Emergency Assistance: Project N.O.A.H
JFS SV’s food assistance and crisis services have quadrupled over the past few years. We provide these services to more than 1000 people under our Project N.O.A.H. (No One Abandoned Here) program.
Project N.O.A.H. provides case management, counseling, advocacy and assistance during crises or otherwise urgent situations. For some JFS clients, their need comes in the form of a life crisis; for others, there are ongoing challenges.
Our clients include families and individuals who are in crisis, lower income families and individuals with ongoing challenges, and physically or mentally disabled adults with acute challenges.
Following a professional assessment for the individual or family, clients receive assistance to pay for crucial life necessities, as well as supportive counseling and case management. Emergency assistance includes help with medical, dental, utility, transportation, and moving expenses. Services also include basic needs, such as household goods (toys, blankets, clothing, and department store gift cards).
JFS SV staff advocate for, and connect our clients to, agencies in the community that provide housing, medical, legal, in-home support, and educational resources.
If you are in need of support and the kind of assistance JFS SV provides, please contact:
Lizi Oceransky, MA
Social Services Counselor
lizio@jfssv.org
(408) 357-7425
Programs of Project N.O.A.H.
- Project N.O.A.H. Food Assistance Program: Year-round and holiday food packages, Shabbat Meal Program, and supermarket scrip.
- Big-Hearted Birthdays: celebrate the good things in your own life by giving a much needed gift card, to a local gas station or grocery store, to one of the needy families JFS SV serves.
- Embrace-A-Family Hanukkah Gift Program: Each year at Hanukkah, we conduct a toy and gift drive that brings smiles to hundreds of children and adults in our community.
- Passover Food Drive: During the month before Passover, our community helps feed hundreds of people for Passover.
- EITC Tax Program: January through April, we provide free assistance to moderate to low income people to file 1040EZ’s for the EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit). Each year we seek volunteers to become trained tax preparers to save people hundreds of dollars a year.
Economic recovery comes slowly. Since the beginning of the recession, many more people in Silicon Valley than in the past experience financial emergencies and food insecurity. The economic recovery comes slowly to many. JFS SV is committed to providing resources to meet this need.