Crossroads’ individualized, strengths-based services for homeless, abused and abandoned youth help them develop the interpersonal and concrete skills necessary for success in order to enter young adulthood as productive members of the community. Our expertise is in serving adolescents without families — a vulnerable and often overlooked population who will soon need to make it on their own. What we teach them now, through our relationships, role modeling, and other interactions, will impact the rest of their lives and will influence how they interact with the larger society.

The Agency’s thirteen programs center around five primary populations:

• Homeless and Runaway Youth
• Teen Moms and Babies
• Kids in Crisis
• Youth Aging Out of Foster Care
• At-Risk Youth and Families

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Teen Moms and Babies

Capable Adolescent Mothers?
Crossroads Programs’ Capable Adolescent Mothers program offers a longer-term residence and support system to young pregnant or parenting mothers age 16 to 21, in a safe and nurturing family home setting.

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Treatment Foster Homes

Community Care for Kids
Community Care for Kids provides services to emotionally and behaviorally challenged kids who are not able to live at home, but who are capable of functioning in a home environment with extra support. With the help of caring, trained caregivers in the community, the program provides therapeutic foster care that is individualized to the youth’s specific needs.

Flexible Solutions
Flexible Solutions provides emotionally disturbed youth, in the child welfare system, immediate placement into short-term residential care, in an emergency situation. With the help of trained caregivers in the community, the program provides family-based residential care that is individualized to the youth’s specific needs.

Project Discovery
Project Discovery provides lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or questioning (LGBTQ) youth, who are not able to live at home, but who are capable of functioning in a home environment with extra support, residence in a community-based treatment home.

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Residential Opportunities

Crossroads Programs offers a continuum of transitional living programs, both treatment home and foster care based, that prepare youth in the child welfare system a solid foundation for successful, independent living through the building of assets, skills, and resources.

Kerri and Maxine's Houses
Kerri’s and Maxine’s House provide crisis stabilization and assessment services for young boys and girls, ages 5 to 12 in a safe, stable therapeutic treatment home setting.

Mount Holly House
Under the direction of Crossroads’ staff, the girls of Mount Holly House receive educational mentoring and tutoring, career planning when appropriate, learn job readiness skills and receive “life lesson” training to include cooking, grocery shopping, money management, the importance of savings and more.

Dalton House
The Dalton House Transitional Living Program is a group home for 16- to 21-year-old youth who are in the child welfare system, and whose behavioral health needs cannot be met by their family or guardians due to imprisonment, mental health issues, substance abuse, or death.

Rites of Passage
Rites of Passage transitional housing program provides stable living in a group home environment with supportive services to empower youth and assist them with the skills needed to successfully transition to independent living.

Hope Homes
Our Hope Homes Program is designed to provide a safe, supervised and structured residential setting for males and females between the ages of 12 and 19, who have been identified through the NJ DCF’s Children’s System of Care as having behavioral health needs and co-occurring intellectual or developmental challenges. In addition to residential treatment, we provide social skills, medication management, educational and vocational services.

Age Groups	Children Adolescents Adults
Community Services	Employment / Training Preparing for Adulthood Family & Support Services Adoption / Foster Care LGBTQ Pregnancy / Teen Pregnancy
Health Services	Crisis / Safety Missing Youth
Treatment Services	In-Community Services Mentoring Out-of-Home Services Group Home Transitional Living Treatment Home Outpatient Services Assessment / Evaluation
Payment Options	Medicaid Private / Commercial Insurance System of Care (CSOCI Medicaid / FlexFunds)

Last Updated: 02/08/23