: 1:30 – 4pm; T: 1:30 –
7pm
Homelessness Prevention Hours
123 E. Hanover St., Trenton
M: 9am – noon; W: 1 – 3pm; Th:
9am – noon
61 Nassau St., Princeton (lower
level of Nassau Presbyterian
Church) M, W, Th 1:30 – 3:30pm; T:
4 – 6pm
DCF's Division on Women (DOW), Office of
Domestic Violence Services (ODVS) funds 23
domestic violence programs and the New Jersey
Coalition for Battered Women. There is at least one http://www.state.nj.
DCF-designated lead domestic violence program in
us/dcf/women/dom
Domestic Violence
Tel: 1 (800) 572-SAFE (7233)
each of the 21 counties that provides core services.
Services
estic/
The New Jersey Statewide Domestic Violence
Hotline provides a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week
confidential hotline for domestic violence victims
and others seeking crisis intervention, information
and/or referral services.
A website that provides users with information on http://www.foodpan
Food Pantries.org all the food pantries in New Jersey. Organized
tries.org/ci/njwithin the city
monmouth_junction
A non-profit charity with its stated mission “To
engage in activities that will uplift humanity”. The http://www.freechar
Another alternative:
itycars.org/
organization’s main focus is to provide free
Free Charity Cars
www.onlinecardonation.org
donated vehicles to struggling families to assist
them in their transition from dependency to selfsufficiency. Visit the website to sign up
HELPFUL RESOURCES
NAME OF
ORGANIZATION
HELP (Health
Equipment Loan
Program)
HOW THEY CAN HELP?
** These resources have no affiliation with
ISCJ. Contact them at your own discretion.
WEBSITE
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CONTACT INFO
Helps provide a variety of equipment including
wheelchairs, shower seats, walkers, canes, ez
reachers. Use as long as needed. Arrangements
for delivery can be made. $10 deposit required for
most, $25 deposit required for wheelchairs &
hospital beds. Both deposits returned when
Anshe Emeth CDC
equipment is returned.
222 Livingston Avenue
http://www.drnj.org New Brunswick, NJ 08901
DONATIONS: accepts medical equipment.
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Middlesex County & Franklin Township only
Phone: (732) 296-9922
The food pantry hours for the
HomeFront's mission is to end homelessness in
Homefront office are Monday and
Central New Jersey by harnessing the caring,
Thursday 9am-4:45pm
resources and expertise of the community.
Tuesdays from 12pm-7:45pm
They help lessen the immediate pain of
HomeFront
homelessness and help families become self1880 Princeton Ave
sufficient. HomeFront works to give people the
Lawrenceville, NJ - 08648
skills and opportunities to ensure adequate
incomes, and we work to increase the availability of http://www.homefr Phone: (609) 989-9417
ontnj.org
Homefront
adequate, affordable housing.
Fax: (609) 989-9423
The Earned Income Tax Credit, EITC or EIC, is a
benefit for working people with low to moderate
income. To qualify, you must meet certain
http://www.irs.gov/I
requirements and file a tax return, even if you do
ndividuals/Disabilitynot owe any tax or are not required to file. EITC
IRS Disability filing reduces the amount of tax you owe and may give and-Earned-IncomeTax-Credit
taxes
you a refund.
IRUSA established this special network—the
Giving Grain Network— as a collective of
emergency food service providers located across
http://www.irusa.or
Islamic Relief
the country, providing groceries and other food
Giving Grain Food items on a regular basis for individuals and families g/campaigns/givinggrain-network/
Network (IRUSA) in need.
4145 Route 1 South and Promenade
Blvd
Monmouth Junction, NJ 08852-0628
The Islamic Society of Central Jersey (ISCJ) is an
organization of Muslim Americans that provides
Administration: 732-329-6995
religious, educational and social services to its
Zakat Hotline: 732- 329-2020
Islamic Society of members, as well as to the community at large.
zakat@iscj.org
Central Jersey
Some of the services include: counseling,
Fax: 732-329-1988
(ISCJ)
zakat/charity funds, islamic school, lectures, etc... http://iscj.org/
295 Eggerts Crossing Road
Lawarenceville, NJ- 08648 Tel:
(609) 883-6755
Lawrenceville
Neighborhood
Service Center
Legal Services of
New Jersey (LSNJ)
Provides a food pantry.
LSNJ coordinates the statewide Legal Services
system, which provides free legal assistance to
low-income New Jerseyans for their civil legal
problems.
Through its work, LSNJ strives to secure
substantive and procedural justice for those living
in poverty.
Pantry hours: 1st and 3rd
Thursdays of the month: 12:30pm Currently no website 4:30pm
Tel: 888-576-5529
You can also apply online at:
https://lsnjlawhotline.org/
http://www.lsnj.org/
HELPFUL RESOURCES
NAME OF
ORGANIZATION
** These resources have no affiliation with
ISCJ. Contact them at your own discretion.
HOW THEY CAN HELP?
WEBSITE
The mission of the Middlesex County Board of Social
Services is to administer Federal and State public
assistance programs in a competent, compassionate
and efficient manner. It's a public agency dedicated to
serving the residents of Middlesex County, NJ.
Programs Administered by the Middlesex County
Board of Social Services include:
Middlesex County
Board of Social
Services
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CONTACT INFO
New Brunswick Office
181 How Lane, New Brunswick,
NJ
732-745-3500 or Toll Free at 1800-SOCIAL2
-Adult Protective Services
-Boarding Home and Rooming House Services
-Cash Assistance Adult (GA)
-Cash Assistance Family (TANF)
-Child Support
-Children's Immunization Program
-Food Stamps
-Homeless Services
-Investigative Department Medical Assistance
Programs New Jersey Ease Refugee Resettlement
Program
Fraud Complaints
732-745-3733
LogistiCare
866-527-9933
To Report Suspected Abuse,
Neglect or Exploitation of an
Adult, call 732-745-3635 or
1-800-792-8820
(You can apply for TANF, GA, Food Stamps &
http://middlesexcwa. E-mail Inquiry:
Medicaid)
newark.rutgers.edu/ mcbss@xbp.dhs.state.nj.us
A number of food pantries and non-profits in New
Brunswick and Middlesex County New Jersey can
provide free groceries and assistance to local
residents. This website lists information on the local
food banks to call for help, including their phone
numbers and addresses. Many of the pantries do
have limited hours, or certain conditions that need to
be met by applicants, so you may want to call in
advance.
Many of the Middlesex food banks operate in
churches or community centers. Therefore in addition
to providing meals, groceries, and food in an
emergency, these locations can often help with other
needs, such as clothing or baby supplies. Most
centers also have volunteers or case managers on
site who can refer the low income to government
assistance programs, such as WIC, TANF food
Middlesex County stamps, or financial programs like LIHEAP or
Food Pantries
homeless prevention/rent help.
NCADD is a private nonprofit organization founded in
1982 to advocate on behalf of those affected by drug
National Council on and alcohol addiction and their families. NCADD-NJ
Alcoholism and
operates the Substance Abuse Initiative (SAI). The
Drugs (NCADD)
SAI provides addiction and mental health clinical
assessments and care coordination services to
welfare recipients throughout the state of New Jersey.
The purpose of the website is to provide useful
New Jersey
imfornation in regards to social services for people
Community
living in New Jersey. The website provides links for
Resources
energy assistance, child care and tax assistance.
NJ Quitline
(tobacco cessation NJ Quitline is a free telephone-counseling service for
programs)
smokers who are ready to stop.
http://www.needhel
ppayingbills.com/ht
ml/food_pantries_in
_middlesex_cou.htm Go to website for the many food
l
pantries in Middlesex County.
Stephen Remley
Director of Operations
http://www.ncaddnj Tel: 609.689.0599 ext: 7003
.org/
sremley@ncaddnj.org
http://www.njcomm
unityresources.info/
commres.html
http://www.njquitlin
e.org/
Tel: 866-657-8677
HELPFUL RESOURCES
NAME OF
ORGANIZATION
Ozanam Family
Shelter
** These resources have no affiliation with
ISCJ. Contact them at your own discretion.
HOW THEY CAN HELP?
Agency dedicated to service, quality and outreach for
members of the community, especially those who are
poor, devalued and in need of help. Programs include
Shelters and Traditional Housing. Have separate
shelters for women, men and families
This is an emergency shelter for homeless men
providing temporary and emergency lodging, meals,
physical and mental health assessments, crisis
counseling, assistance with housing and employment,
case management and referrals.
WEBSITE
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CONTACT INFO
Phone: (732) 985-0327
https://www.women Address:
shelters.org/det/oza 89 Truman Drive
nam-family-shelter Edison, NJ 08817
Ozanam Men’s
Shelter
Eligibility Criteria: Applicants must be homeless in
http://www.homele
Middlesex County, be willing to answer questions during
screening process, agree to refrain from use of alcohol ssshelterdirectory.or
and other drugs, be able to take care of themselves, be g/cgi22 Abeel Street
willing to abide by shelter rules, and may not be a threat bin/id/shelter.cgi?sh New Brunswick, NJ 08901
elter=7853
to themselves, staff or other residents.
(732)729-0850
He Cares We Care is committed to moving hurting
families to a place of spiritual, emotional, financial and
physical healing. They assist with immediate needs for
Princeton Alliance food and clothing, Partnering with agencies to assist
Princeton Alliance Church
Church (PAC) He families threatened with utility shut off and/or eviction
20 Schalks Crossing Road
http://www.princeto Plainsboro, NJ 08536
Cares We Care
and Helping individuals and families with budgeting,
nalliance.org/care 609.799.9000 -Ext: 11
Ministry
single-parenting issues and career assistance
PSEG provides information to payment assistance
programs for those looking for help in need of paying
https://www.pseg.c
their bills. These include: LIHEAP (Low Income Home
PSEG Payment
Energy Assistance Program), NJ Universal Service Fund om/home/customer
Assistant Programs
(USF), PAGE (Payment Assistance Gas and Electric), _service/bill/help/pa
yment_assist.jsp#an
NJ Shares, and NJ Lifeline Credit Program. For more
chor0
information access the website.
PRAHD is dedicated to developing human potential and
promoting self-sufficiency through programs designed to
improve the social, economic, health and educational
status of the community in a culturally sensitive
environment. PRAHD's programs and services include:
pre-school, tutoring and after school programs, summer
Puerto Rican
100 First Street, Perth Amboy,
youth recreation, youth work readiness program,
Association for
NJ
housing assistance programs (foreclosure and pre/post
Human
purchase counseling), HIV/AIDS educational services,
Development
Tel: 732-442-1081
substance abuse prevention, employment and training
for senior citizens, assisted transportation, language
translation and interpretation, information and referrals,
advocacy, home care for homebound and
developmentally disabled individuals, disaster relief, food
pantry, blindness prevention programs and numerous
recreational, social and cultural activities.
http://www.prahd.org/
Sadaqa House-shelter for women- is a women central
Sadaqa House for
resource center as well as an emergency home (not to
Women
exceed 30 day stay).
It provides a quiet, comfortable living environment with
shared bathroom and kitchen. Sadaqa House, Inc.
http://shelterpress.c
om/homelessshelters/singleadultwomen/sadaqahouse18 North 19th Street
women.html#ixzz3cg East Orange, NJ, 07017
WM7yHU
Phone: (973) 280-9109
HELPFUL RESOURCES
NAME OF
ORGANIZATION
HOW THEY CAN HELP?
** These resources have no affiliation with
ISCJ. Contact them at your own discretion.
WEBSITE
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The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul is one of the
largest charity organizations in the country. They are
committed to providing social services, resources and
financial assistance to the poor and needy across the
United States. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is a
Contact a catholic church. A
non-profit that offers a unique style of personal
list of churches can be found
assistance with food, clothing, gasoline, medicine, rent, http://www.needhelp at
utilities, and transportation to people facing economic payingbills.com/html/ http://www.needhelppayingbills
saint_vincent_de_pau .com/html/state_aid_and_assis
Saint Vincent de
or emotional crises. People of all backgrounds and
l_financia.html
Paul
religion can get assistance.
tance_progr.html#local.
SMILE is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization providing
comprehensive social services for the poor urban
communities in Passaic County, New Jersey. SMILE’s
SMILE
relief programs provide a free food pantry and health
clinic. The free health clinic allows families to receive a
39 Hoover Avenue
free check-up and even some specialty services such http://www.smileforc Passaic, NJ 07055
harity.org/
as dentistry, optometry, etc.
Tel: (973) 440-9360
South Brunswick Social Services mission is to help the
residents in South Brunswick deal with these situations
and circumstances to the best of our abilities. Crisis
intervention provides immediate assistance for those in
South Brunswick
http://www.sbtnj.net/
need. The Food Pantry, assistance with utility bills, rent
Social Services
index.asp?SEC=85EF9 LouAnne Wolf, Director of
and food certificates are some of the services we
provide. An application is completed for each recipient 07C-9FD0-4D19-8F64- Social Services
and is updated during the year. All funds and food are 36D935DBDB2A&Typ Tel: 732 329-4000 ext. 7674
e=B_BASIC
provided from donations
lwolf@sbtnj.net
The State of New Jersey's Department of Children and
State of New
Families provides several hotlines and helplines based
Jersey Department
on different areas of need. Examples of such areas
off Children and
http://www.state.nj.u
include Child Abuse Helpline, INfant Protection
Families
Helpline and many more. Visit the website to find out s/dcf/families/hotline Viait Website for specific
(INFOLINES)
s/
more about their specific services.
contact information
It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of
Visit website to find a group near
The Freecycle
people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their
www.freecycle.org
you.
Network
own towns
The Salvation Army operates 7,546 centers in
New Brunswick:
communities across the United States. These include http://www.salvation
food distribution, disaster relief, rehabilitation centers, armynj.org/newbruns
anti-human trafficking efforts, and a wealth of children's wick
The Salvation Army New
programs. Visit the website to find more information
Brunswick Corps
The Salvation Army depending on which city in New Jersey you live in.
287 Handy Street
Main:
PO Box 5724
http://www.salvation New Brunswick, NJ 08901
They offer a variety of services such as Alcohol and
armyusa.org/usn/abo Phone: (732) 545-1477
Drug Treatment, Casework Services, Emergency
ut
FInancial Assistance, Food and Nutrition Programs,
Senior Services and more
The Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK) feeds those
Trenton soup
who are hungry in the Trenton area and offers
72 Escher St, Trenton, NJ
http://www.trentonso 08609
kitchen
programs to encourage self-sufficiency and improve
upkitchen.org/
the quality of life of its patrons.
Tel: (609) 695-5456
250 Livington Ave.
24 hour emergency domestic violence shelter. Hotline:
New Brunswick, NJ - 08901
Women Aware
732-249-4504. Women Aware, Inc. has operated for
(732) 249-4900
nearly 30 years as a comprehensive agency for victims http://womenaware.n
et/
of domestic violence.
Hotline: 732-249-4504.
HELPFUL RESOURCES
NAME OF
ORGANIZATION
Wafa House
Women, Infants,
and Children
HOW THEY CAN HELP?
** These resources have no affiliation with
ISCJ. Contact them at your own discretion.
WEBSITE
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CONTACT INFO
Wafa House Inc. objective is to strength families
through educating and empowering family members
to build a better community. Services include:
- A 24 hour toll-free Hotline
- Advocacy
- Social Services for victims
- Workshops on recruitment of foster parents
- Assistance in recruiting and training foster parents
- Workshops on self improvement and education
- Assistance towards continuing education
- Family counseling
- Counseling for victims
- Play therapy counseling
- Cultural sensitivity training to law enforcement &
local agencies
- Workshops for the youth - promoting peace amongst
their peers
- Training youth to become peer mediators in conflict
resolution
- Anger management referrals
- Court appearance accompaniment
- Interpreter & translator assistance
- Outreach to help educate the public on
http://www.wafahouse Tel: 1-800-930-WAFA(9232)
understanding and addressing domestic violence
.org
- Crises intervention and prevention
info@wafahouse.org
New Jersey Office: 1-800-3283838
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for
Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides Federal
Call to schedule an
grants to States for supplemental foods, health care
appointment. Applicants will be
referrals, and nutrition education for low-income
http://www.fns.usda.g advised about what to bring to
pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding
postpartum women, and to infants and children up to ov/wic/women-infants- the WIC appointment to help
and-children-wic
determine eligibility.
age five who are found to be at nutritional risk.
https://www.womensh
elters.org/city.php?city
Women's Shelters
=Monmouth+JUnction
&st=NJ&submit=Search
Access this website for a list of women's shelter in NJ +for+city
Zubaida Foundation
855 Big Oak Road,
Yardley, PA 19067
Syed Ahmed Ali Afzal Tel:
267-566-2018
Soup Kitchen
- Every 4th Saturday of the
month (2:00pm to 4:00pm) at
The Zubaida Foundation is a non-profit organization
Zubaida Foundation
registered in Yardley, Pennsylvania. It was
- Every 2nd Sunday of the
established in 2005. The foundation arranges and
month (2:00pm to 4:00pm) at
holds congregational prayers, educational programs,
Zubaida Foundation
and social activities, interfaith dialogues and peace
- Every 4th Thursday of the
efforts of all faith in conformity with the teachings of
month (2:00pm to 4:00pm)
Islam. Zubaida Foundation runs a food pantry,
at North Penn Mosque, 600
provides Eid Basket for the needy and runs a Soup
Maple Avenue Lansdale, PA
zubaidafoundation.com 19446Zubaida Foundation Kitchen on the premises twice a month.