Navigating Hope Brings Services To Mendham

MENDHAM, NJ - Navigating Hope, Morris County’s mobile social-services-center-on-wheels will visit Mendham Township from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Jan. 28.

Navigating Hope, a mobile outreach initiative designed to provide social services, is a partnership between the Morris County Department of Human Services and Family Promise of Morris County. It is a complementary service to the Hope One van, which provides mobile mental health and addiction services across our county. Navigating Hope will offer on-site benefits eligibility screenings and application assistance, as well as linkage to other community services.

The mobile center will offer on-site benefits eligibility screenings, application assistance and how to:

• SNAP
• Medicaid
• General Assistance
• Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
• Utility assistance
• Housing assistance

• EITC (tax credits)
• WIC (nutritional assistance)
• Aging services
• Domestic violence services
• Veterans services
• Health & wellness services
• Legal services
• Mental health
• Transportation

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Morris County’s Navigating Hope Team continues to provide critical outreach services to residents in the community with the following safety precautions in place:

• Masks must be worn at all times by community residents and the Navigating Hope Team
• Social distance guidelines are practiced by community residents and the Navigating Hope Team wherever possible
• Gloves are available, as needed, by the Navigating Hope Team
• Infrared thermometers are available for use by the Navigating Hope Team
• The Navigating Hope vehicle is sanitized after each visit in the community
• Interactions on the Navigating Hope van are limited and there are Plexiglas barriers

For more information on scheduling and events, contact the Navigating Hope team:

Phone: 973-829-8220
Email: navigatinghope@co.morris.nj.us

Thanks for reading! Learn more about posting announcements or events to your local Patch site. Have a news tip you'd like to share? Or maybe you have a press release you would like to submit or a correction you'd like to request? Send an email to russ.crespolini@patch.com

Subscribe to your local Patch newsletter. You can also have them delivered to your phone screen by downloading, or by visiting the Google Play store.