Jewish Federation And Family Services Of Orange County

Programs: Community outreach grants and programs built leadership on our college campuses through advocacy training, mentoring, conferences and experimental learning serving 3 college campuses in orange county, supporting 18 student programs, and assisting 35 students with grants. Outreach programs also enable members of our community to explore a range of jewish cultural activities for all ages, such as the annual community-wide israel expo event which had more than 10,000 attendees. Outreach programs also connect our community with jews in need through the united states and overseas and provides our congregations with support for innovative outreach programming. Jffs supported 9 congregational programs with grants.

through the family services division, jffs social service programs and direct financial aid ensures the quality of life for the most vulnerable members of the community, including seniors, children and young adults with special needs, and individuals and families in crisis. In 2014, jffs served 5,543 clients. Lifelines emergency assistance: 1,259 received crisis case management, information and referral, and /or services through adopt a family. Holocaust survivor services: 183 clients received care management, assistance applying for restitution and socialization programming to help them cope with the challenges of aging. Of those, 48 received direct reimbursement for 15,043 hours of home care services. Career coaching: 92 clients were served. Of those, 52 received a comprehensive package of career and financial coaching and the other 40 attended career workshops. Of clients in the program more than 6 months, 80% were placed in jobs. Mental health serves: 1,152 counseling sessions and 858 workshops, support groups and classes. Chicken soup for the silver soul senior care conference: 550 individuals attended. Irvine supportive community: provided 270 seniors with over 6,010 contacts. Offerings were very diverse, and included 769 separate sessions of physical fitness class, brain fitness activites, nutrition classes, yard clean ups, excursions and more. Senior services: 1,068 seniors were served through jffs senior programs geared towards helping seniors to age in placetransportation: 20,504 rides to seniors, young adults with disabilities, cancer patients, vision impaired and homeless adultsmandel house: 6 adults with developmental disabilities reside at mandel house, a service-enhanced residential home

education programs and grants: programs to support jewish education span all ages and denominations in our community. Education grants support camperships and preschool scholarships for jewish children; after-school and summer education programs for youth and teens; jewish day schools whose student population range from kindergarten through 12th grade; jewish identity and leadership preparation for teens; adult jewish learning programs; and continuing jewish education for seniors. Jffs awarded 267 educational grants to applicants with an average grant of $534 per recipient and funded 97% of all applicants. Pj library, a preschool program, awarded 12 books per year to 1096 households with preschool children. 79 volunteers involved in reading partners, a volunteer-led literacy program in 72 k-3 classrooms in 16 orange county public schools, helped children learn to read, so they can read to learn.