News & Impact

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

Human rights activist Natan Sharansky, internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter Regina Spektor, KGO radio talk show host John Rothmann, and America’s Got Talent finalist George Komsky headline the 10th Annual Émigré Community Gala, to be held Saturday evening, January 29, at San Francisco’s Westin St. Francis Hotel. The Gala, the premier Northern California event for Russian-speaking Jews and one of the largest annual events for the entire Jewish community of the San Francisco Bay Area, raises funds for life-saving social services for those in need served by Jewish Family and Children’s Services (JFCS) of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.… Read More

The nasty text message your 13-year-old received from a classmate saying that she is fat and ugly isn’t just mean. It’s an act of bullying. And the taunts, shoves, kicks, and pushes your 10-year-old son faces everyday at school aren’t just cases of “boys being boys.” They’re also bullying. “Bullying is a dehumanizing act that can take many forms,” says one of this country’s leading authorities on bullying, Barbara Coloroso. “It can be physical, such as beating up a classmate. It can be verbal, such as referring to someone by a racial, religious, or ethnic epithet. And it can be… Read More

Bay Area Reporter by Seth Hemmelgarn This summer, John Tighe and Ngu Phan adopted a baby. Tighe, 46, said he’s always loved children, but he’d spent years telling himself, “I can’t be a parent. Gay mean can’t parent. It’s not gonig to work.” But having Phan, 41, in his life helped. Read More from the Bay Area Reporter… Read More

UC Berkeley psychologist and philosopher Alison Gopnik, whose research focuses on the active emotional and intellectual lives of newborns and young children, will discuss her latest book, The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life, at Jewish Family and Children’s Services in San Francisco, at 2150 Post St., on Thursday, October 7. The 6:30 talk is co-presented by JFCS’ family resource center—Parents Place—along with the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library and Golden Gate Mothers Group. Tickets are $15 for the general public and free for the Friends and the GGMG.… Read More