NJHSA is excited to partner with Diversified Foods Inc., a 2018 Launch Conference Sponsor!  Diversified Foods currently works with  JFS Los Angeles, JFS Colorado and Ruth & Norman Rales JFS, stocking their food pantries with Hershey's®, Dairy Pure® and TruMoo® brands of Shelf Stable Milk products.  

Member agency highlights are now on the NJHSA website. Check out what agencies around the globe are focusing on. 

Reclaim Religious Freedom
 Join Keshet and the National Council of Jewish Women to reclaim religious freedom, stay informed of future opportunities to take action. 
 

Tell U.S. Senate to Protect Critical Program for Older Adults and People with Disabilities

Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) recently introduced the Ensuring Medicaid Provides Opportunities for Widespread Equity, Resources, and Care Act (known as "EMPOWER Act," S. 2227). This legislation for people with disabilities and older adults would reauthorize the bipartisan Money Follows the Person (MFP) demonstration program, which has helped 75,000 older adults and people with disabilities transition out of institutions and nursing homes and receive the support they need in less restrictive settings.The MFP program's authorization expired on September 30, 2016, and the program is now at risk without continued federal support. NJHSA supports the EMPOWER Act to extend the program and urges the U.S. Senate to include it in the end-of-year health extender package without delay. Please click here to contact your Senators today. For more information on this program, click here.

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Urge Congress to Vote on Health Extenders in December

Employer Partnership/Employer Engagement | Wednesday, January 3rd, 1pm ET | Learn more and register here .
  This webinar will focus on the process of stewarding relationships with employers in an effort to get them invested in supporting a harder to place client base. The target employers are either larger organizations with multi location, multi- tiered opportunities, or middle-sized organizations that are in a growth mode.

Presenter: Howard Arden, Career Services Manager, Jewish Family & Career Services of Atlanta
 

DATE CHANGE - Disaster Marketing: Communicating During Emergencies | Tuesday, January 9th, 2pm ET | Register here
  Earlier this year our Houston, Florida and Northern California agencies faced natural disasters. In the past JFS Cape May & Atlantic Counties in New Jersey endured Hurricane Sandy and JFS New Orleans Hurricane Katrina. Learn how these agencies dealt with these emergencies from a communications and marketing standpoint.

Mindy Berkowitz, CEO of Jewish Family Service of Silicon Valley, was quoted in the Huffington Post's December 19th article, " War Tore This Family Apart For A Decade. Now Trump Won't Let Them Reunite." Recently JFS Silicon Valley was one of 3 NJHSA member agencies to join in a class action suit against the administration's most recent travel ban.
 

Jewish Family & Community Services of East Bay has expanded their home care program. This expansion will better meet the needs of seniors in their community seeking to age in their own homes. Continue reading here.   
 

Two months have passed since fires swept through the North Bay, leaving in their wake incredible destruction and thousands homeless, jobless, and emotionally scarred. Jewish Family & Children's Services of San Francisco hit the ground running, working to support the community. Learn about the long term recovery here.