EMBRACING POSSIBILITY. OUR MISSION: To enhance and strengthen quality of life through the Jewish tradition of caring and compassion. JFS PROGRAMS: COUNSELING Help children and adults of all ages and diverse needs achieve stable and emotionally healthy lives. Expert therapists with excellent listening, communication, and clinical skills. EDUCATION Classes and workshops to help community members gain insight and information related to job searches, parenting skills, financial decision-making, and support services for cancer patients/survivors/caretakers. COMMUNITY SUPPORT Transitions can be difficult. When our neighbors need help, JFS answers with food assistance, transition to employment, and support for the unique challenges of surviving the Holocaust. ABOUT JFS: Jewish Family Services (JFS) of Greater Hartford provides counseling, education, and community support to help people of all ages and religions advance along the path toward emotional well-being, self-reliance, more positive relationships, and a renewed sense of possibility. Since 1912, Jewish Family Services has helped clients achieve stable and emotionally healthy lives, regardless of age, religion, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. Our counselors, therapists, and professional staff embrace a tradition of caring and compassion and a strength-based philosophy of focusing and building on individual strengths to meet individual needs. OUR AFFILIATIONS: Jewish Family Services is a partner agency of the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford and the United Way of Central and Northwestern Connecticut. We receive additional grant support from the Jewish Community Foundation, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, The Conference on Material Claims against Germany, and other community and corporate foundations. Jewish Family Services is a member of the Connecticut Council of Family Service Agencies and is nationally accredited by the Council on Accreditation.