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.
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