The mission of the Mental Health Center of Passaic is to provide comprehensive outpatient and school-based services to children, adults, and families who are experiencing emotional and/or behavioral difficulties. Our caring staff treats adults, children, and families throughout northern New Jersey. Some issues we treat are:

• ADHD
• Anxiety
• Behavioral Issues
• Depression
• Developmental Delays
• Emotional Struggles
• Everyday Stress
• Family Dynamics
• Grief and Loss
• Learning Disorders
• Pandemic Loss/Isolation
• Phobias
• Teen Parenting
• Trauma Recovery
• Troubled Teens

 

Adults

• Counseling
• Medication Management
• Psychiatric Evaluations

Teens

• Counseling
• Psychiatric Evaluations
• Medication Management
• Teen Community Resources

Children

• Counseling
• Psychiatric Evaluations & Medication Management
• Day Programs
• Family Counseling
• Play Therapy

Families

• Family Counseling
• Parenting Services

Schools

• High School & Middle School Counseling Services
• Psychiatric Evaluations
• After School Program
• Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency
• Pregnancy Prevention
• Teen Parenting Services
• Baby Steps Daycare

Family Center
111 Lexington Ave, Passaic
The Family Center is a community-based, family-oriented specialized outpatient mental health service for twenty-four Passaic and Clifton families. The primary target is families, children, and/or adults who experience or have experienced, abusive and neglectful behaviors. The Program has been in operation continuously since 1976. The goal of The Family Center is to ameliorate the stressors producing negative behaviors by meeting the mental health needs of the identified clients as well as ensuring positive and optimal functioning in all relevant life spheres.

Community Care Program
1451 Van Houten Ave, Clifton
The Community Care Program is a community-based, family-oriented specialized outpatient mental health service for seriously emotionally disturbed Passaic County youths and their families. The Program has been in operation continuously since 1982. The goal of the Community Care Program is to mainstream the identified child into the community. By meeting the child’s and family’s mental health needs as well as ensuring positive and optimal functioning in all relevant life spheres, this goal can be met.

Ida Gurtman Therapeutic Children's Program
1451 Van Houten Ave, Clifton
35 Orange Avenue, Clifton
The Ida Gurtman Therapeutic Children’s Program is a specialized, partial care/day treatment program for children between the ages of 2½ and 6 years whose emotional problems interfere with their daily functioning. The Ida Gurtman Therapeutic Children’s Program uses a multi-disciplinary approach to make a range of services available to all children and their families. In a nurturing, structured, therapeutic environment children interact with peers and adults, learning positive, developmentally appropriate socialization skills. Families learn to function more positively, supportively, and effectively.

Partial Care Six-Eleven Program
1451 Van Houten Ave, Clifton
The Partial Care 6-11 program serves children between the ages of 6 and 11 who have been psychiatrically hospitalized, or who are at risk of psychiatric hospitalization. The families of these children are treated simultaneously. This is an on-site, after-school, year-round intensive therapeutic program that meets for three hours daily, Monday through Friday, after school from 3:15 pm to 6:15 pm. During the summer the program runs from 9:30 am to 1:00 pm.

Current Active MOU	Circle of Care for Families and Children (Passaic)
Age Groups	Children Adolescents Adults
Community Services	Education School-Based Services Family & Support Services Parenting & Caregiving Pregnancy / Teen Pregnancy
Health Services	Behavioral / Mental Health ADHD / ADD Anxiety Depression Family Conflict & Distress Grief / Loss Teen Issues Trauma / PTSD Intellectual and Developmental Needs Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) Learning Disabilities
Treatment Services	In-Community Services Intensive In-Community (IIC) Services Parent Coaching / Mentoring Psychological / Psychiatric Evals Outpatient Services Counseling Counseling / Therapy, Family Counseling / Therapy, Group Counseling / Therapy, Individual Medication Monitoring Play Therapy Treatment Setting Outpatient, Hospital / Inpatient
Payment Options	Managed Care Medicaid Medicare Private / Commercial Insurance Self Pay Sliding Scale / Payment Plans
Language Spoken	Spanish
Areas Served	Passaic County

Last Updated: 04/27/24