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I'm worried Danny is using
amphetamines. His younger brother,
Ryan, takes Adderall for Attention
Deficit Disorder (ADD), and yesterday
I noticed several pills were missing
from the bottle. I always give Ryan
his medication, and I know he
wouldn't take it on his own. And
Danny has been hyper lately. He
stays up late and his appetite isn't
what it used to be.
I asked my daughter, Lisa, if she
knew anything about the missing
pills. She said a lot of Danny's friends
take Adderall. She said it's easy to
get without a doctor's prescription;
they buy it from other kids at school,
or they pilfer it from other family
members who do have prescriptions.
Lisa said it helps them study and
also allows them to drink more
without feeling the effects. I asked
her if she knew how dangerous
that was. She said she would
never do it, but the kids in Danny's
grade use it pretty regularly. Now
I'm really frightened. A boy from
our community died last year after
mixing Adderall with alcohol. He had
just graduated from Michigan. How
can such smart kids do such stupid
things?
Danny denied knowing anything
about the missing pills, but he's
never been good at lying. I could
tell he was hiding something. I said
it was dangerous to take drugs
without a prescription, especially
amphetamines, because they
can affect your heart. When I told
him people have died from taking
Adderall with alcohol, he just rolled
his eyes at me. I started locking up
Ryan's medication, but how can I
keep Danny from buying more - at
school or somewhere even more
dangerous? I don't know what to do.

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Jewish Fund approves $2.1 million in grants.

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t its May 5 board meeting,
the Jewish Fund approved a
total of $2,108,578 in grant
awards, including $50,000 in grants
recommended by its high school teen
board. The Teen Board consists of 29
high school students who have met
monthly since October to learn about
local health and welfare needs, the field
of philanthropy and grant-making skills
and processes.

Teen Board Grants
• Ruth Ellis Center: $17,500 for one
year to increase family acceptance of
an LGBTQ youth in order to prevent/
address substance abuse.
• Starfish Family Services: $9,500 for
one year to enhance the literacy skills of
children and their parent/caregiver.
• The Guidance Center: $12,500 for
one year to support at-risk toddlers and
preschoolers to be successful in kinder-
garten.
• JARC: $10,500 for one year to pro-
vide personalized coaching and train-
ing for young adults and teens with
developmental disabilities to nurture
independence, healthy development and
deterrence of substance abuse.

New Jewish Fund Grants
• Hillel of Metro Detroit: $50,000
for the first year of a two-year, $100,000
grant to develop a capacity-building
fundraising campaign for Hillel at
Wayne State.
• HOPE Hospitality and Warming
Center: $50,000 for the first year of a
three-year, $100,000 grant to develop
a recuperative center for homeless
adults discharged from the hospital who
require follow-up care and services.
• Hospice of Michigan: $26,409 for
the first year of a three-year, $125,953
grant to provide education workshops
and support for family caregivers of
chronically ill individuals.
• Jewish Community Relations
Council: $30,000 for the first year of a
two-year, $45,000 grant to hire a fun-
draising professional to increase the
agency's fundraising capacity
• Jewish Family Service: $150,942
for the first year of a three-year,
$370,543 grant to enhance and grow
aging-in-place services to better respond
to Jewish communal needs and improve
health, safety and quality of life for at-
risk older adults.

• Jewish Family Service: $30,000
for a one-year grant to improve the
effectiveness of its communications and
marketing services in order to build its
capacity.
• Jewish Federation of Metro
Detroit: $140,000 for the first year of
a two-year, $265,000 bridge grant to
provide comprehensive classroom and
auxiliary support for children with a
range of disabilities attending Jewish
day schools.
• Jewish Federation of Metro
Detroit: $500,000 for a one-year grant
to support the Foundation for Our
Jewish Elderly's funding of in-home
support, adult day care and escorted
transportation
services, operated by Jewish Family
Service, JVS and Jewish Senior Life.
• Michigan AIDS Coalition: $16,000
for the first year of a two-year, $32,000
grant to add testing for chlamydia,
gonorrhea, and hepatitis C, and to add
women to the client population for test-
ing.
• Oakland Family Services: $56,345
for the first year of a three-year,
$169,035 grant to improve the health
and wellness of at-risk children, ages 0-3
in Oakland County.

Continuation Grants
• Beaumont Health: $43,812 for
the third year of a three-year, $131,436
grant to increase the overall health
of underinsured and uninsured
Brightmoor residents by providing free
mobile medical, dental and community
support assistance.
• Community Foundation for
Southeast Michigan: $75,000 for the
second year of a two-year, $150,000
grant to support the Early Childhood
Funders Collaborative Innovation Fund.
• Detroit Wayne County Health
Authority: $390,223 for the second
year of a three-year, $1,166,223 grant to
expand the Nurse Family Partnership in
Detroit, in order to decrease infant mor-
tality and increase child wellness.
• Ferncare Free Clinic: $7,000 for the
third year of a three-year, $21,000 grant
to expand the clinic's hours of operation.
• Jewish Family Service: Community
CARE: $900 in travel expenses for the
second year of a $76,882 grant to edu-
cate and organize the Jewish community
for effective intervention to prevent sui-
cide and respond to community crises.

• Jewish Family Service: Health Care
Navigation: $37,500 for the second year
of a three-year, $112,500 grant to facili-
tate the enrollment of low-income and
at-risk members of the Jewish commu-
nity in Healthy Michigan.
• Jewish Federation of Metro
Detroit: Centennial Challenge: $350,000
in second-year grant funds avail-
able from the original grant award of
$500,000, over three years, to front-
load donor gifts in order to provide
an immediate payout to support ser-
vices while a donor's gift is being fully
funded.
• Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy
Network: $50,000 for the third year of
three-year, $150,000 grant to create sus-
tainability for the organization's future.
• JVS Memory Club: $27,401 for
the third year of a three-year, $97,130
grant to expand the Memory Club at
its Southfield location and at the JCC
in West Bloomfield to meet increased
needs. (The grant is contingent upon a
growth of at least 50 percent more par-
ticipants by Sept. 1, otherwise the grant
will end Dec. 31.)
• Kadima: $55,000 for the third year
of a three-year, $180,000 grant to help
young adults who are diagnosed with
mental illness and substance abuse grow
to their maximum potential.
• National Council of Jewish
Women: $4,800 for the third year of
a three-year, $14,750 grant to provide
kosher housing for women and their
children in need of housing due to
domestic abuse.
• National Council of the U.S.
Society of St. Vincent DePaul: $30,000
for the third year of a three-year,
$90,000 grant to support operating
expenses for provision of dentures, sal-
ary and rent for the dental clinic.
• Project Healthy Community:
$20,000 for the second year of a three-
year, $60,000 grant to hire an adminis-
trative assistant to help its volunteers in
all operational functions.
• Children's Hospital of Michigan
Foundation: $39,995 for the second
year of a three-year, $119,985 grant to
support operations of the Hamtramck
School-Based Health Center.
The Jewish Fund was established in
1997 from the sale proceeds of Sinai
Hospital to the Detroit Medical Center.
To learn more, visit www.thejewishfund.
org.

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