• A

  • ADAP

    AIDS Drug Assistance Program

  • AETC

    AIDS Education and Training Center

  • AIDS

    Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

  • AISR

    Annual Immunization Status Report

  • Annual Consumption

    the using up of a resource during a 12 month period

  • ART

    Anti-Retroviral Therapy

  • ARTAS

    Antiretroviral Treatment Access Study

• B

  • BOE

    Board of Education

• C

  • CACFP

    Child and Adult Care Food Program

  • CBA

    Capacity Building Assistance

  • CBO

    Community-Based Organization

  • CDA

    Child Development Associate

  • CDC

    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  • CEAS - CoC

    Comprehensive Emergency Assistance System/Continuum of Care

  • CFM

    Cubic Feet Per minute

  • CLEAR

    Choosing Life:  Empowerment Action Results

  • Co

    Carbon Monoxide

  • Co-Occurring

    person who suffers from Mental Health and Substance Abuse

  • CP

    Community Promise

  • CRCS

    Comprehensive Risk Counseling and Services

  • CSBG

    Community Services Block Grant

  • CTR

    Counseling, Testing, and Referral

• D

  • DCP&P

    Division of Child Protection and Permanency

  • DEBI

    Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Intervention (packaged programming)

  • DIS

    Disease Intervention Specialists (DOH field investigators)

  • DMHAS

    Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services

  • DOE

    Department of energy

  • DOH

    Department of Health

  • DOL

    Department of Labor

  • DUI

    Driving Under the Influence

  • DV

    Domestic Violence

  • DWI

    Driving While Intoxicated

• E

  • EIP

    Early Intervention Program

  • EIR

    environmental intervention report

  • Electricity

    a form of energy

  • ELS

    Early Screening Inventory Revised

  • Energy burden

    the percentage of household income spent on home energy bills

  • ETG

    Elizabethtown Gas; Natural gas provider

• F

  • FICO Score

    Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO) debuted FICO Scores to provide an industry-standard for scoring creditworthiness that was fair to both lenders and consumers.

  • FJC

    Family Justice Center

  • FLI

    Family Leave Insurance

  • FMR

    Fair Market Rent

  • FOA

    Funding Opportunity Announcement

  • FPL

    Federal Poverty Level

  • FSC

    Family Success Center

  • Fuel oil

    a fraction obtained from petroleum distillation that can be used as a heating source

• G

  • GA

    General Assistance

  • GCADA

    Governor’s Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse

• H

  • H & S

    Health Safety

  • HAART

    Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy

  • HEART

    Helping Enhanced Adherence Antiretroviral Therapy

  • HEARTH

    The Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH)

  • HEP

    Hepatitis

  • HES

    HEARTH Emergency Solutions Grant

  • HHS

    Health and Human Services

  • HighScope

    Preschool curriculum aimed at building the foundation of young children through their natural play and interactions with the environment, events, and other people.

  • HIP

    Heating improvement program

  • HIP

    High Impact Prevention

  • HIV

    Human Immunodeficiency Virus

  • HIV

    Human Immunodeficiency Virus

  • HMIS

    Homeless Management Information System

  • HNS

    HIV Navigation Services

  • HOPWA

    Housing Opportunities for People Living with AIDS

  • HPP

    Homelessness Prevention Program

  • HPRP

    Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program

  • HRH

    High Risk Heterosexual

  • HSAC

    Human Services Advisory Committee

  • HUD

    Housing and Urban Development

• I

  • ID

    Infectious Disease

  • IDRC

    Intoxicated Drivers Resource Center

  • IDT

    Inventario Para La Detección Temprana

  • IDU

    Injection Drug User

  • IEP

    Individual Educational Plan

• L

  • LACADA

    Local Advisory Council on Alcoholism  and Drug Abuse

  • LDC

    Lead dust cleaning

  • LHU

    Life Hazard Use 

  • LIHEAP

    Low Income Home Energy Assistance program

  • LIRA

    Lead inspection risk assessment

  • LSHRP

    Lead safe home remediation program

• M

  • MSM

    Men who have Sex with Men

• N

  • NAPWA

    (pronounced “nap-wah”) National Association of People with AIDS

  • NASTAD

    National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors

  • Natural gas

    Is a composition varying of quantities of methane that can be used as a heating source

  • NHAS

    National HIV/AIDS Strategy

  • NIR

    No Indicated Risk

  • NNAAPC

    (pronounced “nap-c”) National Native American AIDS Prevention Center

  • Nonprofit

    tax exempt or charitable, meaning they do not pay income tax on the money that they receive for their organization. They can operate in religious, scientific, research, or educational settings.

  • NRR

    No Risk Reported

• O

  • OOL

    Office of Licensing

  • OTARY

    Outreach To At Risk Youth

• P

  • PACMHADA

    Professional Advisory Committee on Mental Health and Drug Abuse

  • PEP

    Post Exposure Prophylaxis

  • PIP

    Playground Inspection Professional

  • PIR

    Parity, Inclusion and Representation

  • PIRT

    Pre-school Intervention and Referral Team 

  • PIT

    Point in time count

  • PLWHA

    Persons Living With HIV/AIDS

  • PPG

    Prevention Planning Group

  • PrEP

    Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis

  • PS

    Partner Services

  • PSEG

    Public Service Electric & Gas; electricity provider

  • PTC

    Prevention Training Center.  Our local one is located in Denver.

• Q

  • QCI

    Quality Control Inspector

• R

  • RFA

    Request for Assistance

  • RFP

    Request for Proposal

  • RMS

    Role Model Stories

  • RR

    Component removal and replace

  • RRP

    Renovation repair paint

• S

  • SAMHSA

    Substance Abuse Mental Health Service Administration

  • Scholastic

    Easy strategies for helping students focus their attention, improve their self-regulation skills, build resilience to stress, and develop a positive mind-set in both school and life.

  • SHR

    Senior Home repair

  • SNAP

    Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

  • SSA

    Social Security Administration

  • SSDI

    Social Security Disability Insurance

  • SSH

    The Social Service for the Homeless (SSH) program

  • SSI

    Supplemental Security Income

  • STD

    Sexually Transmitted Disease

  • SU

    Substance Use

• T

  • TA

    Technical Assistance (direct or indirect support to build capacity)

  • TANF

    Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

  • TB

    Tuberculosis

  • TDI

    Temporary Disability Insurance

  • TIC

    Trauma Informed Care.  Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) is an approach in the human service field that assumes that an individual is more likely than not to have a history of trauma. Trauma-Informed Care recognizes the presence of trauma symptoms and acknowledges the role trauma may play in an individual’s life- including service staff.

• U

  • UC

    Union County

  • UI

    Unemployment Insurance

  • USF

    Universal Service Fund

  • Utility bill

    A request to pay an amount charged to a household or office to pay for electricity, water and/or gas each month

• V

  • VL

    Viral Load

• W

  • WAP

    Weatherization assistance program

  • WFNJ

    Work first New Jersey

  • WIC

    The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children

  • WOR

    Warrant of Removal

  • WWRCP

    Women’s Wellness and Recovery Care Program

• Y

  • YRBS

    Youth Risk Behavior Survey

  • YSC

    Youth Service Commission

  • YSC

    Youth Services Commission