55,000 New Yorkers in Need: One Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services

55,000 New Yorkers in Need:

One Jewish Board Of Family And Children’s Services

The Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services (JBFCS) is one of the largest and most respected mental health and social service nonprofit organizations in the country. Through a comprehensive range of community-based programs, residential facilities, and day-treatment centers, JBFCS serves more than 55,000 New Yorkers annually from all religious, ethnic, and economic backgrounds. At the heart of JBFCS are nearly 2,000 professionals who serve with commitment and compassion: social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and a cadre of clinical support personnel. The efforts are backed by more than 2,000 volunteers who open their hearts and give of their time every year—as mentors, phone companions, big brothers and sisters, and study buddies, exemplifying every day what it means to take care of one another.

Support for JBFCS services is provided by individual contributions, bequests, program fees, foundations and government grants. JBFCS is a beneficiary agency of UJA-Federation of New York and a member of the Association of Jewish Family and Children’s Agencies. For further details, please visit www.jbfcs.org.

· COMFORT AND HELP FOR DISPLACED PATIENTS IN NEW YORK CITY

On July 1, 2010, JBFCS opened its Manhattan South Clinic to take over the duties of St. Vincent’s Child and Adolescent Outpatient Program and its Child Trauma and Wellness Center Program. Manhattan South’s aim? To make sure patients who had been displaced from St. Vincent’s continued to receive the proper care. The clinic, located at 386 Park Avenue South, works with children and adolescents. Services offered include individual, group, and family counseling regarding such issues as anxiety, depression, problems in school, family dysfunction, and more. They also have child and adolescent psychiatrists on staff who see young clients, if indicated, for psychiatric evaluations and medication management.

· HELPING NEW YORKERS OVERCOME TODAY’S ECONOMY

As the principal agency for Connect to Care in Manhattan, Riverdale and Brownstone, Brooklyn, JBFCS continues to lead a program designed to provide financial assistance to middle and upper-middle income families impacted by the recovering economic crisis.

· ACCEPTANCE, GUIDANCE AND ASSISTANCE FOR THE CITY’S TEENS

The JBFCS has established and continues to operate two of the largest residential treatment facilities for adolescents in New York, both located on the Westchester Campus. Each facility provides a home, and cultivates a family, for the nearly 300 youth-at-risk who come to the nonprofit organization after multiple foster home placements, multiple psychiatric hospitalizations and varied behavioral challenges. JBFCS also spearheads ayoung adult apartment program for teens, providing living opportunities for children who ‘age out’ of foster care system.

· A NEW HOME FOR JBFCS

The organization has successfully moved to a new headquarters (135 West 50^th Street) and expanded and relocated its Center for Child Development and Learning to central Harlem (34 West 139^th Street). Both moves create substantial opportunities to expand services to the people of New York. The new facility in Harlem along with the JBFCS directors, teachers, and therapists are all focused on getting children to reach their full potential, on getting parents to understand how to help a child who is falling behind, and on getting awareness about developmental issues out to the community so that no child is stigmatized or burdened for not acting “like other children.”

· AN EXTENSIVE NETWORK OF PROFESSIONALS AND VOLUNTEERS WORK TOWARDS THE JBFCS MISSION

With a combined annual budget of $180 Million, the work of JBFCS is built upon a network of over 2,200 professionals, including social workers, licensed psychologists, and psychiatrists, as well as a cadre of clinical support personnel in continuing day treatment and residential treatment centers. A corps of over 2,200 dedicated volunteers provides an additional $1 Million of in-kind services annually.

ShesDaily.com

Disclosure: the above publication is for entertainment purposes only and it is courtesy of PR