The Charlotte Jewish News - December 2011 - Page 19
Jewish Family Services Expands Senior Adult Outreach Program
Grant from Stan Greenspan Charitable Fund Provides Community Support
The Jewish Family Serviees
Senior Adult Outreaeh Program is
one of the most valued of all JFS
programs. We ean thank Bea
Gibbs of blessed memory for this
aehievement. Taking eare of
Jewish Senior Adults in the
Charlotte eommunity was not just
a job to Bea, it was her passion.
Her goal was to advoeate for sen
iors and to motivate all genera
tions, young and old, to be as
involved and passionate about
seniors as she was. Bea lived and
breathed her work until her
untimely death in February 2010.
Natalie Tunney, JFS Direetor of
Senior Adult Outreaeh Serviees is
eontinuing to build on Bea’s lega-
ey and vision of earing by expand
ing upon JFS’s senior adult servie-
Bea Gibbs gives Anshei
Mitzvah student Frances
Gottheim a hug.
Baila Pransky s Yiddish class.
es. Natalie states, “The impaet that
Bea’s hard work has made on sen
ior adults and their families is sig-
nifieant and it is my goal to eon-
tinue her valuable work and earry
on her legaey.”
Thanks to the tremendous gen
erosity of Stan Greenspon, JFS
will be able to expand upon Bea’s
goals and dreams and our senior
serviees. Aeeording to statisties
from the NC Division of Aging,
almost 10% of the Meeklenburg
eounty population is over the age
of 65. By the year 2020 this figure
is projeeted to inerease by 102%.
JFS eontaets with Jewish residents
living in senior adult eommunities
have tripled in the past year and
eontinue to grow.
The Stan Greenspon Charitable
Fund has awarded Jewish Family
Serviees $15,000 per year to pro
vide inereased enriehment and
eonneetion to the many Jewish
senior adults living in the greater
Charlotte area. South Carolina,
and other neighboring eounties.
This grant will allow Natalie
Tunney, JFS Direetor of
Senior Adult Outreaeh
Serviees, to provide addi
tional time serving our sen
ior adult population, mak
ing it a full-time position
for the first time in JFS his
tory.
JFS provides program
ming, Shabbat serviees,
and eompanionship to
approximately 150 senior
adults who live in more than a
dozen nursing, independent, and
assisted living faeilities through
out the Greater Charlotte Region,
as well as seniors who are isolated
in their own homes. Visits to
elients in their own homes and
programs at faeilities have dou
bled within the past year. Due to
the laek of a eentral Jewish senior
living faeility many of our senior
adults are dispersed geographieal-
ly. The majority of this group has
had very little opportunity for
interaetion with their Jewish
peers. For many of these Jewish
seniors, the JFS Direetor of Senior
Adult Serviees and JFS volunteers
are their only eonneetion to the
Jewish eommunity.
In addition to outreaeh to the
seniors, Natalie is available to pro
vide eoneemed family members
with support, information and
knowledgeable direetion for those
planning eare options for senior
family members. The expansion
of the program will enable Natalie
to enhanee her ability to provide
this invaluable serviee.
Senior adults involved with the
JFS Senior Adult Outreaeh
Program reeeive a variety of
Jewish experienees whieh inelude
Jewish holiday eelebrations,
Shabbat and holiday serviees,
enriehment/edueational programs,
and friendly visits from volunteers
of all ages. Maintaining a eonnee
tion to the Jewish population
enhaneed the lives of our Jewish
senior adults and leads to a greater
sense of eommunity and Jewish
identity.
“Most of us are far away from
the plaee that we were bom. It is a
great feeling to eonneet and iden
tify things in eommon with other
Jewish people. It brings us eloser
to one another and our Judaism.
We enjoy the Shabbat serviees and
programs that JFS arranges for
us.” - Jewish residents of Sunrise
Senior Living.
Jewish Family Serviees Senior
Adult Outreaeh Program plays a
vital role in the good work that the
entire Jewish eommunity does
with our eommunity’s seniors.
Please join us in thanking Stan
Greenspon for his generosity and
kindness and with helping make a
differenee in a senior adult’s life
by supporting this essential pro
gram. ^
JFS Donations from
October 8 to November 3
WISHING A FULL AND
SPEEDY RECOVERY TO
Ellen Bottner from Mae and
Julius Goldman
IN HONOR OF
Adele and Ronald Gordon from
Fay Sinkoe
Amy, Alfred and Mindy
Dawson from Kevin Levine and
Louis Sinkoe
Barry Golembe from the Zaeks
family
Jim Montag from Gerson and
Wilma Asrael
Linda and Morris Spil from
Laura and Barry Reieh
Naney Bernstein from Laura
and Miteh Feldman
Randie Sehaeter from the
Zaeks family
Rebeeea and Seott Goodman
from Laura and Barry Reieh
The Aft Family for Yom Kippur
MAZEL TOV ON
Aleyah Brigham’s Bat Mitzvah
from Shelby Vaughan
Ari Feldman’s Bar Mitzvah
from Shelby Vaughan
Daniel Kipnis’s Bar Mitzvah
from Shelby Vaughan
Danielle Kapustin’s Bat
Mitzvah from Shelby Vaughan
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