The Community Planning & Advocacy Council
Cooper River Square
6991 N. Park Drive
East Building, 3rd Fl.
Pennsauken, NJ 08109
p: 856.663.3998
f: 856.663.7182
Children's Planning
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Children's Interagency
Coordinating Council |
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The Camden County Interagency Coordinating
Council (CIACC) was created in 1989 to develop comprehensive service
plans for children with severe emotional disorders and their families
in an effort to improve service coordination and provision.
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contact Kathleen Gardiner. Phone: 856.663.3998 E-mail: kgardiner@cpachvi.org |
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| Child Welfare Planning Council |
| CPAC has been designated
as Camden County's CWPC. CWPC's are being created by the State Department
of Human Services, Office of Children's Services as a planning body
to assess, develop, coordinate and implement ways to strengthen families
and communities to address child welfare reform. For more information, contact William James Phone: 856.663.3998 E-mail: wkjames@cpachvi.org |
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The goal of the JMDT/JET is to reduce detention admissions, lengths of stay in detention and recidivism for court involved youth by maximizing use of community-based services and eliminating barriers to entry and track progress of youth. For more information, contact Juanita Fuller. |
| Youth Empowerment Service (YES) | ||
| CPAC manages YES,
a partnership developed by the Camden County Board of Chosen Freeholders,
the New Jersey Department of Human Services and Camden County Family
Court with services provided by the Center for Family Services, Inc.,
and Mentor-NJ. The YES system is designated in a managed care environment
to provide services to youth and adolescent 11 to 17 years of
age.
For more information, contact Diana Crone. |
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Youth Services Commission
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| The Camden County Youth Services
Commission (YSC) is convened by CPAC: The Community Planning and Advocacy
Council, which is the official planning body for Camden County. The
mission of the Camden County Youth Services Commission is "to
plan and implement community-based services, sanctions, and prevention
strategies for youth and their families involved, or at risk of involvement,
in the Juvenile Justice System. The Commission will also advocate
and work, through programming, to reduce juvenile delinquency to the
improvement of the Juvenile Justice System. The YSC serves as the
primary advisory body to the Camden County Board of Chosen Freeholders
regarding the needs of the target population. For more information, contact Diana Crone Phone: 856.663.3998 E-mail: dcrone@cpachvi.org |
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Youth Volunteer Corps
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