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Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation today providing $500 million in assistance to many renters who are behind in their payments due to the coronavirus, in addition to $250 million to help pay off their past-due utility bills. The funding, drawn from federal stimulus allocations to the state, is available to those whose incomes are not more than 120% of the median for the area. Payments can be made for rents that came due and remain unpaid from March of last year through the end of August.

Please visit https://www.nj.gov/dcf/providers/notices/requests/ for information about this announcement. (If the link does not take you directly to our Web site, please copy and paste the address in your Web browser.) RFP Application

I’m pleased to share the Burke Foundation’s Board of Trustees approved a five-year strategy to help grow and sustain a more diverse birthing workforce, including community-based doulas, midwives, and nurses for universal newborn home visiting. We believe growing the perinatal workforce is a critical approach to addressing the alarming racial disparities in maternal and infant health outcomes in New Jersey and across the country. We are currently hiring for a Program Officer to skillfully...

We are pleased to invite you to attend the 2022 Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Indigenous Programs Conference! This exciting event will be held virtually via Zoom, starting Tuesday, March 22 through Thursday, March 24, 2022 , with each day starting at 1:30 PM (EST) and ending at 7:30 PM (EST). Below, you will find a copy of the agenda to review the full list of plenary, workshop, and networking sessions. Event Overview & Agenda The meeting will include outstanding Native...

An RFP notice was posted on the New Jersey Department of Children and Families' website: Request for Proposal for Child Advocacy Development Grants Treatment Services, Programs, and Technology or Capital Please click on the link above or visit https://www.nj.gov/dcf/providers/notices/requests/ to view this RFP document. (If the link does not take you directly to our Website, please copy and paste the address in your Web browser.)

Program Name: Expressive Art Therapy RAC: CUMAC Organization name: Aspire NJ Person of Contact: Davida Hunter Davida Hunter was a longtime school counselor about to start Expressive Art Therapy, a program for children, when the pandemic disrupted her plans. What she found was that during COVID, while it was easy enough to provide online therapy, she was finding it difficult to keep the attention of the children with which she worked. To address this, Davida and her coworker, a former art...

In July 2021, Governor Phil Murphy signed into law P.L.2021, c.187 to create a statewide, universal home visiting (UHV) program for newborns in the State of New Jersey.1 The program has been branded in New Jersey as Family Connects NJ. New Jersey is the second state in the country to legislate a statewide program through which families with a newborn can have a specially trained nurse visit their home in the first few weeks after the child’s birth. The services are free, voluntary, and meant...