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SHELTERS, FOOD, HELP

 

 


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Where to get help:

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  • Bloomfield Health & Human Services  -  Dept has everything from counseling, crisis intervention, food stamp assistance, to the Essex County Welfare Van once a month outside town hall. To see if you qualify for these services or other assistance programs, you can contact the Bloomfield Health & Human Services Department for benefit screening. In addition, appointments can be scheduled for the mobile welfare van located at 1 Municipal Plaza on a monthly basis. Please feel free to call (973) 680-4017 to schedule an appointment or request additional information.

  • Bloomfield Presbyterian Church – The Food Pantry is located on the church premises at 147 Broad Street, Bloomfield, and is open 9:30 am to 11:00 am every Wednesday and Friday, and 10 am to 12 noon on the fourth Saturday of the month.  For more information, please call the Church Office at 973-743-1796 during office hours, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm, Monday through Friday.  They must have authorized referrals from their town each time they appear at the pantry to receive assistance, but will be given a small portion of food if they have an emergency on a case by case bases. 

  • Toni’s Kitchen – 73 South Fullerton Avenue, Phone: 973 932-0768, Throughout the year. All guests are welcome and served without respect to need. We do not screen for income nor do we ask questions of those who come through our doors. Guests are encouraged to take away any leftovers from the day’s meal. Other items, such as bread, fruit or sweets, also are regularly available for the guests to take with them. We also distribute toiletries, warm hats, socks, and other such items at the end of the meal when guests select any take-away food or items they may find useful.  We have a regularly scheduled on-site medical clinic with a focus on preventive care. Our computer room makes four desktop computers available, as well as a fax machine, printer, and telephone. The room is open to guests after lunch on Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. 

  • Salvation Army Montclair Citadel –   For Hours, see their calendar.  For more info on their services or for Social Service Assistance, call Montclair Citadel (973)744-3312 to schedule an appointment.   Services listed on their website include Food pantry and noon-time feeding program, addiction counseling, referral services,Cornerstone Homeless Shelter and Homeless Prevention Financial Assistance.   Thanksgiving Dinners, Christmas assistance.

  • Interfaith Hospitality Network –  “We take care of homeless families” –  46 Park St.  Montclair, N.J. 07042-3441,  Phone: 973-746-1400, Email: info@IHNEssexNJ.org.   An adult member of the family can email or call and speak with a case manager for an initial phone screening. Depending on availability, the family will be contacted for a face-to-face interview. If the family meets program criteria, the family will be invited into the program. This process can take 24–72 hours.

  • Mesh Montclair –    Montclair Emergency Services for the Homeless (MESH) is a local, faith-based organization dedicated to engaging the Montclair community to provide basic and essential services to Montclair’s most vulnerable homeless adults

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  • Mountainside Hospital Crisis Hotline - 973-429-6969

  • Mental Health Association of Essex & Morris Inc - 33 South Fullerton Avenue, Montclair, NJ Phone: (973) 509-9777, General Agency Email: SRyan@mhaessexmorris.org.   

    • Integrated Case Management Services (ICMS) provides a community-based, comprehensive network of support, advocacy, referral and intervention to adults being discharged from mental health care facilities. Highly qualified Case Managers assist consumers with all aspects of the transition back into the community and ensure that they avail themselves of all resources they are entitled to receive. 

    • Prospect House (PH) is our day treatment/partial care program.  Attendance at Prospect House helps people with mental disorders to successfully manage their illness and significantly lower their risk for re-hospitalization through a highly regarded, psycho-social rehabilitation program.  Located in East Orange, Prospect House utilizes a graduated program structure to assist consumers as they move towards wellness and recovery. Prospect Primary Care provides quality, comprehensive physical healthcare including specialists and lab work as needed to adults within any of MHA Essex. 

    • Community Support Services (CSS) develops community-based housing opportunities and coordinated services for people with mental illnesses who are able to live independently.  Services include location identification, landlord negotiation and financial planning to help ensure long-term, stabilized housing as well as linkage to other services as needed. 

    • Riskin Children’s Center (RCC) provides high quality, affordable, comprehensive, accessible and culturally appropriate mental health services for children.  The Center integrates many services under one roof, addressing the mental health and any related physical health issues a child may have.  Other healthcare professionals, educators, parents and siblings are all included in the center’s holistic approach to children’s behavioral health and emotional well-being. 

    • Assisted Outpatient Treatment Services delivers community-based mental health services under court order to individuals with severe and persistent mental illnesses who have a history of non-adherence to prescribed treatment on a  voluntary basis.   

    • Collaborative Justice Services (CJS)  provides effective discharge planning, linkage and referral to community resources for non-violent offenders with mental illness who re-enter the community following release from the Essex Correctional Systems and from municipal jails.  CJS also advocates on behalf of those consumers who are rightfully incarcerated to ensure that they receive necessary and appropriate treatment and medication during their tenure in jail.  In addition, the program works with local law enforcement officers to train them on how to safely and effectively interact with individuals with mental illness who may be in crisis.

    • Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) provides outreach, intensive case management and housing that will enable adults who are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness, and have a serious mental illness, to engage in community based services. In doing so, we also strive to improve consumers health outcomes, participation in mental health services and substance abuse treatment as needed. 

    • The Center for Behavioral Health provides psychotherapy and psychiatric services out of our Montclair office located at 33 South Fullerton Avenue. Individuals are initially seen at the main office for an intake evaluation and can schedule the second appointment with our psychiatrist for further evaluation. After the initial evaluation, the individual will be referred to a CBH therapist to begin treatment. Weekly sessions are held at our Montclair office. Treatment modalities include individual, marital, group and family therapies. Ongoing medication management services are available with our psychiatrist.

    • Supported Employment Services (SES) help men and women who are recovering from a mental illness to obtain and retain productive employment in the community.  Job counselors help identify employment prospects, provide assistance in developing appropriate readiness and job skills, and monitor progress and workplace performance.

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