In a typical month, non-profit agency Project Self-Sufficiency serves thousands of clients at its Newton campus or in the privacy of their participants’ homes in the New Jersey counties of Sussex, Warren and Hunterdon. With the advent of the current public health crisis, the agency’s more than 70 employees have had to quickly adapt to serving these individuals and families remotely. Nurses and home visitors who used to meet pregnant women and mothers of young children in the clients’ homes now talk to them using video chat platforms. High school dropouts in the middle of working towards their high school diploma now meet with instructors virtually. Men and women engaged in job training programs receive assistance over the phone and internet, rather than in the agency’s state-of-the-art career center and computer labs. Project Self-Sufficiency’s food pantry which routinely serves hundreds of families a month is now providing nutritious food to incre...
Project Self-Sufficiency is a non-profit organization which has been serving individuals and families in northwestern New Jersey since 1986.