Jewish Family & Community Services East Bay history

In 1966, JFSA opens its first branch office on the Peninsula.

Iin 1972, it opens another branch office in Marin County.

In 1977, Homewood Terrace and JFSA merge to become JFCS.

In 1978, the agency establishes a Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement program.

In 1985, JFCS opens Adoption Connection, a fully licensed, nonprofit adoption agency, which handles open, infant adoptions and matches birth mothers with adoptive parents.

In 1988, the agency implements the fee-for-service program, Help at Home, to provide home care, nursing care, meal delivery, laundry, personal affairs management, and emergency response service to the growing numbers of Bay Area older adults.

In 1989, JFCS acts as a first responder to the October 17 Loma Prieta earthquake, providing emergency loans, grant assistance, temporary housing, relocation services, crisis counseling, consultation to schools and day care centers, on-site mental health services, and community workshops.

In 1994, JFCS establishes Dream House, a domestic violence prevention and transitional housing program for women and their children.

In 1998, JFCS’ émigré department expands its youth development program in collaboration with Parents Place.

In 2000, the Miriam Schultz Grunfeld Building—JFCS’ central administrative office—and the Rhoda Goldman Plaza, an assisted living center with 157 apartments and a dementia-care floor, both open.

Also in 2007, JFCS establishes the Center for Special Needs to help children with learning, behavioral, physical, developmental, neurological, and emotional disabilities, as well as their families.

In 2009 JFCS receives a donation of the Gary Shupin House – Independent Living Community for developmentally disabled adults, in San Francisco.