Information on support programs for Children.
Funds for programs related to youths. It staffs the Council for Children’s Services, a combined council of the Youth Services Commission (YSC) and the County Interagency Coordinating Council for Children (CIACC), facilitates Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) services for juveniles linked with the Family Court and facilitates training workshops and conferences that provide professionals, consumers, and family members with information regarding mental health and related children's services. The Division maintains a liaison relationship with the NJ State Juvenile Justice Commission.
The McKinney Vento program is designed to address the problems that homeless children and youth have faced in enrolling, attending, and succeeding in school. Under this program, State Educational agencies (SEAs) must ensure that each homeless children and youth has equal access to the same free, appropriate public education, including a public preschool education, as other children and youth.
Homeless children and youth should have access to the educational and other services that they need to enable them to meet all the same challenging State student academic achievement standards to which all students are held. In addition, homeless students may not be separated from the mainstream school environment. States and districts are required to review and undertake steps to revise laws, regulations, practices, or policies that may act as a barrier to the enrollment, attendance, or success in school of homeless children and youth.
• Assisting in identifying the behavioral health care needs for children up to age 21.
• Assisting young adults ages 18-21 with service histories through the Division of Child Protection & Permanency (DCP&P), the Children's System of Care (CSOC), and the Juvenile Justice System (JJS), in moving to the adult system.
• Providing information and referral to consumers and families regarding the continuum of care for children with special emotional and behavioral issues.
The Middlesex County Division of Children's Services merges the functions of the Youth Services Commission (YSC) and the County Interagency Children’s Coordinating Council (CIACC) to ensure the delivery of comprehensive services for Middlesex County’s children. The Council focuses on identification, planning and oversight of programs that provide children’s behavioral healthcare services; programs for juveniles charged or adjudicated as delinquent; and delinquency prevention programs.