AVANZAR’s Vision is to strive to be the premier Social Justice Agency focused on equitable inclusiveness with a Mission to empower individuals and families by working to secure their physical safety, emotional well-being, individual freedom and economic equality.

Peace: A Learned Solution is a therapeutic program for children and their families who have experienced or witnessed domestic violence. PALS recognizes that violence within a family can be a very traumatic situation for children. It works to restore the individual control many children lose when they experience violence first hand.

Offering individual and group support to assist fathers in strengthening their role in the lives of their children through our Fathers Ending Abuse Program. This 26-session program includes:

Call: 609-569-4501

The Displaced Homemaker Program assists individuals who have been out of the workforce for some time; and due to divorce, separation, death, or disability of a spouse or partner, or being displaced by domestic violence, now find themselves as the primary source of household income, and having to return to work. The focus is to help the displaced homemaker and self sufficiency client to obtain or upgrade skills for today’s labor market, and obtain a living wage by providing the services listed below:

Make an appointment today! Call 609-601-9925 x 1001 for an initial phone screening.

Human trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, or harboring of people by means of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of exploitation. It is one of the fastest-growing criminal enterprises in the world, and it can happen anywhere and to anyone, including in our own communities. The many forms of human trafficking include forced labor, slavery and other forms of servitude, sexual exploitation, and organ trafficking. People in New Jersey are harmed by human trafficking every day – but with your help, we can stop this destructive form of human rights abuse. AVANZAR’s Dream Free program provides holistic services for individuals aged 21 and under who have been trafficked in any form at a statewide level. These services include crisis response and counseling, system advocacy, and in-community outreach. We also support survivors in accessing the holistic services they need to live safely, freely, and independently. If you or someone you know is a victim of human trafficking, please contact our 24-hour hotline at 1-800-286-4184. For more information about this program, call us at 609-646-6767.

Grow New Jersey Kids (GNJK) is a state-sponsored initiative to raise the quality of child care and early learning throughout New Jersey. GNJK gives child care and early learning programs resources to assess and improve their programs, while providing parents with information that allows them to evaluate the quality of programs and make the best choices for their child. The goal is to create a system that encourages ongoing improvement. Once programs have reached their initial improvement efforts, they will be assessed by trained raters to earn from one to five stars.