Wellness
Center
Healthy Lives, Resilient Futures
Our Approach
The Boys & Girls Club of Atlantic City Teen Center is a well-known safe haven where teens receive supportive services that include educational, recreational, and motivational opportunities to develop into leaders within the community.
Currently the Teen Center provides: mentoring, academic enrichment, leadership development, financial literacy education, sports & recreation as well as healthy snacks and meals Monday through Friday
MENTORING
ACADEMIC ENRICHMENT
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
FINANCIAL LITERACY
SPORTS & REC

Through the CHEC initiative Behavioral Health Services will be offered beginning in January 2022. BGCAC is utilizing a multidisciplinary approach to address the challenges faced by our teens and families.

The Mission of the Wellness Center is to use a holistic approach in helping teens, families and community members achieve optimal well-being physically, socially, mentally, and financially. By providing exemplary support through education, mental and health promotion services, our goal is to help people establish stability in their home life, financial literacy, mental resilience, and leadership skills in their social network. With collaborative efforts we hope to eliminate barriers as it pertains to social determinants by encouraging healthy living. Through engaging our community partners, enhanced resources, training and implementing programming, the wellness center will empower people to create a thriving life for themselves within Atlantic City and enrich our leaders of tomorrow.
The Wellness Center
The Boys & Girls of Atlantic City Wellness Center provides a strength based, trauma informed approach providing case management that will support teens emotional and behavioral wellbeing. This will entail counseling opportunities to teens individual and as a group, linkages to additional services and resources when necessary.
Who Are We?
Director of Behavioral Health Services – Social Worker, One case manager, and Stockton University Social Work Interns
What We Do?
Offer Behavioral Health Services/ Trauma Informed Case Management: Assisting teens in reaching self-sufficiency by addressing their emotional/behavioral health needs and providing them with strategies and tools to support their success.
Organization Name Address Phone Number
The Alcove 319 E. Jimmie Leeds RD. Suite 205 Galloway, NJ 08205 (609)-484-1133
AtlantiCare Behavioral Heath 13 N. Hartford Ave Atlantic City, NJ 08401 (609)-348-1161
Atlantic City/Pleasantville Mental Health Services (609)-971-2290
Helping Hand Behavioral Health Service 2511 Fire Rd, Egg Harbor TWP.
Organization Name Address Phone Number
One Stop Career Center 2 South Main St. 1st FL Suite 1 Pleasantville, NJ 08232 (609) 813 3900
Atlantic City Free Library 1 North Tennessee Ave Atlantic City NJ,08401 (609)-847-9273
Organization Name Address Phone Number
One Stop Career Center 2 South Main Street Pleasantville, NJ 08232 (856)-813-3900
www.Indeed.Com Www.Monster.Com Https://careers.google.com/jobs
National H.I.R.E (Helping Individuas with Criminal Records Re-Enter through Employment )
www.hirenetwork.org www.70millionjobs.com
Organization Name Address Phone Number
Atlanticc City Resuce Mission 2009 Bacharach Blvd Atlantic City, NJ (856)-451-6330
Convenant House of New Jersey 929 Atlantic Ave Atlantic City, NJ (609)-348-4070
Family Promise of Southern Ocean County 1001 South Main St. West Creek, NJ (609)-994-3317
Atlantic County Office of Veterans Affairs 6601 Ventnor Ave Suite 307 (609)-487-6932
Atlantic County Womens Shelter 1201 No. New Road Suite 240, Linwood, NJ (609)-348-4070
Salvation Army 22 So. Texas Ave, Atlantic City (609)-344-0660
Northfield Womens Shelter PO Box 311, NorthField, NJ (800)-286-4184
Atlantic Homeless Alliance 1333 Atlantic Ave, Atlantic City, NJ (609)-343-2277
Rental Assistance Program 1601 Atlantic Ave #701 Atlantic City, NJ (609)-441-3334
Atlantic Human Resources 1 So. New York Ave Atlantic City, NJ (609)-348-4131
Organization Name Address Phone Number
Community Food Bank Southern Branch 6735 Black Horse Pike, Egg Harbor TWP, NJ 08234 (609)-383-8843
Atlantic City Resuce Mission 2009 Bacharach Blvd Atlantic City, NJ 08401 (609)-345-5517
South Jersey Alliance 19 Gordons Alley, Atlantic City, NJ 08401 (6090-347-1085
Mount Zion Bapist Church 353 South New Road, Pleasantville, NJ 08232 (609)-641-4337
Touch Ministry- Asbury United Methodist Church 1213 Pacific Ave Atlantic City, NJ 08401 (609)-348-1941
Jewish Family Services Emergency Food Panty 607 North Jerome Ave, Margate, NJ (609)-822-1108
Main Street Pantry at First United Methodist Church 6011 Main St Mays Landing, NJ 08330 (609)-625-9446
Presbyterian Food Pantry 26 Bellevue Ave Hammonton, NJ (609)-561-0168
Salvation Army- Mays Landing 1309 Rt 50 Mays Landing, NJ (609)-344-0660
Grace Tabernacle Food Pantry/ Soup Kitchen. Pleasntville, NJ (609)-641-4701
Community Presbyterian Church 1501 West Brigantine Ave Brigantine, NJ (609)-266-7942
Epiphany Lutheran Church Food Pantry 306 South Franklin Blvd, Pleasantville, NJ (609)-641-3656
Organization Name Address Phone Number
TANF/SNAP/GA Community Development 1333 Atlantic Ave Atlantic City NJ (609)-348-3001
Family Medical Center 1301 Atlantic Ave, Atlantic City, NJ (609)-572-0000
Southern Jersey Family Medical Center 932 South Main St. Pleasantville, NJ (609)-383-0880
Organization Name Address Phone Number
Oceanside I 201 Melrose Ave Atlantic City, NJ 08401 (609)-236-8800
Oceanside II 3201 Atlantic Ave Atlantic City, NJ 08401 (609)-549-4990
Atlantic County Social Security Office 1350 Dougherty Rd. Egg Harbor Twp NJ,08234 (1800)-772-1213
Birth Certificate Vital Statistic-Atlantic City 1301 Bacharach Blvd Atlantic City NJ,08401 (609)-347-5411
Vital Statistic-Township of Egg Harbor TWP 3515 Bargaintown Rd Egg Harbor TWP NJ,08234 (609)-926-4085
Vital Statistic-Town of Hammonton 100 Central Ave Hammonton, NJ 08037 (609)-484-3612
US Citizenship & Immigration Services 530 Fellowship Rd Mt. laurel, NJ 08054 (856)-439-5799
Catholic Charities of Camden-Immigration Services 9 N. Georgia Ave Atlantic City NJ,08401 (856)-342-4161
Driver’s license/ Identification Card 6725 E. Black Horse Pike, Egg Harbor Twp, NJ 08234 (609)-292-6500
Military Discharge papers & veteran’s benefits
Atlantic County Clerk’s Office 1333 Atlantic Ave, Atlantic City, NJ 08401 (609)-345-6700
Mays Landing Office 5901 Main Street, Mays Landing, NJ 08330 (609)-625-7000
Veteran Support Services
Dept of Military and Veteran Affairs 1008 Absecon Blvd Atlantic City, NJ 08401
VA Medical Center’s Mobile Outreach Clinic- Outside the Atlantic County Building 1333 Atlantic Ave Atlantic City, NJ
Vet 2 Vet- Counseling Helpline (866)-838-7654
"We also need to talk about having a good time." - Dr. George James
The 5 love languages - Vanessa De Jesus Guzman
"Now everything can't be positive" - Dr. Tracey Marks
Connect with Our Team
Director of Behavioral Health Services
David Pringle
Behavioral Health Case Manager
Erika Cors, BS
Wellness Center Contact
What is
TRAUMA?
Trauma is a person’s emotional response to a distressing event. These events are often sudden, unpredictable, involve a serious threat to life and feel beyond a person’s control (apa.org).
Traumatic experiences can ignite strong emotional and physical reactions that can last well after the triggering event has ended (nctsn.org)