Children's Aid and Family Services, Inc.

Mission: To strengthen families and empower individuals – children and adults alike – to reach their fullest potential.

Children’s Aid and Family Services is one of northern New Jersey’s leading nonprofit providers of services that protect and support vulnerable children, adults and families. As an agency, we are focused on meeting ever-evolving social needs by expanding our programs to help members of the community live their best lives.

Each year, our services make a profound and lasting difference to the thousands of individuals and families who turn to us for assistance. Whether we are working with a child seeking an adoptive family, teaching life skills to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, providing a neglected child with a therapeutic foster family, supplying nutritional formula and diapers to financially struggling families, educating a teen on the perils of substance abuse or providing support services for teen moms and their babies, we are helping to build futures for children and families in the communities we serve.

Children’s Aid and Family Services offers a variety of programs to support children, families, and individuals:

• Disability Support: Residential and day programs for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
• Children and Family Services: Adoption support, foster care, services for teens aging out of foster care, and mentoring.
• Family and Community Services: Programs like Baby Basics (diapers and formula), parenting education, and substance misuse prevention.
• Alcohol and Drug Resources: Prevention programs for families and teens, including community support and the “What’s Your Natural High?” campaign.