¶ … human services organizations that partner to provide services in your community. Then provide an example of how the organizations collaborate. Finally, explain how the organizations in the partnership maintain their missions and increase their efficiencies through this partnership. Be specific.
The two organizations that I have chosen are the JCFS and a smaller, more recently established organization called Shalva.
The JCFS (Jewish Child and Family Services) is a comparatively large and complex organization that has branches in most states throughout the U.S.A. They deal in many domestic and extra-domestic issues, such as vocational training, foster care, helping people find jobs, creating groups for adolescents, providing counseling sessions for troubled families, helping immigrants settle in the country, facilitating the lives of disadvantaged families and individuals, and so forth.
Their programs include: care for abused and neglected youth; therapy for children and adults;...
They also host inclusive summer camps for children with disabilities, as well as grief counseling for adults, and many other support groups that include support for families adopting children.
Although termed as Jewish, they are not necessarily so and actually service a multi-rival, not particularly ethnic population. In fact, the JCFS describes itself in the following way:
Our talented and diverse workforce helps children and their families regardless of religion, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ability, gender, sex or sexual orientation. (JCFS.org)
The JCFS is one of the key social work institutions in the region.
Shalvah, on the other hand, is an up and coming agency. It is small, fits into three rooms, has possibly no more than 15 devoted staff (one of whom includes a lawyer), most of whom are volunteers, and has moved at least thrice…
