NJ Hotlines and Helpful Linked Websites
Perform Care for Counseling Services
Essex County Community Services
Hetrick-Martin Institute: New Jersey
New Jersey Suicide Prevention Hopeline 1-855-654-6735
If you are deaf or hard of hearing, please call
1-877-294-4356 TTY
To access any hotline:
(voice callers use 7-1-1 NJ Relay )
Addictions Hotline of NJ
1-877-844-276-2777
Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund
1-800-335-FUND
(1-800-335-3863)
Commission for the Blind & Visually Impaired
(CBVI) Hotline
1-877-685-8878
Child Care Help Line
1-800-332-9227
Child Support Hotline
1-877-NJ KIDS1
(1-877-655-4371)
Disaster Mental Health
1-877-294-HELP
(1-877-294-4357)
1-877-294-4356 TTY
(voice callers use 7-1-1 NJ Relay)
Division of Addiction Services
1-609-292-5760
1-609-292-6735 TTY
Division of Aging Services (DoAS)
SHIP Medicare Counseling at 1-800-792-8820
Aging and Disability Resource Connection at 1-877-222-3737
PAAD and Senior Gold at 1-800-792-9745
AIDS Drug Distribution Program at 1-877-613-453
Hearing Aid Assistant to Aged and Disabled at 1-800-792-9745
Lifeline Utility Assistance Program at 1-800-792-9745
Division of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DDHH)
1-800-792-8339 V/TTY
Division of Developmental Disabilities (DDD)
1-800-832-9173
Division of Disability Services (DDS)
1-888-285-3036
1-609-292-1210 TTY
Division of Family Development (DFD)
1-800-792-9773
Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services (DMAHS)
1-800-356-1561
Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS)
1-800-382-6717
Domestic Violence
1-800-572-7233
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)
Federal: 1-800-929-1040
State: 1-888-895-8179
Food Stamps
1-800-687-9512
Gambling Addiction
1-800-GAMBLER
(1-800-426-2537)
Good Neighbors - Community Living for People with Disabilities
1-877-DHS-LINE
(1-877-347-5463)
Health Benefits Identification (HBID) Card Unit
Call if your plastic HBID card is lost or stolen
1-877-414-9251
Kinship Navigator Program
(raising relatives' children)
2-1-1
Low Income Home Energy Assistance
(LIHEAP)
1-800-510-3102
Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Hotline
1-888-937-2835
NJ FamilyCare/Medicaid Call Center
1-800-356-1561
NJ Disaster Mental Health Helpline
1-877-294-HELP
(1-877-294-4357)
1-877-294-4356 TTY
(voice callers use 7-1-1 NJ Relay)
NJ FamilyCare
1-800-701-0710
1-800-701-0720 TTY
NJ Housing Resource Center (HRC)
(for accessible, affordable housing)
1-877-428-8844
www.njhousing.gov
NJ MentalHealthCares (NJMHC)
1-866-202-HELP (4357)
TTY: 1-877-294-4356
www.njmentalhealthcares.org
NJ WorkAbility - DiscoverAbility
1-888-285-3036
(from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Mondays thru Fridays)
PPMD
(Postpartum Mood Disorders) Hotline
1-800-328-3838
State Disability Insurance
(Dept. of Labor & Workforce Development)
1-609-292-7060
TDD – 1-609-292-8319
NJ Relay for Deaf, Hard of Hearing, or
Speech-Impaired Text Telephone User
1-800-852-7899
Traumatic Brain Injury Fund
1-888-285-3036
TDD – 1-609-292-1210
(from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Mondays thru Fridays)
Universal Service Fund (USF)
(Help with utility bills for low-income families and individuals)
1-866-240-1347
Work First NJ
(Welfare for Families and Individuals)
1-800-792-9773
The following Helplines and Hotlines are now part of the Department of Children and Families (DCF)
Adoption Information
1-800-99-ADOPT
(1-800-992-3678)
Child Abuse/ Neglect Hotline
(State Central Registry Hotline)
1-877-NJ ABUSE
(1-877-652-2873)
Child Behavioral Health Services
1-877-652-7624
Division of Youth and Family Services
(DYFS) Action Line
1-800-331-DYFS
(1-800-331-3937)
Family Help Line
(for stressed parents)
1-800-THE KIDS
(1-800-843-5437)
Foster Care Information
1-877-NJ FOSTER
(1-877-653-6783)
Safe Haven for Infants
1-877-839-2339
Teen Pregnancy Hotline
1-800-THE KIDS
(1-800-843-5437)