The Center for Great Expectations

12/16/2025

A huge thank you to the Notre Dame Club of Central New Jersey and all the incredible volunteers who showed up this weekend to support our community. During one of the busiest times of the year, you shared your time, energy, and hearts—and it made all the difference.

From decorating our Christmas trees and porches, to wrapping gifts, hanging snowflakes, helping residents with cookies and ornament decorating, and donating treats and presents — every act of kindness brought joy and warmth to our campus.

You are a true Christmas blessing, and the CGE community is deeply grateful.

12/12/2025

Big News for Franklin Township!

This week, Amazon.com made a powerful investment in our community — providing $10,000 worth of computers and Amazon Kindle to support local educational and community programs. These in-kind donations were shared with the Center for Great Expectations and the The Franklin Food Bank , helping expand access to technology for families across Franklin Township.

According to Allie O’Brien of the Franklin Food Bank, this support will help meet the growing needs of families experiencing food insecurity.

For the Center for Great Expectations, the devices will help expand trauma-informed care and housing services for women and families.

A special thank-you to Assemblyman Joe Danielsen ’s office for coordinating this meaningful event and championing strong community partnerships.

Read the full story here:

Amazon gifts laptops, Kindles & grants to Franklin Township’s Great Expectations Center & Food Bank, boosting education, food security & digital access.

12/10/2025

From clothing to everyday essentials, every item on our Amazon Wishlist helps meet the immediate needs of the women, children, and families we serve at The Center for Great Expectations.

Your generosity makes healing possible.
Shop the wishlist and make an impact today!
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1VJSNMOGF7FCQ?ref_=list_d_wl_lfu_nav_4

12/09/2025

The gift of gingerbread houses is a shining example of kindness that kickstarts the Christmas season with generosity and joy.
Thank you, Carla!

12/04/2025

The giving doesn’t stop here.
We still need help filling our homes with healing.

Your support creates safe, trauma-informed spaces where mothers and children can recover together, share stories, and start again. Every couch funded is a seat of safety, comfort, and hope.
Donate today: https://form-renderer-app.donorperfect.io/give/the-center-for-great-expectation/giving-tuesday-2025

12/02/2025

Today is GivingTuesday!
Help us provide 10 new couches for our Adolescent and Adult Residential buildings at CGE.
Each one becomes a space for recovery, reconnection, and renewal — where:
• Therapy sessions spark breakthroughs
• Mothers reunite with their children
• Women rest, connect, and begin again

Your gift today helps create the physical and emotional spaces where recovery truly begins. $1,000 funds a couch that changes lives.
Donate now and be part of the transformation: https://form-renderer-app.donorperfect.io/give/the-center-for-great-expectation/giving-tuesday-2025

12/02/2025

Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday — a day to fill our homes with healing.
When you give to CGE, you’re not just helping one person.
You’re interrupting generational cycles of addiction, trauma, and family separation.

Your gift provides:
• Residential care that keeps mothers and children together
• Trauma and mental health counseling
• Parenting and relational support
• Postpartum care during the most vulnerable year
• Safe, healing spaces — like new couches, where recovery begins

This isn’t just recovery. It’s transformation.
But, you don’t have to wait to start tomorrow, you can donate today: https://form-renderer-app.donorperfect.io/give/the-center-for-great-expectation/giving-tuesday-2025

11/28/2025

The Truth Behind Recovery:
Every mother’s journey to healing is unique — and often begins with safety, trust, and care.
• Many mothers at CGE have carried trauma for years. When that trauma is addressed with compassion, real recovery can begin.
• The first year after giving birth is a fragile time. CGE stays by mothers’ sides, helping them remain strong, supported, and hopeful.
• Some mothers face even greater challenges due to systemic disparities. CGE provides culturally responsive, trauma-informed care that honors every woman’s dignity and restores a sense of safety.

This Giving Tuesday, your gift helps us continue this work — one safe space, one couch, one healing moment at a time.
DONATE TODAY: : https://form-renderer-app.donorperfect.io/give/the-center-for-great-expectation/giving-tuesday-2025

11/27/2025

Your support helped healing happen in so many powerful ways.
From all of us at CGE, Happy Thanksgiving — we’re grateful for you today and always.

11/26/2025

With grateful hearts we acknowledge those who generously donated turkeys, side dishes, pies and gift cards to CGE residential clients, Supportive Housing and START families.

Thank you to: CompoSecure, St. Joseph Parish-Hillsboro, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton- Three Bridges, Sal & Bertha, Ancient Order of Hibernians-Somerset County and the Knights of Columbus-Somerville Council 1432.

11/23/2025

Every couch tells a story — of trauma, recovery, and renewal.

At CGE, our couches are more than places to sit. They’re spaces where women rebuild trust, families reconnect, and healing begins. This Giving Tuesday, your gift can help us replace 10 worn couches and fill our homes with comfort, safety, and hope.

But, you don’t have to wait until Giving Tuesday—you can donate today: https://form-renderer-app.donorperfect.io/give/the-center-for-great-expectation/giving-tuesday-2025

11/21/2025

Peg Wright and the incredible team at The Center for Great Expectations show every day how trauma-informed care transforms lives. Congratulations to Peg on receiving the Russ Berrie Making A Difference Award.