The Time To Act Is Now

The Issue

New Jersey group homes are a $1.5 billion tax-payer funded industry tasked with caring for our most vulnerable population, but inadequate laws are costing lives and wasting money.

• There are 120 unexpected deaths in NJ group homes each year — and thousands of instances of abuse and neglect. Adequate investigations are rare, and consequences for those at fault almost non-existent.*

• Accused group home operators investigate themselves because it provides them with a “great learning opportunity.” **

• Some group home operators are paid as much as $1,200 per day per resident, but spend only pennies on the dollar on actual care in order to fund multi-million dollar paychecks for their CEOs.*

• Critical medications are mismanaged, not administered, or worse yet stolen and sold on the street. Staff is too often untrained, unsupervised, and underpaid leading to jobs left unfilled.*

• There are many high quality responsible providers and caregivers in NJ, but the “bad apples” in the bunch need to be stopped.

Our Ask

Sign our petition to ask your legislators to take an active role supporting critical new bipartisan legislation that will save lives — and money.

• Establish an independent agency to investigate claims of abuse, neglect or exploitation. A6137S4996

• Mandates at least 70% of funding be spent on direct care of individuals for certain group homes. A6138/S4997

• Requires cameras in common areas of group homes to provide critical evidence in cases of abuse and neglect. A6290/S3173