JFCS was my last stop on the employment train. What a fortunate, warm, vital, energizing way to wrap up a career. As I work out my last week or so until i retire December 31, JFCS is, as always, abuzz with activities and plans. Upstairs, the Career Development Center team…Read More
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Pittsburgh marks a massacre’s anniversary with prayers and projects
By Campbell Robertson The New York Times, October 27, 2019 [caption id="attachment_6736" align="alignleft" width="300"] Volunteers at the Jewish Family and Community Services of Pittsburgh made blankets for refugee families on Sunday. Credit...Michelle Gustafson for The New York Times[/caption] PITTSBURGH — It was a scene that would have infuriated the man…Read More
We made it through year one – what now?
by Stefanie Small, LCSW, Clinical Director, JFCS Counseling Services The build-up, media blitz, community attention and city-wide day of commemoration of the shooting at Tree of Life Or L’Simcha is over, and it is November. We have made it through year one, which therapists say is generally the hardest. So…Read More
October 27th: a year later
There is no prescribed path out of trauma. As the one year mark of the shooting on October 27th approaches, it is natural to be sharply reminded of “that day.” What you were doing, how close (or not) you might have been to the scene of the tragedy, how you…Read More