Our Mission

Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey, Inc. (CSPNJ) is a private not-for-profit organization. The agency is directed, managed and staffed through the collaborative efforts of mental health consumers, survivors and non-consumers. CSPNJ strives to provide individualized, flexible community based services that promote responsibility, recovery and wellness. This is done through the creation and administration of self-help centers, supportive housing, advocacy, and entrepreneurial programs for adults with mental health issues and other special needs.

CSPNJ shares a vision of healing and hope that is promoted by choice, freedom, and inclusion and de-stigmatization. Our greatest resource is the life experiences of persons working through their own recovery.

Self-Help Centers

CSPNJ's Self-Help Centers are designed to empower mental health consumers to realize a lifestyle centered on wellness, a balanced state of social, spiritual, mental, emotional and physical health.

Housing

The Community Enterprises Corporation mission is to provide services to organizations that are committed to provide economic opportunities and safe, decent, affordable and permanent supportive housing to low income persons with special needs.

Supportive Housing

Supportive housing service’s mission is to create an environment of hope that embraces the concept of wellness and recovery from mental illness. Support services are designed to provide people who have been diagnosed as living with a mental disorder the opportunity to live in the community in various housing settings where mobile support services are provided as needed.

Financial Services

CSPNJ’s Financial Services are designed to promote financial stability, consistent with the concepts of empowerment, personal responsibility and recovery. They are also designed to move people from financial devastation and poverty, to financial well-being and independence with the concepts of budgeting to save, save to invest, controlling debt and building wealth through investing and asset accumulation strategies.

Wellness and Recovery

The Institute for Wellness and Recovery Initiatives of CSPNJ provides innovative, state of the art services aimed at creating and enhancing wellness and recovery. Through our many activities, we assist organizations in developing a workforce and service system grounded in a recovery and wellness orientation, and help individuals pursue their own paths towards wellness.

To learn more about Self-help centers in your area, please click on your county for a full listing of CSPNJ centers near you.

Sussex County

A Way to Freedom

Manager: Betty McTeague
Phone: 973-300-0830
Fax: 973-300-0840

29 Trinity Street
Newton, New Jersey 07860

Warren County

No CSPNJ self-help centers found.

Hunterdon County

No CSPNJ self-help centers found.

Morris County

Morris SHC

Manager: John Robbins
Phone: 973-334-2470
Fax: 973-334-3647

1259 Rt. 46E., Bldg #4, Entrance 4D
Parsippany, New Jersey 07054

Woody Guthrie SHC
at Greystone Psychiatric Hospital

Manager: April Wilson

Greystone Psychiatric Hospital
Morris Plains, New Jersey 07950


Mailing Address:
59 Koch Road

Passaic County

Our House

Manager: Chris Gelpi
Phone: 973-553-1101
Fax: 973-553-1102

750 Broadway
Paterson, New Jersey 07514

Social Connections

Manager: Annette Wright
Phone: 973-778-8810
Fax: 973-778-7391

1 Westervelt Avenue, Vanderhoef House
Clifton, New Jersey 07011

Bergen County

For Us/By Us

Manager: Andy Rola
Phone: 201-541-1221
Fax: 201-541-0566

40 N. Van Brunt Street
Englewood, New Jersey 07631

On Our Own

Manager: Christie Moss
Phone: 201-489-8402
Fax: 201-489-9796

179 Main Street, 2nd Floor
Hackensack, New Jersey 07601

Essex County

Pleasant Moments

Manager: Elonda Simpson
Phone: 973-991-2773
Fax: Same - call ahead

465 Broadway
Newark, New Jersey 07104

Where Peaceful Waters Flow

Manager: Richard Faison
Phone: 973-677-7700
Fax: 973-677-1776

47 Cleveland Street
Orange, New Jersey 07050


Mailing Address:
PO Box 1127

Hudson County

Hudson County SHC

Manager: Pam Baker
Phone: 201-420-8013
Fax: 201-420-7944

880 Bergen Avenue, 6th Floor
Jersey City, New Jersey 07306


Mailing Address:
PO Box 6409

Somerset County

Freedom Trail

Manager: Lisa Stone
Phone: 908-722-5778
Fax: 908-722-2664

166 West Main Street
Somerville, New Jersey 08876

Union County

New Beginnings

Manager: Joyce Haberer
Phone: 908-352-7830
Fax: 908-351-9704

516 Morris Avenue
Elizabeth, New Jersey 07208

Park Avenue SHC

Manager: Andre Lawson
Phone: 908-757-1350
Fax: Same - call ahead

333 Park Avenue
Plainfield, New Jersey 07060

Middlesex County

Moving Forward

Manager: Lucy Buckner
Phone: 732-317-3893
Fax: 732-317-2690

35 Elizabeth Street-2nd Floor
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901

Mercer County

Reach Out/Speak Out

Manager: Helen Williams
Phone: 609-586-2551
Fax: 609-586-6511

2100 E. State Street Extension
Hamilton, New Jersey 08619

Transition Mission
at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital

Manager: Lynne Blecher

Trenton Psychiatric Hospital
Ewing, New Jersey 08628


Mailing Address:
101 Sullivan Way

Monmouth County

The C.A.R.E. Center

Manager: Debbie Crowell
Phone: 732-455-5358
Fax: 732-455-5359

80 Steiner Avenue
Neptune City, New Jersey 07753

Freehold SHC

Manager: Lisa Negron
Phone: 732-625-9485
Fax: Same - call ahead

17 Bannard Street, Suite 22
Freehold, New Jersey 07728

Ocean County

Brighter Days

Manager: Lisa Schmidt
Phone: 732-534-9960
Fax: Same - call ahead

268 Bennetts Mills Road
Jackson, New Jersey 08527

Burlington County

No CSPNJ self-help centers found.

Atlantic County

No CSPNJ self-help centers found.

Cape May County

Learning Recovery Center of Wildwood

Manager: Betty Redman
Phone: 609-523-7100
Fax: 609-523-7155

4404 Pacific Avenue
Wildwood, New Jersey 08260

Camden County

Donald Mays, Jr. SHC

Manager: Robin Weiss
Phone: 856-429-9940
Fax: 856-429-9941

204 White Horse Pike
Barrington, New Jersey 08007

Fresh Start
at Ancora Psychiatric Hospital

Manager: Toni Muehter
Phone: 609-851-6518

Ancora Psychiatric Hospital
Hammonton, New Jersey 08037


Mailing Address:
301 Spring Garden Road

Gloucester County

Up Your Alley

Manager: David Crispi
Phone: 856-881-2204
Fax: 856-881-2599

8 Liberty Street
Glassboro, New Jersey 08028

Salem County

New Dimensions

Manager: Nerissa Jones
Phone: 856-351-9100
Fax: 856-351-0783

316A Merion Avenue
Carney's Point, New Jersey 08069


Mailing Address:
PO Box 511

Cumberland County

New Horizons

Manager: Chris Olausen
Phone: 856-696-8921
Fax: 856-696-8859

63 South Myrtle Street
Vineland, New Jersey 08360

Fresh Start
at Ancora Psychiatric Hospital

Manager: Toni Muehter
Phone: 609-851-6518

Ancora Psychiatric Hospital
Hammonton, New Jersey 08037


Mailing Address:
301 Spring Garden Road
Transition Mission
at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital

Manager: Lynne Blecher

Trenton Psychiatric Hospital
Ewing, New Jersey 08628


Mailing Address:
101 Sullivan Way
Woody Guthrie SHC
at Greystone Psychiatric Hospital

Manager: April Wilson

Greystone Psychiatric Hospital
Morris Plains, New Jersey 07950


Mailing Address:
59 Koch Road

NJAMHAA Annual Conference: The Road to Success: Driving Transformation

The New Jersey Association of Mental Health and Addiction Agencies (NJAMHAA) conducts an annual conference. This year, the conference, titled “The Road to Success: Driving Transformation,” will take place on April 3-4 at the Pines Manor in Edison, NJ. One of the themes echoed both by scheduled keynote speakers and workshops is the improvement of physical health care. Keynote speakers Ron Manderscheid, PhD and Joe Parks, MD are both nationally recognized educators/advocates on healthcare integration and Harvard economics professor David Cutler, PhD is a nationally recognized researcher and educator on the topic of health care economic reform. Workshop presenter Kathleen Sciacca, MA has been involved in the development of integrated treatment approaches for people with co-occurring mental health and addiction disorders for over two decades. Details and registration information are at www.njamhaa.org.

 

CSPNJ Receives Award

Excellence in Green Housing Award

CSPNJ is pleased to announce that our supportive housing project in Neptune, was awarded the 2011 Excellence in Green Housing at the 2011 New Jersey Governor’s Housing and Economic Development Conference.

   

Real Econonomic Impact Tour 2011

The National Disability Institute's Real Economic Impact Tour 2011

Annual Progress Report highlights CSPNJ’s Nerissa Jones on page 5 and Community Enterprises Corporation on page 16.

See how CSPNJ is contributing to people’s financial wellness!

   

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New Self-Help Center Map

Easier To Navigate

We hope you find the new self-help listing easier to navigate with a clickable New Jersey map. Click on the image below go there now, and try it out.