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COMMUNITY NEWS: Mentoring a Family: Giving the Gift of Time
By Kate Gullo, LSW JFS Family Mentor Program Coordinator Sometimes in life, everybody needs a helping hand, a listening ear, or assistance finding resources. Right now, stress levels are ...
COMMUNITY NEWS: Woodstock: Yesterday and Today
By Leora W. Isaacs, Ph.D. DATELINE: August 15-18, 1969. Yasgur’s Farm, Bethel NY During a summer of social unrest and upheaval, more than 400,000 people converged at Yasgur’s ...
COMMUNITY NEWS: Knit Crochet with Love (KCWL)
One cold winter evening, Richa Gupta and Sudha Pai got together with a few friends in their basement to knit and crochet chemo caps for cancer patients. Little did ...
COMMUNITY NEWS: Jewish Family Service’s Clinical Counseling
Jewish Family Service’s Clinical Counseling ... Battling the Winter Blues, and providing professional care in our community By Jennifer Ellis Walters, LCSW The COVID-19 pandemic, its resulting stressors ...
COMMUNITY NEWS: Are Career Counselors Becoming Obsolete?
By Elise Prezant, JFS Career Counselor The end of the pandemic is hopefully in sight, the economy is improving, the job market is doing better, unemployment rates are on ...
COMMUNITY NEWS: 2021- Another School Year of Change
By Jen Walters, LCSW JFS 2021 has been a year marked by change and adaptation, especially for school-aged children and teens, and this September and October will be ...
COMMUNITY NEWS: People Need People
By Ruth Edelman, MSW What ingredients create meaningful life experiences? For some, it is the expression of caring for another, for a “neighbor in need.” JFS of Somerset, ...
COMMUNITY NEWS: Tunnel To Towers
In these unprecedented times, Bench Fashion Floors is honored to partner with the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. The Tunnel to Towers Foundation builds mortgage-free smart homes for our most ...