Our vision is to improve the well being of our Coachella valley by preventing senior homelessness and providing culturally sensitive and affordable mental health counseling . We also provide senior socialization programs at 6 sites throughout the valley to addresses senior depression and isolation. We also have counselors in 5 elementary schools to assist children in maintaining behavioral control so that they can benefit from classroom education. Through all our efforts we wish to promote healthy and stable lives throughout our valley

We continually hire bilingual therapists and use both adult and teenage volunteers to meet the needs of our seniors. WE also make sure that we are panelled with every behavioral health insurance plan serving the valley to increase our ability to serve anyone needing mental health counseling We have a rigorous grant application program that yields over $600,000 in grants per year. We also have a dedicated fundraiser and event planner who raises over $250,000 a year . JFS partners with other agencies and is the lead on a mental health and senior collaboratives .

We have an active staff of 30 people including therapists, community outreach coordinators, senior case managers and financial / billing staff. We have a supportive Board of 19 members who have histories of success in the many facets of the business world. We have 37 year history of successful fundraising and grant writing that has allowed JFS of the Desert to balance its budgets year after year as well as grow its reserves (which are at 3.5 / 1 ratio, assets to liabilities)

We have a strategic plan outlining growth and stability through cost containment, grant applications and increased fee for service mental health clients. Our evaluation methods include satisfaction surveys which are continually administered to both seniors and mental health clients to obtain both qualitative and quantitative measures of our success. WE also track data on number of sessions attended and number of goals achieved as well as monitoring our budget at monthly finance meetings with our financial manager, Board president, Board Treasurer and committee members

We are a thriving non -profit seeing over 3000 unduplicated clients per year for over, 10,000 individual services. Our senior isolation programs just added another site for a total of 6 and and we are in 5 elementary schools for counseling. We provide 10 camp scholarships to low income children. Each year we progress in our goals to make seniors lives secure and make mental health counseling available to low income citizens of our diverse valley