The state remains mum on when it will reopen much-needed programs that offer therapy, socialization and learning to people with disabilities. The programs, closed since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, are causing health and cognitive conditions to deteriorate in the people who need them, families and advocates said. It has been weeks since the Centers for Disease Control released guidelines for the reopening of the programs, but the New Jersey Department of Human Services Division of Developmental Disability has only offered “words of assurance” that it is trying to update its own guidelines, advocates said, with nothing on the actual reopening.