Member Agencies List
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Madison Area YMCA

Barry Kroll, Executive Director
111 Kings Rd.
Madison, NJ 07940
Phone:  973.377.6200
Fax:  973.377.1064
Email: bkroll@madisonymca.org

Website:  www.madisonareaymca.org

Facilities and programs through which children and adults can grow their mental, physical, social, and spiritual lives. F.M. Kirby Children's Center offers infant, pre-school, before and after school programs. Low-income families receive subsidized care. Summer day camp is available.

United-Way-funded programs:

Camp Wantango
Camp Wantango offers four different tracks for summer camp: arts & humanities, sports & recreation, science & technology and healthy kids. Additionally, campers enjoy activities including swimming, field trips, arts & crafts, value building games and academic programs for children ages 3-14 years old.

Child Care
F.M. Kirby Provides child care for children from 6 weeks to 5 years of age, creating a community where children can explore their world through play, learning the necessary skills such as self-concept and social qualities to use when entering the school system.

Child Care
F.M. Kirby Provides kindergarten and before and after school child care services which includes activities such as cooking, arts and crafts, gym or outdoor play, computers, and homework time, for children ages 5-14.

Camp Wantango
F.M. Kirby Provides camp program which includes activities such as swimming, field trips, arts and crafts, value-building games, and academic programs for children ages 3-14 years old for 10 weeks in the summer.

Madison Day Care Center

Pat Storniolo, Executive Director
4 Madison Ave
Madison, NJ 07940
Phone:  973.377.6941
Fax:  973.377.2040
Email: madisondaycare@verizon.net

Pre-school child care center offering subsidized care for low income families.

United-Way-funded program:

Preschool
Provides a place where children receive a safe, creative, and nurturing preschool education, learning the basic skills needed to succeed in kindergarten, including a command of English.

Full range of recreational, social, and educational programs for persons of all ages; nursery school; space provided to the general public for meetings and events.

United-Way-funded program:

Space Provision
Provides rooms for civic, educational, non-profit group, seniors, and self-help/improvement groups that are in need of meeting space. Encourages community involvement and promotes the unity of a diverse population.

Mental Health Association of Morris County

Deborah Taggart, Executive Director
100 Route 46, Building C
Mountain Lakes, NJ 07046
Phone:  973.334.3496
Fax:  973.334.4920
Email: mhamc@aol.com

Programs include mental health education, advocacy and supportive services to individuals and families, including homeless outreach.

United-Way-funded programs:

Project HOMI
Mobile outreach and case management program which provides homeless, mentally ill individuals with food, clothing, toiletries, counseling and linkages to services, shelter, and permanent housing.

Mental Health Disaster Response Services
Response Helps people in crisis to learn about and gain access to available mental health services and treatments. An agency-based resource center and computerized database maintained by staff at the MHAMC helps put callers in touch with mental health practitioners who provide counseling and psychotherapy.

Community Mental health Education & Consumer Empowerment
Encompasses a wide array of educational and empowerment activities designed to increase awareness and understanding of mental health and mental illnesses, and to educate mental health service consumers and their caregivers as to appropriate measures for mental health preservation, as well as mental illness prevention and treatment.

Morris Area Girl Scout Council

Helen Wronski, Executive Director
1579 Sussex Tpke.
Randolph, NJ 07869
Phone:  973.927.7722
Fax:  973.927.7683
Email:  ps@magsc.org

Website:  www.magsc.org

Provides programs for girls, volunteer development council, merchandise purchasing, and general and historical information. Project Safe provides after school activities, located in Dover schools, and is targeted at low income, Hispanic children.

United-Way-funded programs:

Project Safe
Provides affordable after-school care to children in grades K-5 of the Dover School District. Objectives include activities where children have the opportunity to make their own choices either for doing their homework, playing a game or joining a special club.

Girl’s Leadership Development
Informal education program responsive to the needs of girls carried out in troops/groups under the guidance of trained adult leadership. Empowers girls, ages 5-17 to reach their full potential, relate to society, develop values, and take leadership roles in a changing global society.

Morris County Organization for Hispanic Affairs

Xiomara Guevara, Executive Director
95-97 Bassett Highway
Dover, NJ 07801
Phone:  973.366.4770
Fax:  973.361.7878
Email:  mcoha.dover@verizon.net

Activities and programs center around transportation, home weatherization, personal computer training, social services, job counseling, immigration, citizenship, and health education.

United-Way-funded programs:

Computer Training
Provides computer literacy and access to technology to low-income Hispanics of Morris County who are in need of developing skills necessary to obtain better employment opportunities. Program encourages students to continue their education and addresses social needs of the students.

Community Outreach
Reaches out, represents, counsels, educates, advocates, informs, and provides low-income residents of Morris County (particularly at-risk Hispanic individuals and families) with information, guidance, and the provision of services including but not limited to comprehensive case management, language interpretation and translation, advocacy, notarizations, and tax preparation.

MCOHA Transportation Program
Transportation is one of the basic services that MCOHA provides to low-income residents of Morris County. The Transportation Program provides a vital support to the Community Outreach program and to two Hispanic Senior Support Groups that meet biweekly in Dover and Morristown. The program also works closely with other community organizations to plan and provide transportation services to their clientele. Clients served through this program are better able to access social service agencies, Social Security offices, County Court Houses, medical offices and health care facilities.

Morris Habitat for Humanity

Blair Schleicher-Wilson, Executive Director
102 Iron Mountain Rd., Suite H
Mine Hill, NJ 07803
Phone:  973.891.1934
Fax:  973.891.1938
Email:  blair.wilson@morrishabitat.org
Website:  www.morrishabitat.org

Builds safe, decedent and affordable owner occupied homes in partnerships with low-income families in need and the community, and to make decent housing a matter of conscience and action.

United-Way-funded programs:

Youth United
Youth United is an organization of youth, ages 5-25, who have united to educate the community about the need for affordable housing by planning, fundraising for, and ultimately, building a house.

Morris Tomorrow

Kris Marino, Executive Director
2 Ridgedale Ave
Cedar Knolls, NJ 07927
Phone:  973.984.2000
Fax:  973.984.2235
Email:  kem@morristomorrow.org

Provides a forum for discussion and action on public issues in Morris County.

Morristown Neighborhood House Association

David Walker, Executive Director
12 Flagler Street
Morristown, NJ 07960
Phone:  973.538.1229
Fax:  973.538.5493
Email: walkerd@neighborhood-house.org

Website:  www.neighborhood-house.org

Provides recreational, educational, and social programs for all ages. Child center offers subsidized pre-school and before and after school care to low income families.

United-Way-funded programs:

Preschool
Offers readiness skills necessary for a smooth transition of children ages 2 1⁄2 to 5 into the school system. Environment fosters social, emotional, physical and intellectual growth for children.

School-Age
Provides before-and-after school care for children in grades kindergarten through middle school for working parents. Services include academic reinforcement, homework assistance, tutoring and social and recreational activities.

CASA/Empowerment Solutions
Empowerment Solutions has personalized a life skills curriculum for the male students of Frelinghuysen Middle School which establishes the building blocks necessary to transition from boyhood to manhood. This innovative program equips and focuses students to reach their ultimate destiny through attitude accountability and making better choices. Development exercises and practical application of new skills allow each participant to complete the process with a personal action plan for achieving true life success.

Morris Center YMCA

Carol Armour, Executive Director
79 Horse Hill Rd
Cedar Knolls, NJ 07927
Phone:  973.267.0704
Fax:  973.898.0485

Website:  www.MorrisCenterYMCA.org

Facilities and programs through which children and adults can grow their physical, mental, social, and spiritual lives. Y's Owls program provides subsidized infant and pre-school care to low income families; Y's Kids program offers subsidized before and after school care for older children. Summer day camp also available.

United-Way-funded programs:

Richard F. Blake Children's Center
Provides child care services for children as young as 6 weeks and as old as 5 years including gym and swim classes at the YMCA and monthly educational field trips along with weekly visits from a music teacher, dance classes, and a visit to the Bookmobile.

Backyard Kids Summer Camp
Includes Adventure Week, Kindercamp (age 4 to 5), Youthcamp (age 6 to 12), twenty Specialty Camps, and PM-Rec, which utilizes various campsites in the wooded area, an assembly area, a double gymnasium, a 25-meter swimming pool and various designated rooms in the building. Local playing fields and school facilities are also utilized.

Y Kids
Provides wholesome, supervised, recreational, and educational activities such as arts and crafts, access to computers and the Internet, music, drama and the performing arts as well as a library for homework, quiet time and mentoring each afternoon during the school year for children, age 6 to 12, of working parents.

Mrs. Wilson’s/Alfre, Inc.

Kathryn Howie LCSW, Executive Director
56 Mt Kemble Ave.
Morristown, NJ 07960
Phone:  973.540.0116
Fax:  973.539.9626
Email:  khowie@mrswilsons.org

Website:  www.mrswilsons.org

Housing and treatment programs for recovering women substance abusers.

United-Way-funded program:

Mrs. Wilson's Halfway House
Provides housing and treatment services to alcoholic and drug dependent women from age 18 to retirement who are seeking recovery, so as to facilitate their responsible and successful reentry into the community.

Mount Olive Child Care & Learning Center, Inc.

Gail Reuther, Executive Director
150 Wolfe Rd
Budd Lake, NJ 07828
Phone:  973.426.1525
Fax:  973.347.4029
Email:  greuther@optonline.net

Website:  www.mtolivechildcare.org

Multi-program center offering infant/toddler, pre-school, and school-age child care programs; subsidized care for low income families; parent education program.

United-Way-funded programs:

School-Age Child Care
Child care for children ages 5-14 that is made up of the Before and After Kindergarten Program, Summer Camp Program, and the S.A.F.E./Before and School Program. Activities include creative art and expression, table games/manipulatives, science/discovery, music and movement, language and literacy, building/construction, math, physical activities indoors and outdoors, community awareness building experiences, and games which foster social and emotional skills.

Preschool Child Care
Offers a developmentally appropriate curriculum (utilizing learning centers), nutritious meals, periodic trips in the community to expand experiences and for health screening services, and well qualified staff for children ages 2 1⁄2 to 5.

Infant/Toddler Child Care
Provides a home-like environment, nutritious snacks, a developmentally appropriate curriculum, and well-qualified and nurturing staff for children ages 6 weeks to 3 years.