Help Our Youth Become Stable Responsible Adults
Why LifeTies?
Help struggling adolescents and young adults successfully transition into adulthood.
We give our youth the groundwork for a bright future through safe housing, clinical services and life skills.
LifeTies, Inc. is a supportive network of professional staff and trained volunteers dedicated to creating programs for youth to overcome the effects of abuse, neglect or homelessness. Our programs offer a nuturing, safe environment to heal, learn and become equipped with the tools to work towards a brighter future.
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Triad House
A 24-hour residential group home for youth aged 16-21 with emotional, medical and behavioral challenges.
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Rainbow House
A group home for female adolescents who have chronic illnesses such as Diabetes, Lupus or Asthma or pregnant youth or parenting youth and their babies.
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Mary’s Place
Support services aimed at empowering residents and providing a safe secure environment to grow into self-sufficient adults.
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T.I.L.T Mentoring
A program focused on helping adolescents aged 15-21 with no or inconsistent family support.
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Clinical Services
LifeTies’ Clinical Department has a team of clinicians providing individual and group therapy sessions to our residents as well as Intensive In-Community Counselors providing therapy in the community. Our team gives youth access to therapy, holistic care, clinical staff trained in a variety of chronic medical and behavioral conditions and more.
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Family Engagement for Families with Juvenile Justice Involved Youth
Our Family Engagement Program empowers families with information, training, and support at all stages of their children’s experience with the Mercer County Juvenile Justice System.
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Love is in the air...We love our youth at LifeTies and our outstanding staff who make sure all of the youth know how much we appreciate them. We also love and appreciate our community partners. We wish you all a day full of chocolates and sweetness!
What a great post! Happy Valentines Day to all my LifeTies Friends! ❤️
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“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.” ~John Lubbock
Join LifeTies for our annual benefit that uses the power of performing artists (MOMIX & Bob Egan Entertainment) to improve the lives of youth in our community.
Check out these infographics for a snapshot on rapid re-housing, an important step to finding permanent housing for vulnerable homeless youth using a "housing first" approach with promising results! endhomelessness.org/resource/infographic-rapid-re-housing/
Infographic: What is Rapid Re-Housing? - National Alliance to End Homelessness
endhomelessness.org
Rapid re-housing (RRH) quickly ends people’s homelessness by helping them find and move into a home in their community. Once back in housing, people are in a better positi...Babs Siperstein was an amazing activist, she became New Jersey’s first open transgender activist and spent the last two decades of her life lobbying for laws to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from discrimination and violence. The Babs Siperstein Law will make it easier for people to change the gender listed on their birth certificate, her work will help so many for generations to come. www.northjersey.com/story/news/2019/02/04/remembering-babs-siperstein-new-jersey-nj-first-transge...
Remembering Babs Siperstein, the first lady of New Jersey transgender activism
northjersey.com
When she started lobbying, Babs Siperstein was still in the closet. Two days before she died, she watched a transgender law named for her take effect.Great News for all of our students in New Jersey!!!! We will now have LGBTQIA inclusive curriculum in schools. New Jersey is the second in the country to enact such legislation after California did the same in 2012. Thank you to New Jersey State Legislature and Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle for sponsoring the bill and Governor Phil Murphy for signing this significant bill.
New Jersey Governor Signs Bill Requiring LGBTQ-Inclusive Curriculum In Schools
huffingtonpost.com
Gov. Phil Murphy was "honored" to sign the bill, an aide said.A big thanks to our supporters!
