At SERV we share our experience, support and guidance with children, adults and families as they work to recover from and cope with mental illness, addictions, challenging behaviors, and developmental disabilities.
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SERV is the featured nonprofit in this month’s issue of the Mercer Business magazine, a publication of the Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce. Click here to view. SUPER CASH 50/40/10 RAFFLE The SERV Foundation, the fundraising arm of SERV Behavioral Health System, Inc., will again sponsor its annual Super Cash Raffle. Dollars raised from this and other successful fundraisers have given SERV the ability to provide homes and support services to some of the most vulnerable members of society – adults and children throughout New Jersey who are recovering from mental illness or are coping with developmental disabilities. Our goal for this year’s 5th annual Super Cash Raffle is to raise $25,000. Of the total amount we raise, 40% will go to the first-prize winner and 10% will go to the second-prize winner. Last year’s top winner took home $7,340; second-place winner, $1,835. Ticket price is 1 for $50 or 3 for $100. The winning numbers will be drawn June 18, 2012 during the 22nd annual Volley For SERV Tennis Tournament at Cherry Valley Country Club in Skillman. You need not be present to win.
The 22nd annual Volley For SERV Tennis Tournament committee includes, from left, front row: Pamela Sims Jones, Ann LoPrinzi, honoree Charles Villano Jr., Barry Szaferman and Ted Golfinopoulos; back row, Beth Deitchman, Paul Kramer, Richard Anderson, Rick White and Bill Rue Jr. Ward Bauman and David Whiting are not pictured. Villano will receive the 2nd annual Lou Natale Players Award and Mark W. Fox (not pictured), one of the original founding members of SERV, will receive the SERVice Award.
SERV co-founder, area businessman to be honored at fundraiser For the 22nd year, The SERV Foundation will sponsor its major fundraising event, the Volley For SERV Tennis Tournament, to support the mission of SERV Behavioral Health System, Inc. Founded in 1974, SERV provides safe homes and effective treatment for more than 1,000 special-needs individuals throughout New Jersey.
With the strengthing of each individual comes the strengthening of our community as a whole… SERV Behavioral Health System is a private statewide, not-for-profit behavioral healthcare organization serving adults and children working to recover from and cope with a serious mental illness or developmental disability. Remaining focused on personal dignity and quality of care, we utilize a continuum of services that are tailored to meet individual needs. It is our goal to a ssist our consumers to live and work successfully in their communities. Housing and supportive services are integrated into a broad- based approach that addresses the most basic needs of each individual (food, shelter, clothing) while allowing them to safely adjust to living in the community and gradually build a more independent life. The people we assist on a daily basis are your family, your friends, your neighbors, and your children. They are the people in your community. Each day we work to strengthen these individuals in an effort to help them to live successfully in the community, maintain regular work, or further their education while they struggle to cope with a serious disability. We do this because we know that with the strengthening of each individual comes the strengthening of our community as a whole.
2007: The New Jersey Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association presented SERV with a 2007 Wellness and Recovery Transformation Award for the agency’s “willingness to challenge the status quo and embrace profound change.” 2006: SERV received the Outstanding Provider of the Year award from the New Jersey Association of Mental Health Agencies.
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ent to the mission of SERV will be honored during the Volley For SERV evening reception. Mark W. Fox, Esq., one of the original founding members of SERV Centers of New Jersey, will receive the SERVice Award, given to current or past SERV board members in appreciation of their demonstrated leadership and commitment to the mission of SERV. Mr. Fox is a partner in the law firm of Feldman, Fox & Morgado in Florida. 
Charles Villano, Jr., president of Forbes Liquors in Brick, will receive the 2nd annual Lou Natale Players Award for his continual support of SERV through participation in and sponsorship of the annual Volley For SERV. Mr. Villano, a longtime player in the event who often partnered with the late Lou Natale, is affiliated with several Trenton-area organizations.
