News & Impact

J Weekly by Patricia Corrigan Larry Goldberg speaks with gratitude about the people who help him navigate the medical system and cope with his illness – his wife, Nancy, his children, his friends, his nurses and his doctors. He also has high praise for Redwing Keyssar, his health care advocate from the S.F.-based Jewish Family and Children’s Services. Read More from J Weekly… Read More

J Weekly by Dan Pine For Gayle Zahler, draconian state budget cuts that go into effect Dec. 1 mean one thing: potential disaster for scores of elderly Jews under her charge at the S.F.-based Jewish Family and Children’s Services. Read More from J Weekly… Read More

San Francisco Chronicle (Letter to the Editor) by Holly Pedersen and Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet We appreciated your article about the study linking bullying to students’ desire to gain popularity (“Popular youths seen as more likely to bully as tool for social climbing,” Feb. 9). Our work with Bay Area students, teachers and parents corroborate this finding. Read More from the San Francisco Chronicle… Read More

J Weekly by Andy Altman-Ohr In their mid-80s and beset by Alzheimer’s disease and two types of cancer, respectively, Jewish Russian immigrants Dina and Isaak Freylikhman of San Francisco consider themselves blessed that the L’Chaim Adult Day Health Center exists. However, the Freylikhmans and thousands of other Californians like them are in danger of losing the ability to live on their own. If the state Legislature approves Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to cut $1.7 billion from Medi-Cal, some $486 million for more than 300 Adult Day Health Care programs in the state would be eliminated. Read More from J Weekly… Read More

J Weekly by Amanda Pazornik The Holocaust Center of Northern California started exploring the idea of a partnership with Jewish Family and Children’s Services in 2009 as a way to help close its budget gap. Now that vision has become a reality. Read More from J Weekly… Read More

Marin Independent Journal by Richard Halstead A program that provides social workers and nurses to monitor the care of fragile Marin seniors who want to continue living in their homes would also be eliminated by proposed cuts in the state budget. Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed budget would eliminate Medi-Cal funding for the Multi-Purpose Senior Services Program, which serves a caseload of 85 seniors in Marin. The nonprofit Jewish Family and Children’s Services has contracted with the Department of Aging to provide the program in Marin County for the past 12 years. Read More from the Marin Independent Journal… Read More