{"id":4140,"date":"2024-02-29T16:34:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T16:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/dhs\/?page_id=4140"},"modified":"2025-09-10T13:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T13:01:39","slug":"children-and-youth-mental-health-services","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/dhs\/youth-services\/children-and-youth-mental-health-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Children and Youth Mental Health Services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-subtle-background-background-color has-background\">Contact<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Susana Mateo, LCSW<br><\/strong>Email: <a href=\"mailto:susana.mateo@ucnj.org\">susana.mateo@ucnj.org<\/a><br>Phone: 908-558-2529<br>Address: 1143-1145 East Jersey Street, 4th Floor, Elizabeth, NJ 07201<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leah Rousso, MSW<\/strong><br>Email: <a href=\"mailto:leah.rousso@ucnj.org\">leah.rousso@ucnj.org<\/a><br>Phone: 908-558-2521<br>Address: 1143-1145 East Jersey Street, 4th Floor, Elizabeth, NJ 07201<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-subtle-background-background-color has-background\">About<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Union County School Based Program \u201cBe Brave\u201d will provide school-based prevention and diversion programming events or seminars at schools in Union County. The involved youth will be from 3rd grade to 7th grade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The overall goal is to reduce the number of school referrals due to behavior and mental health concerns, by providing these youth with appropriate services and supports that will meet their needs and help them become successful adults. \u201cBe Brave\u201d programming is broken into five parts: Leadership groups, grade level assemblies, small group sessions, individual and family counseling, and professional development sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-subtle-background-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Target Population<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Union County Youth in grades 3-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-subtle-background-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Point of Continuum<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diversion and Prevention<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pre-approved programming and services conducted on school grounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact Susana Mateo, LCSWEmail: susana.mateo@ucnj.orgPhone: 908-558-2529Address: 1143-1145 East Jersey Street, 4th Floor, Elizabeth, NJ 07201 Leah Rousso, MSWEmail: leah.rousso@ucnj.orgPhone: 908-558-2521Address: 1143-1145 East Jersey Street, 4th Floor, Elizabeth, NJ 07201 About Union County School Based Program \u201cBe Brave\u201d will provide school-based prevention and diversion programming events or seminars at schools in Union County. The involved youth&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":180,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4140","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"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\/4140","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=4140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/dhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4140\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/dhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/dhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}