A Place to Call Home
Everyone deserves a home to live a healthy life and enjoy a future. Oaks Integrated Care provides caring, residential services in a safe, loving environment for children, adults and families. Residential services such as supportive housing, transitional emergency housing and group homes for individuals living with a mental illness or developmental disability can mean the difference between a person lost and a full meaningful productive life.
Housing gives individuals the support needed to reach their highest possible level of independence and become contributing participants in their community. Oaks offers a range of residential options in safe, welcoming environments including over 250 supportive housing residences and over 60 group homes.
COMMUNITY IMPACT
Youth Residential Services
Our goal is to help youth ages 5-21 living with emotional/behavioral challenges and/or a developmental disability overcome challenges and thrive in a 24/7 supervised community setting. Trauma informed services include individual therapy, group therapy, psychiatric care and medical care, all coordinated in a community home. We take great pride in our welcoming, well-maintained homes located in safe residential areas throughout southern and central New Jersey. The comfortable space allows children to learn, grow and reach their full potential.
We value family and community connections and commit to providing best practice clinical intervention in the least restrictive environment possible. Clinical services are supported with social opportunities, recreation, educational support, art and music.
Group Homes Include:
- Psychiatric Community Homes
- Detention Alternative Homes
- Residential Treatment Homes
- Group homes for children with developmental disabilities
- Respite home for children with developmental disabilities
Adult Residential Services
Adult Group Homes
Group homes give adults with developmental disabilities or a severe mental illness the opportunity to live as their abilities permit in a safe, caring environment with 24/7 supervision. Residents receive the support needed to become contributing participants in their neighborhood and community organizations.
Supported Living
Supported apartments provide independent living for adults with developmental disabilities ready to live in the community with limited support. Individuals receive assistance with transportation, nutrition, shopping, budgeting and community involvement. Staff are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. View all services for adults living with developmental disabilities.
Supportive Housing for Adults
Without a stable home to live in dignity, it is nearly impossible for individuals and families to move toward wellness and recovery. We believe it is essential to provide a chance for change through housing that is not only safe, permanent and affordable, but also accessible to a range of community resources and transportation.
Supportive housing residents receive the support necessary to become contributing participants in their community and learn to utilize local resources including banks, churches, grocery stores and recreational facilities. The program provides: rental assistance, opportunities for peer support, budgeting assistance, illness management and education/workforce skills development.
Supportive Housing for Families
Poverty, chronic homelessness, mental illness, substance abuse, domestic violence- all can bring a family to the brink of crisis. Often these factors put children at risk of abuse and neglect which can result in child welfare involvement and ultimately removal from the family home. Our programs for families pair supportive housing with support services such as case management and family preservation services to help vulnerable families with highly complex challenges stay together:
Keeping Families Together (KFT), a statewide initiative through the Department of Children and Families, provides affordable supportive housing and support services for families in Burlington County involved with the child welfare system. KFT addresses each aspect of the family’s life to ensure housing is maintained such as linkage to primary and behavioral health care, substance abuse treatment, therapy, education, education/vocational services, financial literacy and life skills training.
Homestretch Transitional Housing
Homestretch provides unsupervised transitional housing and support services to youth aging out of foster care and homeless youth in Atlantic County. Services focus on life skills, vocational and educational goals and case management.
