Serving more than one million of New Jersey's most vulnerable citizens, DHS serves individuals and families with low incomes; people with mental illnesses, disabilities or special needs; and parents needing children’s healthcare, child care or facing catastrophic medical expenses for their children.
05/24/2012- ELIZABETH – Building upon the Christie Administration’s commitment to expand community-based services for individuals with mental illness, the Department of Human Services (DHS) recently awarded contracts totaling about $3 million to five behavioral health providers for implementation of involuntary outpatient psychiatric care (IOC) services and S-COPE, a mental health services program directed towards seniors. Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth received nearly $1.9 million for its proposals to advance both programs.
05/18/2012- NEW BRUNSWICK – Department of Human Services Commissioner Jennifer Velez today participated in a conference during which more than 250 New Jersey residents were trained in disaster response crisis counseling (DRCC). The specialty certification designates them as information referral and emotional support first-responders. The conference provided education credits for current counselors and counselors-in-training.
05/10/2012- EWING TOWNSHIP – Recognizing May as Better Hearing and Speech Month, Department of Human Services Commissioner Jennifer Velez today visited the campus of the Marie Katzenbach School for the Deaf to highlight the broad range of equipment and technology available to deaf and hard of hearing residents to support their work and home lives. The Ewing Township site is just one of the Department’s five regional demonstration centers.
