Sunday, January 28, 2018

Community Resources


In my first week of my new rotation in Community Resources, they started it off easy by having me stuff folders with various resources. In each folder, there were documents that included phone numbers for different agencies around Bergen County as well as information about the services Bergen's Promise offers their youth and families. These folders are used to provide information for new families. There are also other folders with varying information for others to hand out such as school nurses and teachers. The type of folder I was filling was just the typical folder a family is given when they are contemplating receiving services from Bergen's Promise or immediately after they start services. Aside from just doing the folders, my supervisor, Kathy, had another member of Community Services, Liz, give me an insight into Bergen Resource Net, a website that has information about all the types of services offered in Bergen County. It also features upcoming events for families, such as holiday parties, as well as other group meetings such as group therapy for varying reasons. Community Resources works on updating the calendar and putting more events in. This allows anyone who goes onto the website to see current things going on in their community.