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Circle of Life Shelter
Delivers emergency shelter, therapeutic and clinical services, and referrals for individuals experiencing crisis situations.
View details →Delivers emergency shelter, therapeutic and clinical services, and referrals for individuals experiencing crisis situations.
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Hear My Cries
Unites women impacted by gun violence to deliver youth mentorship, grief support, credible-messenger rapid response, and trauma recovery.
View details →Unites women impacted by gun violence to deliver youth mentorship, grief support, credible-messenger rapid response, and trauma recovery.
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Hope Love Kindness Crisis Intervention
Provides crisis intervention, counseling, conflict mediation, and anger management to address trauma and mental illness.
View details →Provides crisis intervention, counseling, conflict mediation, and anger management to address trauma and mental illness.
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Joi’s Angels
Provides emergency food, shelter, advocacy, and life essentials to displaced, homeless, and at-risk youth and families.
View details →Provides emergency food, shelter, advocacy, and life essentials to displaced, homeless, and at-risk youth and families.
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Mayor’s Office of Homeless Services
City office working to end homelessness through prevention, rapid rehousing, shelter placement, and emergency rent and utility assistance.
View details →City office working to end homelessness through prevention, rapid rehousing, shelter placement, and emergency rent and utility assistance.
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Newark Community Street Team
Flagship public-safety org delivering high-risk intervention, hospital violence intervention, safe passage, a trauma recovery center, and victim hotlines (1-833-254-6278).
View details →Flagship public-safety org delivering high-risk intervention, hospital violence intervention, safe passage, a trauma recovery center, and victim hotlines (1-833-254-6278).
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Newark Community Street Team — Overdose Response Team
NCST's mobile overdose co-response team providing harm-reduction kits and Narcan across Newark.
View details →NCST's mobile overdose co-response team providing harm-reduction kits and Narcan across Newark.
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United Community Corporation
Languages Spanish, English
Assists low-income and at-risk individuals and families with emergency shelter, utility and food assistance, housing, and YouthBuild.
View details →Assists low-income and at-risk individuals and families with emergency shelter, utility and food assistance, housing, and YouthBuild.
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YMCA of Newark and Vicinity
Improves quality of life through emergency and extended-stay housing, youth development, camps, mentoring, and health and wellness programs.
View details →Improves quality of life through emergency and extended-stay housing, youth development, camps, mentoring, and health and wellness programs.
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