Community Partners

UCPO is better able to protect and serve the community, when we work with the community in those efforts. We rely on strong community partnerships – formal and informal – to bring positive change to the Union County community. Below are links to learn more about just some of our community partnerships. If you have an idea of how we can partner with your agency, please contact us at UCPOoutreach@ucpo.org, and be sure to include Community Partnership Opportunity in the subject line.

• Community Partners
  • Union County Crime Stoppers
  • Union County Human Rights Commission
  • Union County Police Chiefs’ Association
  • Prevention Links (our Operation Helping Hand 24/7/365 partner)
  • Urban Area Security Initiatives
  • Union County Public Schools
  • SIGMA Threat Management Associates
  • Other Operation Helping Hand Community Partners include:
    • Serenity New Jersey
    • Summit Oaks Hospital
    • CURA Inc. (Newark)
    • Discovery Institute (Marlboro)
    • John Brooks Recovery Center (Atlantic City)
    • Lennard Clinic (Elizabeth, Newark)
    • New Bridge Medical Center (Paramus)
    • New Directions Behavioral Health Center (Newark)
    • New Hope Integrated Behavioral Health (Marlboro)
    • Organization for Recovery
    • Overlook Medical Center (Summit)
    • Pyramid Healthcare (Hammonton)
    • Prevention Links (Roselle)
    • Serenity at Summit
    • Straight & Narrow (Clifton)
    • The Counseling Center at Clark
    • Trinitas Regional Medical Center (Elizabeth)
    • Turning Point (multiple locations)

• New Jersey Attorney General’s 21 County 21st Century Community Policing Project 
  • Heroin and Opioid Epidemic (July 2018)
    • Prevention Links
  • Bias Crimes Investigations (February 2019)
    • Anti-Defamation League (New York/New Jersey chapter)
    • Garden State Equality
    • NAACP (Plainfield chapter)
    • New Jersey Division on Civil Rights
    • New Jersey Office of the Attorney General
    • Union County College
    • Union County Interfaith Coordinating Council
  • Immigrant Trust Directive (February 2019)
    • American Friends Service Committee
    • Union County College
  • Juvenile Justice System (June 2019)
    • Communities in Cooperation
    • Cranford Police Department
    • Prevention Links
    • Union County Family Crisis Intervention Unit
    • Union County Office of the Executive Schools Superintendent
    • Union County Vicinage
    • Westfield Police Department
    • Westfield Public Schools
  • Elder Abuse Prevention (October 2019)
    • Jewish Family Service of Central New Jersey
    • Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ
    • New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs
    • New Jersey Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor
    • Union County Division on Aging and Disability Resource Connection
    • Union County Human Relations Commission
    • Union Public Library
  • Veterans’ Affairs (December 2019)
    • New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs
    • Township of Union Police Department
    • Department of Veterans Affairs
    • Union County Human Relations Commission
    • Union County Office of Veterans Services
    • VET2VET
    • Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of New Jersey
  • Campus Sexual Violence (January 2020)
    • Kean University
    • New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault

The Union County Prosecutor’s Office does not make endorsements, rather the Office simply seeks to acknowledge the many community organizations and institutions that have partnered with us to provide educational offerings to Union County’s residents