If you need a place to spend social time, a volunteer opportunity, psychotherapy, housing or vocational training, here are some resources for people challenged by depression or another form of mental illness. Please feel free to post resources you know of which aren’t listed in a comment and I’ll add them to the list after checking them out.
For US By US Self Help Center 40 North Van Brunt Street, 2nd Floor, Englewood, NJ 07631 201-541-1221 Hours: Monday-Friday 1-5pm What it is: This program is a place where people dealing with a mental health issue of any type can spend time to socialize or spend quiet time in a place away from home. Activities take place that you can join if you like. The center is pretty much run by peers with professional oversight in the background. Who can participate: You may self-qualify to participate. Admission requirements: Drop-ins welcome – just show up. Feel free to ask a friend to bring you by. Work/volunteer opportunities:- Volunteering: can help out immediately and after a few weeks, can sign up to be on the scheduled volunteer rotation.
- Paid positions: after volunteering for a while, people can qualify for a paid position when one opens up.
- Supportive in-house workplace environment available on site. Pay commensurate with an individuals’ productivity level
- Friendship House programs include
Computer training, culinary classes, maintenance work and clerical training. Social groups, therapy groups, beauty classes, diet classes, diabetes management, groups for young people diagnosed with Asperbergers or on autism spectrum
Admission requirements: By referral. Call to speak with a program counsellor who can help you understand the steps needed to be referred into one of the organization’s programs.
64 Passaic Street, Hackensack, NJ 07601
201-489-9454 bergenvolunteers.org info@bergenvolunteers.org
What it is: A service that matches volunteers with non-profit organizations in need of help.
Work/volunteer opportunities: