Program areas at JF&CS
Refugee and immigrant services - jf&cs is an acknowledged leader in helping immigrants and refugees resettle and successfully build new lives in the community. Jf&cs directly provides immigration related legal services, naturalization services, employment services, and refugee resettlement.
Eldercare - jf&cs helps seniors, their families, and caregivers adapt to aging. Services are offered through the agewell collaborative with other community-based organizations. Specific services offered by jf&cs include: information and referral, care management/coordination, home care, personal emergency response support, Family consultations, counseling and support groups, and holocaust survivor services.
Career development services - jf&cs helps individuals obtain meaningful employment opportunities and helps companies attract, retain, and transition employees. Services offered to job seekers include assessment and counseling, resume assistance, job search assistance, workshops, online learning center, programs for at-risk teens, and the work-able program. Services offered to employers include career transition and outplacement, talent acquisition, spousal relocation, and online learning center for employers.
Upstreet - barrier-free mental health initiative for youth/young adults. Provided virtually which include brief supportive conversations with therapist in real time via an online chat function, individual therapy, text based peer mentoring, and support/group activites. In its first year, upstreet reached more than 500 teens, primarily in allegheny county.