Children's Aid and Family Services, Inc.

Establish Children's Aid and Family Services as a leader in providing high-quality services to individuals challenged with developmental disabilities. Maintain Children's Aid and Family Services' leadership role in Child Welfare Services. Enhance Children's Aid and Family Services as a leader in sustance abuse education, prevention and recovery support services. Explore opportunities to strengthen and expand agency impact through carefully considered public policy positions, collaborations, mergers and joint ventures.

Services for children and teenagers with developmental disabilities: By 2016 secure and fill eight homes for children with developmental disabilities. Expand in-home services to at least 10 families per year Child Welfare Services: Double our family preservation, adoption, permanency, counseling and wrap-around service capacities in Essex, Passaic and Bergen Counties by 2014. Maintain our position in medically needy and treatment home care. Substance Abuse Education and Prevention Services: Increase the scope and reach of The Center for Alcohol and Drug Resources' prevention and education programming and coalition building by at least 15% per year over the next three years with a goal of doubling impact by 2016.

Out-of-home care for children, adolescents and adults; A full range of adoption and permanency support services; Case management, specialized clinical services, and behavioral supports for vulnerable children, teens, adults and their families; Prevention, education and community building that enhances health and the quality of life in our communities; Volunteer engagement that supports and enhances the mission of the agency and extends our ability to respond to those in need.

Services for children and young adults with developmental disabilities. Since 2011, we have opened community homes, day habilitation and after-school respite for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Child Welfare Services - Providing treatment home level of foster care for children with backgrounds of severe trauma; providing a full range of adoption services for families and working with older children to help them find permanency; providing supportive housing to 31 teenage mothers and their babies who might otherwise be homeless. Enhanced Children's Aid and Family Services position as a leader in education and prevention services - Our Center for Alcohol and Drug Resources has been facilitating youth empowerment programs that teach advocacy and community involvement to bring about changes in attitudes toward drinking and drug use. The Center has also been leading community forums about drinking and drug use that bring together community leaders, educators, law enforcement, parents and teenagers to try and bring solutions to this pressing problem. Finally, The Center has launched the Opioid Overdose Recovery Program, which provides recovery support services for individuals who were reversed from opioid overdoses at Bergen County hospitals.