JFS is devoted to upholding Jewish values by providing a variety of supportive, psychological well being, and volunteer providers that foster an interesting neighborhood.
JFS has a longstanding custom of aiding refugees and immigrants in Salt Lake Metropolis, which continues right now via our Refugee Integration Help Effort.
Well being & Wellness
JFS gives a variety of well being and wellness providers to assist people and households lead wholesome, vibrant lives. These embrace pandemic mitigation providers, care system navigation, affected person advocacy, vitamin helps, in addition to methods for managing power situations.
Jewish Household Providers additionally affords an grownup incapacity group, offering a protected and supportive house for adults with disabilities to share their tales and join with others. Members focus on disability-related points, be taught methods to deal with them, develop interpersonal communication abilities, enhance self-awareness and foster a way of belonging.
JFS additionally affords free telehealth and well being teaching providers to people with power ailments akin to diabetes, hypertension, and coronary heart illness. These can be found each by phone or in-person.
Silver CARE is a mindfulness-based, trauma-informed remedy program that equips older adults who’ve suffered vital life trauma to reside as totally and independently as attainable by assembly their biopsychosocial wants. This service is grant funded and supplied for free of charge to contributors.
Brea is the Senior Director of Group Outreach and Wellness at Jewish Household Providers, having joined them in 2016 with intensive experience in psychological well being, social work, and neighborhood service.
Lynn serves as Senior Director of Group Outreach and Wellness for JFS, serving to guarantee they ship packages that deal with the well being and wellness wants of native communities. She has a particular curiosity in combatting social isolation attributable to the present world pandemic and works to help members with these struggles.
Jewish Household Providers gives a variety of well being and wellness providers, in addition to meals insecurity counseling and home violence counseling. These initiatives are a part of their Reside Effectively San Diego technique, serving to shoppers transfer in direction of self-sufficiency with dignity whereas creating alternatives for neighborhood connection and engagement.
Jewish Household Service additionally gives a complete house well being program that gives expert nursing, bodily remedy, occupational remedy and speech-language pathology providers to seniors in their very own houses. This service is accessible each to Jewish Senior Life residents in addition to the broader neighborhood.
Social & Recreation
JFS gives social and leisure providers that promote well being and well-being for people, households, kids and seniors. These initiatives are guided by Jewish values to advertise a optimistic outlook on life; serving to folks construct wholesome relationships with household and associates, scale back stress, handle despair, deal with grief/loss, develop their religious aspect of lives and lead fulfilling lives.
Established in 1854, Jewish Household Providers of Northeastern New York gives a variety of providers to fulfill your wants – akin to ageing in place, monetary help, psychological well being and wellness help and residential care – all through the area. Our knowledgeable workers are accessible by telephone, in particular person or on-line to help people and households of all ages from their very own houses or neighborhood.
Our NORC (Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities) present reasonably priced housing choices to senior residents in the neighborhood with on-site social staff who facilitate social, instructional, cultural and leisure actions. NORC’s mission is to foster a way of belonging and connection to their neighborhood whereas enhancing senior residents’ high quality of life.
For a lot of aged in our neighborhood, ageing in place is usually a difficult and unsure time. The NORC program affords an revolutionary resolution to this dilemma by permitting seniors to stay dwelling at house whereas remaining as unbiased as attainable with on-site social providers supplied by JFS neighborhood social staff.
At NORC, our senior residents are cared for by a group of JFS licensed medical social staff who focus on geriatrics. These neighborhood social staff provide counseling and referrals, case administration, life abilities training, well being and vitamin training, in addition to advocacy.
JFS gives incapacity providers to grownup members of our neighborhood with disabilities, primarily within the areas of social actions, recreation and respite. We collaborate with different businesses that supply medical, house well being and long-term help for our shoppers. Moreover, our Household Futures Planning program assists adults dwelling with disabilities by creating family-led help networks to allow them to plan for his or her futures and create methods for dwelling efficiently regardless of their challenges.
Schooling & Coaching
Jewish Household Providers affords a variety of instructional and coaching alternatives to people, households and organizations working in direction of the advance of their communities. These initiatives embrace seminars for psychological well being professionals, parenting workshops, internships for teenagers and trainings for older adults.
JFS additionally gives training to care amenities and residential care businesses that serve Jewish senior adults, serving to them present culturally delicate care that results in elevated satisfaction and understanding amongst shoppers. Moreover, JFS affords a novel mentoring program for Jewish kids between 6-16 who could also be elevating themselves in unfamiliar household environments.
JFS helps refugee shoppers succeed of their new house by instructing them English for work, pre-employment abilities, digital literacy and monetary literacy earlier than and after they discover employment. This help offers them a robust basis to construct upon, finally main them in direction of self sufficiency.
Yearly, JFS gives instructional alternatives to 1000’s of people. Whether or not it is skilled improvement for academics, parenting workshops or an internship for teenagers, our skilled workers members are leaders of their fields and obsessed with passing alongside data to others.
At JFS, our mission is to ensure that everybody in our neighborhood has entry to the help they want for wholesome, productive lives. Our packages and providers empower people of all ages, races, faiths and revenue ranges to flourish as people and households.
JFS is the main supplier of social and healthcare providers to kids, adults and seniors all through our area. Our packages assist folks preserve their independence whereas staying linked to the neighborhood, scale back starvation ranges and equip them with instruments for healthful dwelling and success. With over 150 years on this area, JFS has earned its place as a beacon for optimistic change.
JFS serves the Bluegrass Jewish neighborhood, offering providers that respect Jewish tradition, values and beliefs. Its workers strives to uphold shoppers’ dignity and self-respect whereas serving to people, households and elders preserve wholesome existence. Main providers embrace case administration, evaluation and coordination of wants, info/referral to different neighborhood sources, disaster intervention providers and advocacy – all the time adhering to confidentiality in all company operations.
Group Engagement
JFS is devoted to serving your complete neighborhood by inspiring these we serve and their households to achieve success. Via numerous packages, the company promotes wellness, fosters social and emotional wellbeing and builds connections.
At Jewish Household Service, we consider that significant connections with others can enrich an individual’s life. Via our social work packages, we offer providers to fulfill fundamental wants akin to healthcare, housing/monetary help, meals help and counseling. Moreover, we collaborate with different nonprofits to supply an intensive array of sources for our shoppers.
Via our Getting old Care & Connections (ACC) and Arts & Group Exploration (ACE) packages, we purpose to counterpoint the lives of older adults via wellness, leisure, and social engagement alternatives. That is attainable because of the collaboration between our ACC and ACE groups.
As an illustration, the ACC program strives to advertise bodily and psychological wellbeing via actions targeted on artwork, train, vitamin, and mindfulness. Moreover, ACE contributors get to find extra about their neighborhood by visiting cultural facilities, parks, libraries, downtown adventures, museums, in addition to volunteering their providers.
JFS gives help to people, households and establishments affected by trauma. When a member of the Jewish neighborhood experiences an occasion akin to an accident or suicide, our workers members present quick consolation providers to assist them cope.
KesherKC gives complete case administration, medical and monetary help and meals pantry sources to fulfill the quick wants of people and households. Moreover, our group helps folks construct connections for a safer future.
By working along with different neighborhood companions, we’re capable of provide a holistic method to healthcare and monetary help. This allows us to handle the various wants of our shoppers – together with these ageing in place or these with particular wants akin to Alzheimer’s illness.
We’re all the time looking out for methods to higher join our members and the broader neighborhood, so please attain out if in case you have any options or concepts!