Program areas at JCCGCI
Senior citizen home-care services: jccgci's highly-praised home relief program for at-risk, low-income seniors provides home-care services to enable frail elderly who are ineligible for medicaid home-care or do not have adequate at-home medicaid services to remain in their homes and communities. Home bound seniors who suffer from functional impairment receive help with daily living activities and/or personal care. In 2022, jccgci provided 1,029 seniors with 1,169,345 hours of home-care for assistance with personal care, light housekeeping, shopping, food preparation, laundry, and other similar services. These hours included 1,160,985 hours of service to 902 holocaust survivors.
Older adult centers (formerly known as senior centers): the senior support systems division of jccgci operates eight (8) brooklyn older adult centers with year-round services, monday through friday. The older adult centers are Coney Island seaside older adult center, jay-harama older adult center, haber house older adult center, marlboro older adult center, marien - heim older adult center, kings highway older adult center and ocean parkway older adult center. They provide nutritional congregate meals, a wide range of healthy aging services, educational and recreational programming, case management and entitlement counseling and advocacy. Seniors are assisted with application/form-completion and medical/social service referral assistance. Activities include english language instruction, exercise classes, art/music classes, mental health counseling, health promotion workshops, computer classes, nutrition workshops, and other educational/recreational sessions. In 2022, our eight older adult centers provided 129,079 congregate meals to seniors.
Vocational services: the vocational support systems division provides occupational skill training, employment counseling, job placement and/or adult literacy classes to unemployed, under-employed, and immigrant nyc individuals. In 2022, the internship placement services (ips) program connected 1,243 nyc clean up corps participants with paid internships, many of whih offered opportunities for growth and long-term positions. In 2022, 546 individuals from low income Jewish ultra-orthodox communities and other diverse populations were readied for better employment opportunities with primary service sites in the borough park, williamsburg, far rockaway, crown heights and gravesend communities through the workforce development program. 283 low income haredi individuals were assisted in their job search by the parnossah employment services program, with 265 career counseling sessions, 242 resume preparation assistance and 90 job placements. 353 career counseling sessions, 106 job placements and 28 scholarships were provided to 257 individuals by the crown heights career assistance program. The crown heights career hub enrolled 44 chabad individuals in business courses, leading to 18 internships, 9 students pursuing further education, 10 employments and 19 individuals receiving job placement assistance.