Gift Ideas from JFCS/East Bay's Program Staff

• buy toys and books for use in play therapy sessions at a low-income preschool.
• subsidize information and referral services for adult children taking care of their elderly parents.
• help subsidize the cost of a Holocaust survivor's grocery bill for a week.
• buy training materials to keep our counseling staff on the cutting edge of mental health.
• provide healthy snacks for a meeting of Chaverim.
• provide supplies at a social event for isolated immigrant seniors.

• subsidize four therapy sessions for an adult who recently lost his or her job and health insurance.
• provide two music therapy sessions for Jewish children with severe disabilities.
• provide a community education workshop for thirty older adults.
• subsidize a family therapy session for parents and their young child.
• train b'nai mitzvah students to be friendly visitors to older adults or Holocaust survivors.
• provide a parenting and acculturation class for immigrant parents.

• provide a safety assessment of an older adult so he or she can remain independent in their own home.
• pay for a therapist to consult with a child's teacher on classroom behavior management.
• print twenty-five English language and life skills tutoring manuals for volunteers to use with new refugees or immigrants.
• subsidize outreach efforts to inform community members about our bereavement support groups.

• pay for four therapy sessions for a child coping with the trauma of abuse.
• enhance services for and promote community connections among Holocaust survivors, including author talks, workshops, and classes.
• provide eight sessions of group support for older women.
• provide counseling and case management for an immigrant family that lost loved ones to war.
• provide materials to assemble 250 volunteer informational packets.

• provide ten meetings of a support group for Jewish widows and widowers.
• provide a facilitator for six meetings of Shira.
• subsidize monthly stipends for rent, food, and in-home care for a needy Holocaust survivor.
• provide ten consultation sessions to caregiving family members.
• provide 70 kosher holiday meals for volunteers to deliver to senior and disabled community members.