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The Charlotte Jewish News - October 2012 - Page 20 Jewish Family Services Please Help the Jewish Community With only two months left in our 2012 Family to Family Annual Campaign, we are asking every family in our eommunity to sup port JFS. Donations to the annual eampaign allow members of the Jewish eommunity to reeeive the help they need when they need it, and the skills to help themselves moving forward. * Your gift provides eounseling to a family who is grieving the loss of their wife and mother, even when they don’t have insuranee. * Your gift helps the single mother who was just diagnosed with eaneer reeeive benefits and finaneial assistanee from DSS, United Family Serviees, and Soeial Seeurity. * Your support ensures that every homebound Jewish senior remains eonneeted to the Jewish eommunity. * Your donation gives free help to the newly unemployed eouple to set up a budget and fill out food stamp applieations. If you have not yet made your pledge, please email beth.eupp@jfseharlotte.org, eall 704-364-6594 or go online to www.jfseharlotte.org. Payments are not due until Deeember 31 and are 100% tax-deduetible. ten by our eounseling staff. Oetober’s artieles feature adviee from JFS Child and Adoleseent Therapist Libby Rains on depres sion awareness in honor of Oetober’s Mental Flealth Month and a seeond artiele on Domestie Abuse. The Race is On! Sign up for the 5k/l Mile Friends Run on November 11. Run the ehip-timed 5k or the one mile fun run, then enjoy post-raee treats and aetivities at the Levine JCC, as well as a salute to our eountry’s Veterans in honor of Veterans Day Weekend. Volunteers needed the day of the raee - this is a great opportuni ty for those looking for eommuni ty serviees hours so let your teens know. Sign up to partieipate or volunteer at www.Friends- Run.eom. Counselor’s Corner Now Online Visit our website www.jfsehar- lotte.org for monthly artieles writ- Fall Programming: JFS Parenting Place Child and Adolescent Programming All groups and elasses are open to the publie, ineluding new par- tieipants. Fees apply to some pro grams. Full sehedule on www.jfseharlotte.org; eall 704- 364-6594 to register. Dining Out, Catering & Hospitality ~ NEWLY OPENED ~ Jerusalem Cafe Middle Eastern Restaurant $3.00 OFF $15 or more Lunch Purchase With this coupon. Expires 12/31/12 $5.00 OFF $30 or more Dinner Purchase With this coupon. Expires 12/31/12 Best Falafel in Charlotte Dine-ln or Take-Out Hours: Mon-Sat. 11AM-9PM Sunday 11AM-7PM Check out our menu online at www.JerusalemCafeMatthews.com Like Us / Plantation Market Shopping Center ♦ Across from Siskey Y / Ujinny 3116 Weddington Rd. Suite 600, Matthews NC 28105 704-321-1112 Holidays Love and Logic® Parenting Classes Begin in October * Are you raising the eaptain of the debate team? * Wondering if your kids will ever listen to you? * Feel exhausted at the end of the day? Join JFS and Love and Logie® Faeilitator Wendy Petrieoff to learn fun and easy-to-use parent ing teehniques to help put the fun baek into parenting. You will learn praetieal tips and skills to avoid ing arguments with your ehildren, diseover ways to share eontrol, and arm yourself with all the Love & Logie® tools you need to be an effeetive parent. Multiple workshops offered beginning Oetober 4 - full sehed ule online. Social Skills Groups Boys ages 9-12 will work on building and maintaining friend ships by partieipating in this falFs Soeial Skills Group, beginning Thursday, September 20. Soeial Skills groups are ideal for ehildren who struggle with soeial and emo tional regulation, experienee prob lems making and keeping friends, have diffieulty eooperating with peers and adults, or present under lying development delays or lag ging skills. Utilizing interaetive play, ehil dren will be assisted with develop ing skills that help with overall soeial and emotional regulation abilities skills. Thursdays, September 20- Oetober 20, 3:45-4:30 PM at JFS. Peer Group for Tween and Teen Girls JFS is pleased to offer a new eurrieulum speeifieally for tween and teen girls. JFS elinieal thera pists will use a peer-eentrie eur rieulum to build partieipants’ knowledge and skills for resisting negative peer pressure by empow ering them to identify what they are being pressured to do and the eonsequenees. Partieipants then determine healthy alternatives and invite peers to join them in aeting on their smarter ehoiees. Wednesdays, Oetober 10- November 17, 4-4:45 PM at JFS. Other JFS Events in October Caregiver Support Group Are you a earegiver for a friend or loved one? Taking eare of your self is just as vital as taking eare of your loved ones. Join JFS Lieensed Clinieal Therapist Nieole Levine and Direetor of Senior Adult Serviees Natalie Tunney and other individuals who understand the ups and down of being a earegiver. Meetings take plaee the seeond Tuesday of every month. Next meeting is Tuesday, Oetober 9, 6 PM at JFS. Save Thousands with GoPlaySave Citipass Coupon Books Stop by JFS Monday-Friday 9 AM-5 PM to piek up your book. Acknowledgements Thank you to the following individuals and organizations who eontributed their time to Jewish Family Serviees in July. Your sup port and generosity allow us to provide quality serviees and pro gramming to our eommunity: Ben Aizenman, Penny Krieger, Frada Mozenter, Bill Sehwartz, Amalia Warshenbrot. ^ Jewish Family SERVICES the hmrt of our coimtsutiify Mazel Tov & Congratulations (Continued from page 17) and a master’s degree from Temple University. Founded in 1937, Waddell & Reed today has grown to more than 250 offiees nationwide. The eompany offers a wide array of investment produets and serviees as well as a variety of insuranee produets through arrangements with outside insuranee eompanies. For more information about Waddell & Reed, or about finan eial serviees in general, eontaet Jenny Sperry at 704-553-7220. ^ ENGAGEMENT Mann-Novick Pearl and Alan Mann are happy to announee the engage ment of their daughter. Dr. Amy Yvette Mann, to Dr. Evan Lonis Novick. Amy is the granddaugh ter of Mary and Simon Wojnowich and the late Lila and David Mann. Amy earned her BS from Indiana University, her MS from Boston University, and her DMD from Boston University. She eurrently praetiees dentistry in Boston. Evan is the son of Jill Shnman Novick and Brnce Novick both of Boston. Fie is the grandson of Elaine and Sidney Shnman and the late Florence and Lonis Novick. Evan earned his BA from Ithaea College and his DMD from Boston University. Fie is eurrently praetieing den tistry in Providenee, RI. Their November 9, 2013 wedding will be at the Westin Flotel in Charlotte. ^