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JFS is one source for a lifetime of help with more than 50 programs and services for the entire community, including adoption, counseling, parent education, food pantry and much more.
Why do we exist?
As One Source for a Lifetime of Help, we make a difference in people’s lives. It’s what we’re good at. It’s why we’re a premier human care services agency in San Diego. We serve more than 30,000 people every year with more than 50 programs and services, including: Adoption; Case Management; Counseling; Crisis Services; Family Violence; Food Pantry; HIV; Jewish Connections; Refugee Resettlement; Older Adult/Senior Services; Parenting, Youth & School-based Services; and Training/Education. Learn more about why we are One Source for a Lifetime of Help at www.jfssd.org
What have you accomplished?
This year alone we made a difference in the lives of more than 30,000 people.
Our accomplishments this past year included:
• Serving 488 individuals in need of basic necessities (food, shelter, clothing, medication, and financial assistance) and case management services.
• Following the San Diego Wildfires we helped more than 926 individuals with basic needs, insurance, access to resources, rebuilding, counseling, and much more.
• We started a Military Outreach Program, serving active military families from Camp Pendleton, along with other active military in the Navy and Air Force. This year the program served more than 150 families with financial assistance and/or resources and referrals in the community.
• Project SARAH, our domestic abuse program, assisted 113 survivors of domestic abuse with individual and group counseling, advocacy, and case management services.
• Our Coachella Valley SOS program served more than 281 homeless individuals in the Coachella Valley. Of the 261 people exiting the program, 156 entered housing.
• Rides & Smiles® used more than 100 volunteer drivers to provide more than 4,100 rides to older adults to necessary medical and personal appointments.
• Our Coachella Valley homeless shelter, Nightengale Manor, served 270 clients. Of the 237 exiting the program, 226 were placed into transitional or permanent housing.
• We started the Prins Asylum Program, offering pro-bono legal assistance for scientists, professionals, scholars, and artists who fear persecution in their native country and are seeking asylum in the United States.
• The Hand Up Youth Food Pantry provided more than 3,290 clients with 10,812 bags of food, including monthly food distributions at Camp Pendleton
• Our Refugee Resettlement Department served more than 187 refugees from Burma, Iran, Former Soviet Union, and Iraq—almost twice the amount from last year.
• Our HIV Services Department educated more than 7,000 individuals in an effort to decrease the transmission risk of HIV infection and tested more than 3,100 people.
• Our CHAMP program educated more than 10,000 students about appropriate adult behaviors and interactions in an effort to protect them against child abuse.
• Our Foodmobile program delivered more than 27,000 hot kosher meals to isolated older adults and homebound adults.
And that’s just the beginning. Our programs and services are continuously growing, meeting the ever-changing needs of the San Diego community.
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