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Save the Date!

A Night of Stars
Saturday, May 5, 2012
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Red Rose Day is coming!
March 23, 2012

Learn how you
can get involved!

Pregnant and Need Help?

Free & Confidential Services
with experienced counselors
Call anytime
1-800-CHSOFNJ
1-800-247-6365

SPECIAL BABY
NEEDS ADOPTION

CHS of NJ is seeking a very special family to adopt a remarkable special needs infant with chronic medical conditions. Birth parents have requested a two-parent family with no more than two other children in the home, and one parent who is home (at least part-time) to care for the child or children.

Call 609-695-6274 and ask for
Denise Koetas-Dale (x157) or
Angie Graham-Dherbey (x176)

DOMESTIC ADOPTION

Applications are being accepted for potential adoptive parents of babies and toddlers of all backgrounds. Let CHS of NJ help build your beautiful family.

Interested families must be residents of New Jersey or Eastern Pennsylvania (Bucks or Montgomery Counties).

Contact Marie Braun for more information: 609-695-6274 x115 or

DCF Commissioner Blake &
GE Healthcare Volunteers

Put Holiday Smiles on
Children’s Faces at CHS

Trenton Education Dance
Institute (TEDI)

Entering its 23rd year

CHS of NJ Cupcakes
Too sweet to resist!

cupcake photo
Hearts of thanks to Italian People’s Bakery of Chambersburg for designing and selling these delicious cupcakes to benefit our children!

Volunteer Newsletter

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CONGRATULATIONS

Addison ♥ Ethan ♥ Jillian
Madelyn ♥ Nicholas ♥ Tatum
Trent ♥ Tyler ♥ Sloane

These happy babies found their forever homes through the Children’s Home Society of New Jersey!

OUR CHILDREN

Austin – An uncertain beginning

Baby Grace – One little miracle

Andy – Big emotions for a little boy

Joey – A life with a special meaning

CHS OF NJ AGENCY VIDEO
(15 minute run time)

Saving Children’s Lives,
Building Healthy Families from The Children’s Home Society of NJ
on Vimeo


Welcome to The Children's Home Society of New Jersey

We save children’s lives and build healthy families. Founded in 1894, The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey is a nonprofit organization that helps at-risk infants, children, youth, and families achieve their potential. We protect abused or neglected infants and children, strengthen families, and strive for stable, permanent, and loving homes. CHS of NJ gives parents the knowledge they need to help their children and themselves long after our active services have ended.

There are many ways we help. We provide Adoption options, Birth parent counseling, Child abuse prevention and treatment, Child care services, Community and neighborhood-based services, Foster care, Pre- and post-natal services, School-based youth services, Child welfare services, Early childhood and parenting services.

We offer over 100 years of adoption experience.

Those services include domestic infant adoption, referrals to international placement agencies, home studies for families residing in New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania, applying for international and domestic adoption, placement for domestic adoption, and pre- and post-adoption support, including searches and reunions and background reports.

We serve New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

  • Licensed as an adoption agency in New Jersey and Pennsylvania
  • Currently in process of re-accreditation to COA
  • Founding member of the Child Welfare League of America
  • Our administrative and main office is located in Trenton, NJ, with branch offices in Toms River, NJ; Whitehouse Station, NJ; and Bucks County, PA.
  • Our services are provided to all eligible clients without regard to race, color, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, or national origin.
  • Services by county

Para mas información en Español, presione aquí.

Child Welfare League of America

The Children's Home Society of New Jersey
635 South Clinton Avenue
Trenton, NJ 08611
Phone: (609) 695-6274 - Fax: (609) 394-5769