{"data":{"id":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-30-4-177.46","jurisdiction":"us-nj","citation":"N.J. Stat. § 30:4-177.46","heading":"Program of family support services established","body":"4. \tThere is established in the Division of Mental Health Services of the Department of Human Services a program of family support services designed to strengthen and promote families who provide care in the community for a family member with a serious mental illness.\nFamily support services shall vary in scope and intensity based upon the needs of a particular family unit and shall include, but not be limited to the following:  service coordination, estate and transition planning, housing assistance, homemaker assistance, accessing vocational and employment services, after-school care, transportation, respite care, family education and training, medication education, and self-advocacy training, including entitlement training.\nA family is eligible to participate in the program if the family resides in the State and is actively involved in caring for, or supporting, a family member with a serious mental illness.\nNo provision of this act shall be construed as requiring the department to expend funds in excess of those appropriated pursuant to this act.\nL.1995,c.314,s.4.","path":["TITLE 30 INSTITUTIONS AND AGENCIES"],"source_url":"https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/statutes/STATUTES-TEXT.zip","current_through":"P.L.2025, c.405, and J.R.22","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:54:13Z","sha256":"f6acb5a29c184f96fb99ebf6655454a739dd11f57c89b83846ea6b6be16707b9","source_id":"us-nj","stale":true,"prev":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-30-4-177.45","next":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-30-4-177.47"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}