Center For Family Services

Center For Family Services is a leading non-profit social services provider with a long-standing history of trusted care and a mission to support and empower individuals, families, and communities to achieve a better life through vision, hope, and strength. 

Center For Family Services experienced rapid growth over the last decade, expanding to meet the growing and changing needs across New Jersey. Today Center For Family Services offers a wide range of high-quality care in convenient and accessible locations across the state. Center For Family Services prides itself on evidence-based services and a comprehensive continuum of care which includes specialized services in these areas: counseling & behavioral health, addiction & recovery, community connections, early childhood education, family support and prevention, safe & supportive housing, victim & trauma response, and workforce development.

With a proven history of success in the development and expansion of high-quality, evidence-based services, Center For Family Services has an in-depth understanding of community needs, broad organizational knowledge, and strong relationships with community members and stakeholders. Staff are experts in the fields and approaches that anchor our work: at-risk youth, violence prevention, youth mental health and well-being, early intervention, strength-based and trauma-informed approaches. The comprehensive continuum of care also includes youth mental health services, including services for formerly adjudicated youth, youth residential and shelter care, shelter for unaccompanied minors, and trauma and violence prevention and response. 

Center For Family Services offers a comprehensive continuum of care and a broad range of services to best meet the current and changing needs across the New Jersey community. With a professional commitment to high quality services, our employees balance best practice and cutting edge approaches with personalized care to have the greatest impact in improving the lives of everyone we serve.

We have a proven track record of accomplishments working with neighborhood residents, schools, government leaders, corporate partners, and social service providers across the community. Recognized as a top workplace in the greater Philadelphia region, our network of more than 1600 staff are our most valuable asset and resource. Through more than 100 programs, we offer a wide range of services that support people in finding the vision, the hope, and the strength for a better life.

Whether it’s a child who is ready for preschool, a young person in need of the support of a mentor, a teen without a safe place to call home, a family facing the trauma of domestic violence, a person seeking help for an addiction, or a family in crisis, our dedicated staff are here to help. We are here to heal, educate, and protect children and families. Our goal is to break the cycle of poverty, violence, trauma, and addiction and to help people to overcome obstacles, to find comfort, and to build the foundation for a successful future.

Through our work, we improve lives.