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Housed in its own facility, the Daniel Sobel Counseling Center will contin-
ue Friendship Circle's active counseling and substance-abuse intervention
program.
The building will be constructed at the same time as the Friendship Circle
Ferber-Kaufman Life Town Center and will provide a home-like environ-
ment, including bedrooms for temporary living arrangements.
playground wouldn't work. It would
The Dream Grows
have to be a park."
The Friendship Circle's planned
In November 1998, a focus group of
Ferber-Kaufman Life Town Center
families
with children with special
went through two years of upgrades
needs
was
asked to make suggestions.
and additions before a groundbreaking
They came back to Rabbi Shemtov
was scheduled recently for spring
with ambitious news. "They said a
2001.
park in this climate doesn't make
Support for this dream began in
sense," the rabbi recalls. "They said it
June 1998 with the help of Andy
had to be a building — an indoor
Jacob of Birmingham, a longtime
social gathering
Friendship Circle
place with an
supporter. Pleased
indoor play-
with the playground
ground."
they had built in an
It was.decided
economically
that "first and fore-
deprived area of
most, the children
Ashkelon, Israel,
need a place to go
Jacob, co-founder
to be safe and
and president of
secure
and comfort-
loangiant.com , and
able,"
Kaufman
his partners were
says.
looking for a similar
Then she took it
project locally.
a step further, sug-
Jacob came to
gesting a compo-
Rabbi Shemtov for
nent that would
advice. "I told Levi
focus on social and
that we would like
real-life skills for
to build another
the children of the
playground, but this
Friendship Circle.
time in metropolitan
A therapy pro-
Detroit, and for chil-
gram was then
dren of special
Rabbi Levi Shemtov
added to the plans
needs," Jacob says.
as well as a parent
"It was my dream
lounge, a volunteer
and desire to build
parlor, a gym and much more.
the first-ever playground in the area
"A small idea of building a play-
specifically designed for children with
ground
has become a big idea of
special needs."
building
a one-of-a-kind facility that
In the early stages of the project,
will positively change the lives of our
Rabbi Shemtov was introduced to
special children, their siblings, families
Kaufman. She had just completed
and community," Jacob says.
research and planning for a play-
ground at Hillel Day School of
Metropolitan Detroit built in honor of
The Dream Takes Shape
her parents, Miriam and Fred Ferber
The
Center will be located on the
of Orchard Lake. The endeavor, to be
Meer
Family Friendship Campus of
dedicated later this year, was funded
the Lubavitch Foundation develop-
by Kaufman and her husband Alon,
ment, on Maple between Drake and
and her siblings Ronda and Ron
Halsted, in West Bloomfield.
Ferber and Annette and Brian
Completion of the building is expect-
Adelman, all of West Bloomfield.
ed in spring 2002.
"We started by talking about a little
Named for the Kaufmans and the
outdoor playground," Rabbi Shemtov
Ferbers,
the new facility was designed
says of his meetings with Jacob and
with
input
from parents and also from
Kaufman. "But soon we realized a
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