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On Friday, December 14, 2012, the Central Jersey Community Development Corporation will be hosting the 2012 Corporate Recognition Breakfast from 8-10am at the Hyatt Regency-New Brunswick. This is one of two annual fundraisers used to help supplement the costs of our program.
This year’s honorees are:
Ernestine Winfrey, Executive Director, Good News Home, Inc.
Kimberly Francois, Councilwoman-At-Large, Franklin [...]

Opportunity for mental health professionals, students to earn continuing education credits

Since the Central Jersey Community Development Corporation Counseling Center was established in July 2010, 148 cases were opened.

The large numbers prove the need for the counseling center and show how much people rely on the church community to meet their counseling needs.

On Wednesday, December 1, 2010, the Central Jersey Community Development Corporation (CJCDC) will be hosting the 2010 Corporate Recognition Breakfast from 8-10am at the Hyatt Regency-New Brunswick. This is one of two annual fundraisers used to help supplement the costs of our program.

Central Jersey Community Development Corporation (CJCDC), formerly First Baptist Community Development Corporation, has announced that its Chief Operating Officer and former Executive Director Sharon Tucker-Brown, will leave the organization effective June 30, 2010, to relocate with her family to Houston, Texas. CJCDC is the nonprofit arm of First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens (FBCLG). Ms. Tucker-Brown was appointed to the position of COO of CJCDC in 2008.

Registration deadline extended until June 18.

“Golf for a cause” We’re making a real difference in the commmunity, but we need your help!

(New Jersey) – As a teenage mother and victim of abusive relationships with her stepfather to boyfriends, Yvonne Harvey Williams tried to fill the void in her life with sex, drugs and alcohol.

After living that life for seven years, Williams realized that was not the answer. So, she became celibate at 21 and changed her life.

“It (celibacy) brought the most clarity for me. You can make healthy decisions in moments of clarity,” said Williams.

The Haitian Minister of Social Affairs makes a plea to the community!

Message from Rev. Soaries – The Haitian Minister of Social Affairs is responsible for orphans, handicapped and other exceptionally marginal Haitians.

In my meeting with him this morning, he asked me for some special help that is compelling and very specific. There are pockets of displaced people living in large “tent villages.” In one such place 68,000 people are living together. In this one area, there are 2,000 expectant mothers. These people exist beneath the radar of the large relief efforts since they have yet to give birth.

The Minister would like to do something that addresses a basic need among these women. He would like to help them by providing every newly delivered child with a “new birth kit” that helps the mother with the basics to tie her over until her new child is “in the system.”

He would like to start with the 2,000 women in this particular tent village and hopefully attract enough attention to take this nationwide.