NJHSA Seeks Your Input
How Can Jewish Human Service Providers Help to Heal an Anguished Nation?
The past week has been filled with intense and mixed emotions. While continuing to manage the impact of COVID-19, our country, and in fact, our world, has been overcome with the profound acceptance of its historic racism and its complete failure to achieve equity for all. The disparities are stark and exist in every aspect of society, from income to education, from healthcare to basic safety. The pain is real, and the trauma is lasting. As Jewish human service providers, the member agencies of NJHSA are humbled by the many roles they play in helping communities to thrive. Yet, the anguish and suffering that accompany historic racism present permanent roadblocks to those efforts.
Building off our recent 2020 Virtual Plenary Session (
Brave, Bold Steps in Addressing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Age of COVID-19
), NJHSA has begun thoughtful dialogue with member agencies to find meaningful ways to help advance responses to the challenges of racism. This work is essential and needs our collective input to be effective. If you would like to participate in a planning process that can help agencies toward action, please connect with
Reuben Rotman
. If you have resources to share on the topics of race relations, diversity, equity and related topics, please email
Megan Manelli
. A new folder has been established within the NJHSA Virtual Resource Library so we can learn from each other. NJHSA is committed to working together with its member agencies to do more to combat racism, to learn more about the impact of white privilege and to address racial injustice. Thank you for joining in these lifesaving efforts.
Judy Halper, Chair, NJHSA Board of Directors & Reuben D. Rotman, President & CEO
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LGBTQ Awareness Month
Grab your rainbow, bi, lesbian, pan, ace, or any other flag of your preference and wave it with Pride! Every year, during the month of June, the LGBT community celebrates Pride Month through a variety of activities.
Keshet
,
a Network partner, works for the full equality of all LGBTQ Jews and their families in Jewish life. Each week they will highlight a LGBTQ Jewish hero!
A fierce advocate for youth and “gender outlaws,”
Kate Bornstein
is a Jewish transgender author, playwright, performance artist and gender theorist. Born Albert Bornstein, Kate was raised in a Conservative Jewish community in New Jersey. She is best known for her groundbreaking books Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us, My Gender Workbook, and Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws. Her many plays and performance pieces explore queer identity and the rigid binary system of gender and sexuality that reinforce homophobia and transphobia. #KeshetLGBTQPride2020 #KateBornstein #LGBTQJewishHeroes
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PPE Purchasing Portal
Jewish Together
has launched a
PPE Purchasing Portal
through which all Jewish organizations can purchase face masks (adult and child size), gloves, forehead thermometers and hand sanitizer. These will be critical for many organizations in reopening offices and facilities and keeping them safe. Please take advantage of this portal which offers products reliably and at advantageous pricing.
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Participate in the Jewish Changemakers Fellowship
NJHSA is pleased to serve as a national partner of
t
he
Jewish Changemakers Fellowship
, a 3-week interactive online leadership experience for Jewish students and recent graduates starting on July 6th. N
JHSA member agencies are encouraged to promote this opportunity widely and consider creating a participant cohort of your own.
Click here for details
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Registration opens June 15th!
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Exciting June Match Opportunity
Up to $250,000 will be matched dollar for dollar thanks to the leadership support of the Sephardic Home for the Aged Foundation.
As you may have seen, NJHSA was pleased to recently coordinate a consortium purchasing effort to secure much needed personal protective equipment (PPE) for NJHSA member agencies. As this need is of critical importance to so many agencies in our Network, we are encouraging you to join in our efforts to raise funds to help absorb as much of the mark-up agencies incurred when making these purchases. Our goal is to raise $3 million to reimburse the agencies, on a proportional basis, based on the dollars spent by each participating agency. Please help today.
CLICK HERE TO DONATE!
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Return on Mission: Leveraging Technology for Visibility, Insight, & Investment
The Impact of Culturally Competent Cancer Care
Poverty in the US and Implications of COVID-19 in Developing & Delivering Innovate Service Responses
Sprint or Marathon: Claims Conference Response to COVID-19 and What it Means for Today, Tomorrow & Next Year
Compassion Fatigue
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Return on Mission: Leveraging Technology for Visibility, Insight, & Investment
In this session, you’ll learn how to leverage modern technology to gain real time visibility and insight to more proactively manage impact and investment from
Sage Intacct
. Payout, program results, constituent engagement, cost per participant and more: all nonprofit orgs need to measure, track, and report on the metrics that matter. Whether you are on the giving side or are the recipient – gaining real time insights for critical decision making and proactive management is key to meeting expectations (and obligations) for nonprofit funding and mission success. We’ll discuss tools and technology to help you manage both sides of funding to help ensure you get the greatest return on mission.
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The Impact of Culturally Competent Cancer Care
Thursday, June 11th
| 12:30pm ET |
REGISTER
Explore how social service agencies can provide much needed support to those facing cancer and other illness in the time of COVID-19 and beyond. Both practical and conceptual issues will be addressed. The training explores the issues through the example of Jewish women facing breast cancer. The
Sharsheret
training includes topics such as the diversity of the Jewish community, increased hereditary risk for Jewish women, and cultural, religious and spiritual issues that may impact detection, treatment or survivorship. Participants will also learn about the free resources Sharsheret can provide to all breast and ovarian cancer patients.
Participants receive free CE credit
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Poverty in the US and Implications of COVID-19 in Developing & Delivering Innovate Service Responses
Tuesday, June 16th | 1 - 2:30pm ET |
REGISTER
Join Network colleagues for “Poverty in the US and Implications of COVID-19 in Developing & Delivering Innovative Service Responses,” an update on the efforts of three NJHSA member agency teams which are eagerly attacking the challenges of developing a successful road map for their high impact and sustainable solutions to Jewish poverty.
The Intensive Incubation Program of the NJHSA Jewish Poverty Challenge, an initiative of the Network’s Center for Innovation & Research, is completing year one with three deserving agency teams who are eagerly attacking the challenges of developing a successful road map for their high impact and sustainable solutions to Jewish poverty.
Learn more here
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Sprint or Marathon: Claims Conference Response to COVID-19 and What it Means for Today,
Tomorrow & Next Year
Over 150,000 Holocaust survivors, living in over 40 countries, put their faith and well-being in the hands of the Claims Conference - staff and lay leaders - and the over 300 agencies the Claims Conference partners with worldwide - to ensure continuous service delivery for Holocaust survivors - even during an unprecedented public health pandemic.
Greg Schneider
, Claims Conference Executive Vice President will discuss the Claims Conference response during COVID-19 and the ongoing support to agencies and survivors whose strength and tenacity continue to inspire us all as some would say “we’ve been through worse.” Questions should be sent in advance and by June 10th to
SWAgencyInfo@claimscon.org
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Compassion Fatigue
Thursday, June 18th | 2:30pm ET |
REGISTER
This 75-minute webinar will include information on identifying and coping with compassion fatigue, the experience of increased stress due to exposure to traumatized individuals.
Compassion fatigue is the experience of increased stress due to exposure to traumatized individuals. Andy Huls, speaker, has served as a One-Stop Operator with
ResCare
Workforce Services (RWS) for the past 2 1/2 years. Prior to joining RWS, Andy worked as a practicing Clinical Psychologist at a Community Mental Health Center in Lincoln, NE. Andy holds both a Masters Degree and a Doctorate Degree in Clinical Psychology and has spent a majority of his adult life practicing psychology and teaching psychology courses at local Universities.
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HOW TO ACCESS NETWORK CALLS/WEBINARS & RESOURCES
Access registration links for affinity groups calls and webinars and resources (including COVID) in the Members Only section of the NJHSA website.
- Visit the Members Only section https://www.networkjhsa.org/members-only
- Login. Please email Megan for logins.
- Select the page Calls & Webinars for registration links or the Resource Library for materials.
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June Network Sponsored Webinars
Soaring Into Strength & Positive Health
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, communities are focusing 100% of their efforts to flatten the curve. However, there will be long-term mental health issues that need to be addressed when we return to the new “normal.” NJHSA agencies will be tasked to deliver additional services to existing clients while also needing to respond to the needs of new clients clamoring for essential social services. This turn-key
Soaringwords
SOARING into Strength Positive Health Toolkit will fortify your professional and administrative staff members and also allow your agencies’ clients to experience more emotional, mental and physical wellbeing. Your staff will be able to share the latest empirically-valid Positive Health learnings and exercises with your clients by accessing the easy-to-use toolkit modules (virtual workshops, videos, and immersive workbooks).
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Grassroots Effort to Make ‘Never Again’ Resound in Classrooms Across America
Check out this great article highlighting Never Again and NJHSA and JFNA’s role in connecting with Holocaust survivors to
encourage them to sign on to a letter in support of the bill. This grassroots effort collected more than 1,800 signatures from survivors in 38 states—350 community groups from every single state helped galvanize political support.
Read the entire article here
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Prioritize SNAP in the Next COVID-19 Relief Bill
Despite skyrocketing food insecurity around the country resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress has failed once again to make needed improvements to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that will allow millions of families to put food on the table. We encourage you to join MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, in urging Congress to prioritize critical improvements to SNAP.
ACT NOW
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In It Together: Peer Discussion Groups for Jewish Community Professionals Who Have Been Laid Off or Furloughed
(2 Tuesdays left - Through June 16th)
or
Wednesday, June 10th | 2pm ET |
REGISTER
(5 Wednesdays: June 3rd-July 8th)
NJHSA
and JPRO Network invite anyone who has been laid off or furloughed from a Jewish organizations to take part in weekly peer-to-peer processing sessions. Participants will be placed in groups of up to ten, which will meet six times (and more if wanted). Groups will be moderated by a licensed social worker with expertise in group work, as well as a career counselor from a Jewish Human Services Agency.
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An Introduction to COA & the Accreditation Process
These 30-minute webinars provide an introduction to the Council on Accreditation (COA) and their accreditation process. It is perfect for anyone seeking accreditation for the first time, interested in what is required to become accredited, or mandated to become accredited by state or federal legislation (such as the Family First Prevention Services Act). Participants will gain an understanding of the key concepts that define COA, the steps toward becoming accredited, and the benefits of accreditation. There will also be a Q&A portion for us to answer any questions you might have.
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Skills for Impact
NJHSA is excited to share that it is partnering with
Repair the World
in their launch of a new capacity-building offering for agencies in the 9 communities: NYC, Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami, Pittsburgh where they work. Through this partnership, NJHSA and Repair the World will be extending a fully-funded, year-long membership to
Catchafire
, a platform that pre-screens skills-based volunteers who serve as pro-bono consultants and offers educational programming to nonprofits customized to your size and capacity. We believe this tool and program will bring immediate support and additional relief during these challenging times and are thrilled to be able to offer this exciting resource to your agency.
Stay tuned to learn more
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CALLS & WEBINARS
JUNE OFFERINGS
Tuesday, June 9th
- Disabilities Service Professionals Group Call | 3pm ET | REGISTER
- In It Together: Peer Discussion Groups for Jewish Community Professionals Who Have Been Laid Off or Furloughed | 4pm ET
Wednesday, June 10th
- CEO/COO Check In Chats | 11am & 4pm ET
- Workforce Development Professionals Group Call | 1pm ET
Thursday, June 11th
- Holocaust Survivor Services Professionals Group Call | 2:30pm ET
Monday, June 15th
- Programming and Educational Outreach Professionals Group Call | 3pm ET
Tuesday, June 16th
- In It Together: Peer Discussion Groups for Jewish Community Professionals Who Have Been Laid Off or Furloughed | 4pm ET
Wednesday, June 17th
- CEO/COO Check In Chats | 11am & 4pm ET
- Volunteer Professionals Group Call | 1:30pm ET
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Affinity Groups are for designed for member agency professionals and lay leaders. Others interested are encouraged to contact
Megan
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** Recorded calls and presentations can be found
in the Members Only section of the NJHSA website
in the Resource Library. **
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** NEW OPPORTUNITIES ADDED REGULARLY **
Working for a Jewish human service agency is a highly rewarding career.
A listing of open positions at member agencies can be found
here
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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. Email
Megan
to learn more.
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