First Steps to New Beginning, Inc.
Please Mail Donations to:
PO Box 765
Sicklerville, NJ 08081
856-264-7391
george@fsnb-nj.org

Services Provided

First Steps to New Beginning, Inc. is an organization that provides transitional housing and life skill training for women and children. It offers assistance to women, frequently homeless, as they move from dependent, often abusive relationships into independent, self-sufficient lifestyles. Additionally, it assists clients in child reunification. This is particularly important as 80% of the clients have children but no custody.

This will be the city's only women-only facility and the only one with long-term transitional housing. All other shelters only offer 30 days or less of housing whereas Transitional Housing offers up to two years. On staff will be a chemical dependency counselor, AIDS counselor, and a family reunification counselor to assist clients.

First Steps to New Beginning, Inc. will offer rooms, to homeless and foster children. Each client is allowed to stay for as long as they are clean and sober (random drug and alcohol testing determines this), and have no other place to go. Additionally, each client must be an active participant of the program:

Collaborative Approach to Empowering Individual. This program is an eight-step program to develop self-sufficient clients. The different elements of the program are:

Personal development planning.
Vocational development.
Substance abuse prevention.
interpersonal skill development.
Personal and spiritual development.
Community involvement.
Creative leisure activities/ celebration.
Independent living preparation/ follow up.

This is of significant value to the clients as it eliminates the possibility of sexual abuse within the facility.

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