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A New Home

Kadima's move means more o Ice space for now,
more services for the future.

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SESSION 1
Monday, June 11, 7 - 9 p.m.

The Role of the Guardian and
the Guardianship Volunteer

SESSION 2
Monday, June 18, 7 - 9 p.m.
Quality of Life Issues in a

Healthcare Setting

Both sessions will be held at:
Fleischman Residence / Blumberg Plaza

6710 West Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322

located on the Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus

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Shirley Jarcaig, M.S.W.
248-661-2999 ext. 300

for more information, call :

adima, which provides resi-
dential care and support for
adults with psychiatric illness,
has purchased a building on
12 Mile Road in Southfield to serve as its
headquarters.
The building will be called the
Henrietta and Herbert
Charfoos Kadima Center,
in honor of the Charfoos
family, major donors to
the organization's capital
campaign. Phase I of the
campaign has raised $1.8
million for the 17-year-
old organization, said
Janette
Sally Krugel, Kadima's
Shallal
development director.
"Our gifts committee's
work is ongoing, so we can achieve all
our goals," Krugel said.
Among those goals is a drop-in center
on the building's lower level. .
The building, at 15999 W. 12 Mile
Road, just west of Greenfield Road, is
about a mile and a half from the Jewish
Vocational Service building, on
Southfield Road north of 12 Mile. The
two organizations work closely together
finding and supervising employment
opportunities for the mentally ill.
While Kadima, which means "moving
forward" in Hebrew, now owns the
entire 18,000-square-foot Charfoos
Center, the organization will begin by
using only about 6,000 square feet on
the second floor. Even so, that's almost
twice the space of the old headquarters at
29431 Southfield Road in Southfield,
which totaled 3,500 square feet.
Kadima moved to the new building on
April 23.
"This is a huge opportunity for
growth," Krugel said. "It will provide for
clients already being served and for new
clients waiting to be served."
Currently, Kadima assists about 175
adults with schizophrenia or bipolar dis-
order. A Jewish-sponsored organization,
it receives its funding from state, county
and local sources. Although not a con-
stituent agency of the Jewish Federation
of Metropolitan Detroit, it does receive
occasional Federation and Jewish Fund
grants.
The organization is nonsectarian in the

clients it serves. However, all eight
Kadima-run group homes and two con-
dominium apartments are kosher and all
holiday programming is Jewish.
Most of the homes serve three or four
residents, withpart-time assistance, said
Richard Zussman, Kadima president.
Each condominium houses two room-
mates. The most seriously in need of
help live in a six-person home with 24-
hour staffing. Another group home is in
the works, he said.
Currently, the wait for Kadima hous-
ing is one to two years, Krugel said. For
people who need ongoing services in a
noncrisis situation, the wait is about six
months. -
"When people are in crisis and need
service, it needs to be taken care of right
away," Krugel said. "We do everything in
our power to help them get the help they
need. For them, we tend not to have a
waiting list."
The new headquarters will allow for
the addition of another 50 to 75 clients
as well as about 20 staff members, said
Janette Shallal, Kadima's executive direc-
tor. Currently, the organization's staff
stands at 45.
Kadima provides support services,
including advocacy, housing, entertain-
ment and counseling for clients and their
families. About eight years ago, it
received a grant from the Federation's
Max M. Fisher Jewish Foundation to
begin a supportive employment pro-
gram. Another grant helps elderly men-
tally ill clients remain in their apartments
at the Harriet and Ben Teitel Jewish
Apartments and Anna and Meyer Prentis
Jewish Apartments I and II, all in Oa _ k
Park.
"Right now, our grant is for 10 people,
but we serve 15 people," Shallal said.
Kadima's latest program is a counseling
service for the families of mentally ill
children.
Kadima has set precedents in service
to the mentally ill, Shallal said. "I get
calls from all over the country wanting
help in establishing a Kadima in their
area."

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The dedication of the Henrietta and
- -Herbert Charfoos Kadima Center is
scheduled for 1-3 p.m., Sunday, June
10, at 15999 W. 12 Mile Road,
Southfield. Call (248) 559-8235 for
reservations.

