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Best Practices – Provider

Submission date: 7-30-13
Submitted by: Noeline Coore-Brown
Provider name: Jewish Residential and Family Services
APD Area: n/a

Practice:  JRFS has established and provides the following services to their clientele:  Life Planning; Psychiatry; Support Groups; LCSW’s provide group and individual counseling; and there’s a Medical Director who attends weekly consultations.  The Life Planning services offers education, advocacy, individual consultation and emotional support to families who care for an adult relatives with disabilities.

Who Benefits? How? The people that benefit from these services are the people served by Jewish Residential and Family Services, and their local community.

How could others apply this in practice? This provider Agency is the first known provider who offers all of these types of services in-house.  Typically, people would need to go to several locations to get these services.