Member Highlights
June 2021
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The best part of our NETWORK is sharing successes.
We want to promote your organizations.
Let your fellow member agencies know what's going on in your community!
Share updates with Megan, Director of Marketing & Communications.
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Lessons From Recovery for Navigating a New World
Tuesday, June 22nd
7pm EDT
The Jewish Addiction Awareness Network is collaborating on a fantastic virtual program for everyone (whether you're in recovery or not). Join them for a panel discussion about how recovery tools and principles can help you enhance and bring peace to your life during our continuing challenging times.
Moderator: Howard Rezinck, JCS Baltimore & Marla Kaufman, JAAN's ED,
Panelists: Sharon Burns Carter, Ruth & Norman Rales JFS/Florida & Harriet Rosetto, Beit T'Shuvah/EBI
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Disabilities Professionals Affinity Group Co-Chairs Meet After 3 Years
Jamie Paul Weiner, Manager of Disability Services at the Alexander Institute for Inclusion at Jewish Family Service of Houston finally met Stacey Spencer, Inclusion Program Manager at Jewish Family & Children's Service of Minneapolis in Houston at JFS's Celebration Company! They have been working together and Co-Charing the Disabilities Professionals Affinity Group together for three years! The Network was thrilled to learn they were finally able to meet in person.
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The Corner Market is Mobile!
Thanks to a generous grant (from a prominent national foundation) for capital purchases to address the needs of those struggling with issues of food insecurity, JFCS was able to purchase their very own cargo van. This allows them to bring food pantry items closer to clients who cannot visit their Teaneck location. For more information, contact Linda at 201-978-8492.
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CVS Partners with JEVS to Provide Health Care Training, Workers and Community Services
To meet the rising need for pharmacy workers (with a projected job growth average over the next ten years of four percent*), CVS Health has partnered with JEVS Human Services to feed the talent pipeline. Serving more than 25,000 program participants each year—representing populations such as low-income adults, veterans, returning citizens and individuals with disabilities—JEVS was well positioned to provide a diverse pool of candidates for pharmacy technician careers, as well as other job positions within CVS store locations that constantly need filling. Learn more here.
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PEARLS Booster Program Receives Grant
The Mardag Foundation met recently and approved a grant of $15,000 to Jewish Family Service of St. Paul for the PEARLS (Program to Encourage Active and Rewarding Lives in Seniors) Booster program. The PEARLS Booster program is a refresher series of sessions offered to PEARLS graduates to help them cope with the isolation and other challenges resulting from the COVID crisis. It supports older adults and caregivers who have completed PEARLS. Learn more here.
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JFCS Counselor Featured in Star Tribune on Talking to Kids About Racism
Jewish Family & Children's Service of Minneapolis' Counselor Natalie Quiring-Oleson was prominently featured in the Star Tribune’s Variety section on Saturday, May 15, in an article on how parents can talk to their kids about racism. The Star Tribune contacted her for a Q&A following an article she wrote on this topic last year. In it, Natalie “reflects on her childhood, her desire to play even a small part in deconstructing structural racism and why it’s OK for parents to embrace their shortcomings.” Click here to read the article!
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The Blue Card Announces a Training Program for those Caring for Holocaust Survivors
The Blue Card and Holy Name’s Institute for Simulation Learning partnered to develop a training course that addresses both the physical and mental aspects of trauma through simulated scenarios that help health care professionals identify triggers that Holocaust survivors, refugees and veterans may encounter during the course of their care as a result of their experiences.
The new program was made possible through a grant awarded to the Blue Card by way of federal funds received from JFNA's Center for Advancing Holocaust Survivor Care.
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Generation Connection: Bridging Age and Technology Gaps
What do you get when you combine high school students, older adults, social workers, and computers? No, this isn’t the start of a bad joke…it’s an intergenerational technology training and relationship building program facilitated by Jewish Family Service of Colorado called Generation Connection! This pilot program, in collaboration with GenerationTech and CircleTalk™, was created in response to the social isolation being experienced across generations due to COVID-19. Learn more here.
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Alpert JFS Embarks on a New Venture, Becoming a Home Health Agency Licensee
As a human and social service agency, Ferd & Gladys Alpert Jewish Family Service has seen the challenges aging, chronic illness and/or injury can have on community members. In an effort to provide even more services to help people maintain their respect and dignity and remain in the comfort of their own homes for as long as possible, the organization will provide hands-on non-medical home health care services through JFS Homecare LLC, d.b.a. JFSComForCare, with clients from Palm Beach County through the Treasure Coast. Learn more here.
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Share exciting news with the Network about innovative, sustainable, programming
and events, awards and grants and timely highlights.
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