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ported the Jewish Fund since it began.
T
he Jewish Fund awarded
the 2006 Robert Sosnick
Award of Excellence to the
Jewish Community Center's Kids
All Together Program at its annual
meeting in mid-November.
Created with a Jewish Fund grant
in 1999, Kids All Together integrates
70 children with special needs into
the JCC's summer camp and other
recreational and day care programs.
Fifty young people, primarily col-
lege students studying education, are
trained as inclusion counselors.
"After just one summer, the chil-
dren have developed new friend-
ships," reported Sosnick Committee
Chair Karen Sosnick Schoenberg.
"In addition, one of the biggest chal-
lenges facing parents of children
with special needs is isolation from
the community.
"Kids All Together staff welcome
them with open arms and offer a
network of support beyond the sum-
mer camp experience. For many par-
ents, this is the first time that anyone
has offered such help and showed
such a deep understanding of their
needs."
Accepting the award on behalf
of the JCC was its president, Irwin
Alterman, and executive director,
Mark Lit.
Also attending the meeting were
Ed and Judith Narens and their chil-
dren William and Lea, James and
Margo and Barbara. The Narens have
supported the program from the
beginning through the Millennium
Fund at the Jewish Federation.
Reptresentatives of institutional
funders Charter One Bank and the
Skillman Foundation also were pres-
ent.
The Robert Sosnick Award of
Excellence was established in mem-
ory of Bob Sosnick, whose vision
led to the creation of the Jewish
Fund.
The annual meeting included
a report from Jewish Fund chair
Robert Naftaly on $3.9 million in
grants.
They included $1.2 million to
assist older citizens, $1.4 million to
help people with disabilities and $1.3
million to Huron Valley-Sinai and
Sinai-Grace hospitals.
The Jewish Fund was created from
proceeds of the sale of Sinai Hospital
to the Detroit Medical Center and has
awarded more than $32 million in
grants to expand health and human
services to residents of Metropolitan.
Detroit.