During the month of October we raise awareness surrounding Breast Cancer, Bullying Prevention, Disability Employment, and Domestic Violence.
As your agency educates and supports your communities throughout the month, please share events, programming, blogs, stories and photos with the Network as we work together to make a the world a little better.
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Best Practice Survey - Disability Employment
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Kim Coulter Announces Resignation
Kim Coulter, President and CEO of JVS Toronto announced her retirement effective March 31, 2022.
Kim has been with JVS Toronto for over 31 years. She has served in many capacities at the Agency, as a front-line staff providing career counselling; as a Manager/Director and Vice President managing programs and services; as the COO overseeing operations; and from 2015 to the present, as President and CEO. Kim has led this organization through significant growth and change over the years and her ability to plan strategically as well as lead at an operational level has served the Agency well.
Wishing our friend and colleague Kim Coulter the very best on the announcement of her upcoming retirement from her position as CEO of JVS Toronto. Thank you Kim for all of your many contributions to our Network and your years of leadership in Toronto and throughout our Canadian network! We will miss you and wish you every happiness!
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Jerry Rubin Schedule to Retire
in April 2022
On Sept. 28th The Boston Globe reported that longtime Jewish Vocational Service leader Jerry Rubin is retiring after spending 15 years building a workforce training organization that largely serves Boston-area immigrant communities. Rubin, who turns 65 in February, has been calling friends and colleagues during the past week to inform them of his plans to step down in April. The JVS Boston board has formed a search committee and is in the process of selecting a headhunting firm to find Rubin’s successor. During his tenure as CEO, he essentially tripled the size of JVS by at least three measures: The organization now has a budget of $20 million, employs about 180 people, and helps at least 15,000 people every year, most of them adult immigrants. Continue reading here.
The Network extends its very best wishes to our friend and colleague Jerry Rubin, CEO, JVS Boston as he announces plans to retire at the end of April, 2022. Jerry has shared his leadership with our Network in many ways including having served as Past President of IAJVS, serving as a member of the founding steering committee for NJHSA and serving as founding Chair of the NJHSA Innovation Committee.
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Welcome the Jewish Fertility Foundation to the Network
The Jewish Fertility Foundation provides financial assistance, emotional support and educational programming to Jewish people with medical infertility. Elana Frank experienced medical infertility for over 10 years. In 2015, after moving back to her hometown of Atlanta, Georgia from Israel, Elana realized it was her life's mission to help others suffering from infertility. That's when she founded the Jewish Fertility Foundation. We welcome them to the Network!
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Engaging a Community
By Rabbi David Rosenberg, Orthodox Community Liaison
In the late 1990s, the Orthodox Jewish community in West Rogers Park was growing significantly. Jewish Family and Community Service, which later became part of JCFS Chicago (JCFS), had an office on Devon Avenue in the heart of that community, but Orthodox individuals and families made up a relatively small proportion of the client base. Some agency colleagues suspected that the local Jewish community might be unaware of the availability of services. They began to engage local rabbis and Jewish day school principals.
JCFS professionals invited colleagues from local Jewish agencies and the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago to a meeting to discuss ways to reach out to the Orthodox community. Professionals from ten agencies, including the Associated Talmud Torahs (representing Orthodox Jewish schools) agreed to form a permanent group, which they called “Federation Inter-Agency Professionals Serving the Orthodox Community.” Continue reading the article here.
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MARK YOUR CALENDAR
Click here to view a full listing of 2021 Fall Network Offerings: Calls, Webinars & Trainings
(including CEUs for social workers)
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NETWORK CALENDAR
View the NJHSA Calendar for a complete list of calls and webinars.
Visit the Calls & Webinars page in the Members Only section for registration links.
All presentations are recorded. Video and audio recordings as well as presentations and additional resources can be found on in the Resource Library in the Members Only section.
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Caregiver agencies across the United States who are looking for creative ways to alleviate vaccine hesitancy and vaccinate workers & patients should plan to participate.
Learn how training caregivers on vaccines can ensure better compliance, reduce hesitancy and lead to better outcomes. Learn about first-hand experiences of how the Flex For Checks program has been leading the way in vaccinating caregivers through an amazing and potentially lucrative incentive program.
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21st Annual Conference on Mental Health:
Finding Strength through Resilience
Oct. 17th | 9am - 2:30pm
Jewish Family & Children's Service of Minneapolis and Jewish Family Service of St. Paul are holding this year’s conference, Finding Strength through Resilience, virtually. The keynote speaker will be Jeffrey Zuckerman, author of the award-winning memoir "Unglued: A Bipolar Love Story." Jeff will discuss how, in the face of his wife’s late-onset severe illness, he has managed his own well-being through compassion, faith, education, and the loving support of his family and community.
Featured presenters will explore the topics of Grief, Post-Traumatic Stress, Politics and Mental Health, and Talking with Children about the Issues of Our Time.
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Nurturing and Repairing Teen and Parent Relationships
Oct. 22nd | 12pm ET
Don't miss this RARE OPPORTUNITY to receive trainings advice from a world expert, on ounce of the greatest challenges parents face, featuring Dr. Guy Diamond, developer of attachment-based family therapy for suicide prevention.
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Supporting Afghan Refugees in a Time of Crisis
Oct. 6th | 1pm ET
Please join NJHSA to hear the most current update on the Afghan refugee crisis from Naomi Steinberg, HIAS’s Vice President, Policy and Advocacy, and learn about the critical services JFS East Bay and JFS Seattle are providing during this time. We will also discuss opportunities for agencies to learn ways to become involved in this work, support one another, and advocate.
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New Federal Funding for Mobile Crisis Response
JFNA’s Strategic Health Resource Centers writes that CMS announced the award of $15 million in planning grants to 20 states for the expansion of round-the-clock, community-based mobile crisis intervention services for Medicaid beneficiaries. In addition to saving lives, the goal of the program is to reduce reliance on law enforcement when people are experiencing a mental health or addiction crisis and, in turn, prevent the unnecessary incarceration of people with mental illness or substance use disorders. The planning grants will give state Medicaid agencies the resources they need to assess community needs and develop programs to bolster community-based mobile crisis intervention services.
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The Legacy Interviews is Complete...now what?
Although the Legacy Interviews are over, they are still available for viewing and use. ASA will maintain this library of assets for use. The best part of this series is that it is available to all of you at no cost to share and use to help grow our field of aging. Perhaps you will pull a clip or an entire episode to share on your social media when you want to really drill home a point.
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MOED Healing: A Support Group for Jewish People of Color –
A Partnership of JFNA & NJHSA
Thursdays, October 7th,14th, 21st & 28th | 1:30pm ET
MOED, JEDI's Community Network for Jewish People of Color, & The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee of the Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies invite all professionals and lay leadership in the NJHSA and JFNA networks who identify as Jewish people of color to join a communal space that will tend to minds and hearts and relieve some of the burdened stress of racially charged interactions in daily life. Join us! Please note that space for these sessions is limited and there is no charge for participation. The group sessions will be facilitated by social work staff from JCS Baltimore and JFS Cincinnati. Questions can be directed to Lisa Loraine Smith at NJHSA.
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Serve, Learn, and Immerse in Your Community This Fall!
Applications for the Fall Service Corps Program are open.
Are you looking for a way to serve in your community and grow in your social justice journey? Join Repair the World as a part-time, stipended Service Corps member. Serve virtually or in-person, following CDC guidelines, with trusted partners while learning and reflecting with peers. The program will run from October 11th - December 17, 2021. Apply or nominate a young adult by September 27th!
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Staff Support Initiatives
and Self Care
Oct 6th | 12:00 - 1:30pm ET
This webinar will look at two PCTI staff support initiatives. Members of JFCS Philadelphia's Sensitivity in Trauma Committee will talk about the process of building a PCTI organizational culture through the work of our in-house steering committee. This webinar will also feature presenters from JCFS Chicago. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Philadelphia and Chicago partnered to create a cross-agency support group for staff. This space has been a beneficial, safe space for staff to discuss the challenges of working remotely during a pandemic and what they've found to be helpful tools to manage these challenges.
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Spark 2021 | October 12-14
A three-day virtual learning experience on the work of advancing equity, addressing racism at multiple levels, and more designed by the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities and The Council on Accreditation.
Network Rate NJHSA members who are not Alliance-COA organizations, please select the “Non-Network (Individual)” option when registering and use coupon code SPARK2021AOCA to access the Alliance-COA Network rate.
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NETWORK AFFINITY GROUPS
Join NJHSA’s Member Agency ONLY affinity groups. There are more than 20 professional groups that meet over Zoom video conferencing where participants have the opportunity to connect, learn, share and support each other. Whether it be to resolve specific agency challenges or define larger Network projects, the affinity groups bring like professionals together on a regular basis.
Contact Lisa Loraine Smith, to learn more about the groups or visit the Affinity & Facebook Groups page in the Members Only section of the NJHSA website.
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Family Caregiver Alliance
Innovations in Alzheimer's Disease Caregiving Legacy Awards 2021
Three awards of $20,000 each will be awarded to nonprofit organizations, government agencies or universities responding to a community need with a program or project which focuses primarily on family/informal caregivers of adults with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Only agencies operating within the continental United States are eligible to apply.
Award max.:
$20,000
Eligibility:
Nonprofit organizations, government agencies or universities.
Deadline:
18 October 2021
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Awards for Youth Working to Change Their Communities
Support for Recorded Sound Preservation Projects and Music Research
Food Garden Projects Funded
Grants Aid Programs for People With Spinal Cord Injuries in the U.S. and Canada
Efforts to End Violence Against Native Women in the Pacific Northwest Supported
Funds for Organizations Serving Families in the Washington, DC, Region
Grants Promote Criminal Justice Reform in Michigan
Support for Conservation Initiatives in the New England Region
Efforts to Address Homelessness Supported
Funds Available to Clean Up Hazardous Waste
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Innovations in Nutrition Programs and Services: Replication
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support projects which replicate successful models developed by Innovations in Nutrition Programs and Services grantees that have the potential that enhance the quality, effectiveness and proven outcomes of nutrition services programs within the aging services network. The Older Americans Act (OAA) provides funding to States and Tribal Organizations to support a broad array of services that enable older adults to remain in their homes and communities and assist family and informal caregivers to care for their loved ones for as long as possible.
Deadline: N/A
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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Working for a Jewish human service agency is a highly rewarding career.
A listing of open positions at member agencies can be found HERE.
Member agencies are welcome to post career opportunities with the Network as a benefit of membership. Positions will be posted for 90 days.
Non-members may post positions for 60 days for a fee. Contact Megan Manelli for more information.
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The Network Seeks a Workforce Program Director
NJHSA is expanding its staffing and is seeking applicants for the following newly established full-time position: Workforce Program Director.
This position will work with the VP, Workforce Development Services, to develop meaningful workforce programming for member agencies and implement a 3 year USDA funded federal grant focusing on SNAP Employment &Training 3rd party providers. This position will work closely with participating NJHSA member agencies throughout the US on a technical assistance grant that will allow member agencies to understand the benefits of being a 3rd party SNAP E&T provider. Learn more here.
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Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies | networkjhsa.org | 201.977.2400
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