Program: <\/strong>Union County Educational Achievement Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n Agency: <\/strong>Boxwood Development Services, LLC<\/p>\n\n\n\n Address: <\/strong>1143 East Jersey Street, Albender Building, Elizabeth, NJ 07201 and 115 West Second Avenue, Suite 3, Roselle, NJ 07203 Service Description: <\/strong>To help young people create opportunities by equipping and empowering them to attain higher education and employment levels along with mentoring to aid their transitions to successful adulthood. Services include assistance with preparation for high school equivalency exams; tutoring in various academic subjects; interactive life skills workshops; help with enrolling in college or occupational training; and, in securing gainful employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Target Population: <\/strong>Union County youth between the ages of 16-21 years old serving a term of probation, youth who are serving a term of parole who lack access to traditional school programs<\/p>\n\n\n\n Points of Continuum: <\/strong>Disposition and Reentry<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hours:<\/strong> Youth can be referred by:<\/strong> Juvenile Probation, Juvenile Intensive Supervision Program (JISP), Parole Divisions, and Family Court<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" High School Equivalency Preparation and Tutoring Program: Union County Educational Achievement Center Agency: Boxwood Development Services, LLC Address: 1143 East Jersey Street, Albender Building, Elizabeth, NJ 07201 and 115 West Second Avenue, Suite 3, Roselle, NJ 07203Telephone:( 908) 241-1311 (center); (908) 241-6862 (main)Fax: (866) 861- 6379 (call ahead for instructions)Contact Person: Marie Thelusma-Chase, CoordinatorE-mail: mchase@boxwoodnj.org Service Description: To help young people…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":188,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-240","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"1970-01-01 00:00:00","action":"","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","browser_timezone_offset":0},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/dhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/dhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/dhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/dhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/dhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/dhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/dhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/dhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Telephone:<\/strong>( 908) 241-1311 (center); (908) 241-6862 (main)
Fax:<\/strong> (866) 861- 6379 (call ahead for instructions)
Contact Person: <\/strong>Marie Thelusma-Chase, Coordinator
E-mail: <\/strong>mchase@boxwoodnj.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elizabeth Location (Probationers only): Monday-Wednesday 12:00pm-3:00 pm
Roselle Location (all Youth): Thursday 12:00pm-3:00pm; (Peer Groups) Friday 6:00pm-9:00pm; Sunday 2:00pm-6:00pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n