– Clayton, a small South Jersey town, has been given an opportunity that we couldn’t pass up. Through a grant provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s New Jersey Health Initiatives program, the Borough of Clayton and the Clayton School District are…
– As part of our NJHI grant, we’ve provided stipends to programs that not only support community leaders, but promote individuals’ leadership and ownership of their health. One of the programs receiving funding for this purpose is Dudley House Veterans Transitional Housing…
– Trenton Health Team’s Care Management Team (CMT) provides social, psychological and health care support to Trenton residents with complex health and social conditions, based on referrals from community partners. The team embraces whole-person care, screening for social determinants of health…
– The process of becoming a beginner gardener can seem intimidating when a family doesn’t have firsthand experience with growing their own produce. “The Glassboro Grows workshops are designed for beginning gardeners, or people who are interested in learning the basics…
– Through a grant from the Toms River Family Health and Support Coalition, A Need We Feed provided 715 additional meals to children, families, veterans, homebound seniors and the homeless in our community in 2020. A Need We Feed launched on…
– Trenton Health Team (THT), in partnership with Rider University and in collaboration with the Trenton Food Stakeholders, has created the Trenton Food Needs Survey to better understand residents’ need for, and use of, free food resources such as food pantries…
– There is no question that 2020 brought a variety of obstacles that the 4-H/Middle Earth Student Ambassadors for Community Health had to overcome regarding the work they had planned to improve health and well-being for everyone. Prior to the initial…
– A program has launched in Bound Brook to help immigrant families facing hardships to become more successful in the community. “Families for Success” works with Somerset County agencies, nonprofits, faith communities, and schools to combine the key elements of education,…
– As part of our NJHI grant, we’ve worked on creating a data collection system that is an easy and effective way for Shaping Elizabeth partners to share their work with each other in real time. It needed to be simple…
– The goal we envisioned over two years ago is finally coming to fruition. The new Housing Element of the City of Perth Amboy Master Plan was presented to the Planning Board during a virtual public meeting on December 2, 2020….
– Who would have that thought in mid-March, when our organization, Holly City Development Corporation, decided to work remotely, that seven months later we would still be in the midst of a pandemic? No one did. We had projects and programming…
– The North Bergen school district continues to follow a remote learning format and despite its challenges, the guidance team is still introducing novel ideas to deliver services to their students. Initially, the Board of Education had hoped to transition instruction…