SINAI HOSPITAL
ail
"Life and Death Decisions"
a panel discussion on advance directives — living wills,
durable power of attorney and verbal instructions.
Agencies Brace
For Likely Cuts
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RUTH LITTMANN STAFF WRITER
12:30 p.m., Friday, February 26, 1993
Jaffee Hall
Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit
Jimmy Prentis Morris Building
15110 West Ten Mile Road, Oak Park, Michigan 48237
PANELISTS:
Robert E. Reed, M.D.
Executive Vice President,
Medical Affairs
Co-Chair, Bioethics Committee
Sinai Hospital
Virginia Benner, J.D.
Vice President, Human Resources
and Legal Services
Member, Medical Ethics Committee
Sinai Hospital
Thomas Thomlinson, Ph.D.
Medical Ethicist, Co-Director,
Center for Ethics and Humanities
Michigan State University
Co-Chair, Bioethics Committee
Sinai Hospital
Oscar Bigman, M.D.
Pulmonary Medicine Specialist
Member, Medical Ethics Committee
Sinai Hospital
This program is free of charge. All are welcome to attend.
For more information, please call 493-5895.
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our Jewish agencies
that receive money
from the United Way
for Southeastern Mich-
igan are bracing for a possi-
ble 11.2 percent allocation
cut starting in July.
The 1992 United Way
Campaign for Southeast-
ern Michigan raised $5.7
million less than the pre-
vious year's total, which
means the Jewish Voca-
tional Service might face a
$66,567 reduction in
United Way funding.
The Jewish Family
Service, which received
$800,000 from the United
Way last year, might lose
$82,000 of that amount
this July, when alloca-
tions are made.
Sinai Hospital and the
Jewish Community Center
also might receive cuts,
the JCC's in excess of
$60,000.
The 11.2 percent reduc-
tions apply to all agencies
that receive United Way
assistance. The cuts come
in conjunction with a slow
fund-raising year and a
new allocation process.
According to this new
process, the United Way
gives agencies money on
the basis of how effective-
ly their programs address
21 community problem
areas and needs, said
Myron Liner, United Way
vice president of agency
relations for Southeastern
Michigan.
Mr. Liner stressed that
some $2,400,000 in special
funds exist to mitigate the
agencies' losses. The
United Way designated
seven "emphasis areas"
which will receive these
special funds this year.
Emphasis areas include
children and youth in cri-
sis, crime, inaccessible
health care, substance
abuse and addiction, teen-
age pregnancy and parent-
ing, as well as unemploy-
ment.
Agencies that offer ser-
vices targeting these areas
may qualify for "emphasis
funds," which Mr. Liner
says, may or may not
recoup their 11.2 percent
losses.
United Way cutbacks
come as no surprise to
local Jewish agencies. JVS
Executive Director Bar-
bara Nurenberg said the
United Way told agencies
to prepare for the budget
axe two years ago.
But in a year of in-
creased need, the cuts
may result in a devastat-
ing blow to the unem-
ployed and others JVS
serves.
If unreplaced, the_,
$66,567 JVS loses from -4-4
United Way's former
$441,089 allocation will
result in longer waiting
lists for employment-relat- L
ed services, Mrs. Nuren-
berg predicts.
This will primarily
affect the general popula-
tion — people hard hit by
the recession, including
blue and white collar
workers who are unem-
ployed and ineligible for
special government assis-
tance.
Waiting lists already
have grown in the past
year. Currently, people
are put on hold for five to
Agencies will
try to recoup
losses through
special funds.
10 weeks before receiving
job placement services and
career development assis-
tance. If the agency loses
money, Mrs. Nurenberg
says JVS will likely cut
two staff positions. This
will make the waiting lists
for employment-related
services even longer, she
said.
"That's pretty devastat-
ing for someone who needs
services now."
Mrs. Nurenberg and
Alan Goodman, executive
director of the Jewish
Family Service, hope their
agencies qualify for
emphasis funds. However,
they express uncertainty
over how the new alloca-
tion process will unfold.
The JFS already has
sustained losses. Between
December and January,
JFS laid off 12 employees
in its home-care program.
In an effort to conserve
funds, other employees
are sharing the tasks of a
clinical social work super-
visor who was not
replaced.
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