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"It was really Rhoda and
Faye, along with Rabbi
Gruskin, who got the whole
thing off the ground," Aronoff
says. "We evolved into a task
force to look into the feasibil-
ity of a Jewish group home.
"Several of us had already
been involved in Project Out-
reach, where we visited the
Jewish mentally ill in the
inner city and held parties
and so on, so it didn't take
much to convince us the need
was there."
Aronoff says it was during
those visits that they realized
"the whole process of care for
the mentally ill was so de-
humanizing. We found they
wanted what we all want —
to live with dignity, to have
jobs, to have something to do
— and it was so important to
so many of them to retain the
Jewish culture in their lives."
The ultimate goal of the
Kadimah group, Aronoff says,
was to take people out of the
institutional setting and
place them in a more home-
like, but still protected,
environment.
Six core members of the
group set up a corporation
and raised the capital to buy
a home large enough for six
occupants. They worked with
the state to set up guidelines
so that Kadimah would be
eligible for state-funded
operating costs. Fund-raising
efforts provided the remain-
ing money needed to furnish
the home once it was pur-
chased.
But there was the rub: buy-
ing the house. The purchase
money was there, waiting,
but the right house just
couldn't be found.
"There are so many things
you have to look for," Aronoff
said. "The state limits non-
related residents to six per
home, and we wanted a full
house, but each with their
own room. So what we
needed was a big, friendly-
looking house in a neighbor-
hood close to transportation,
shopping, and fairly close to
Jewish community re-
sources."
Aronoff said the search
went on for months. "Finally,
I called Rabbi Gruskin and
said, 'You're a man of God;
now's your time — find us a
house,' and you know, he
called a week later and said,
`Honey, we found a home.' "
By late summer the home
was opened, and three
months later, Jan Hocken-
burg, the current director and
a psychotherapist with six
years experience, was in
place and "working out the
kinks."
"Kadimah is a prototype, I
guess, but I wouldn't call it
`experimental.' We try many
things, pitch them out and
try again, but we have so
many professional resources
to fall back on, there's always
someone who has an answer
for us."
A staff of six provides 24-
hour care at Kadimah, and
each staff member undergoes
a three-week intensive train-
ing program at the Clinton
Valley Center in Ypsilanti.
Clinton Valley also provides
a treatment team — a social
worker, psychotherapist,
nurse, recreational therapist
and a dietitian — to work
closely with the Kadimah
staff.
"With the state, the trend
now is to get people out of
the hospitals and into group
homes, where the home is
also the treatment milieu,"
Hockenburg says, "so we're
here to provide treatment as
well as to_ prepare the resi-
dents for the next step —
more independent living.
We're the step between the
hospital and - outside living."
We evolved into a
task force .. .
Hockenburg says each new
resident is screened not only
by the staff but by the
Kadimah residents. "It's very
democratic," she says. "We
invite the prospective resi-
dent to Kadimah for dinner
and everyone gets a chance to
meet everyone else."
The residents get to vote on
the applicant, though, Hoc-
kenburg says, "unless there
are extremely valid and
unanimous objections, the
staff has the final say."
Sometimes an applicant is
turned down because they're
too far advanced. "Our aim is
to teach residents what they
need to know to move on,"
Hockenburg says, "and if an
applicant already has inde-
pendent living skills, they
don't need us."
The Kadimah staff works
with residents, teaching them
to cook and shop and balance
their checkbooks. Hygiene
and fitness are important
programs, and residents go
twice a week to the Jewish
Community Center in South-
field, where they use the
exercise facilites, swim, or jog
around the indoor track.
Kadimah keeps the Jewish
traditions and is a kosher
home, Hockenburg says. "We
do cook kosher but no one is
required to eat it. They can
go out and eat • if they abso-
lutely hate what we're hav-
ing."
And
how have the
neighbors reacted to
Kadimah? "Not at all, as far
as I can tell," Hockenburg
says. "They pretty much ig-
hore us. Oh, they'll wave if
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