TRENTON– The Family Support Center of New Jersey along with the NJ Department of Health and American Heart Association | American Stroke Association will sponsor the Ninth Annual Women’s Caregiver Retreat on Friday, May 17, 2013. The event is a… New Jersey Helping Hands
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Local Organizations, Businesses Unite To Produce The Great Swamp Scavenger Hunt
May 4th, 2013 
StuartRoth Part game and part celebration, The Great Swamp Scavenger Hunt takes participants on a 40-mile adventure through the state’s Great Swamp Watershed region. This is the place where the mighty Passaic River rises, where George Washington’s troops survived the coldest winter of the Revolutionary War, where the U.S. government created the first federally-designated wilderness area [...]
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Tags: businesses, GREAT, Hunt, local, ORGANIZATIONS, Produce, Scavenger, Swamp, Unite 
Stone Pony Benefit Concert to Raise National Epilepsy Awareness This Sunday
March 20th, 2013 StuartRoth The Epilepsy Foundation of New Jersey (EFNJ) will host the 2nd Annual Paint the Pony Purple benefit concert at The Stone Pony on Sunday, March 24th. This all-ages event will raise necessary funds to continue the agency’s programs and services that spread knowledge and awareness of epilepsy and improve the quality of life of those [...]
Stone Pony Benefit Concert to Raise National Epilepsy Awareness This Sunday
March 20th, 2013 StuartRoth The Epilepsy Foundation of New Jersey (EFNJ) will host the 2nd Annual Paint the Pony Purple benefit concert at The Stone Pony on Sunday, March 24th. This all-ages event will raise necessary funds to continue the agency’s programs and services that spread knowledge and awareness of epilepsy and improve the quality of life of those [...]
DONATIONS STILL NEEDED FOR VICTIMS OF HURRICANE SANDY
March 15th, 2013 StuartRoth The New Jersey State Office of Emergency Management in partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are still engaged in recovery efforts throughout the State of New Jersey for victims of Hurricane Sandy. Victims of Hurricane Sandy are urged… New Jersey Helping Hands
Department of Education Supports Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in School Athletic Programs
February 19th, 2013 StuartRoth The Family Resource Network (FRN) and its Get FIT program have hailed the US Department of Education announcement that school districts nationwide must grant students with disabilities the opportunity to participate in traditional school athletic teams or create parallel athletic programs. New Jersey Helping Hands
Posted in Helping Tags: Athletic, children, Department, Disabilities, education, Inclusion, programs, school, supports Mom2Mom brings 24-hour peer support to special needs moms
February 18th, 2013 StuartRoth Mom2Mom provides peer support, telephone assessments, referral services and support groups for moms dealing with autism, physical and mental disabilities and cancer. New Jersey Helping Hands
TEAM TSF at the NJM for fourth year
February 8th, 2013 StuartRoth Turner Syndrome Foundation (TSF), a non-profit 501c3 organization, based out of Holmdel NJ, is putting on their walking and running shoes and recruiting people of all ages to join their team this spring at the NJ Marathon Festival… New Jersey Helping Hands
Bodies, Rituals, Death, and Why the Trio Matters to Kids
January 26th, 2013 StuartRoth Last week I spent a fair amount of time on the phone with the media. A few nights prior to my conversations, two teenage boys went onto a lake to go ice fishing. They both fell through and drowned. As… New Jersey Helping Hands
Good Grief Trains FIRST Princeton Facilitator Class!
January 25th, 2013 StuartRoth This Martin Luther King Day and National Day of Service, fourteen exceptional men and women graduated from Good Grief’s 36-hour facilitator training. The 15th training class and FIRST in Princeton, included bereaved mothers, a professor, counselors, educators, advocates, among others… New Jersey Helping Hands
