How We Help Families
SPAN provides individual assistance, training, and support for families, youth and professionals on early childhood, education, health and mental health, human services, disability, transition to adult life, and family-professional partnerships, focusing on families with children and youth at greatest risk due to disability, special healthcare needs, race, ethnicity, immigrant status, language, socio-economic status, geographic location, etc. SPAN also provides community doula support and advocacy for pregnant African-American and black women to reduce disparities in Black maternal and infant health.
Here are a list of our programs that fall under this category:
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Our Individual Assistance, Training and Support Programs
- Autism Medical Home
- Building Bridges to Success: Parent Training and Information Center
- Center for Transition to Adult Health Care for Youth with Disabilities
- Center on Youth Voice/Youth Choice
- Genetic Alliance on the National Genetics Information and Family Support Center
- Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Mentoring and Family Engagement
- Education and Health Rights of Children and Youth in the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems
- Health Care Enrollment and NJ Paid Family Leave
- Kinship Care
- Family to Family Health Information Center
- Family WRAP
- Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health State Affiliate Organization
- LEND Family Mentor
- Medicaid Unwinding Project
- Military Family 360 Support Project
- National Center on Educational Outcomes Collaboration
- The New Jersey Family Engagement Hub (NJFEH)
- New Jersey Inclusive Higher Education Collaborative
- NJ Inclusive Child Care Project
- New Jersey Integrated Care for Kids (NJ InCK)
- NJ Statewide Parent to Parent
- Special Education Volunteer Advocates (SEVA)
- Youth in the Know