Services

Jewish Family & Children's Services of the East Bay delivers expert services to the community on a daily basis, helping people of all ages live better and healthier lives. We operate more than twenty-five programs within these five principal areas:

• Suse Moyal Center for Older Adult Services (SMCOAS) offers comprehensive care management, counseling, and other supportive services. The center aims to help older adults preserve their independence and strives to keep them connected to a supportive community. SMOAS maintains a strong focus on working with family members and caregivers as well as older adults themselves.

• Parenting & Youth Services provides support and assistance to a wide range of families, whether first-time parents; grandparents raising a grandchild; or a straight, gay, lesbian, or interfaith family. Our goal is to help both Jews and non-Jews build strong and supportive family relationships.

• Counseling Services offers compassionate and expert therapists for individuals and families in every stage of life. JFCS/East Bay also offers family mediation, seminars, and support groups on topics including building healthy relationships and bereavement.

• Refugee & Immigrant Services helps smooth the transition for newcomers to the East Bay. JFCS/East Bay has been particularly active in resettling Russian Jews fleeing the former Soviet Union, and has now gained expertise in assisting a wide range of communities with everything from citizenship applications to navigating the health care system. Our staff includes Jews, Muslims, and Christians serving immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Afghanistan, Iran, Bosnia, Mexico, and Central and South America.

• Volunteer Services matches and trains 100 active volunteers with clients throughout the East Bay. Volunteer roles include visiting the elderly, working with youth in immigrant families, English tutoring, meal delivery, and office work.