Jersey Shore Life Link

If you or someone you know is pregnant and is contemplating abortion, please know that there are many people and organizations who are very willing to help. You do not have to go through this alone.

These services are all free of charge and run mostly by unpaid volunteers who have no other interest than to help and support you.

If you do not find what you need, please email JerseyShoreLifeLink@live.com. Everything will be done to try to assist you! 

Do you need:

• Someone to talk to? (24 hour hotlines)
• A local crisis pregnancy center?
• Shelter?
• Help if someone is threatening you or pressuring you into an abortion or you are a victim of domestic violence?

You can call these numbers day or night if you need someone to talk to. Individuals are available to listen to your concerns or answer your questions 24 hours per day/ 7 days per week.

• National Life Center
  1.800.848.LOVE
• OptionLine
  1.800.395.HELP
• Birthright
  1.800.550.4900

•  Birthright
  36 Water Street, Toms River (732.349.0154)
  819 West Bay Avenue, Barnegat (609.660.0485)
  Birthright provides caring, non-judgmental support to girls and women who are distressed by an unplanned pregnancy. Using its own resources and those of the community, Birthright offers positive and loving alternatives. Birthright presents many services and refers for many more. We provide friendship and emotional support, free pregnancy testing, and maternity and baby clothes. We also give information and referrals to help clients meet legal, medical, financial, and housing needs. Birthright treats each woman as an individual who deserves kindness and respect, as well as personal attention to her unique situation. All Birthright services are free, absolutely confidential, and available to any woman regardless of age, race, creed, economic or marital status.
  
  
• Open Door
  732.240.5504
  533 Lakehurst Rd, Toms River
  Open Door provides many services including information on pregnancy, abortion and alternatives; ultrasound confirmation of pregnancy; friendship and emotional support; free laboratory quality pregnancy tests; assistance in obtaining pre-natal care; parenting classes; referrals to community resources for material support; post-abortion care and education for both women and men; among other services.
  
• for the pregnancy center nearest you
  1.800.395.HELP

• Good Counsel Homes
  800.723.8331 (24/7 hotline)
  Good Counsel is a private Catholic agency whose primary mission is to help homeless pregnant women by providing a loving family environment in a safe and secure shelter. Good Counsel's staff surrounds our mothers with unconditional love. A Good Counsel mom may live in a home throughout her pregnancy and then up to a year or more after the birth of her baby.
  
  
• Grace Initiatives
  609.242.0131
  308 S. Main St., Suite 2, Forked River
  Serving young women who find themselves pregnant, scared and without support need a place to turn to where they can live, continue their studies, receive counseling and prepare for their future and their baby’s future. Our Titus Homes provide a home for single young women experiencing an unplanned pregnancy.  The Titus Homes are individual Christian families whom have been trained, screened and approved by Grace Initiatives.  They welcome a young pregnant woman into their home and offer a safe, loving home to stay in while she works through the other programs of Grace Initiatives.
  
  
• Harbor House
  732.929.0660
  Harbor House maintains an Emergency Youth Shelter for children ages 10-19 with emergency housing needs, a dynamic outreach program that works with thousands of youth annually, and a transitional living program for youth ages 16-21.
  
   
• Providence House
  732.244.8259 or 800.246.8910 (both 24hr hotline)
  Confidentially located emergency safe house that enables victims and their children to escape danger and to begin the healing process. The hotline is for victims and their children in need of crisis counseling and/or a safe haven from abuse, as well as information, appointments and referrals.
  
  

• Legal Center For Defense of Life
  973.984.0725
  Provides free legal help to women who are being pressured, coerced, or threatened to have an abortion. (no website currently exists)
  Address:
  65 Madison Avenue #2
  Morristown, NJ 07960-7354
  
  
• Providence House
  732.244.8259 or 800.246.8910 (both 24hr hotline)
  Confidentially located emergency safe house that enables victims and their children to escape danger and to begin the healing process. The hotline is for victims and their children in need of crisis counseling and/or a safe haven from abuse, as well as information, appointments and referrals.