Finding Help for your Child or Adolescent

Call PerformCare at 1- 877- 652-7624 to refer a child or adolescent with serious behavioral, emotional or mental health challenges for services in the New Jersey System of Care.

Call 911 when:

• Immediate help is needed
• The life or health of your child or others is in danger
• A bad reaction to medication or an increase in symptoms occurs

OTHER CRISIS/HELP PHONE LINES:

• Alternatives to Domestic Violence: 201-336-7575 http://www.co.bergen.nj.us/adv/
• ADV offers a full range of specialized services including crisis intervention, counseling, legal advocacy and assistance, court appearance preparation, court accompaniment, individual, group, and family counseling, information and referral to other needed services, community education, and professional training. Call 201-336-7575 for more information.  
• Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-792-8610
• Housing: 201-646-2233
• Juvenile Justice/Family Crisis Unit: 201-336-7360
• Psychiatric Crisis and Suicide Counseling: 201-262-HELP(4357)
• Bergen County Rape Crisis Center Hotline: 201-487-2227
• Runaway Hotline: A number to call when you have runaway from home and need someone to talk to. Whether you want to hear a friendly voice or want help getting back home, call 1-800-231-6946 to speak with someone in confidentiality.
• Suicide: 201-262-4357
• Center for Food Action: The Center for Food Action (CFA) provides emergency food, rental and utility assistance, counseling, and advocacy to our neighbors in need in Bergen County and in the Upper Passaic Valley. CFA also operates the Statewide Emergency Food and Anti-Hunger Network (SEFAN) which serves as a clearinghouse for information, training and technical assistance to emergency food providers and works to end hunger in our state. For locations and more information, please call 201-569-1804
• Family Support Organization (FSO): The Bergen County FSO is afamily-run, county-based organization that provides direct family-to-family peer support, education, advocacy and other services to family members of children with emotional and behavioral challenges.  Call 201-796-6209 for more information.
• Division of Youth and Family Services: 201-996-8900
• 2nd Floor Youth Helpline 888-222-2228 http://www.2ndfloor.org/
  The 2NDFLOOR youth helpline is staffed by trained professionals familiar with a myriad of young people’s concerns. Staff and volunteers offer comfort, respect, empathy and guidance to callers.

MORE INFORMATION RESOURCES:

• The CAPE Center:  Provides quick links to a wide range of resources – from housing and medical needs, to education and utilities. Staff are available to help direct you to the right agencies and organizations, and are able to assist by providing referrals if necessary. Contact:

C.A.P.E. Special Services Resource Center
327 E. Ridgewood Avenue Suite 212
Paramus, NJ 07652
201-343-8582
CAPE@bergen.org