Mazel
Toy!
JARC
TAKES ITS OFFICES TO NEW, LARGER LOCATION
SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN
Staff Writer
T
for parking, consumer programs,
JARC, a Michigan non-profit,
staff training and educational pro-
non-sectarian organization, was
gramming.
found in 1969 by a small group _of
"We also have a con-
parents with children with
sumer counsel and a social
developmental disabilities.
JARC's
action committee each
Today more than 200
new home in
made up of those we
Farmington Hills. staff members of JARC,
serve. We now have more
including executive direc-
room to hold social events
tor, Joyce Keller, serve 150
on site or a social action project, like
adults at its various locations. These
when we packaged cookies for the
include residential support for both
soldiers in Bosnia."
he sketch of a "yellow
brick road" leading to the
Paul and Lois Katzman
Office Building greeted
supporters of the Jewish Association
for Residential Care at their mail-
boxes in recent weeks.
After a long weekend of packing
boxes at the 7,200 square foot
Southfield office that
housed their facility since
1988, JARC opened its
new doors on Feb. 27.
Their new home is in
a renovated 34,000-
square-foot office build-
ing on Northwestern
Highway in Farmington
Hills. They will use
18,000 square feet for
their offices and are look-
ing for tenants to rent
out the remainder of the
building.
"We've grown," says
Rena Friedberg, JARC
development director.
oyce Keller unpacks boxes at JARC's new o we.
"We needed more space
independent living consumers and
residents in 19 group homes man-
aged by the Samuel and Jean Frankel
Residential Services Dept.
The 3-year-old Merle and Shirley
Harris Children and Family Division
serves 300 families of children with
any disability.
The renovated office space that is
JARC's new home is named in
honor of longtime supporters, Paul
and Lois Katzman,
who previously
donated the
Feldstein/Katzman
home in West
Bloomfield, the res-
idence of six male
JARC consumers.
JARC's new
address is: 30301
Northwestern
Highway,
Farmington Hills,
MI 48334-3233.
The phone number
is (248) 538-6611.
To access the Web
site, go to
wwvv.jarcorg
Cheryl Watson organizes files in her new o ice.
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