Caring
Community Mission Statement:
To reach out to congregants in times of sadness or celebration.
This committee creates a sense of community among our temple
family through G’milut Chasidim – acts of loving
kindness. We serve as partners with God in caring for one
another.
The Caring Community supports congregants through such activities
as:
- Sending out cards to congregant families during times
of joy and sadness.
- Driving congregants who cannot drive themselves to doctor
appointments and worship services.
- Making follow-up condolence calls following the loss of
a loved one.
- Staying at a mourner's house during a funeral to receive
deliveries.
- Visiting home-bound congregants.
To learn more about volunteer opportunities with the Caring
Community, including supporting its "Caring Casseroles"
program, please download this form
or contact Rabbi
Greenberg.
Resources:
In addition to the support of our temple community, we are
blessed by a number of resources on the North Shore of Chicago.
The following links will connect you to services for different
life transitions, challenges, opportunities and celebrations.
These organizations provide counseling, educational materials,
networking and a variety of other services.
Please note a more complete list of civic, educational and
social service organizations is located on the temple's Links
page.
Jewish Child & Family Services:
Committed to strengthening individuals, families and communities
by helping people care for themselves and others. Resources
include counseling, family life education, child development
center, gay & lesbian community services, resettlement
services, Jewish Healing Network of Chicago, Jewish Marriage
Workshops and other related programs.
Samaritan
Counseling Center: The Samaritan
Counseling Center, a community center for counseling and education,
offers a variety of pastoral counseling services throughout
Chicago’s North Shore, including individual psychotherapy
with adults, children and adolescents, marriage and family
counseling, premarital counseling, spiritual direction, educational
programs and consultation to congregations and clergy.
Council for Jewish Elderly:
Council for Jewish Elderly (CJE) is an innovative provider
of community-based and residential programs and services for
older adults and their families throughout Chicago and its
surrounding suburbs.
Jewish Vocational
Service’s Jewish Employment Network: JVS
helps more than 10,000 people annually match their skills
to professional or business opportunities through a network
of more than 5,000 employers.
Response
Center: A not for profit counseling,
educational and resource center serving adolescents (age 12-21)
and their families.
URJ
Department of Jewish Family Concerns:
Links, reading material and information on a variety of topics
ranging from lifecycles to addiction to identity to sacred
aging.
Jewish Mosaic:
The National Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity
12 Step Programs:
Alcoholics
Anonymous
Overeaters Anonymous
Narcotics Anonymous
Alanon and Alateen
JACS: Jewish Alcoholics,
Chemically Dependent Persons and Significant Others
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