Posted 3 weeks 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 2 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 4 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 5 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 6 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 7 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 8 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 9 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[...] Posted 1 year ago
Growing up, I remember the story of Purim mainly as a fairytale – it has a wicked character, Hamen, and a heroine and hero, Queen Esther and her uncle, Mordechai. Even as I grew older and became a parent to you[...] Posted 1 year ago
JFCS edirections newsletters are prepared over the course of each month. Knowing today that our newsletter would arrive in your inboxes just as the world learns of the most recent tragedy of the Hamas-Israel [...] 