JFS Honored for COVID Service
The Center for Entrepreneurial Jewish Philanthropy (CEJP) has selected JFS as one of the 80 winners from a total 379 award applications for outstanding service to vulnerable Jewish populations during […]
Making an Impact – COVID Drives Record Unemployment
In the Making an Impact series, clients and services are featured to expand awareness of the wide array of help available at JFS and to ensure donors understand the lives they touch […]
Trauma Triggers Wide Range of Distress
by Tara Burns, MA, Counselor George Floyd’s senseless, avoidable death sent shock waves of pain throughout our communities, our country and worldwide. Trauma’s effects ripple out into the world and […]
JFS Therapist Offers Perspective During COVID in Professional Organization Newsletter
An article entitled “A Buddhist’s Perspective of COVID,” written by JFS therapist Beth Johnson, LMFT, was recently published in the Minnesota Women in Psychology newsletter. Beth has worked with children, […]
Making an Impact – Remote Therapy Requires a Phone
In the Making an Impact series, clients and services are featured to expand awareness of the wide array of help available at JFS and to ensure donors understand the lives they touch […]
HELP US REACH OUR FUNDRAISING GOAL!
This year, we are not able to gather for our annual fundraiser, Celebration of Service. With this cancellation, our revenue and reserves have suffered large losses. We have incurred significant […]
Support for Expecting & New Parents
This virtual series is designed to provide support and education to expecting parents as well as parents of newborns. It is made possible by support from Jewish Family and Children’s […]
JFS Supports JCRC Statement
We support the statement of our partner, JCRC, demanding justice for the killing of George Floyd. JCRC acts as the public affairs voice of the Jewish community, fighting antisemitism and […]
JFS Receives Additional Grant Funding
JFS has received two grants to be used to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in addition to the Otto Bremer Trust grant it received in April. The St. Paul Jewish […]
JFS Services Continue Remotely Through Summer
As the COVID pandemic continues and Minnesota shifts to a new Stay Safe order, health and safety remain the first concerns of JFS. The agency continues to monitor the governor’s […]