Jewish Family and Children's Service
of Greater Mercer County
707 Alexander Road, Suite 102
Princeton, NJ 08540-6331

Telephone: (609) 987-8100
Fax: (609) 987-0574
Contact: Julie Feibush, Director of Senior Services and Davida Nugiel
Email: julief@jfcsonline.org; davidan@jfcsonline.org
Website: www.jfcsonline.org

Jewish Family and Children's Service of Greater Mercer County (JFCS) is a community service agency that seeks to strengthen individuals and families by empowering people to care for themselves and each other. They offer a wide range of high quality, client-centered behavioral health, advocacy, and support services for individuals and families. By combining contemporary clinical skills with the Jewish values of charity, righteousness and compassion, JFCS works to enhance life for area families dealing with serious and often calamitous life events.
Jewish Family and Children's Services provides confidential supportive services to individuals of all ages, incomes, and backgrounds.

Their programs and services include:

Family and Individual Counseling: Confidential treatment of individuals and families experiencing personal or relationship problems and/or experiencing the impact of social and environmental crisis. Bilingual/bicultural services are also available in Spanish.

Group Services: Emotional support, therapy, and/or enrichment groups for individuals and/or families experiencing common concerns and difficulties. This service is sponsored by the agency independently, or in collaboration with organizations.

Elder Care Counseling and Services: Consultation, guidance, and case management for the elderly and/or their families. Community-based life enrichment project for the elderly at Highgate Apartments. Planning / consultation with decisions regarding care of elderly relatives; information/referral to care facility and services throughout the U.S; support programs for care givers.

Social Services: Temporary material help to alleviate crises and/or to enrich Jewish holiday celebrations for financially distressed individuals and families.

Kosher Café: JFCS provides seniors with free kosher meals and the opportunity to socialize three times per week.

Information and Referral Services: Identification and referral to specialized local, regional and national resources.

Family Life Education: Preventive small group education and discussion on common areas of personal development and family life sponsored by the agency independently, or in collaboration with other organizations.

Project Reemployment: Job search skill development, confidence building, individual and family stress management. Project Re-Employment participants attend a series of workshops involving stress management, skills training, networking, and counseling. For additional information contact Coordinator, Project Re-Employment at 609-987-8100.

Refugee Resettlement: JFCS is the local Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) affiliate for administering and providing Jewish Refugee Resettlement Services on behalf of Jewish communal central funding organizations.

Community and Population Served by the Organization

JFCS activities are focused on the community in need of the Greater Mercer County area. Project Re-Employment is a non-sectarian training program for displaced managerial, technical, and professional men and women.

Research Questions

• The fastest growing HIV infected population is the over 50 age-bracket. Surprised? Why is this happening? How much does it have to do with growing up in the “Swinging 70s”? JFCS would like students to answer this question and develop and give an age-appropriate presentation on HIV and the importance of STD awareness to their older clients.
  
  
• JFCS would be interested to see research and plans for a program that would pair retired, well-educated seniors to young crime offenders serving time or recently released. That partnership would be a tutor/mentee relationship in order to help the young person obtain a GED.
  
  
• Research and analyze alternative health treatments versus standard Western medical treatments for common senior ailments; rate their effectiveness, and research the ones that have been most effective.
  
  
• Research and analyze the effectiveness of exercise on seniors who only begin to exercise later in life and present those findings and an outline of exercise programs for local communities based on current resources to JFCS clients.
  
  
• How are the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors affected by their family history? What is the effect on the “third” generation, on children whose grandparents were directly affected by the Holocaust? 
  
  
• Help illiterate or ESL seniors learn to read. What programs are available through adult literacy programs and how many seniors are served or need to be served? Are these programs effective for seniors? How has being illiterate impacted their lives? Are there ways to improve?
  
  
• How are the elderly in other countries “aging in place”? This is a rather new and important concept for seniors in the United States retiring in their communities; however it has been prevalent in other countries for years. Analyze three countries focusing on how their seniors manage to age in their communities.

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