By: Kathy Greene LCSW, MBA Director of Adult Residential and Community Outreach Services Recently I was put in touch with a family who lost a loved one to suicide. They were referred to me because they were looking for a worthy cause to donate some money to. The story that unfolds is one that is unfortunately […]
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By James M. Cooney, LCSW Chief Executive Officer Dear Friends, For Community Mental Health Centers across New Jersey FY ’18 was a challenging year. With the transition to a new State Fee-for-Service (FFS) funding model, a new Governor, a move to the State Department of Health & Senior Services last September, and then again a
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By: Robert Austin/Licensed Clinical School Social Worker & Zach/Student Ocean Academy students have been participating in a hiking club led by one of the school counselors and an enthusiastic para professional as a way to combat stress, anger and anxiety. Research shows that hiking has a positive impact on mood and can reduce anxious feelings
By: Alysha Simmons/Instructional Paraprofessional Gym class is one of those things that you love or dread. Luckily for Ocean Academy we have the best gym teachers in all of Ocean Academy. They invented a great incentive to participate in gym, a special trip called privileged gym. This trip consisted of a bus ride to Winding
By: Tom Goldberg/History Teacher The United States Constitution is the highest law of the land–it sets the rights and responsibilities of the state, the institutions that make up the states, and contains many of the rights that the American people have. There are 27 Amendments, or changes, to the Constitution, and the first ten are
