JUNE 2015 PARTNER PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT Featuring Jewish Family Services! Jewish Family Services (JFS) was started in the late 1970s by a group of volunteers who observed a need in Ann Arbor to provide services for the rising number of Soviet Union refugees. Today, JFS continues to serve refugees from all over the world, as well as all individuals and families in need throughout Washtenaw County. JFS is CARF-accredited and while JFS has “Jewish” in their agency name, they serve everyone! JFS offers a vast number of services to meet their clients needs. Services include counseling, older adult services, transportation, citizenship classes, ESL classes, clothing, employment services, refugee resettlement and, of course, a food pantry! They even have Russian and Arabic translators on staff to assist their immigrant and refugee clients. For a full list of the services they offer, visit their website https://jfsannarbor.org/. JFS is a pioneer with the number of social services available to clients for long term assistance and their food pantry follows suit, offering food options that help meet both their clients’ nutritional needs and their cultural and religious needs. JFS offers products that are gluten-free, vegan, liquid nutrition, baby food, low sodium, dairy-free, as well as Kosher and Halal foods. They also have non-food products available such as paper products, personal hygiene items and adult and baby diapers. With the vast array of special foods and non-food items available, in addition to standard pantry items, JFS found themselves in need of a larger pantry. To address this need, JFS started renovations to create a new space for a larger pantry in June 2014. Prior to the renovation, the food pantry was a tiny hallway space. They now have two rooms that have more than quadrupled the size of the pantry, as shown in the picture above. The extra room increases their capacity to distribute more food items and allows for confidential, one-on- one interactions with staff/interns so JFS can treat clients with the privacy and respect they deserve. While the pantry is currently completed and functioning, JFS hopes to add a kitchenette to the pantry for doing nutritional workshops and food sampling in an effort to expand their nutrition education outreach. With such wonderful accomplishments and amazing plans in store, Food Gatherers is proud to help them serve the community! The new pantry at Jewish Family Services!
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JUNE 2015
PARTNER PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT
Featuring Jewish Family Services! Jewish Family Services (JFS) was started in the late
1970s by a group of volunteers who observed a need in
Ann Arbor to provide services for the rising number of
Soviet Union refugees. Today, JFS continues to serve
refugees from all over the world, as well as all
individuals and families in need throughout Washtenaw
County. JFS is CARF-accredited and while JFS has
“Jewish” in their agency name, they serve everyone!
JFS offers a vast number of services to meet their clients
needs. Services include counseling, older adult services,
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