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Community Profile: Atlantic City, NJ Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)

Community Organizations

This section provides information about affordable housing, social service, economic development, and community revitalization organizations in the area whose interests, activities, and initiatives improve the housing conditions and employment opportunities of residents. These groups represent potential partners for bankers seeking to more fully address the credit needs of each region’s low- and moderate-income people and communities.

The information in this section is obtained directly from the websites of the community organizations.

• Atlantic City Rescue Mission
• Atlantic Human Resources, Inc.
• Atlantic YouthBuild of South Jersey
• Dekbon Community Development Corporation
• Family Service Association (FSA)
• Habitat for Humanity Atlantic County, Inc.
• Home Team Inc.
• Housing and Economic Opportunities, Inc. (HEO)
• Mizpah Inland Human Services, Inc. (MIHS)
• The Salvation Army – Atlantic City Corps
• Spanish Community Center

Atlantic City Rescue Mission

Mission

The Atlantic City Rescue Mission meets the spiritual, physical, emotional, and other basic needs (through the provision of shelter, clothing, food, and counseling, and through referral and structured programs) of the poor and those who are bound and bruised by addictive lifestyles in Atlantic County and the surrounding communities.

Year of Origin

1965

Core Programs

• Case management: individuals work with a trained case worker to devise plans leading to self-sufficiency.
• Emergency food, shelter, and clothing: meals, shelter, clothing, and advocacy are provided to over 300 men, women, and families each day.
• Family Life Center: provides furnished bedrooms, clothing, and meals for mothers with children.
• Homeless prevention services for families: provides emergency food baskets and clothing to families in crisis.
• Medical Hold Dormitory: provides housing to indigent people who have been released from the hospital but have no place to go.
• Work Readiness Program: a 120-day job-training program emphasizing job and life skills, work therapy, and Bible study.
• Overcomers Program: residential addiction recovery program that combines in-depth counseling, discussion groups, Bible study, in-house work therapy, and recreational activities.
  

Service Area

Southern New Jersey

Contact Information

Atlantic City Rescue Mission
2009 Bacharach Blvd. PO Box 5358
Atlantic City, NJ 08404
Phone: (609) 345-5517
Fax: (609) 345-8149
Website: http://www.acrescuemission.org/

Atlantic Human Resources, Inc.

Mission

• To strengthen community capabilities for planning and coordinating federal, state, and other assistance programs
• To better organize services related to the needs of the poor and make them more efficient and effective
• To make greater use of the new type of services and innovative approaches in attacking the causes of poverty
• To develop and implement all programs and projects with the maximum feasible participation of residents of poor or low-income areas
• To broaden the resource base of programs directed to eliminate poverty

Year of Origin

1964

Core Programs 

• Rehabilitates properties for low- and moderate-income individuals
• Provides housing counseling services, including pre-purchase, default, and risk loss mitigation counseling, as well as home improvement and rehabilitation education
• Provides weatherization and day-care services
• Provides tax counseling for the elderly

• Operates a Head Start early-childhood development program, foster-grandparent program, retired and senior volunteer program, ministers home detention program, and a child and adult food program

Service Area

Atlantic and Cape May counties, New Jersey

Contact Information

Atlantic Human Resources, Inc.
One South New York Ave., Suite 303
Atlantic City, NJ 08401
Telephone: (609) 348-4131
Fax: (609) 345-5750
Website: none

Atlantic YouthBuild of South Jersey

Mission

The mission of YouthBuild USA is to unleash the intelligence and positive energy of low-income youth to rebuild their communities and their lives. Atlantic YouthBuild of South Jersey helps disenfranchised low-income young adults by engaging them in rebuilding their communities while they learn the skills necessary to become productive and independent citizens.

Year of Origin

1992

Core Programs

• An alternative school: young people attend a YouthBuild school full-time on alternate weeks, studying for their GEDs or high school diplomas. Classes are small, allowing for one-on-one attention to students.
• A community service program: young people build housing for homeless and other low-income people, providing a valuable and visible commodity for their hard-pressed communities.
• A job training and pre-apprenticeship program: young people get close supervision and training in construction skills full-time on alternate weeks from qualified instructors.
• A youth development program: young people participate in personal counseling, peer support groups, and life planning processes that assist them in healing from past hurts, overcoming negative habits and attitudes, and pursuing achievable goals that will establish a productive life.
• A community development program: community-based organizations obtain the resources to tackle several key community issues at once, strengthening their capacity to build and manage housing for their residents.

Service Area

Atlantic County

Contact Information

Atlantic YouthBuild of South Jersey
117 North Indiana Avenue
Atlantic City, NJ 08401
Phone: (609) 601-8635
Fax: (609) 345-4575
E-mail: execdir@algorithms.com
Website: http://www.youthbuild.org/site/c.htIRI3PIKoG/b.1223921/k.BD3C/Home.htm

Dekbon Community Development Corporation

Mission

To build affordable housing for prospective low- and moderate-income homeowners and to provide the supportive services needed for the families to succeed.

Year of Origin

1992

Core Programs 

• Rehabilitates existing properties and constructs new homes for low- and moderate-income individuals and families
• Provides counseling so that individuals can purchase and maintain homes

Service Area

Atlantic County, New Jersey

Contact Information

Dekbon Community Development Corporation
914 New Road
Northfield, NJ 08225
Telephone: (609) 625-1103
Fax: (609) 927-7232
Website: none

Family Service Association (FSA)

Mission

To strengthen individuals and families.

Year of Origin

FSA’s predecessor organization, Organized Charities of Atlantic City, was founded in 1909. The agency was renamed FSA in 1953.

Core Programs

• Supportive Assistance to Individuals and Families (S.A.I.F.): assists welfare recipients who have exhausted their 60 months of cash assistance in moving from dependency on cash assistance to self-sufficiency, through intensive case management.

• Kinship Legal Guardianship: promotes safety, permanency, and enhanced financial assistance for low-income kinship caregivers and the relative child(ren) in their care, by providing kinship caregivers—adults who are raising relatives’ children in their homes—with stronger legal protection, short of terminating parental rights and adoption.  Services are provided to 300 families during each fiscal year.
• Kinship Care Wrap Around Services: maintains safe and stable home environments for low-income kinship caregivers and the relative child(ren) in their care by providing client assistance funds to purchase needed goods and/or services.
• Family Preservation Services (FPS): a crisis-intervention program designed to prevent unnecessary out-of-home placements of children and youth. 
• Juvenile Justice Programs: Family Service Association's Outpatient Department provides mental health, substance abuse counseling, and psychiatry services for individuals, couples, and families. The goal of this service is to provide quality confidential counseling services to promote the physical, emotional, spiritual, social, and economic well-being of persons residing in southern New Jersey. Treatment is provided by licensed clinicians and board-certified psychiatrists.
• Home Electronic Detention System (HEDS): provides assessment, intervention, and case management for juveniles who have been assigned to HEDS by the juvenile justice system.  The goal of the program is to divert youth from detention or correctional placements by enhancing functioning and problem-solving capability through brief counseling and case management activities.
• First Day Program: a program for individuals who have been hospitalized for emotional problems or who are at risk of being hospitalized.
• School-Based Youth Services – Egg Harbor Township High School: helps young people navigate the adolescent years, finish their education, obtain skills leading to employment or continuing education, and graduate healthy and drug free.
• The Pleasantville Family Center: a community-based site, which serves as a central point of contact for families, individuals, and children.  The center is one of five family centers in Atlantic County that provide "one-stop shopping" for services.  The Family Center offers a wide variety of community programs as well as resource counseling, advocacy, and linkage to area services.
• Pleasantville Weed and Seed Anti-Gang/Violence Prevention Program: identifies gangs and their areas of operation, prevents the increase of violent behavior, refers all youth and potential gang members to counseling at Family Service Association or social services as needed, identifies leadership in Pleasantville street gangs, and identifies children at risk for gang membership.
• The Egg Harbor Township Community Center: one of five family centers in Atlantic County that provide “one-stop shopping” access to many of the services individuals, children, and families need.  The community center offers a wide variety of community programs as well as resource counseling, advocacy, and linkage to area services.
• The Family Life Center: a partial care program that provides a wide range of services to families in which there are young children at risk of abuse or neglect.
• Older Adult Services: offers programs that help older adults maintain their independence and quality of life. 

Service Area

Atlantic County

Contact Information

Family Service Association
3073 English Creek Avenue - Suite 3
Egg Harbor Township, NJ 08234-9710
Phone: (609) 569-0239
Website: http://www.fsasj.org/index.html

Habitat for Humanity Atlantic County, Inc.

Mission

Habitat for Humanity is an interfaith ministry that works through partnerships to eliminate substandard housing and homelessness by building houses and renovating donated units.

Year of Origin

1976

Core Programs

• Through volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, Habitat builds and rehabilitates simple, decent houses with the help of the homeowner (partner) families. Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no profit and financed with affordable loans. The homeowners’ monthly mortgage payments are used to build future Habitat houses.

Service Area

Atlantic County

Contact Information

Habitat for Humanity Atlantic County, Inc.
P.O. Box 443
Pleasantville, NJ 08232
Phone: (609) 487-9472
Fax: (609) 487-7516
E-mail: decenthomes@aol.com
Website: http://www.habitat.org

Home Team Inc.

Mission

To prepare low- and moderate-income renters to become first-time homeowners and provide them with ongoing supportive services.

Year of Origin

1994

Core Programs

• Facilitates the process of home-buying for low- and moderate-income citizens seeking to buy their first home, and provides financial literacy courses.

Service Area

Atlantic County

Contact Information

Home Team Inc.
4021 Ventnor Ave
Atlantic City, NJ 08401
Phone: (609) 572-9090
Fax: (609) 572-9099
E-mail: hometeaminc@comcast.net
Website: N/A

Housing and Economic Opportunities, Inc. (HEO)

Mission

HEO is dedicated to helping low- and moderate-income families and individuals find affordable housing and appropriate employment

Year of Origin

1992

Core Programs 

• Purchases and rehabilitates foreclosed and abandoned homes and then markets those homes to low- and moderate-income families at an affordable price or rent
• Offers homeownership counseling, long-term credit/budget counseling and home maintenance/repair education
• Offers environmental testing services
• Manages affordable rental housing properties for seniors  
• Sponsors the Mortgage Readiness Initiative--a financial/homeownership counseling program that includes an IDA (individual development account) program

Service Area

Camden, Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland, Cape May, and Atlantic counties in New Jersey

Contact Information

Housing and Economic Opportunities, Inc.
600 Cuthbert Blvd.
Westmont, New Jersey 08108
Telephone: (856) 858-0303
Fax: (856) 858-0163
Email: shelia@njhousing.net
Website: http://www.njhousing.net/index.html

Mizpah Inland Human Services, Inc. (MIHS)

Mission

To develop an efficient social service system that improves the quality of life and provides essential care and protection for low-income individuals and others in need. 

Year of Origin

1978

Core Programs

• Emergency Food and Shelter: provides assistance through Comprehensive Emergency Assistance System (CEAS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).
• Group Transportation: provides transportation to seniors during nontraditional hours, by special arrangement.
• The Learning Center: prepares children ages 3-5 years for a lifetime of learning, as well as preparation for kindergarten.
• Information and Referral: through a service networking system, provides information and referrals for all regardless of age, gender, race, or religious background.
• Case Management and Counseling: organizes and implements plans to promote the general welfare of the community, individuals, and families.

Service Area

Atlantic County

Contact Information

Mizpah Inland Human Services, Inc.
P.O. Box 49, 6916 Sewell Ave
Mizpah, NJ 08342
Phone: (609) 476-2002
Fax: (609) 476-4757
E-mail: revroemizpah@yahoo.com
Website: http://nonprofits.aclink.org/mihs/

The Salvation Army – Atlantic City Corps

Mission

In addition to its evangelical mission, the Salvation Army operates a number of social programs that serve low- and moderate-income individuals and their families.

Year of Origin

1878

Core Programs

• Provides services to veterans and military personnel
• Offers parenting and family life education
• Distributes new and used clothing to needy families
• Holds food in pantries to help meet emergency needs
• Provides assistance for basic needs for those who are homeless

Service Area

There are 31 Corps Community Centers in New Jersey, including the Atlantic City Corps.

Contact Information

The Salvation Army – Atlantic City Corps
22 S. Texas Ave
Atlantic City, NJ 08401
Phone: (609) 344-0660
Fax: (908) 810-9776
Website: N/A

Spanish Community Center

Mission

To service and advocate for impoverished individuals and families in southern New Jersey. The center aims to break the cycle of poverty and keep families together and aware of their heritage.

Year of Origin

N/A

Core Programs

• Bi-lingual/Bi-cultural – General Case Management
• HIV/AIDS – Prevention & Education
• Active Parenting
• Summer Enrichment Program – Camp Coqui
• After-School Latchkey
• Annual Holiday Helper Campaign
• HIP – Home Intervention Program
• Emergency Food Pantry
• ESL – English as a Second Language
• Pre/Post-Employment Education Training
• Bi-lingual Therapeutic Counseling

Service Area

Atlantic City

Contact Information

Spanish Community Center
3900 Ventnor Ave
Atlantic City, NJ 08401
Phone: (609) 345-1249
Fax: (609) 345-8533
E-mail: SpanishCommunityCenter@yahoo.com
Website: N/A

• Last updated: Monday, June 2, 2008