Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services

*Community Care for the Elderly provides case management for homemakers, personal care, respite, and other services to enable frail and functionally impaired elders to remain in their homes and avoid or delay placement in a nursing home. Services are provided in Pinellas County. *Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative provides services to meet the changing needs of individuals and families living with Alzheimer’s disease and similar memory disorders. *Home Care for the Elderly (HCE) program supports care for Floridians aged 60 and older in family-type living arrangements within private homes. A basic subsidy is provided for the support and maintenance of the elder. *OAA Homemaking - Provides Homemaker support services to boost the well-being of elders and help them remain in their homes. *Myrtle Oaks is a 99-unit apartment complex for low-income elderly located in northeast Tampa. *Egret Housing is a seven-unit housing complex for low-income disabled located in New Port Richey.

*Violence Prevention Program is offered in nine Pinellas County middle schools and decreases disruptive, aggressive, bullying behavior and substance abuse, empowering students to improve their academic performance and overall success. *Teen Parent Engagement Program supports teen parents and pregnant teens from Hillsborough and Pinellas County who are at high risk for academic failure, providing mentorship, enrichment activities, and ongoing educational and vocational support. *Healthy Youth Transitions targets adjudicated youth in protective supervision and/or living with relatives or others, ages 15-22 years old. Youth have significant behavioral and emotional difficulties requiring extensive support to successfully transition to adulthood. *Young Adult Transitional Program in Broward County supports and assists young adults ages 17-24 with emotional/behavioral issues or substance abuse and/or persistent mental illness with goal of a successful transition into adulthood.

*Adele Gilbert and Darlington Residential Treatment Facilities are 16-bed treatment facilities for adults with mental illness and/or a co-occurring substance abuse disorder in Pasco County. *Adult Residential Treatment and Stabilization (ARTS) is a 16-bed residential program in Broward County for older adults with mental illness and possible co-occurring issues. *The Alternative Family Program, based on the therapeutic foster home concept, trains sponsors who open and welcome into their homes and families up to five adults or seniors with mental illness. With 190 beds in 75 licensed care homes covering a 36-county area, sponsors provide 24-hour client supervision, care, and support in exchange for a monthly stipend. *Supported Housing and Living Program assists individuals with mental illness or co-occurring substance abuse issues to develop skills needed to live independently.

*Community Assistance and Life Liaison (CALL) – In partnership with the St. Pete Police, community navigators are dispatched to non-violent, non-criminal 911 calls to provide a therapeutic, wrap-around response. *Community Support Hubs are one stop locations in high need areas of the City of St. Petersburg and provides trauma-informed counseling, case management, and assertive outreach. The Hubs are intended to fill gaps in services, ease access to care, and improvement in the lives of those served. *Intervention Services provides in-home substance abuse intervention services for adults who are at risk for substance misuse in Pinellas, Pasco, and Hillsborough Counties. *Prevention Services provides substance abuse education focused on preventing medication mismanagement, alcohol abuse, and increasing healthy behaviors in our communities. *Quick Response Team (QRT) Provides response to law enforcement referrals where an individual has recently overdosed in Pinellas County.

*Non-Custodial Parent Employment Program (NCPEP) assists unemployed or underemployed non-custodial parents with establishing a pattern of regular child support payments by obtaining and maintaining unsubsidized, competitive employment. *Developing Assets and Workplace Skills (DAWS) focuses on developing workforce skills and household assets, providing individuals with the tools for long-term economic stability. * Fathers Attaining Mentorship and Enrichment (F.A.M.E.) offers support to fathers of young children through mentorship, parenting skills and guidance in navigating systems to support employment and payment of child support in Hillsborough, Hernando, Pasco and Pinellas Counties. *Tampa Bay Job Links helps job seekers find meaningful transitions to new careers. TBJL helps individuals increase their confidence and take control of their career path by pairing job seekers with career strategists and taking a person-first approach.

*Holocaust Survivors Program helps to improve the quality of life for Holocaust survivors in the Tampa Bay area by providing critically needed services and outreach programs so they can remain in their homes. *Emergency Family Support Services offers assistance in meeting basic human needs for the Jewish community in Pinellas and Pasco Counties. *Companionship, Help, and Access by Telephone for Seniors (CHATS) is a friendly caller program that matches trained volunteers with elders to reduce social isolation though weekly phone calls between each matched senior and volunteer.

Through the William & Sally Israel Food Pantry, all clients and families of Gulf Coast JFCS programs have access to food assistance, school supplies, and limited clothing and household goods. The Food Pantry at Gulf Coast JFCS provides non-perishable food, clothing, household goods, and school supplies to support over 2,500 individuals and families throughout the year. The vast majority of those served are low-income, at-risk individuals, including seniors and children. The Food Pantry provides emergency food assistance as well as ongoing access other basic goods that assist our clients in achieving self-sufficiency.

*Refugee Resettlement and Placement resettle refugees from around the world who have been persecuted and fled their home country to come to America. *Refugee Case Management provides intensive case management and supportive services to recently arrived refugees facing barriers to self-sufficiency. *Refugee Career Pathways Program (RCP) helps refugees achieve self-sufficiency by securing professional or skilled employment based on previously acquired knowledge, skills, and experience. *Florida Center for Survivors of Torture is a regional treatment center in Tampa and Miami for survivors of torture and extreme trauma. It helps them access services from providers trained to work effectively and sensitively with this population. *Center for Afghan Survivors Impacted by Combat is a regional treatment center for Afghan survivors impacted by combat. It helps Afghans access services from providers trained to work effectively and sensitively with this population.

*Child Welfare Case Management provides protective supervision for children referred by the Florida Abuse Hotline and Child Protective Investigators in Hillsborough and Osceola Counties. *Diversion and Prevention Programs provide intensive in-home family preservation services in Orange, Osceola, Pasco, and Seminole Counties with the goal of keeping at-risk children “safe at home” *Family Reunification Services complement case management services and teach Hillsborough County parents the skills necessary to improve their protective capacities so their children can safely return home. *Kinship Support Program supports kinship caregivers (relatives and non-relatives) of children in the Hillsborough County child welfare system. *Padre De Crianza supports Hispanic/Latino kinship caregivers so that children in their care can safely remain in their homes, without involvement in the Hillsborough County child welfare system.

*Family Services Initiative provides navigation and emergency financial support services for families with school-age children in Pinellas County, strengthening family stability and connecting families to appropriate community resources. *Family Skill Builders (FSB) reduces child abuse, neglect, family conflict, and child behavior problems. Family functioning and protective factors are improved through in-home therapeutic interventions, case management, parenting education, crisis stabilization, and support. Services are available to families with children ages 0–17 years who reside in Broward County. *Heart Gallery of Pinellas & Pasco increases the number of successful adoptions of local children in foster care. In addition to featuring children, we recruit, and support families interested in adoption. *Good Afternoon Friends and Amigos is an afterschool program for K-5 students that provides tutoring, social skills development, parental outreach, support, and referral services.

Tampa Bay Job Links (TBJL), a program of Gulf Coast JFCS, provides individuals with career guidance and job-search coaching, and provides a variety of workforce development services tailored to the needs of local employers. Professional career strategists work one-on-one and in small groups with a diverse population of job seekers, assisting them through their career transition. They help with career planning, personal brand development, résumé writing, identifying skill gaps, interviewing and networking skills, written communication, and more.