9/11 Families - Support Groups

Children

Family and Children's Agency (FCA)
This organization offers recovery help to residents of Fairfield County 
affected by 9/11. Its services include free needs assessment, mental health 
services, and youth mentoring services.

Address: 9 Mott Avenue, Norwalk, Connecticut 06850
Phone: (203) 855-8765
Fax: (203) 838-3325
Email: ABesson@FCAgency.org

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Morris, Bergen & Passaic, Inc.
Addresses unmet economic, mental health, and social service needs of 
Chinatown area residents and workers who are suffering long-term effects 
from 9/11.

Address: 1259 Route 46E, Building #3, Parsippany, NJ 07054
Phone: (973) 335-3044
Email: information@bbbsmbp.org

Massachusetts 9/11 Fund, Inc.
Offers community outreach and wellness needs of families, including 
information and referral, identification and access to services and 
resources; an adolescent wellness program for bereaved children; 
and a widows and widowers group.

Address: 727 Atlantic Avenue, 3rd Fl., Boston, MA 02111
Phone: (866) FUND-911
Email: info@massfund.org

New York Council On Adoptable Children, Inc.
Provides the WTC Child Permanency Project which provides long-term 
support services to families affected by the September 11th attacks. 
This includes benefits assistance (public and private), legal advocacy; 
mental health counseling and support; referrals to health care providers; 
assistance with vocational, job training for displaced workers and ESL 
classes; immigration assistance, and, advocacy for educational 
benefits/scholarships for the children.

Address: 589 Eighth Ave., 15th Fl., New York, NY 10018
Phone: (212) 475-0222 
Fax: (212) 714-2838

New York University: Child Study Center Institute for Trauma and Stress
Supports the Silver Shield Life Enrichment & Continued Care Program 
including the design and implementation of psycho-educational workshop 
series, in-home assessments of children and families, and therapy, when 
need is indicated.

Address: 577 First Ave., New York, NY 10016
Phone: (212) 263-6622

*There are multiple Child Study Centers located throughout Manhattan, 
NJ and LI. Please visit there website for more information.

South Nassau Communities Hospital
Supports two initiatives: The Bereaved Kids Initiative and Home Ground, 
which target personally exposed children and firefighters and their 
families (referred through local firefighter associations).

Address: One Healthy Way, Oceanside, NY 11572
Phone: (877) SOUTHNASSAU

Camp Haze
Camp Haze is the result of the hard work and generous contributions of 
Scott Hazelcorn's family and friends, and is entirely funded by The Scott 
Hazelcorn Children's Foundation.  Scott Hazelcorn, who worked at 
Cantor Fitzgerald, lost his life on September 11, 2001.  His family founded 
Camp Haze in his name. 

Camp Haze offers a one-week, all-expenses-paid summer camp experience 
for children who lost a loved one on September 11, 2001. Camp Haze aims 
to provide these children with a fun refuge from worry and grief, a network 
of peers and a staff that understands their unique emotional needs.  As of 
the summer of 2006, children aged 7-12 who have lost a loved one to 
illness or tragedy also became eligible to attend Camp Haze.

Address: Scott Hazelcorn Children's Foundation
c/o Charles Hazelcorn
110 Lorraine Drive 
Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922
Phone: (908) 665-9092

America's Camp
America's Camp is a fun, high-quality, one-week, sleep away camp for 
children who lost a parent or sibling as a result of the attacks on 
September 11 and for children or siblings of firefighters and law enforcement 
officers lost in the line of duty at any time.

Address: America's  Camp
c/o Camp Group 
3 New King Street
White Plains,   NY 10604

Phone: (800) 548-6295
Fax: (914) 422-3635
E-Mail: info@americascamp.org

Tuesday's Children
To lose a parent under any circumstance is truly tragic. For the children of 
September 11th, the sudden and violent nature of their loss has become 
the overwhelming and defining characteristic of their lives. Tuesday's 
Children, a non-profit family service organization founded by family and 
friends of September 11th victims has made a long term commitment to 
safeguard the health, happiness and future of both individual and family.

With a focus on family resiliency and strength through community, 
Tuesday's Children, in partnership with recognized leaders in the fields of 
child development, family advocacy and mentoring initiatives has developed 
an innovative platform of programs designed to address the ongoing needs 
of thousands of children coping with one of the worst tragedies in the 
history of our nation.


Address: 390 Plandome Road, Suite 217, Manhasset, NY 11030
Phone: (516) 562-9000 
Fax: (516) 627-4736
Email: info@tuesdayschildren.org

Heroic Choices
This organization aims to “build resiliency in children” who have suffered 
as a result of a trauma. Children will attend a year-long mentoring program 
that meets twice monthly in New York City. 

Located in Princeton, NJ, Heroic Choices was originally founded as The 
Todd M. Beamer Foundation in memory of Todd Beamer, one of the heroes 
aboard United  Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. The program 
helps children to overcome adversity, navigate life’s obstacles and grow to 
become healthy, responsible, productive adults.

Address: 701 Mt. Lucas  Road, Princeton, NJ 08540
Phone: (609) 497-9777
Email: webmaster@heroicchoices.org

Twin Towers Orphan Fund
The TTOF provides educational assistance and mental and physical 
healthcare assistance for children who lost one or both parents on 9/11.

Address: 1401 19th Street, Suite 130, Bakersfield, CA 93301 
Phone: (661) 633-9076 
Email: info@ttof.org

World Trade Center Permanency Project
Created by the Council on Adoptable Children and the Jewish Child Care 
Association, the World Trade Center Permanency Project provides grief 
counseling, play therapy, case management and emotional support to 
families who lost a primary caregiver or were income-impacted by the 
World Trade Center disaster.

Address: 589 Eighth Ave., 15th Fl., New York, NY 10018 
Phone: (212) 475-0222 
Email: coac@erols.com

Silver Shield Foundation
Over 80% of the surviving children of  police officers and firefighters 
killed on  September 11, 2001, suffered from  nightmares and night fears. 
To address  these and other long-term effects, we  partnered with the 
world-renowned  NYU School of Medicine to establish the Silver Shield 
Foundation  Bereavement Program at the NYU Child  Study Center — an 
ongoing program  that provides evaluation, counseling and  bereavement 
services to help surviving  children, spouses and parents of police  officers 
and firefighters who perished on  9/11 cope with the emotional and 
psychological trauma and scars.

Address: 866 United Nations Plaza, Suite  307, New York, NY 10017
Phone: (212) 832-1100
Fax: (212) 832-1102 / (800)  811-4NYC

Yale Child Study Center
The mission of the NCCEV is to increase  the capacity of individuals and  
communities to reduce the traumatic  impact of violence on children and 
families;    to train and support the professionals who  provide intervention 
and treatment to    children and families affected by violence;  and, to 
increase the professional and public  awareness of the effects of violence 
on  children, families, communities and society.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

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