2012 Overview of Funded Programs

T h e J e w i s h F e d e r at i o n o f S o u t h Pa l m B e a c h C o u n t y 2012 overview of funded programs Gift By Gift. Life By Life. From feeding hungry neighbors and providing home health visits to Holocaust Survivors to helping Jews discover their heritage, our Federation brightens lives with every donation. Find out just how much good is made possible through the generosity of donors throughout Boca Raton, Delray Beach and Highland Beach. Flip through the pages, get inspired and discover the amazing power of giving.

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JEWISH FEDERATION ANNUAL CAMPAIGN

the option to direct their gift to one of three giving areas. Of course, all donors still have the option to continue to give to the Traditional Annual Campaign, but now everyone also has the power to choose. To make a gift to the campaign, please contact Jennifer Koenig at 561-852-3129 or jenniferk@bocafed.org Following are the three Giving Centers and each of their programs, all of which make up our Traditional Annual Campaign.

Sarah & Max Pechter Center for Local Safety Net Services Local Emergency Assistance Kosher Konnection: This hot kosher meal program for 120 seniors occurs every weekday and offers much-needed opportunities for socializing. Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service (JFS) arranges the space for the program which is located at Temple Anshei Shalom; provides Shabbat and holiday programming led by the JFS rabbi; and mobilizes volunteers to enhance Chanukah and Passover celebrations. In partnership with the Volen Center, The Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County and JFS. Direct Financial Assistance: Emergency assistance is provided for families and individuals experiencing financial hardship and who are having difficulty paying for basic needs including mortgage/rent, utility bills, medication, home health aides and provisions for children. In fiscal year 2010-2011, 1,200 local residents received financial assistance. A part-time case manager also assists families in crisis by helping them obtain government and other community resources. A program of JFS.

Eldercare specialists assist frail seniors so they may live in their homes for as long as possible, helping them to maintain their dignity and independence.

Forster Family Kosher Food Pantry: The Kosher Food Pantry delivers non-perishable items, fresh fruit and challah every other week, as well as eight holiday dinners, to families in need and isolated and low-income elderly. The pantry delivers to 544 individuals. A program of JFS.

Local Vulnerable Populations Director of Community Special Needs: A professional works with agencies, congregations and schools to obtain and enhance services for children and adults with disabilities, and to provide training and resources to help families become better advocates for their needs. Last year, more than 300 people and families received vital resources to address their individual challenges. A program of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County.

Donna Klein Jewish Academy Sun Center (Yad b'Yad): Yad B’Yad helps the growing number of students whose needs exceed the accommodations available in a regular classroom.

Federation provides an allocation each year to support this highly valued center and its very effective programs and teaching style.

Hillel Day School ETGAR Program: Provides intensive intervention and services for children with moderate learning disabilities. Ten full-time students all receive essential financial assistance through Federation.

Jewish Association for Residential Care (JARC) Financial Assistance: Families and individuals with limited financial resources receive aid to participate in residential and vocational programs for adults with developmental disabilities.

Nearly 40% of JARC’s residential clients (living in either group or apartment settings) qualify for financial support. Currently, 26 JARC residents and 12 other individuals receive vocational training with combined support from JARC and our Federation.

Marleen Forkas Camp Kavod Year Round Programs: Highly qualified, nurturing staff ensure that children and teens with special needs experience a safe, well-supervised, fun-filled camp program while acquiring vital life skills. In 2011, nearly 70 campers in grades Pre-K – 12 participated in a myriad of activities on campus and in community venues through summer, winter and spring camps. A program of the Adolph & Rose Levis Jewish Community Center.

Adolph & Rose Levis Alzheimer & Adult Day Care: This full-time weekday program serves those with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. A caring staff leads about 30 daily participants in enriching mental and physical activities and provides stimulating entertainment. Breakfast and lunch are served. A support group is also offered for caregivers. Program of the Mae Volen Center, supported by our Federation.

Adults with developmental disabilities receive aid so they can participate in vital programs and services.

Holocaust Survivor Assistance: Holocaust survivors receive life-sustaining support, including personal care, shopping, meal preparation and transportation for essential needs. JFS is currently assisting 243 survivors, a marked increase from last year. A program of JFS. Federation Transportation Services: Provides over 41,000 trips per year for elderly individuals and those with disabilities, to medical appointments and to buy groceries or household essentials. Transportation is provided in a clean and comfortable minibus with a carefully selected professional driver.

A program of our Federation.

Counseling/Vocational Services Individuals and Families in Crisis: Individual or group counseling, crisis intervention and a program for those with persistent mental illness are offered. There were 537 new clients last year, with 1,559 information and referral calls. In response to the community’s mental health needs, JFS began offering psychological assessments, psychiatric evaluations and medication management on a sliding scale basis. A program of JFS. Volunteer services/neighbor first: Over 400 volunteers provide transportation, telephone reassurance, home visits, food delivery, chaplaincy and support to local people in need— contributing more than 30,000 volunteer hours per year. Approximately 100 volunteers are actively engaged at the Shirley & Barton Weisman Delray Community Center teaching classes, working in the Blume Café, greeting guests, and answering the phone – all of which keeps the cost to participants as minimal as possible. A program of JFS. Federation Volunteer Resource Center: Matches volunteers in our community with local agencies and programs of their choosing.

Can be accessed at www.jewishboca.org/volunteers.

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Jewish Life and Learning

Academy, 254 at Donna Klein Jewish Academy and 66 at Weinbaum Yeshiva High School.

pre-school, and more than $140,000 in scholarships for summer camp.

Birthright Israel: Jews between the ages of 19 and 26 get the chance to discover the wonders of Israel for the first time, regardless of financial ability. This year, 240 young adults from South Palm Beach County were able to travel to Israel on winter or summer educational trips with Jews from around the world. However, more than half of those who apply remain on a waiting list, and additional funding is needed for them to participate. Since its inception in 1999, more than 1,600 young Jews in South Palm Beach County alone received the gift of a birthright trip, establishing a lifelong love of Israel.

Florida Association of Jewish Federations: Provides our Federation with information and alerts of interest to the Jewish community and enables our Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) to monitor legislation on health, education, human services, religion, funding and community relations. It also funds lobbying efforts on our behalf.

Hillel Foundation for Jewish Campus Life: Hillel enriches the lives of Jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the Jewish people and the world. Through a welcoming and inclusive environment, Hillel fosters growth, inspiration and dedication to Jewish life. Hillel currently serves tens of thousands of students statewide, including 8,000 students on campuses in Broward and Palm Beach counties.

JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL (JCRC) A Department of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County Government Officials Advocacy: Promotes and maintains relations with government officials and community leaders in order to: 1) advocate for government funding 2) promote U.S.-Israel relations, and 3) safeguard the Jewish community from terrorism. Each year, the JCRC secures government support for our Federation and its beneficiary agencies.

Iran Strategic Initiative: A well-coordinated, community-based, comprehensive strategy that mobilizes both the Jewish and general communities in matters relating to Iran.

Community Forums: The JCRC hosts leadership briefings and public programs for local residents, where they can engage in dialogue about relevant issues of concern to our Jewish community.

The annual March of the Living International Holocaust Education program made it possible for 43 students from South Palm Beach County (with 21 accompanying adults) to take part in this life-altering journey overseas in 2011.

or • help immigrants start a new life in Israel • provide large-print books for a child who is going blind • make sure a local nket • provide post traumatic stress syndrome counseling to an IDF soldier • make it possible for a single working mother to ke it possible for a fellow Jew to learn more about his heritage • give a widow in Kingspoint diabetes medicine every month • ow that they do not stand alone • rescue a boy in Tunisia from desperate poverty • help a bedridden woman in Tbilisi recei milies rebuild after a hurricane or earthquake • keep the annual Thanksgiving community dinner for 500 seniors going strong a Seder on Passover • brighten our Jewish future • let Jews everywhere know they have a critical, forever lifeline • feed a ne d a Jewish education • give an elderly resident a ride to the doctors’ office • provide immediate aid to victims of terror • he vivor receives the homecare he deserves • give a fellow Jew in the Former Soviet Union a hot meal and a proper blanket • dren to daycare • speak out against anti-Semitism • help to ensure that Iran does not secure nuclear weapons • make it po The Jewish Agency For Israel (JAFI)- core funding: d with learning disabilities the summer camp experience of a lifetime • make sure the Jews in Yemen and Kyrgyzstan know th me health everythe week • Agency give a has childserved with as asthma inhalerthe• Jewish send apeople young adult onworking Birthright Israel the • help re Forvisits 80 years, Jewish the linkan between and Israel, to ensure futurefamilies of a amily from a war-torn community • ignite a child’s love for Judaism • make certain that every local senior is invited to a Sede connected, committed, global Jewish People with a strong Israel at its center. They helped create and build the state and brought

Israel & Our Global Family

over 3 million Jews to Israel. Today, core funding continues to provide a lifeline to Jews around the world, including: absorption and resettlement of new immigrants, strengthening communities in Israel and the FSU, empowering at-risk Israeli youth, educational assistance and scholarships, a business loan initiative, support to immigrant soldiers who have fought in wars, and immediate aid for victims of terror. JAFI’s mission is to inspire Jews throughout the world to connect with their people, heritage and land, and empower them to build a thriving Jewish future and a strong Israel.

Our Federation also supports the following JAFI “elective” programs: P2K-Kiryat Bialik: Though 6,500 miles away, Federation’s sister city Kiryat Bialik keeps getting closer though bonds of friendship, collaboration and understanding.

Our “living bridge” with this growing community north of Haifa has borne much fruit through many shared projects and educational, business, women’s, teen and other types of exchanges, forming long-lasting relationships. Also, members of our Jewish Community Foundation’s Professional Advisory Committee, our March of the Living delegation, and the JCC’s Boca Raton Maccabi team all visited Kiryat Bialik this summer. The teens enjoyed warm hospitality and opportunities to socialize with their Israeli peers. Learn more about P2K-Kiryat Bialik on page/s 46 and 47.

Summer Camps in FSU: Tens of thousands of youngsters are introduced to their Jewish heritage, connecting them to an Israel experience and a sense of belonging.

From a peak of 15,000 participants in 2003, the number of participants dropped to 6,000 in 2010 due to the recession. This year, our Federation’s funding will allow approximately 65 children from Georgia to participate in a seven-day summer camp session which is supported almost exclusively through elective funding.

MASA Israel Journey: A flagship program that sends thousands of young Jewish adults between 18 and 30 years old from around the world to Israel for 4-10 months, indelibly impacting the future of Jewish life, the structure of Jewish communities and the relationship between young Jews and Israel.

Each year, Nativ reaches approximately 2,500 immigrant Israeli soldiers providing an educational program that cultivates and bolsters their sense of connection with Israel and their Jewish cultural heritage.

Ben Yakir Youth Aliyah Village: Provides a warm, religiously oriented home and school environment for more than 120 at-risk boys, the majority of whom are Ethiopian immigrants ages 12-18. They are given food, shelter, clothing and medical care, as well as educational and therapeutic services. Activities foster self-confidence, academic achievement and leadership, with the goal of successfully integrating these youngsters into Israeli society.

Nativ Immigrant Soldier Identity Program: A comprehensive educational program that bolsters immigrant soldiers’ sense of connection with Israel and their Jewish heritage. Many of these soldiers are not recognized as Jews by the government and Rabbinic agencies of Israel. This seven-week program enriches their knowledge of Jewish history and tradition and gives those interested an opportunity to prepare for formal conversion to Judaism.

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) - core funding: Active in more than 70 countries, the JDC and its partners work to rescue Jewish lives at risk, bring relief to Jews in need, renew lost bonds to Jewish identity and culture, and help Israel overcome the social challenges of its most vulnerable citizens, both Jewish and non-Jewish.

Our Federation also supports the following JDC “elective” programs: PACT (Parents and Children Together) – Kiryat Yam: With no single government agency responsible for the welfare of young children, PACT addresses this need, bringing together local agencies and service providers.

Through interventions such as healthcare, after school programs and at-home visits, PACT closes educational and social gaps and increases parental involvement. PACT typically supports about 170 Ethiopian-Israeli preschoolers and 100 actively engaged parents.

FSU Welfare Relief for Elderly and Children: The JDC provides humanitarian aid – food, medical care, hot meals, home care, winter relief and more – to supplement the inadequate pensions of needy elderly (especially for many ineligible for restitution funds because they are not considered victims of Nazi persecution). Currently, 168 JDC-sponsored Hesed Welfare Centers provide a crucial link for nearly 170,000 elderly Jews in poverty across the FSU. Approximately 28,000 Jewish children with hardships are also reached.

Other Agencies Supported: Ethiopian National Project – SPACE (School Performance and Community Empowerment): Ethiopian-Israeli youth in Kiryat Bialik receive assistance to help achieve equal opportunity and reach their full potential. Since 2007, our funds have been earmarked for scholastic assistance activities (75 students) and a Youth Outreach Center (90 students).

CHAMAH: Humanitarian aid including medical and food assistance is provided to the elderly and homebound in the FSU. JDC supports the Hesed programs run by CHAMAH. Our funding supplements their support, allowing nonHolocaust survivors to receive aid. Program services include soup kitchens, meals on wheels, food packages, food stamps and adult diapers.

Currently, 168 JDC-sponsored Hesed Welfare Centers provide a crucial link for nearly 170,000 elderly Jews in poverty across the FSU.

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