JEWISH COMMUNITY

Adopt-A-Family

The Alex and Patricia Gabay Center for Jewish Family Continuity

6900 Jericho Turnpike • Syosset, NY 11791

516.496.7550 FAX: 516.496.9156

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Matches families and individuals in crisis with volunteers. Professional case management provides linkages to vital benefits, services and resources.

Brooklyn Resource Center

938 Kings Highway • New York, NY 11223

718.998.3235 Ext. 314 FAX: 718.336.3040

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Multi-disciplinary staff provides screening, evaluation, and verbal and medication therapies for adults, adolescents and children with a wide range of emotional problems, adjustment problems or psychiatric disabilities. Serves individuals, couples, families and groups. Treatment also provided for individuals who are developmentally disabled or abusing substances in conjunction with their emotional difficulties. The Brooklyn Resource Center specializes in information and referral services for the Russian-speaking community. Evening hours and bilingual services are available. Licensed by the New York State Office of Mental Health.

Brooklyn Resource Center - Counseling Center

938 Kings Highway • New York, NY 11223

718.998.3235 Ext. 314 FAX: 718.336.3040

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C.L.I.P. · Collegiate Leadership Internship Program

315 Hudson Street, 6th Floor • New York, NY 10013

917.606.6575 FAX: 212.414.4537

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In collaboration with Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, C.L.I.P. provides undergraduate students with a meaningful summer internship in the fields of business, law, human services, psychology, and journalism with weekly seminars on career planning, issues of Jewish communal concern, and leadership.

Chaverim Program for Independence

315 Hudson Street, 6th Floor • New York, NY 10013

917.606.6593 or 212.366.8030 FAX: 212.366.8015

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Social, recreational, skills development, and Jewish cultural activities for independent functioning adults with learning, developmental, neurological, or psychiatric disabilities. Weekly meetings and monthly special events held at UJA-Federation of New York, in Manhattan.

Citizenship Program

Brooklyn Resource Center

938 Kings Highway • New York, NY 11223

718.336.2836 FAX: 718.336.0267

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Volunteers assist/tutor seniors from the former Soviet Union in small group settings to help them prepare for the required oral interview to become a U.S. citizen.

Community Skills Living Program

315 Hudson Street, 6th Floor • New York, NY 10013

212.366.8030 FAX: 212.366.8015

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Individually-structured services meet the unique needs of individuals with developmental, psychiatric, or physical disabilities. Focuses on the development and maintenance of independent community living skills while ensuring oversight coordination of these individuals' care and services. Fee-for-service program.

Connect to Care

80 Van Dam, 1st Floor • New York, NY 10013

212.524.1790

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In response to the current economic crisis, F·E·G·S offers the Jewish community an array of employment and career transition services, including job networking opportunities, career seminars, computer training, resume preparation, interviewing skills, and more. Connect to Care also provides a variety personal counseling programs and Jewish spiritual care, plus financial, budget, and debt counseling as well as legal services.

Connect to Care

The Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center

74 Hauppauge Road • Commack, NY 11725

631.462.9800

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F·E·G·S Computer Resource Center

80 Vandam Steet • New York, NY 10013

212.524.1790

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Supported through a gift from The Shirley and William R. Fleischer Family Foundation, Inc., serves the needs of unemployed individuals of all ages and occupations. Outfitted with the latest hardware and software, the Center offers access to dozens of software applications that users can also access, through F·E·G·S, at their home computers.

F•E•G•S NoBody's Perfect® • Eating Disorders Program

6900 Jericho Turnpike • Syosset, NY 11791

516.496.7550 FAX: 516.496.9156

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School-based and community prevention/education programming, professional training, resources and referrals for Jewish young women and men, and their families across Nassau and Suffolk Counties who are at risk for, or coping with, an eating disorder. Also available in other communities.

Golden Age Project · GAP

6900 Jericho Turnpike • Syosset, NY 11791

516.496.7550 FAX: 516.496.9156

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Matches volunteers with homebound and isolated seniors, providing them with socialization and companionship through weekly visits.

HIV/AIDS Prevention/Education on Long Island

Copiague Multi-Service Center

445 Oak Street, 2nd Floor • Copiague, NY 11726

631.691.7080 FAX: 631.691.3387

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HIV/AIDS outreach, prevention and training for adolescents and adults over 50 across Long Island. Peer counseling services for teenagers is also available. Services provided across Long Island.

HIV/AIDS Prevention/Education on Long Island

6900 Jericho Turnpike • Syosset 11791

516.496.7550 FAX: 516.496.9156

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HIV/AIDS outreach, prevention and training for adolescents and adults over 50 across Long Island. Peer counseling services for teenagers is also available. Services provided across Long Island.

Holocaust Services · Survivors and Veterans Program

Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst

7802 Bay Parkway • New York, NY 11214

718.331.6800 FAX: 718.232.8461

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Provides psychological support to Russian-speaking Holocaust survivors and World War II veterans – a joint initiative between F·E·G·S and the Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst.

LEAD · Internship Program for Russian-Speaking Students

315 Hudson Street, 6th Floor • New York, NY 10013

212.524.5779 FAX: 212.414.4537

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Provides paid internships for Russian-speaking, Jewish college and graduate students who attend colleges and universities in the New York metropolitan area. The internships will help prepare students to meet their career goals in a professional work environment within the Jewish community.

New Linkages

315 Hudson Street, 6th Floor • New York, NY 10013

917.606.6629 FAX: 212.414.4537

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Provides opportunities for Jewish college students to explore their Jewish heritage through a 16-hour internship in a Jewish communal service organization and three informal study sessions with noted Jewish scholars. A collaborative program between the Melvin N. Miller and Eunice A. Miller Foundation and F·E·G·S.

NNORC • Hands on Huntington

423 Park Avenue • Huntington, NY 11743

631.351.6610 FAX: 631.351.3221

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F·E·G·S, in partnership with the Towns of Huntington and North Hempstead, North Shore/LIJ Health System and other community based organizations, offers these programs to mobilize communities to bring comprehensive counseling, case management, health, social, recreational and volunteer services to people over 60.

NNORC • Project Independence

1618 Marcus Avenue • New Hyde Park, NY 11040

516.869.7793 FAX: 516.327.6069

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ParnossahWorksTM

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Health Related and Human Services Center

80 Vandam Street • New York, NY 10013

212.524.1700 Ext. 3 FAX: 212.524.1791

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Innovative web-based job search and employment assistance system supported by career and employment professionals. ParnossahWorksTM reaches unemployed job seekers through synagogues and Jewish communal institutions.

Partners in Caring · Aging

516.496.7550 FAX: 516.496.9156

A network of specialized services including information, referral, assessment, counseling, support groups and community education for elderly congregants and community members provided on-site at Queens synagogues.

Partners in Caring · Bukharian Community

97-45 Queens Boulevard • New York, NY 11375

718.896.9090 FAX: 718.830.0724

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Information, referral, assessment, counseling, support groups and community education services for congregants and community members provided on-site at Queens Bukharian synagogues and day schools.

Partners in Caring · Long Island

The Alex and Patricia Gabay Center for Jewish Family Continuity

6900 Jericho Turnpike • Syosset, NY 11791

516.496.7550 FAX: 516.496.9156

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Social work services including information, referral, assessment, counseling, support groups and community education for congregants and community members provided on-site at Long Island synagogues.

Partners in Dignity:

Long Island Regional Care Center – The Jewish Healing and Hospice Alliance

6900 Jericho Turnpike • Syosset, NY 11791

516.496.7550 FAX: 516.496.9156

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An initiative of UJA-Federation of New York – provides Jewish families and individuals the services needed when facing life-limiting and advanced illness Case management; pastoral and bereavement counseling; palliative care; support; referral and advocacy offered. F·E·G·S provides training to professionals and mobilizes and trains volunteers.

Pathways to Success

Brooklyn Resource Center

938 Kings Highway • New York, NY 11223

718.336.2836 FAX: 718.336.0267

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Skills assessment, job development, job search skills, and job counseling for refugees and other Russian-speaking émigrés. Offered in cooperation with UJA-Federation of New York.

Queens Resource and Computer Center

The Bukharian Jewish Congress

106-16 70th Avenue, 5th Floor • New York, NY 11375

718.544.5086 FAX: 718.575.0215

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Provides the Bukharian community and others, with access to job search, English language proficiency and computer skills-building resources and job placement in a state-of-the-art computer center. Offers job seekers, seniors, youth, and others in need, access to computer resources and learning opportunities. Business, educational and language software programs are available.

Tanya Towers

212.366.0098 TTY: 212.366.0098 FAX: 212.366.0050

Specialized housing and service coordination for low income individuals who are deaf, deaf/blind, hard of hearing, or have psychiatric disabilities. Kosher lunch program and Jewish religious services in sign language are offered.

The Crown Heights Career Assistance Program (CH-CAP)

212.524.1728

The Crown Heights Career Assistance Program (CH-CAP) helps members of the Crown Heights Anash community with career counseling, information, referrals to career training programs, and tuition assistance. CH-CAP helps participants gain the skills to be successful in today's job market. This program is designed to assist graduates of Crown Heights Chabad kollels, yeshivas, or teacher's seminaries.

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Residences I & II

212.366.0098 TTY: 212.366.0098 FAX: 212.366.0050

The Honorable Caroline K. Simon Counseling Center · Rego Park

97-45 Queens Boulevard

Rego Park • New York, NY 11374

718.896.9090 Ext. 236 FAX: 718.830.0724

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Multi-disciplinary staff provides screening, evaluation, and verbal and medication therapies for adults, adolescents and children with a wide range of emotional and/or adjustment problems or psychiatric disabilities. Serves individuals, couples, families and groups providing specialty services in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Treatment is also offered for individuals who are developmentally disabled or abusing substances in conjunction with their emotional difficulties. Evening hours and bilingual services are available. The Rego Park Center specializes in information and referral services for the Russian-speaking community. Licensed by the New York State Office of Mental Health.

Thypin Oltchick Institute for Women’s Entrepreneurship @ F·E·G·S

315 Hudson Street • New York, NY 10013

212.366.0033 FAX: 212.524.1791

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Offers professional resources and guidance to women interested in entrepreneurship and small business ownership. The Institute acts as a clearing house, providing expertise and advice in helping women determine their needs and guiding them to the most appropriate services to launch a small business in the New York City area. Workshops provided.

Tikvah Suicide Prevention/Education

6900 Jericho Turnpike • Syosset, NY 11791

516.496.7550 FAX: 516.496.9156

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Suicide prevention specialists offer prevention/intervention workshops to groups of teens, parents, and/or professionals. Participants learn how to recognize suicide warning signs, how to intervene and access community resources.

UJA-Federation Community Trust for Individuals with Disabilities

315 Hudson Street, 6th Floor • New York, NY 10013

212.366.8030 FAX: 212.366.8015

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Special needs trusts and personal advocacy services on behalf of individuals with disabilities. Operated in partnership with UJA-Federation of New York, this program helps individuals, their families or friends to establish a trust account in a pooled supplemental needs trust. F·E·G·S personal advocates guide beneficiaries to plan and manage activities, secure needed entitlements, and make informed decisions. Services are also provided to former PLAN/NY members.

UJA-Federation Poverty Initiative

The Alex and Patricia Gabay Center for Jewish Family Continuity

6900 Jericho Turnpike • Syosset, NY 11791

516.496.7550 FAX: 516.496.9156

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Emergency assistance, of clothes, food and other necessary items which are distributed to needy families across Nassau and Suffolk Counties through a collaborative program between F·E·G·S, UJA-Federation, local synagogues, Jewish community centers and volunteers.