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JCS client featured in Vocational Rehabilitation’s newsletter
Reprinted from Vocational Rehabilitation newsletter Fort Lauderdale – Imagine being hidden away and ignored by your parents because you have a disab ...
The continuing saga of a JCS Shalom Bayit client – by Susan Nierenberg, LCSW, JCS Shalom Bayit Supervisor
Laura came to Shalom Bayit in desperation. She had arrived in Miami two years earlier with her husband and a baby. All her “friends” were her husb ...
National Falls Prevention Awareness Day
Written by the Alliance of the Aging. The JCS is a proud partner of the Alliance September 23 is the first day of fall. It is also National Falls Prev ...
Meal on Wheels Client Testimonial
This letter was sent to us by a couple who depends on Jewish Community Services Senior Meals Program for food sufficiency. Older adults who are unable ...
Hunger Awareness Month
Because September is Hunger Awareness Month, Jewish Community Services of South Florida (JCS) wants to bring attention to three of its services that f ...
The New Year’s Resolution Everyone Should Have
Sami Sachi is an advertising major at the University of Florida. He spent this past summer as the Community Engagement intern at the JCS, and is now b ...
Anonymous Student Letter to JCS
Jewish students living in Miami-Dade County can turn to JCS for help in accessing interest-free loans from the Jewish Educational Loan Fund for financ ...
JCS Provides LGBT Services
Navigating your way in the world when you are LGBT can be challenging. Are you dealing with emerging sexual orientation or gender identity issues? Are ...
Teaching L'dor Va'Dor at the JCS Kosher Food Bank
Last week, an unmarked envelope with $183.00 in cash was found under an office staff’s keyboard. For the past week we have been trying to figure out ...
10 Tips for Keeping Your Kids Safe...All Summer Long
Prepared by JCS Yehi Ohr Yehi Ohr provides safety kid sexual abuse prevention programs in schools throughout Miami-Dade County. 1. Have open discussio ...