Mercer Hub

STATEWIDE STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES

The role of the New Jersey Statewide Student Support Services’ (NJ4S) Hub is to create and deliver prevention education programming that suits the needs of the community.

The Mercer Hub team works closely with schools, family success centers, and other community-based providers to make sure students in Mercer County have the mental health services they need to succeed and grow.

Three Tier System

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Our team offers three tiers of services for students based on their behavioral and educational needs. Most of the services in each of the tiers are evidence-based.

Tier 1 — Universal Prevention Programming
The Hub provides webinars, assemblies, trainings and evidence-based interventions to the community at large. These efforts include workshops at libraries, community centers, family success centers/after school programs and summer camps.

Tier 2 — Targeted Evidence-Based Prevention
The Hub provides small group interventions at middle and high schools in Mercer County.

Tier 3 — Intensive
The Hub provides assessments and brief clinical interventions at middle and high schools in Mercer County.

Advisory Board

The Advisory Board is made up of Mercer County students, teachers and parents. Community advocates lead the team. The Board identifies the needs of the community and works together to get these services out. The Board also determined the Hub’s primary areas of focus:

Mental health and wellness, including suicide prevention
Anti-bullying and violence prevention
Substance use prevention

Who Works on the Hub?

The Mercer Hub Team includes Scheduling Coordinators who are the first point of contact for answering general questions and booking services. There are Prevention Consultants who work with school districts and community service providers to help coordinate workshops, webinars and assemblies. Our Supervising Prevention Consulants plan school and community programs and Clinicians provide brief clinical services to students and families, both in person and via telehealth. Clinicians’ services are available before, during, and/or after school.

Mercer Hub Long-term Goals

Improved healthy development
Improved social, emotional and behavioral health
Improved mental health
Improved ability to overcome challenges

Can’t find what you are looking for?

Call our Access, Help and Information Center at 1-800-360-7711.

Upcoming Programs:
Take a look at these flyers for upcoming and recurring programming.

Join the Mercer Hub on Monday, May 13 at 6 pm at the First Presbyterian Church of Cranbury for a community screening of Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory and a discussion of the film afterward. The event will be catered.

Ongoing Programs
Join us on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month at the Trenton Public Library for a reading and follow-up activities that promote characteristics for children in Pre-K to 3rd grade to live a healthy and fulfilling life. From 4 to 5 pm, Prevention Education Consultant Suzette Andre hosts, sharing a selection from Brad Meltzer’s Ordinary People Change the World series.

Recent Publications

Location:
1670 Whitehorse-Hamilton Square Road, Suite 2 & Suite 4
Hamilton, NJ 08690

Telephone:
609-394–5157 x3600

NJ4S
Learn more about NJ4S here: https://nj4s.nj.gov/s/ And for a complete listing of all of NJ4S’s Public Offerings, visit: https://nj4s.nj.gov/NJ4S/s/nj4s-public-events.