How Your Gift Helps

Here's How You Can Redefine What's Possible:

Your Gift of $500:

• pays for a young child with autism in our Integrated Pediatric Interventions program to attend a Developmental Play Group.
• provides ongoing guidance to a congregation participating in the Safer Synagogues program, building our community's awareness of and ability to respond to family violence.
• covers supply costs for an art psychotherapy group for school-aged children who have difficulty in a typical classroom setting.
• pays for four counseling sessions at Response for an at-risk teen.
• helps provide vocational training for a teen preparing for independent living.
• pays for a child with special needs to learn the skills to make and nurture friendships through a peer support group.

Your Gift of $250:

• covers the cost of two weeks of counseling for an adult struggling with depression.
• provides a month of counseling for a student in our Therapeutic Yeshiva class.
• funds a workshop for parents that address the building a family through adoption, provided by Project Esther: The Chicago Jewish Adoption Network.
• covers the cost for a staff member to respond to inquiries to our Disability Helpline for a day.
• brings a child in Foster Care the joy of attending summer camp.
• allows a JCFS research specialist to mine the field for best practices in youth substance abuse prevention.

Your Gift of $100:

• provides financial counseling to help a family meet basic needs such as food and housing.
• allows one child to attend one day at the Virginia Frank Therapeutic Nursery.
• allows a family to participate in an afternoon of Sunday Respite, providing a much needed break for parents caring for a child with a disability.
• allows a parent who has lost a child to attend a bereavement group at our Jewish Healing Network of Chicago.
• provides training on the Virginia Frank Phase Model, giving early childhood educators the tools for addressing the needs of young children with special needs.
• pays for 30 middle school students to participate in an anti-bullying presentation with Response's Outreach team.

Your Gift of $50:

• provides a needy child with a special holiday gift.
• sponsors incentives for students to achieve their academic and behavioral goals.
• supports our Coffee and Conversation Group, a chance for Holocaust Survivors to discuss current events, family celebrations and the challenges of aging.
• covers the costs of materials for Sibshops, offering siblings of children with disabilities a chance to meet one another in a relaxed setting.
• allows a child to participate in a Family Commons cooking class.
• allows a foster parent to attend an evening of training on how to effectively care for a child with special emotional needs.