NREIC Inc.

Name

NREIC Inc.

Legal name

Northeast Regional Early Intervention Collaborative, Inc.

Website

https://nreic.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Early Intervention Services

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (62411)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Developmental Therapy / Early Childhood Special Instruction (EDACAFAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Developmental Screening & Assessment (0–5) (EDACAFAA), Family Coaching, Parent-Mediated & Home Visiting EI Services (EDACAFAJ), Physical Therapy (Early Intervention) (EDACAFAD)

Keywords

• Early intervention services
• Developmental therapy services
• Special education coordination
• Pediatric rehabilitation services
• Family support services

Headquarters

HQ city

Wayne

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Government Funding: Established in 1993 by the New Jersey Department of Health as a Regional Early Intervention Collaborative. Funding comes from the state lead agency. The four Regional Early Intervention Collaboratives were established to provide local level leadership in the planning and coordination of the New Jersey Early Intervention system.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

NREIC Inc. (operating as Helpful Hands) is one of four Regional Early Intervention Collaboratives established in 1993 by the New Jersey Department of Health. It provides early intervention intake, service coordination, and family support for children from birth to age three with developmental delays or disabilities in Bergen, Hudson, and Passaic counties. Core services include developmental intervention, speech, physical, and occupational therapies delivered through telehealth, in-person, and center-based modalities, along with transition-to-preschool planning.

Product overview

NREIC Inc. (Northeast Regional Early Intervention Collaborative) operates as a single integrated service offering rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. The organization provides Early Intervention services centered around developmental support for children birth to age three with developmental delays or disabilities. Core services include developmental intervention, speech therapy, physical therapy, and occupational therapy, delivered through both in-person and telehealth formats. Service coordination is a central component, assigning each family an Ongoing Service Coordinator. The organization also provides Transition to Preschool Support to help families navigate the transition when children turn three. Additional offerings include the Carolyn Scaglione Special Needs Fund for financial assistance and an SMS/MMS messaging program for family communication. The services work together as a family-centered, family-driven system supporting children and their families throughout the early intervention journey.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• New Jersey Department of HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1993The New Jersey Department of Health is the lead agency that established the four Regional Early Intervention Collaboratives in 1993. NREIC serves as the Northeast Regional Early Intervention Collaborative, providing local level leadership in the planning and coordination of the NJ Early Intervention system for Bergen, Hudson, and Passaic counties.
• State Interagency Coordinating Council (SICC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNREIC references the State Interagency Coordinating Council as a key stakeholder in the NJ Early Intervention system. SICC provides oversight and guidance for early intervention services statewide.
• Early Intervention Provider AgenciescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNREIC works with early intervention provider agencies that deliver center-based services. These agencies provide developmental intervention, speech, physical therapy, and other services as part of the IFSP team.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Help Me Grow National: A national early-childhood system-building network that supports state and regional EI-like intake and referral infrastructure. Conceptually aligned with NREIC's SPOE function but operates at a national coordination layer.
• Easterseals New Jersey: Easterseals NJ operates a broader portfolio of disability and early childhood services statewide, overlapping with NREIC's mission of supporting families of children with developmental delays but at a larger, multi-program scale.

Direct peers

• SPAN Parent Advocacy Network: New Jersey's federally funded Parent Training and Information Center, which works closely with the EI system on family advocacy, IFSP support, and transition — adjacent mission and overlapping family population as NREIC.
• Northwest NJ Regional Early Intervention Collaborative: Another of NJ's four REICs with the same state-mandated role and service-coordination model as NREIC, but operating in the northwest counties — directly comparable in mandate, funding source, and delivery structure.
• Southern New Jersey Regional Early Intervention Collaborative: The fourth NJ REIC, serving the southern counties under the same NJ DOH designation. Directly comparable to NREIC on mandate, funding mechanics, and family-coordination responsibilities.
• Bancroft: A New Jersey-headquartered nonprofit providing services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including early intervention-adjacent programs. Comparable as a NJ-based disability-services nonprofit operating in overlapping service lines.
• Statewide Parent Advocacy Network / Family Voices NJ: Family-led NJ organization supporting families of children with disabilities through the EI and special-education systems — overlapping beneficiary population and referral dynamics with NREIC's family-support role.
• Family Link Regional Early Intervention Collaborative: Family Link is one of the other four Regional Early Intervention Collaboratives in New Jersey, sharing the same NJ DOH-designated mandate, service model, and IFSP-driven workflow as NREIC, but covering a different county cluster in the central region.
• Children's Specialized Hospital: A New Jersey pediatric specialty hospital system providing developmental, speech, occupational, and physical therapy services to children birth-to-three with developmental delays, often as an IFSP provider agency working alongside NREIC.

Others

• Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (ECTA): A federally funded resource center that NREIC itself links to for providers. ECTA supports state EI systems with training and technical assistance — the same training/TA function NREIC delivers at the regional level.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/helpfulhandsnr1
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCuEBc9j0VdyckyUZ5Xio3Cg/playlists
• Facebookfacebook.com/Helpful-Hands-NREIC-101464932267736
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/northeast-regional-early-intervention-collaborative-inc
• Instagraminstagram.com/helpfulhandsnreic

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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