Program Spotlight
Program Spotlight: Cancer Support Groups
Do you know someone whose life is affected by cancer? Reduce depression, stress, anxiety, and isolation. Restore hope and a sense of control. Improve the quality of your life. Learn how to live better after a cancer diagnosis.
Jewish Family Service (JFS) and The Wellness Community-West Los Angeles (TWC-WLA) are joining together to bring services to cancer patients and their loved ones in Orange County at no cost to participants.
TWC-WLA is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to help people with cancer and their loved ones enhance their health and well-being by providing a professional program of emotional support, education and hope. JFS is an agency whose mission is to enhance the quality of life for people at all stages of the life cycle through counseling and support groups. To fulfill these missions TWC-WLA and JFS have joined together to bring support groups to cancer patients and their families. The groups will take place at the JFS offices on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons in Irvine on the Samueli Jewish Campus.
For more information on these groups, please call Michael States, MFT at 310 314-2555, www.twc-wla.org
Program Spotlight—Jewish Big Friends/Little Friends
Jewish Family Service is seeking positive mentors and role models to children in need through the matching of men and women volunteers with appropriate boys and girls. Big Friends provide friendship, understanding and guidance in the context of a stable, compassionate and long-term relationship with the Little Friend.
Become a Jewish Family Service Big Friend volunteer. Lend a hand, be a friend, make a difference. For more information on the Jewish Big Friends-Little Friends program, contact Marcia Marcinko, Director of Volunteers and Outreach at 949 435-3460/714 445-4950, email marcia@jfsoc.org.
Program Spotlight—Co-ed Men & Women's Divorce Recovery Group
- Are men and women really from different planets?
- Is it possible to find your soul mate?
- How do you communicate with someone who has suddenly become irrational?
- Can we learn to get along and enjoy each other?
- Most Important—If we have to divorce, how can we support and co-parent our children and keep them healthy and happy?
This support group meets every Tuesday evening at 7:00 PM at the agency offices in Irvine. Pre-registration is required. For information, please call 949 435-3460 or email marcy@jfsoc.org