{"id":2270,"date":"2012-10-02T23:56:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T03:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=2270"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:10:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:10:20","slug":"resources-to-overcome-depression-and-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/resources-to-overcome-depression-and-mental-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources to overcome depression and mental illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t listed in a comment and I&#8217;ll add them to the list after checking them out. <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/110532733913480450565\/about?hl=en\">For US By US Self Help Center<\/a><br \/>\n40 North Van Brunt Street, 2nd Floor, Englewood, NJ 07631<br \/>\n201-541-1221<br \/>\nHours: Monday-Friday 1-5pm<br \/>\nWhat 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.<br \/>\nWho can participate: You may self-qualify to participate.<br \/>\nAdmission requirements: Drop-ins welcome &#8211; just show up. Feel free to ask a friend to bring you by.<br \/>\nWork\/volunteer opportunities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Volunteering: can help out immediately and after a few weeks, can sign up to be on the scheduled volunteer rotation.<\/li>\n<li>Paid positions: after volunteering for a while, people can qualify for a paid position when one opens up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.careplusnj.org\/pages\/3087\/index.htm\">Crossroads to Wellness<\/a> at Care Plus NJ<br \/>\n610 Valley Health Plaza, Paramus, NJ 07652<br \/>\n201-265-1233    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.careplusnj.org\/pages\/3087\/index.htm\">careplusnj.org\/pages\/3087\/index.htm<\/a><br \/>\nWhat it is: A program which provides rapid access to comprehensive and intensive mental health services, integrated with self-directed wellness and recovery tools.<br \/>\nWho can participate: All Bergen County Residents<br \/>\nAdmission requirements: Must be in acute need of mental health services or transitioning out of a long-term facility.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.njfriendshiphouse.org\/\">Friendship House<\/a><br \/>\n125 Atlantic Street, Hackensack, NJ 07601<br \/>\n201-488-2121    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.njfriendshiphouse.org\/\">njfriendshiphouse.org<\/a><br \/>\nWhat it is: Support and training for mentally ill or behaviorally challenged individuals in need of vocational rehabilitation, group therapy, workplace reintegration skills and assistance, job coaching.<br \/>\nWork\/volunteer opportunities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Supportive in-house workplace environment available on site. Pay commensurate with an individuals&#8217; productivity level<\/li>\n<li>Friendship House programs include<br \/>\nComputer 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<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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&#8217;s programs.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bergenvolunteers.org\/\">Volunteer Center of Bergen County<\/a><br \/>\n64 Passaic Street, Hackensack, NJ 07601<br \/>\n201-489-9454    <a href=\"http:\/\/bergenvolunteers.org\/\">bergenvolunteers.org<\/a>    <a href=\"mailto:info@bergenvolunteers.org\/\">info@bergenvolunteers.org<\/a><br \/>\nWhat it is: A service that matches volunteers with non-profit organizations in need of help.<br \/>\nWork\/volunteer opportunities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can find a volunteer position through this organization at every level of service, skill and competency.<\/li>\n<li>Volunteering is a great way to get out of your own head while enjoying the comraderie offered by a low-stress environment and at the same time, doing useful work for the community and maybe even upgrading your working skills.<\/li>\n<li>Volunteer positions can lead to paying work for those open to employment opportunities. People are sometimes hired by the agencies they volunteer at when paying positions open up. Agencies also refer good volunteers to paying positions at other non-profit groups in their network<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t listed in a comment and I&#8217;ll add them to the list after &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/resources-to-overcome-depression-and-mental-illness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Resources to overcome depression and mental illness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,28,5,282],"tags":[780,781,779,783,784,785,782],"class_list":["post-2270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-free-or-almost","category-government-trade","category-help","tag-disability","tag-employment","tag-mental-health","tag-resource","tag-training","tag-vocational","tag-volunteer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2278,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions\/2278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}