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New Jersey Human Services Awards Additional Grants to Improve Access to County Services for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals

From https://assistivelisteningknowledgebase.org/evidence/nj-2025-communication-access-awards/ · record checked 13 October 2026

  • New Jersey Department of Human Services

Government (New Jersey Department of Human Services, Division of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing)

Summary

New Jersey announced nearly US$350,000 for five counties, with planned purchases including room, counter and portable loops, listening receivers and radio-frequency headsets.

Key findings

  • The 31 July 2025 announcement describes a third round of communication-access grants to five counties, following rounds in 2022 and 2024.
  • Bergen County received US$70,000 for three stationary loops, two audio systems and twelve loop listeners for Ridgewood; Mercer received US$69,355 for four undercounter loops, four portable kits and two large-room loops.
  • Middlesex County received US$70,000 for a programme including a loop at South Brunswick’s new 130-seat theatre, RF headsets at two Woodbridge library branches and a loop at Piscataway’s Westergard library.
  • Passaic County received US$70,000 for portable loops at county historic sites and a large-room loop with rechargeable listeners and charging stations. Monmouth’s US$70,000 award mixed loops with other communication-access measures.

Limits

Award announcement describing intended purchases, without completion checks or installation performance. County awards include mixed equipment and services; their totals are not unit prices or hearing-loop-only costs. It does not announce a 2026 application round.

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www.nj.gov/humanservices/news/pressreleases/2025/approved/20250731.shtml

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New Jersey Department of Human Services. New Jersey Human Services Awards Additional Grants to Improve Access to County Services for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals. 31 July 2025. https://www.nj.gov/humanservices/news/pressreleases/2025/approved/20250731.shtml (accessed 13 October 2026).

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