Easterseals Opens In Hoboken: Services For Seniors, Special Needs

HOBOKEN, NJ — Senior citizens and differently abled residents in Hoboken recently got a new resource to help them with job training and employment support.

Last month, officials cut the ribbon on Easterseals’ newest location in New Jersey, an office at the Harlow building in uptown Hoboken. The nonprofit helps individuals and families with disabilities and/or special needs to achieve independence and full community-integration.

According to a news release from city officials, at the Hoboken Easterseals location, trained staff offer services including Easterseals Senior Community Service Employment Program, a work-based program for seniors, and the Supported Employment program, which offers job training and employment for people with disabilities. Each program will utilize the Hoboken location for administrative tasks and meetings with program participants in order to help them achieve their employment goals.

The Hoboken location is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Learn more here)

The newest Easterseals location has gained the support of the city’s new Homeless Task Force as part of its “prevention strategy” of offering services to at-risk communities.

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“As elected officials, we have an obligation to lend a helping hand to at-risk populations,” said Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla. “I’m very pleased that Easterseals has worked with our Homelessness Task Force to open up a new location here in our city. This new location will help ensure our seniors and those with disabilities have job training and employment opportunities so they too can succeed.”

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