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JFCS is recognized with the 2011
AJFCA Kovod Award for Best Video!
Watch how JFCS responds to requests for emergency
financial assistance, career support and much more.
This video was produced by Greer & Associates.

• JFCS Twin Cities Jewish Healing Program outreach to ailing family, was featured in the Sun Sailor, and American Jewish World
• Remarks to JFCS Centennial Annual Meeting by Gail Dorfman, Hennepin County Commissioner
• Explore our Centennial
• Jewish Disability Awareness Month columns featured on TC Jewfolk
• Aurora Center Highlights JFCS
• Parent-Child Home Program Graduation Highlights
• Transportation Services Video
• JFCS Great Place to Work!
• Adult Day Services on Capitol Hill
• Mitzvah Madness volunteer opportunities

• Jewish Community Guide to Inclusion of People with Disabilities
• Jewish Spiritual Companion for Medical Treatments
• ParnossahWorks for employers and job seekers
• Chanukah Booklet
• Hanukkah: The Power of Miracles, by Rabbi Janet Offel
• Hanukkah and Healing
• Jewish Patient Needs at a Glance: Volunteer Resources, Congregational Nurses, and Twin Cities Area Synagogues and Jewish Funeral Home

Published Articles:

• NORCS: Making home a place you can retire
• Published article by Shelly Christensen in American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities newsletter
• From Invisibility to Visibly In - An article in the Journal of Jewish Communal Services by Shelly Christensen and Margie Weil about the groundbreaking Minneapolis Jewish Inclusion Program for People with Disabilities.

JFCS Staff Articles Printed in the American Jewish World:

JFCS Job Seeker Assistance Program helps people compete in today’s tough economy

Not OUR Kids! Conference Focuses on Healthy Youth - By Carly Stein

Creating New Dreams; Moving Forward in the Changing Economy - By Margie Earhart

Family Law Clinics Offer Legal Services to Families in Need - By Betsy Sitkoff

Adult Day Care Services Provides Respite for Caregivers - By Laura Philbrook

February is Jewish Disability Awareness Month - By Shelly Christensen

Education for Twin Cities Youth and their Families - By Carly Stein

Mental Health Care Critical to our Well Being - By Betsy Sitkoff

Hag Sameach Program helps those in need during Passover and Chanukah - By JoAnne Savitt

Welcoming Jews with developmental disabilities - By Carly Stein

Meals on Wheels: It's more than just a meal - By Jethra Brand

Helping people in these times of need - By Ruth Paley

Accommodating and modifying important as we raise the next generation - By Shelly Christensen

What interfaith families would like us to know - By Barbara Rudnick

Giving your relationship a tune up - By Candice Nadler

Domestic abuse has a devastating effect - By Betsy Sitkoff

Education and support offered on Alzheimer's - By Betsy Sitkoff

Eating disorders: weighing in on the facts - By Carole Cera

AlterCare can help seniors who have diabetes - By Laura Philbrook

Mitzvah 13: a volunteer opportunity for young teens - By Elena Cooperman

Accompanied Transportion for Seniors: on the road again - By Annette Sandler

How to make Chanukah a unique and joyous time - By Barbara Rudnick

Back-to-school success with your children - By Cheri Brady

You CAN make a difference in the life of a child - By Bobbie Goldfarb

Older adults make valuable employees - By Ardis Wexler

Fun books and colored wooden blocks: New tools at JFCS By Cheri Brady

Understanding the angry child - By Jill M. Stiber

Turn your kids onto volunteering - it's good for their hearts - By Joanne Savitt

Statistics indicate that many of us will be caregivers - By Laura J. Philbrook

Caregiver support at  JFCS can help you and your loved one - By Annette Sandler

GLBT striving to become an inclusive part of the Jewish community - By Margie Weil

Helping a Grieving Friend - By Barbara Rudnick

Mental health case management can benefit those in need - By Allen Shaw

Acts of Kindness: Healing Training offered for visiting the sick - By Judy Marcus