Residential Services
Our residential services include a thorough psychiatric evaluation at the time of admission, along with ongoing medication monitoring to ensure clinical needs are met. In addition, each individual receives a Comprehensive Nursing Assessment upon admission, followed by regular nursing reassessments to monitor health status and support overall well-being.
Residents also receive support and training in daily living skills—such as budgeting, food shopping, personal care, and use of community resources—with the goal of fostering increased independence and successful community re-entry.
Our Supportive Housing programs utilize a Housing First approach, providing safe, stable housing without preconditions, and then offering voluntary supportive services to address mental health, substance use, and other needs.
A mobile outreach team supports individuals living in the community by providing continued connection to services and ensuring housing stability.
Opening Doors is a HUD-funded supportive housing program for families experiencing homelessness, in which the head of household has a serious mental illness and has school-age children. The program provides stable housing along with access to supportive services aimed at promoting family stability, mental health recovery, and successful integration into the community.
These services include:
- Group Homes and Supportive Housing
- Opening Doors
- Housing Development Services
- Partnership Initiatives (COAH)
Senior Services
Independence + Dignity + Choice = Healthy Aging
Providing comprehensive assessment, education and planning for elders and/or their families.
Bergen County has the largest number of persons age 60+ in the State of NJ. Consequently, County leadership has recognized that a large group of baby boomers are finding themselves for the first-time needing information to meet the care needs of their parents, and prospectively, themselves.
For National Senior Citizen Month in May 2006, County Executive Dennis McNerney called for a focus on “quality life issues necessary for maintaining health and well-being as one ages” and used the equation: Independence + Dignity + Choice = Healthy Aging
Caregiver Support Groups
For Spouses and Adult Children
Our Northern Valley Adult Day Health Center offers support groups to all in the community who are either caregivers of a spouse or adult children who are caring for elderly parents.
These “Dine and Talk” evenings offer caregivers an opportunity to share their care giving concerns and anxiety. Participants receive advice, support and information.
The groups are held the first and third Monday of each month in Dumont. The Spouse caregiver group meets 3:30pm-5:30pm and includes a light dinner. The Adult caregiver group meets 5:30-7:00 pm All groups are free. Outside speakers are also brought in to discuss legal, medical or other issues of concern.
The Spouse Caregiver meeting also allows for care recipients to attend and enjoy separate activities with staff.
Cost:
- Funding is made available by the Bergen County Division of Senior Services for qualified individuals free of charge. Funding includes
Support Groups, Geriatric Counseling, and for limited Attendance at the Adult Day Care Center for seniors 60 and over.
- Private Insurance: Check for eligibility
- Private Pay
- AADSP funding available for those who qualify. Division of Aging Services | Alzheimer’s Adult Day Services Program (nj.gov)
- Financial assistance may be available on a case by case basis
Adult Day Health Center
Vantage’s Northern Valley Adult Day Health Center allows men and women over the age of 55 to continue functioning independently in their community through the services provided at the therapeutic Adult Day Health center. Their needs for these services are based on a medical diagnosis, which may include a physical disability such as heart disease, stroke, Parkinson’s disease, memory impairment such as Alzheimer’s, vascular dementia, Lewy Body, depression, isolation and difficulty performing activities of daily living.
Support Services
Free of charge for our community
Survivors After Suicide (SAS)
Offered since 1987, this support group is for those who have experienced the loss of a loved one through suicide. The group will reduce one’s feelings of isolation and shame. Within the group, survivors will learn that the outstretched hand, the emotional sharing, the understanding compassion of members, will help to ease the stresses which suicide places on survivors.
The group meets on the first and third Wednesday of each month at Vantage Health System, 2 Park Avenue, Dumont, NJ 07628 and is facilitated by individuals who are survivors themselves.
For more information please contact:
- Vicky Simpson: 201-790-6080
- Alyssa Fiume: 201-693-8956
- sasgroupnj@gmail.com
Consultation and Community Education (C&E)
This outreach service provides preventative, community-based education to schools, government agencies, professional groups, and civic organizations upon request. C&E offers workshops tailored to current issues, along with a speakers’ bureau featuring the professional expertise of Vantage staff. These services aim to prevent individual and family challenges by expanding community awareness of mental health, substance misuse and related topics.
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*Please note! The following form and phone number are not for emergencies! If you are in immediate crisis, please go to the nearest emergency room, call 911, for the psychiatric emergency line: 201-262-HELP(4357).