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Background
The Jewish Child care association, JCCA, is a not-for-profit, comprehensive, multicultural agency that has been serving children and families since 1822. JCCA’s programs in New York City, Westchester and Long Island include:
Group and family day care, mental health and preventive services, education programs, a residential diagnostic center, foster homes, group homes and residential services for children and adolescents, independent living skills training, adoption programs and services to the Jewish community.
JCCA programs reach more than 16,000 children and family members annually. JCCA works with those that need them most, from children who have been neglected or abused to immigrant populations facing life challenges in a new country. JCCA clients struggle with poverty, abuse and family crises and are often without hope for the future. JCCA works to empower young people by teaching them the skills required to lead productive, independent and hopeful lives.
JCCA’s mission is based on a heritage of more than 175 years of providing quality services to children and their families and the universal mandate within the Jewish tradition of tikkun olam, the responsibility of every person to make this world a better place.
JCCA works to meet the child welfare and mental health needs of all children and their families in the New York metropolitan area. At the same time, they provide services to Jewish children and their families in support of Jewish continuity. Their highly trained, dedicated staff works collaboratively with families to build on their strengths, preserve the family when possible and help create new families when necessary so that all children may thrive by having a sense of family, culture and community.
JCCA completed an extensive, soup-to-nuts, 2-year strategic planning process in 2006, which focused on four critical areas of operation: Financial equilibrium, Westchester and Pleasantville Campus programs, Jewish values and programs and Governance. The process was a model of how voluntary leadership and senior professional staff can work collaboratively to re-invigorate the mission and program of a large social service agency. JCCA emerged from this process with a renewed and energized commitment to its mission of serving multiple populations, a new understanding of its fund-raising operation and strategic endowment management and a comprehensive and streamlined governance model.
JCCA’s annual operating budget is approximately $80M. JCCA employs over 1,000 people throughout the greater New York metropolitan region. JCCA’s funding comes from public and private sources including UJA-Federation of NY; the NYC Administration for Children’s services; Department of Mental Health; Mental Retardation and Alcoholism Services; NYS Office of Mental Health; NYS Office of Children and Family Services; Committees on Special Education; Agency for Child Development; County Departments of Social Services; foundations, bequests and the generosity of individual donors.
For additional information, please visit www.jccany.org.
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