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The Neighborhood Project
invites first-time home buyers
to a free
::14 Home Buyer
Grant, And They
Will Come
Workshop
Wednesday, March 18
Two grants have infused a Jewish Family Service
program with more cash. Now, clients are needed.
6:45 - 9 p.m.
Jewish Community Center
Jimmy Prentis Morris Building
15110 W. Ten Mile, Oak Park
LONNY GOLDSMITH
StaffWriter
• How to qualify for a home mortgage
• How to understand a credit report
is
• How to budget your money
• How to fill out a purchase agreement
• How to choose a lender and a
real estate agent
• How to apply for a mortgage
Reservations required • Call (248) 967-1112
Workshop co-sponsored by
Group One Mortgage
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the Jewish Family
Service home-care pro-
gram and only 22 staff
members to serve their needs, prospec-
tive clients found themselves on a
waiting list for service.
Now that new money has come in
to allow the program to grow, new
clients are needed to use the money.
JFS and Jewish Federation
Apartments received $225,000 from
the Jewish Fund, with JFS getting
$191,250 of it.
"I've never heard of that (not hav-
ing enough people) happening
before," said Carolyn Davidson,
home-care program manag-
er. "People have an immedi-
ate need for the service, and
before, we had to turn them
away, or put them on the
waiting list so that when
someone didn't need the ser-
vice, that place could be
taken on the schedule."
The Jewish Fund began
with the $60 million that
came from the January
1997 sale of Sinai Hospital
to the Detroit Medical
Home-care worker Annie Sears with client Rebecca
Center.
Schwartz.
At the end of January, the
The grant is slated to be for one
Fund released almost $2 million in
year, but is renewable.
grants to over 20 agencies and pro-
"We will entertain requests for
grams.
more. We aren't in the business of giv-
Aside from serving clients, the
ing and then taking away," Cooper
grant also will allow Davidson to hire
said. "We expect that the agency will
10 new full- and part-time staff mem-
try to find alternative sources of fund-
bers so more clients can be scheduled.
ing for this."
"We believe that people do need
JFS also has received $270,000
the service," said Davidson. "When
worth of grant money over three years
we've added staff in the past, their
from the Conference on Jewish
schedule fills quickly."
Material Claims Against Germany.
Home care can range anywhere
This money will go to home care of
from a one-hour bath twice a week to
respite care when the client's condition Holocaust survivors living in the area.
Currently, JFS services 36 survivors
deteriorates. Currently, services are
with the grant. According to Davidson,
offered all day, Monday through
2,000 local residents have been identi-
Friday. The grant may allow the addi-
fied as Holocaust survivors. ❑
tion of night and weekend services,
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two items that are often requested.
"It's not a problem that there are no
new clients yet," said Harriet Cooper,
the administrator of the Jewish Fund.
"Now that they have the grant, JFS
can put the information out to the
people. They couldn't advertise with-
='\
out first having the grant."
Fliers have been sent out to congre-
gate facilities, such as senior apartment
buildings and synagogues. JFS also has
sent direct mailings.
Upon a recommendation from
COJES (Commission on Jewish
Eldercare Services), JFS will try and
make the client responsible for a
donation, even if income is low.
One of the reasons that JFS got this
grant was because it applied in tandem
with Jewish Federation Apartments.