Employment & Career Development
| Parnossahworks.org is an innovative web-based job search and employment assistance system. This web site reaches unemployed job seekers through their Orthodox, Conservative or Reformed religious affiliations to link them with career and employment professionals who can provide them with private, comprehensive employment assistance and access to jobs within their local communities. It also offers employers the opportunity to find highly qualified, motivated candidates to fill their open positions through an on-line job posting board. |
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The commitment of F·E·G·S since its establishment in 1934 by the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies (now UJA-Federation of New York) has been a commitment to Parnossah, to help each and every individual achieve the highest level of economic self-sufficiency. |
F·E·G·S has justified UJA-Federation's and the community's faith in F·E·G·S through our commitment to the Jewish and larger communities to continue to provide the highest quality, cost-efficient services to individuals in Israel, the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, as well as here in the metropolitan New York Area.
F·E·G·S is the Jewish Family Service Agency on Long Island reaching thousands of people each year across Nassau and Suffolk Counties. In addition to the hundreds of programs F·E·G·S operates throughout New York, the following are F·E·G·S' special services to the Jewish Community.
Developmental Disabilities Residential Services
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Serves adults, ages 21 and older, who have developmental disabilities. The residences provide life-long direct care, intensive support on a 24-hour basis, in a kosher, home-like setting. Diagnostic, clinical, and medical services help residents improve daily living activities, socialization skills, and integration into the community. Residents attend a day service, or work. |
Family Services
Pre-Marriage Group Counseling 516.496.7550 Best Feet Forward offers engaged Jewish couples psychoeducational groups, designed to give them insight and skills that will then build lasting, happy and spiritual lives together. |
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In partnership with UJA-Federation, this program manages financial trusts on behalf of individuals with disabilities. Individuals, their families, or friends establish an account in a UJA-Federation master supplemental needs trust. F.E.G.S personal advocates guide trust beneficiaries in making wise money-management decisions, help individuals secure entitlements, and access and monitor services for beneficiaries. These services are also provided to former PLAN/NY members, and, too, are available on a fee-for-service basis. |
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Community prevention/education seminars, resources, referrals, and individual, group and family counseling services are provided to young women and men, and their families across Nassau and Suffolk Counties who are at risk for, or coping with, an eating disorder. |
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The Infertility and Adoption Program offers community education, counseling, and information services and referrals for individuals, couples and groups. |
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an initiative of UJA-Federation of New York 516.496.7550 When facing life-limiting or advanced illness, the F·E·G·S Partners in Dignity Program can help. As Long Island's regional center for UJA-Federation of New York's Jewish Healing and Hospice Partnership, F·E·G·S professional staff can provide case management and pastoral support, information and advocacy, and referrals for palliative and hospice care. Training to professionals and volunteers is also provided. |
Immigrants and Refugees
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Provides job placement services for refugees from the former Soviet Union who have been in the United States for three years, or less. This program is offered in cooperation with the New York Association for New Americans (NYANA), and other community-based organizations. |
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A volunteer-based project that provides English language tutoring, mentoring and acculturation activities to émigrés from the former Soviet Union who are preparing for American citizenship. |
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| Serves youth, adults, individual receiving public assistance, dislocated workers, individuals with disabilities, veterans, new immigrants, and others seeking Business Skills training for jobs in today's economy. Courses offer hands-on, individualized instruction by experienced, New York State licensed instructors. Enrollment is year-round; daytime and evening classes are offered. Financial aid is available for those who qualify. The School is licensed by the New York State Education Department and accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools/Colleges of Technology. For the catalog and/or additional information, call the listed number above. |
Home Health Aide Training 212.366.8466
| Serves youth, adults, individual's receiving public assistance, dislocated workers, individuals with disabilities, veterans, new immigrants, and others seeking. |
Student Internship Services
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In collaboration with Hillel of New York, C.L.I.P. provides undergraduate students with a pre-professional summer internship in the fields of business, finance, law, medicine, human services, psychology, and journalism. Seminars focus on career training, issues of Jewish communal concern, Jewish continuity, campus activism, and future leadership in and for the Jewish community. |
Volunteer Services
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Individual tutoring and group experiences assist émigrés, who are not yet U.S. Citizens, through the citizenship process. |
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The Poverty Initiative is a collaborative program between F·E·G·S Long Island Division, local synagogues, Jewish community centers and volunteers to provide aid (clothes, food and other necessary items) to needy families across Nassau and Suffolk counties. |
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Volunteers, primarily retirees, assist Soviet emigres to improve their English language skills and help them adapt to American life. |
Youth Services
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Suicide prevention specialists offer prevention/intervention workshops to groups of teens, parents, and/or professionals. Participants learn how to recognize the signs when someone is contemplating suicide, how to intervene, and how to access community resources. |
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