211 Helpline
Phone: 211
Community resource helpline.
Bergen County Community Action Partnership INC.241 Moore Street
Hackensack, NJ 07601
Phone:
201-968-0200 Also known as Bergen County Cap, this program provides assistance with utility bills to those meeting financial need criteria.
Food stamps and welfare eligibility are assessed and administered here.
Provides healthcare to low income residents without insurance coverage.
This agency provides a wide range of therapeutic foster care and adoption programs. Child care for low income families is available 201-262-HELP: Psychiatric Emergency Screening Services (PESP).
Division of Developmental Disabilities100 Hamilton Plaza
7th floor
Paterson, NJ 07505
Phone:
973-977-4004
Meals are delivered to disabled and elderly.
This County run service provides transportation for elderly and disabled to and from medical appointments anywhere in Bergen County. Noteworthy, medical care such as dialysis treatments, physical therapy and dental are included. Registration is done by phone. This service is financial-need blind.
Provides information and assistance to elderly and disabled.