To get right to the point, there is “No Health, Without Mental Health” and frankly, while states & TV news are blatant instigators, agitators, We can not let it distract from our over all wellbeing! There are resources ad we must take care of our selves and others! We can live our lives and enjoy the day, and all the holidays! Here are some Hotlines we can use to help. It’s ok to not be ok, lets do it together and thrive!
If you need to download the Mental Health resource PDF CLICK HERE!!
Please remember also that “There is no health without Mental Health”! Help is available.
Mental Health must be a priority! If you need support, contact, help is available.
Dial 911 for emergencies
Bergen:201-262-HELP
NJEA HELPLINE 1-866-243-6532 or email AID-NJEA@ubhc.rutgers.edu
Veterans Counseling Hotline 866-VETS-NJ4 (838-7654)
Compulsive Gambling of NJ 800-GAMBLER (426-2537)
NJ Hope Line (suicide prevention) 855-654-6735
1 866-COP-2COP (267-2267) /Fire, First Responder Support: https://www.state.nj.us/humanservices/dmhas/home/disaster/responder/
Reach NJ 844-732-2465
IME Addictions Access Center 844-276-2777
NJ Connect for Recovery 855-652-3737
The Peer Recovery Warmline 877-292-5588
National Suicide Hotline 800-273-8255
NJ Mental Health Cares 866-202-HELP (4357) TTY: 1-877-294-4356 https://www.njea.org/got-stress-call-njeas-member-helpline/
Bergen County NJ Div. of MH(201-634-2745): https://www.co.bergen.nj.us/mental-health-services/about-mental-health-services
Here is the direct link to download our new HRG Community Resource Guide 2021 PDFCLICK HERE!!
Don’t forget this important resource is always available; The H.A.R.T. Program is now also in Westwood! Start your recovery today!
Bergen County NJ: Mental Health Services!
Mental Health must be a priority! If you need support, contact, help is
available.
Dial 911 for emergencies
Bergen:201-262-HELP
HELPLINE: 1-866-AID-NJEA (1-866-243-6532) or email AID-NJEA@ubhc.rutgers.edu https://www.njea.org/got-stress-call-njeas-member-helpline/
Compulsive Gambling of NJ 800-GAMBLER (426-2537)
1 866-COP-2COP (267-2267) /Fire, First Responder Support:
https://www.state.nj.us/humanservices/dmhas/home/disaster/responder/
Veterans Counseling Hotline 866-VETS-NJ4 (838-7654)
NJ Hope Line (suicide prevention) 855-654-6735
Reach NJ 844-732-2465
IME Addictions Access Center 844-276-2777
NJ Connect for Recovery 855-652-3737
The Peer Recovery Warmline 877-292-5588
National Suicide Hotline 800-273-8255
NJ Mental Health Cares 866-202-HELP (4357) TTY: 1-877-294-4356
https://www.njea.org/got-stress-call-njeas-member-helpline/
Bergen County NJ Div. of MH(201-634-2745): https://www.co.bergen.nj.us/mentalhealth-services/about-mental-health-services
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
If you need to download the Mental Health resource PDF CLICK HERE!!
For Clinics; Free and sliding Scale for low income and more:
Bergen County has many free clinics as well as sliding Scale for low income and homeless. Check them out..
CLICK HERE for BVMI. on Essex St. NHCA also has a free clinic in Garfield(and Hackensack); click here! Other free dental clinics, and others click here! Just and FYI! The BVMI (Bergen Volunteer Medical Initiative) is located at 75 Essex Street, Suite 100 Hackensack NJ Tel: 201-342-2478
NHCA also has a free Medical clinic in Garfield, Hackensack & others, check them out; click here! Here is a web site that we found with the free dental clinics in North NJ. CLICK HERE! Note; call before you go incase they have new Covid19 protocols!
Here is the direct link to download our new HRG Community Resource Guide 2021 PDFCLICK HERE!!
Are you looking for MH clinics and other clinics? CLICK HERE for our listings for Bergen County! There is no health without MH and if you can not afford to pay you should check them out! also BNBMC in Paramus is the county hospital for psych; CLICK HERE FOR info! Thy also have many addiction resources as well!
“It’s ok, to Not Be ok” Therapy and support if symptoms persist is the best way. according to NAMI. Here is an article that may help you understand P.T.D.S. CLICK HERE! “Whether you’re a military service member, veteran, salesperson or elementary school student, PTSD has the potential to develop in any of us. And if it does, please know that help is available. No one should face PTSD alone.”-NAMI..
More videos with BNBMC MH and addiction resources..
🆕The 2020/21 HRG Community Resource Guide; Now available in different languages CLICK HERE! Spanish, Polish, Korean and many more..
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Basic Mental Health and Addiction Resources for Bergen County and…
We’ll imply start with the mental health unit and substance abuse/alcohol dependence unit, At One Bergen! They have many resources for these topics, as well as #StigmaFree links too! For the Bergen County Stigma Free we site click here!
Here are some other addiction recovery programs that can help as well!
Teen Challenge is a great Organization that is all over and Church Emmanuel at 34 van wettering place Hackensack is directly connected to this great resource here are both web sites: TEEN Challenge; EMC intake site. Keeping productive is also helpful for recovery! Staying positive! For women there is Hoving Home!
NATIONAL CRISIS TEXT LINE> https://www.crisistextline.org/
Help is availableSpeak with a counselor today
National Suicide Prevention LifelineHours: Available 24 hours. Languages: English, Spanish. Learn more800-273-8255 Chat Official Website
Bergen county has many resources for all addictions and has programs for recovery, halfway houses and many treatment program.
if you or you know someone with an addiction of any kind there is help.
ReachNJ: Call 1-844-ReachNJ (1-844-732-2465)
Addictions Hotline of New Jersey – Information; Quit Smoking – 1-800- NJ -STOPS, Gambling – 1-800-GAMBLER [1-800-426-2537]
Adolescent Substance Abuse Programs:
(201) 336-7350 1 Bergen County Plaza
Hackensack, NJ
Care Plus New Jersey Inc
(201) 265-8200 610 Valley Health Plaza
Paramus, NJ
Behavioral Counseling Associates
(201) 592-9002 1495 Palisade Avenue
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The Heroin Addiction Recovery team Program (H.A.R.T.) IS NOT ONLY FOR heroin but recovery from other drugs as well! (Click for video) The H.A.R.T. program rolled out in 2017 and serves more than BC. You can contact the various locations directly! Walk-in hours are at Mahwah, Paramus and Lyndhurst police departments. For Mahwah Click the URL> http://www.mahwahalliance.org/ And Now Westwood!
List of 12 step programs can be found HERE!
If you want a good rehabilitation and or Detox hare are some of the better ones: Teen Challenge is excellent; CLICK HERE!
BNBMC Paramus is the County hospital! They have meetings, Detox and other programs including after care! CLICK HERE!
Saving the best for last; Bergen County’s Stigma Free initiative! Mental Health awareness and education! Joining the Stigma-Free Initiative will: Educate residents that mental illness is a disease and must be treated as such Raise awareness of the prevalence of mental illness in our community Provoke public interest in learning what is “STIGMA-FREE” Providing residents an opportunity to become involved in their community Allow people living with the disease to feel supported by their community and thus decrease feelings of isolation and shame Link people in need to local mental health resources Raise awareness that care is accessible regardless of income!
Addiction, Health Resources; Bergen County
We’ll imply start with the mental health unit and substance abuse/alcohol dependence unit, At One Bergen! They have many resources for these topics, as well as #StigmaFree links too!
Here are some other addiction recovery programs that can help as well!
Teen Challenge is a great Organization that is all over and Church Emmanuel at 34 van wettering place Hackensack is directly connected to this great resource here are both web sites: TEEN Challenge; EMC intake site. Keeping productive is also helpful for recovery! Staying positive! Did you download the HRG Resource guide with all kinds of events to enjoy during the holidays?
For women there is Hoving Home!
Bergen county has many resources for all addictions and has programs for recovery, halfway houses and many treatment program.
if you or you know someone with an addiction of any kind there is help.
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ReachNJ: Call 1-844-ReachNJ (1-844-732-2465)
Addictions Hotline of New Jersey – Information; Quit Smoking – 1-800- NJ -STOPS, Gambling – 1-800-GAMBLER [1-800-426-2537]
Adolescent Substance Abuse Programs:
(201) 336-7350 1 Bergen County Plaza
Hackensack, NJ
Care Plus New Jersey Inc
(201) 265-8200 610 Valley Health Plaza
Paramus, NJ
Behavioral Counseling Associates
(201) 592-9002 1495 Palisade Avenue
Fort Lee, NJ
Have you Checked out the H.A.R.T. Program? (Heroin Addiction Recovery Team program) (Not only for Heroin recovery) NOW IN WESTWOOD as well!
Have you Checked out the H.A.R.T. Program? (Heroin Addiction Recovery Team program) (Not only for Heroin recovery) NOW IN WESTWOOD as well! The Heroin Addiction Recovery team Program (H.A.R.T.) IS NOT ONLY FOR heroin but recovery from other drugs as well! (Click for video) The H.A.R.T. program rolled out in 2017 and serves more than BC. You can contact the various locations directly! Walk-in hours are at Mahwah, Paramus and Lyndhurst police departments. For Mahwah Click the URL> http://www.mahwahalliance.org/ And Now Westwood!
List of 12 step programs can be found HERE!
If you want a good rehabilitation and or Detox hare are some of the better ones: Teen Challenge is excellent; CLICK HERE!
BNBMC Paramus is the County hospital! They have meetings, Detox and other programs including after care! CLICK HERE!
There are plenty of resources now a days for Mental health and well being. Are you Stigma Free, no are you really stigma Free? I believe that it’s a state of mind, an action and has to be a lifestyle not just a phrase or resolution. The wonderful MH advocate Mary Ann Uzzi started the Bergen County stigma Free initiative many year ago in Paramus after she had said she saw a sigma free sign in Hoboken. Now it is all over NJ and beyond. Years ago I had seen a face book post from the Wichita Kansas Police Chief Gordon Ramsay, from 2014 & 2015, who received a letter from someone who had a relative who needed a MH evaluation. Chief had also spoke about “Stomp out Stigma” I was elated to hear that other states and now counties including England, New Zealand and Cities like Hong Kong and more are delving into promoting, educating and spreading the word about MH.
About the break part, now and then everyone needs a MH break. Let’s talk about “respite”. Did you know that “respite” really means; as google says- res·pite/ˈ or respət,rēˈspīt/ . a short period of rest or relief from something difficult or unpleasant… A respite center r unit is a place for care givers but not always is it for care givers, but for pretty much anyone with the state qualification guidelines: “The New Jersey Statewide Respite Care Program gives a short-term or periodic break to family…” Bergen County has several in county and out of county including the Bergen Wellnes center on 177 Hudson street’s out of county location. Bergen County Health Care Center and Bergen New Bridge Medical Center also has it as well. Homeless are not excluded. There are plenty of resources for mental health, listings below..
Bergen County Division of Mental Health proudly supports the agencies listed below.
- Comprehensive Behavioral Healthcare, Inc.
- CarePlus NJ, Inc.
- Vantage Health System
- West Bergen Mental Healthcare
2021 reality check, from a mental health standpoint, from the experts: We all know governments lie, cheat and steal. And sometimes their decisions may not be to our benefit. Like the legalization of marijuana. If you think you’re going to get high just to get high, you need to think to yourself, “Why do I need to get high?” Why can’t you just enjoy life? If you’re taking it for medical reasons, prescribed by a doctor, that’s great! You are under a doctor’s care and it is controlled. Many 2020 DUI, marijuana-related car crashes were connected with alcohol use as well. Your question should be, “Did he drink and become impaired, then got high and then drove, or the other way around?” The fact is, even if Marijuana doesn’t kill you or others, according to reports, more kids are driving high. You do the math! In 2021, new legislation legalizing marijuana in New Jersey is underway. Legislators claim they are “decriminalizing” small amounts to decrease the number of minority arrests for possession. Well, the truth is, more will be arrested, more will become addicted, more kids will be taken away from their “responsible” young parents. (In a related story, states reportedly make millions off legally selling your kids). Back to marijuana and all your excuses, where they will lead you, whether you are going to smoke, the effects on the people around you. The facts are, if marijuana is legalized, there will be more Highway deaths, more arrests, more people harming or killing their babies, more multi-drug use and driving, more robbery homicides, and so on. You can blame everything else or you can wake up. Marijuana may not kill you, but it will likely affect your family, your friends and maybe ruin someone’s life. not to mention the health effects of developing young people or effects on infants! How much do you care about your family or others? That is the question!
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