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New Jersey Resources
Resources are organized by diocese. Diocesan offices responsible for ministry to divorced and separated are listed, if known. You may navigate to your diocese or elsewhere on this page with the links below. Complete accuracy is a rarely attainable goal! Please check with the contacts provided. If you are aware of additional resources, changes, or errors please contact the NACSDC Central Office. We intend to add additional content as the development of our web site continues. Please visit often!
Diocese of CamdenDiocese of MetuchenArchdiocese of Newark
Diocese of PatersonDiocese of Trenton
Diocese of Camden
Camden Diocesan Center
PO Box 708, 631 Market St., Camden, NJ 08102
Telephone: 856-756-7900
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Office of Family Life
631 Market St., Camden, NJ 08102
Steven Bozza, Director
Telephone: 856-583-6116      FAX: 856-964-3401
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Ministry to Separated and Divorced
Carol and Deacon Tom Jennings, Coordinators
Phone: 856-663-8166
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Support Services:
The Visit the website of the Ministry to Separated and Divorced for information on Divorce Care training, a list of support groups, and more. You may also view a list of support groups here. Either list may be more current at any given time, so plese check both sources. For more information please contact the Ministry to Separated and Divorced.
Catholic Charities offers professional counseling for help with relational problems including separation and divorce conflict. This may include group counseling. Please contact Catholic Charities at 866-682-2166 for more information.
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Diocese of Metuchen
The St. John Neumann Pastoral Center
Physical Address: 146 Metlars Ln., Piscataway, NJ 08854
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 191, Metuchen, NJ 08840-0191
Telephone: 732-562-1990
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Office of Family Life Ministry
PO Box 191, Metuchen, NJ 08840
Judith A. Psota, M.A., Director
Telephone: 732-562-1990 x1624 & x1623      FAX: 732-562-1018
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Support Services:
The Office of Family Life Ministry supports a Ministry to Separated or Divorced, described on their Consolation Ministries web page, which also includes information on beginning Experience weekends and Annulment Information Evenings. The Office also provides an extensive list of support group services within the diocese.
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Archdiocese of Newark
171 Clifton Ave., PO Box 9500, Newark, NJ 07104-0500
Telephone: (973) 497-4000
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Office of Family Life Ministries
171 Clifton Ave., PO Box 9500, Newark, NJ 07104-0500
Telephone: 973-497-4323      FAX: 973-497-4317
Judith Miller, M.A., Director
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Support Services:
Oakland—Not in Limbo Network.  This Singles Group is dedicated to helping singles protect the Gift of Faith that has been entrusted to them. Open to Separated, Divorced, Widowed, Never-Married Singles, the group meets for Prayer, Discussion and Fellowship every other Wednesday from 7 P.M. to 8:30 P.M. View the group's flyer for more information. To register, please call Phil Brady, Pastoral Associate of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, 25 Purdue Avenue, Oakland, NJ 07436, 201-337-7596 ext. 15.
Ridgefield Park—H.O.P.E.  Help Overcoming Painful Experiences is a new group forming in Bergen County to be based out of St. Francis of Assisi Parish, 114 Mt. Vernon St., Ridgefield Park 07660. Eight facilitators have been trained by the Family Life Ministries Office of the Archdiocese of Newark. The group has finalized a mission statement, defined goals and objectives, and scheduled the first open meeting for June 16, 2004 at 7:30 P.M. in the lower church. For more information call the St. Francis Rectory at 201-641-6464, or email the group at StFrancisHope@aol.com.
The Office of Family Life Ministries web site lists the following opportunities and contacts for separated and divorced. Contact the people listed for details.
SUPPORT GROUPS FOR SEPARATED/DIVORCED
Janet McCormack (973) 497-4327
SEPARATED & DIVORCED SUPPORT GROUP FACILITATOR TRAINING
(ENGLISH AND SPANISH)
Janet McCormack (973) 497-4327 (English)
Reina Basualdo (973) 497-4326 (Spanish)
HEALING MASS (SPANISH)
Reina Basualdo (973) 497-4326
Other information on support groups is still under construction.
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Diocese of Paterson
Diocesan Center
777 Valley Rd., Clifton, NJ 07013
Telephone: (973) 777-8818      FAX: (973) 777-8976
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Office of Family Life
777 Valley Rd., Clifton, NJ 07013
Mrs. Marie Ryan, Consultant for Family Life
Telephone: (973) 777-8818 ext. 264
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Secretariat for Catholic Charities
476 Seventeenth Ave., Paterson, NJ 07504-1123
Telephone: (973) 523-7361
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Support Services:
The diocese web site does not mention ministry to separated and divorced. Contact Family Life or Catholic Charities for more information.
Other information on support groups is still under construction.
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Diocese of Trenton
701 Lawrenceville Rd., Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
Mailing Address: PO Box 5147, Trenton, NJ 08638-0147
Telephone: (609) 406-7400
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Office of Family Life/Respect Life
701 Lawrenceville Rd., Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
Mailing Address: PO Box 5147, Trenton, NJ 08638-0147
Rev. Jeffrey Lee, Director
Telephone: (609) 406-7400      FAX: (609) 406-7403
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Consolation Ministries (a division of Family Life/Respect Life)
Marilyn Schipp, Coordinator
Telephone: (609) 406-7400 ext. 5557      FAX: (609) 406-7403
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Support Services:
The Office of Family Life/Respect Life's Consolation Ministries provides an extensive list of Separated and Divorced Support Groups in over a dozen communities within the diocese. To view the listings, visit the Consolation Ministries web page.
Other information on support groups is still under construction.
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