Free COVID Crisis Counseling For Essex County Residents – Newark, NJ Patch

ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The following news release comes courtesy of New Community Corporation. Learn more about posting announcements or events to your local Patch site.

Family Service Bureau of Newark, an affiliate of New Community Corporation, is offering the NJ Hope and Healing Crisis Counseling Program (CCP) for residents of Bergen, Essex, Hudson and Passaic counties. Services are offered free of charge for families, individuals and youth and are available in multiple languages.

FSB is a neighbor helping neighbor team with staff on-call to provide the following free services: online support for stress management techniques, development of new coping skills, compassion fatigue, communication techniques and resource linkage.

The hours of operation are Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Those interested in services should call 973- 272-7488 or email FSBNJHH@newcommunity.org.

Virtual support groups are available weekdays via Zoom. The morning group is for Spanish speaking individuals from 10 to 11 a.m. Monday to Friday with meeting code 970 8765 7941. The afternoon group runs from 3 to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday with meeting code 943 0132 5496. The password for both groups is 12345.

This program is brought to you by/through NJ Hope and Healing Crisis Counseling Program (CCP). Family Service Bureau of Newark in collaboration with the New Jersey Department of Human Services’ Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services, Disaster and Terrorism Branch, is offering a Crisis Counseling Program (CCP) through a FEMA/SAMHSA grant.