Bright Harbor Healthcare

Our CEO, James Cooney’s recognition of employees who go beyond the call of duty. Recognition goes to Heidi Kluxen, MA, Family Preservation Program (Harmony) – Children’s Services. Heidi has been an extraordinary Family Preservation Services team member since January 2007. Heidi has her Master’s Degree in Psychology and has a great talent in stabilizing the families […]

By Gioia Ackerman, Residential Case Manager, Supportive Housing When people with a mental illness move into the neighborhood, stigma moves in with them. There is no welcome wagon.  No one rings the bell or brings a tray of cookies.  “For Sale” signs start popping up on neighbors’ lawns.  Like all other prejudices, stigma towards people with

Our Bayside Children’s Partial Care Program has utilized a generous United Way grant to develop and implement a homework drop-in center for clients to utilize before program hours. The grant has afforded the Bayside Program with the opportunity to provide clients with educational resources which may otherwise be unavailable to them. Clients are able to

Guiding nearly 300 staff with various levels of computer skills into the 21st century of Electronic Medical Records is an enormously difficult undertaking!  Yet, Susan Loughery and TJ Cooperman are doing just that for the staff of OceanMHS. After nine months of planning and countless extra hours of work they have accomplished the nearly impossible

In March OceanMHS was awarded a grant of $1M from the New Jersey Division of Mental Health Services.  The grant, for the Ocean County Early Intervention Support Services (Ocean-EISS) program, is to provide “rapid access to short-term, recovery-oriented crisis intervention and stabilization services for persons with serious mental illness”.  This new program will allow us

Project Recovery Evening Program, Ocean Mental Health Services’ (OceanMHS) program for people with both a mental illness and substance abuse problem, has new hours to better accommodate people who have daytime commitments.  The program now begins at 5:30 pm and runs through 8:45 pm on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings.  Enrolled clients are always welcome

Mary Lough-Normile, LCSW recently joined the Intensive Family Support Services (IFSS) team as program supervisor. Mary brings with her over 20 years of experience in the field of social work.  She has extensive experience with individual, group and family therapy, children’s services, schools, residential services and as a liaison to inpatient programs.  Her knowledge of the

Thank you all who supported our Race for Respect 5K at Wells Mills County Park in Waretown on November 6th!  Congratulations to all the runners and walkers – and a special cheer for the race winner, Brian Anderson.  Brian was the first to cross the finish line at 19.52 minutes.  Race results are on ourRace for Respect webpage. 

The Ocean Mental Health Services mission is to offer a comprehensive continuum of mental health services that promotes full participation in community life.  One way this is accomplished is by ensuring all segments of the population have access to services.  With this in mind we have improved our service delivery for people who are deaf

May is National Foster Care Month!  The OceanMHS therapeutic foster care program, Connections, is celebrating by sharing the story of a long term foster care parent.  She shares with is what Connections is about, how she got involved, and what it is like to be a foster care parent.  We also get to see how