Mental Health Care in Elizabeth, NJ

Family and Childrens Services

What Does Family and Childrens Services Offer?

Family and Childrens Services is a mental health facility at 40 North Avenue, Elizabeth, New Jersey, offering outpatient care and telehealth therapy. It accepts Medicaid, private insurance and self-pay. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT and couples and family therapy.

40 North Avenue
Elizabeth, NJ 07208

Listed in SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov, checked October 2026. A listing is not an endorsement. Call to confirm services, openings and costs before you go.

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Types of Care at Family and Childrens Services

  • Outpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • Medicaid
  • Private health insurance
  • Private or Community foundation
  • State corrections or juvenile justice funds
  • Cash or self-payment
  • State welfare or child and family services funds

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Couples/family therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy

Who the Program Serves

  • Young adults
  • Veterans
  • Members of military families
  • Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
  • Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
  • Ages: Children/Adolescents
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Language Services

  • Spanish
  • Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Other languages (excluding Spanish)
  • Creole

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Case management service

Before you commit, confirm openings, costs and the program's state license. How to find a therapist you can afford lists the questions to ask when you call, and mental health care in New Jersey lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near Family and Childrens Services

Measured by straight-line distance from this facility. See every listing on the Elizabeth mental health care page.

Sources

  1. SAMHSA FindTreatment.gov listing data, checked October 2026
  2. About FindTreatment.gov (SAMHSA)

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