Center for Prevention and Counseling

About Center for Prevention and Counseling

The Center for Prevention & Counseling is a nonprofit agency in Newton, New Jersey, that has served Sussex County since 1973 with substance use prevention, evaluation, outpatient counseling, and recovery support. They work with children, teens, adults, and families, and their clinical team treats substance use, mental health, and co-occurring disorders. Their approach builds on each person’s and family’s existing strengths and respects multiple pathways to recovery. Levels of care include outpatient individual and group counseling and intensive outpatient programs for both adolescents and adults, with services covered through county and state funding, Medicaid, or self-pay.

Care often begins with on-site alcohol and drug screening and a comprehensive substance use and co-occurring evaluation, and it can continue through aftercare and relapse prevention. Clinicians draw on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Motivational Enhancement Therapy, 12-Step Facilitation, and Family Systems Therapy, and the team meets weekly to review each client’s needs. Young people can join an adolescent psychoeducational program or school-referred services that address vaping and e-cigarette use, while adults have access to early intervention education and anger management support. Beyond counseling, they run the Sussex County Prevention Hub, which offers family programs like Strengthening Families and a weekday warm line that connects callers with local and state support services.