JVS
29699 Southfield
Southfield, MI 48076
Phone: 248-559-5000
Fax: 248-559-0773
Website: www.jvsdet.org
Realizing life’s potential, JVS helps people from all walks of life with challenges affecting their self-sufficiency. Services include vocational retraining, behavioral counseling, support and advocacy for those with physical, developmental or mental disabilities.
ElderLink programs provided by JVS:
- Dorothy and Peter Brown Jewish Community Adult Day Care Program
- This is a special day program for older adults with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia disorders. Participants benefit from a program of therapeutic activities designed to maximize remaining abilities and provide socialization and stimulation. The caregivers receive much needed respite in order to enable them to keep their loved ones at home. In addition, the program provides specialized support services for caregivers of older adults with dementia disorders. Transportation is available. The program has two sites, JVS in Southfield and Jewish Home & Aging Services in West Bloomfield. The two sites are jointly operated.
- JVS Day Program
- This day program is for senior adults with developmental disabilities and/or chronic mental illness who no longer benefit from existing work-oriented day programs. Activities are designed to prolong health and enhance physical and cognitive functioning.
- JVS Volunteer Opportunities
- JVS offers volunteer opportunities in many of its programs in Southfield and West Bloomfield. Volunteers can assist with clerical tasks, program outings and activities or provide individual visits to program participants.
- Memory Club
- The Memory Club helps participants learn new practical techniques to sharpen memory skills and maintain the ability to live an active, independent life in the community. It also provides an opportunity to make new friends and to have fun. The Club meets twice a week in four-hour sessions at JVS in Southfield. In addition to classroom sessions, the Memory Club provides members meaningful and enjoyable activities at both the program’s site and out in the community.
- Project Outreach
- Advocacy services, case management, friendly visitors, monthly cultural activities and opportunities for religious observance are provided to elderly Jewish residents of Wayne County who are indigent, isolated and/or disabled and live in nursing or group homes or private apartments.
- Senior Adult Workshop
- In a supportive environment, frail and/or isolated senior adults perform a variety of jobs, providing them with a renewed sense of purpose (and a paycheck) while enabling families to have respite from their ongoing care giving responsibilities. In addition to therapeutic work activities, the program features exercise, a kosher lunch, case management, advocacy services, health monitoring and socialization opportunities.
- Senior Service Corps
- JVS offers older adults volunteer opportunities at community agencies and hospitals. Participants perform valuable community services while maintaining a sense of personal worth. Placements can be of an individual or group nature, depending on the preferences of the volunteers. Transportation is available.
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