Last year JCS improved the quality of life for over 500 Holocaust survivors through its comprehensive case management, personal care, nursing assessments, counseling, housekeeping, financial assistance, meals on wheels programs, as well as the assistance from other JCS programs including Reparations.
Comprehensive Case Management
The JCS Holocaust Survivor Assistance Program — funded by The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany — provides comprehensive Care Coordination services to Jewish Nazi victims in Miami-Dade County. These services are provided by Person Centered Trauma Informed Care (PCIT) Case Management Professionals.
All clients are visited in their homes where a comprehensive assessment is completed using the Department of Elder Affairs assessment tool and the Claims Conference Home Care Services Diagnostic Assessment Form. Clients approved* by the Claims Conference may receive Services that are arranged and monitored by the case managers and may include homecare, heavy cleaning, transportation, meal delivery and emergency financial services.
Reparation Assistance
The Reparations Coordinator will conduct outreach throughout Miami-Dade County to educate and inform Holocaust Survivors of all current reparation opportunities.
The Reparation Coordinator assists holocaust survivors with the application and maintenance of individual compensation and reparations, including Article 2, the Region-Specific Pension, the Hardship Fund, the Supplemental Hardship Fund Payment, the Child Survivor Fund, the Spouse of Holocaust Survivor Fund, the Polish Pension, the Ghetto Pension (Slave Labor), and/or pensions for widow/ers associated with the Wiedergutmachung (BEG) and the Ghetto Pension (ZRBG). The Reparations Coordinator also helps survivors with the application for programs available to recipients of the Austrian Pension.
*A person must be assessed and approved as a Holocaust survivor to receive services provided by the Claims Conference. Usually this refers to clients who already have an ongoing pension such as Article 2, RSP, BEG, Austrian Pension or were approved for one-time payments such as the Hardship Fund or the Child Survivor Fund. Applicants for service who never applied or were never approved should consult with Reparations Coordinator by calling JCS Access and Referral Line.
For more information regarding Comprehensive Case Management Services or Reparations, please contact JCS Access and Referral Line at (305) 576-6550.
