Posted 5 days ago
What we need from our community changes as we move through different stages of life. So where do you find your people? How do you learn new skills, build relationships, or discover support when you need it most?
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Laurie Kleinbaum Fink became JFCS of Minnesota's Chief Program Officer in October 2025 after a long career with the Science Museum of Minnesota, where she served as Chair of Science. She recently spoke about why [...] Posted 2 months ago
May is a busy time for celebrating graduations, weddings, and Mother’s Day. It is also Older Americans Month and Mental Health Awareness Month, meaningful reminders of how important connection and community are[...] Posted 3 months ago
Every spring, we take a moment to pause and celebrate our amazing volunteers. April is Global Volunteer Month and next week (April 19-25) is National Volunteer Week, we want to give a special thanks to our volunt[...] Posted 5 months ago
This has been an extraordinary time in Minnesota – one many are calling unprecedented. What isn’t unprecedented is how JFCS responds.
The darkness, fear, anxiety, and uncertainty felt across our broader co[...] Posted 6 months ago
This has been both an exciting and challenging time for JFCS. Effective Jan. 1, we are now Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Minnesota. Together, we can expand our reach, strengthen Jewish human services [...] Posted 7 months ago
Those of us who call Minnesota home know it’s a sport, a pastime really, to comment almost incessantly about the weather. When you live where there’s a lot of weather, it’s hard not to do so! It is kind of [...] Posted 8 months ago
The word that comes up often when Judy Halper is discussing her career at JFCS – from how she came to the agency, to how she later became Chief Executive Officer, and many of the successes that followed during [...] Posted 9 months ago
By now, you have no doubt heard the exciting news – Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Minneapolis and Jewish Family Service of St. Paul are uniting to form one strong social service organization to serv[...] Posted 10 months ago
Though we always hope the crisis services we offer and our expertise in trauma care will never be needed, it is important to remember that when the unthinkable occurs, Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minn[...] 