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Recently, some of the crew
divided between the Hechtman
I and Hechtman II apartments
put in a request to run their
dining rooms "restaurant-style,
like real waitstaff, assigned to
their own tables," Stroud says.
Other JVS crews provide ser-
vice at the Anna and Meyer
Prentis Jewish Apartments and
the Harriet and Ben Teitel
Jewish Apartments, both in Oak
Park.
The employees work five days
a week and paid according to
their skill level. Required to
keep busy during each four-hour Gila Gelfond carries Mae Rosen's tray for her.
shift, upon com-
pletion of other
tasks, they wipe
tables, set up for
the second dinner
seating or assist
dish washers in the
kitchen.
For the workers,
Stroud sees the
program as "a
wonderful chal-
lenge — an oppor-
tunity to see what
they can do." He
enjoys seeing the
workers' pride in
themselves. It
takes time to reach
a point of inde-
pendence, but -- Bertha Sonshine, left, chats with Esther Nenner in the
"given the oppor-
Hechtman II dining room.
tunity, some [of
the workers] are
Jewish community concerns. As this
very talented," he says, adding that
program nears the one-year mark,
offering positive feedback "makes
the JAS and JVS are continuing
them blossom — and become will-
efforts to keep it going when the
ing to improve — and gives incen-
grant money runs out.
tive to grow." He says those working
Bradley says a six-month report
at JAS "deserve great respect for
shows that "the seniors really like
what they do and say."
the service, and are really connecting
Gila Gelfond, a worker in the
with the special-needs workers." He
food-service program, says she loves
says job coaches have found "the
her job. "I'm very busy," Gelfond
special-needs clients are really shin-
says. "I knit and purl. I needlepoint
ing, working more independently,
and paint, but this is my favorite
with experience and confidence,
thing."
with some having gone to other
Gelfond and one Hechtman II
placements," which he appropriately
resident have a relationship that goes
terms "one of the ingredients" of the
beyond their JVS and JAS connec-
food-service program.
tion. She says, "Esther'and I were on
Hechtman resident Ruth Kovan
the same bus on the mission to
has been observing the program
Israel last year."
from its inception. "At first, every-
Bradley of JAS says the Assisted
thing was done step by step, now
Meal Service program was estab-
[the workers] are taking initiative. It
lished with an $85,000 grant from
took a while."
the Jewish Fund, created with pro-
Her dinner partner, Rose
ceeds from the 1997 sale of Sinai
Freeman, admiringly agrees that the
Hospital to the Detroit Medical
program is working well: "I never
Center to support health care and
would have believed it." O