22 | APRIL 28 • 2022 

OUR COMMUNITY

A

n upcoming commu-
nity event presented 
by Hebrew Free Loan 
and JCC’s Jfamily, in collabo-
ration with 20+ youth-serving 
organizations, looks to help 
high school students with their 
next big step. 
The program, Knowledge 
Before College, is designed to 
help Jewish families in Michigan 
get their high school students’ 
college applications ready. Three 
experts from the community 
will share helpful advice about 
navigating the application pro-
cess, writing an effective college 
essay and locating funding 
sources to help pay for higher 
education. Knowledge Before 
College will happen virtually on 
Tuesday, May 10, from 7-8 p.m.
Presenters include Robyn 
Weiss, M.Ed., MA, LPC, dis-
cussing how to best prepare 
and keep calm through the 
college application process; 
Kim Lifton, president of Wow 
Writing Workshop, providing 
tips for generating meaningful 
and outstanding college essays; 
and Cheryl Berlin, loan program 
director at Hebrew Free Loan, 
who will discuss funding sourc-
es and process steps to pay for 
college expenses. 
Katie Vieder, JCC’s director of 
tween, teen and family engage-
ment for Jfamily, says they’ve 
heard across the board as a 
community about parents and 
teens feeling unprepared for the 
college process.
 “It’s such a big shift in living 
at home and going to the same 
school for so many years and all 

of a sudden you’re being thrown 
into a new environment and 
moving away for the first time,
” 
Vieder said.
David Kramer, Hebrew Free 
Loan’s board president, hopes 
the event gets the word out there 
about HFL
’s William Davidson 
Jewish College Loan Program 
and all that it offers. 
“We want to make sure we’re 
not a secret, and Jewish parents 
and students know we’re there 
as a resource for them,
” Kramer 
said. “We thought having a 
program that was factual and 
topical for students and parents 
would serve two purposes, pro-
vide people with knowledge and 
information they’re looking for 
and get the word out there about 
our loans and our processes.
” 
The father of a college fresh-
man and high school junior, 
Kramer has been going through 
the process himself.
“I know there’s a lot of anx-
iety that comes along with it 
and a lot of things to learn, so 
we thought putting together a 
program to help parents and 
students understand some of 
the things they need to know 
as they go into the season for 
preparing applications would be 
beneficial.
” 

If interested, register at https://www.beta.

jlife.app/events/1957. 

Get advice about navigating the 
college application process.

Knowledge 
Before College

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