Support NesivosTHE WAY FORWARD
Nesivos gives youth and their families clarity, guidance, and a coordinated path forward—with compassion, professionalism, and no judgment.
“They helped us understand what our child needed—and helped us feel like parents again.”— A Nesivos parent
A PLACE TO BEGIN
Mental health, school, relationships, and family life are often connected. Nesivos looks at the whole picture—not just one symptom—and helps bring the right people and resources together.
How Nesivos worksHOW WE HELP
Families should not have to coordinate a complicated system alone. Nesivos helps create the plan and keeps the pieces moving.
A comprehensive, in-person assessment helps us understand the teen’s emotional well-being, personal history, family dynamics, school performance, and social world. We then build a clear, individualized treatment plan around the family’s priorities.
Clarity for parents · A personalized plan · Thoughtful next stepsThe right therapist is more than the right credential. Nesivos considers clinical expertise, personality, communication style, preferences, and cultural understanding to help identify a strong therapeutic match.
Careful matching · Informed referrals · Better therapeutic fitCase managers help families navigate complex systems of care, coordinate providers and schools, monitor progress, advocate for the teen’s needs, and keep everyone connected to one cohesive plan.
Coordination · Advocacy · Ongoing follow-throughA caring mentor offers healthy experiences, connection, encouragement, and a positive role model. Mentors receive ongoing supervision from licensed Nesivos mental health professionals.
Connection · Healthy structure · Professional supervisionParents meet others carrying similar challenges in a safe, understanding community. The groups reduce isolation and stigma, strengthen resilience, and offer continuing support, perspective, and hope.
Validation · Community · Strength for the journeySiblings are deeply affected when a brother or sister is struggling. Nesivos offers a safe, nonjudgmental space where they can be understood, learn healthy coping skills, and know that their own needs matter too.
A place to be heard · Coping skills · Less isolationLasting progress requires the key people in a teen’s life to work together. Nesivos helps coordinate parents, schools, therapists, mentors, support groups, and practical resources—including employment support when appropriate.
Family guidance · School collaboration · Coordinated supportWHAT HAPPENS NEXT
Tell us what is happening and what your family is facing.
We listen, assess the needs, and identify priorities.
Together, we coordinate appropriate support and keep the plan moving.
Nesivos is not an emergency response service. If someone may be in immediate danger, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.
A CONTINUUM OF CARE
Nesivos Behavioral Health offers a Children’s Partial Care Program (IOP/PHP) for children and adolescents under 18 who need intensive, structured mental health treatment while continuing to live at home.
It can be appropriate when traditional outpatient therapy is not enough, but 24-hour supervision is not required.
Explore intensive outpatient careFINDING THE RIGHT LEVEL
Begin with clarityAssessment helps identify what is happening and what level of support may fit.
Match the supportCare may include referrals, case management, mentorship, groups, or more structured treatment.
Keep the family connectedParents and siblings need understanding, direction, and support too.
ABOUT NESIVOS
In 2000, Rabbi Binyamin Greenspoon, LCSW, and Rabbi Yeshi Ghoori recognized a growing need among young people who were struggling in and out of school. Their early work taught them that lasting progress requires more than one service or one relationship.
In 2008, Nesivos was established to guide youth and their families through an increasingly complex mental health landscape. The model brings parents, schools, mentors, clinicians, and community resources into a clearer, coordinated path.
Today, families turn to Nesivos for assessment and treatment planning, case management, carefully matched referrals, mentorship, advocacy, parent and sibling support, coordinated resources, and the reassurance that they will not navigate the journey alone.
FAMILIES SPEAK
Shared anonymously to protect every family’s privacy.
“I can now understand my son and give him the support he needs to progress.”— C.M.
“I don’t know where I would be today without the lifesaving guidance I got when I so desperately needed it.”— S.G.
“My daughter is a happy, thriving child again.”— E.H.
COMMUNITY & CONNECTION
Running on Purpose brings hundreds of runners and families together in support of struggling youth and their families.
Honest conversation, professional guidance, practical learning, connection, validation, and chizuk.
Dedicated by the Gewirtzman Familyלעילוי נשמת מרים רות בת משה ז״ל
A safe place for siblings to feel seen, understood, and strengthened alongside others who share a similar experience.
An evening of chizuk, connection, and support—bringing parents together to gain inspiration and strengthen one another.
Dedicated by the Gewirtzman Familyלעילוי נשמת מרים רות בת משה ז״ל
An evening of connection, inspiration, strength, dinner, and words of chizuk created especially for Nesivos parents.
Dedicated by the Gewirtzman Familyלעילוי נשמת מרים רות בת משה ז״ל
Helping parents and professionals respond with greater clarity, confidence, and compassion.
OUR TEAM
Clinical experience, community understanding, and deep respect for every family’s story.
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PARTNER WITH NESIVOS
Your support sustains the guidance, coordination, mentorship, advocacy, and community families need—especially when they do not know where else to turn.
CONTACT NESIVOS
Whether your family needs guidance, you want to learn more, or you would like to support the work, our team is here to connect.
681 River Avenue, Suite 2H
Lakewood, NJ 08701
Nesivos, 160 Seminole Drive
Lakewood, NJ 08701
Recognized 501(c)(3) · EIN 46-5613314