Yesodot
Serving Jewish and Interfaith Families Challenged by Disability
Community Connections
Yesodot works to develop community linkages and foster inclusion in a variety of ways:
Yesodot staff sit on the Boston Jewish Community Special Needs Professional Committee, and Yesodot member families and staff sit on a number of Jewish community and other committees and represent Yesodot's interests to these groups. Yesodot's members participate in Boston Celebrates Israel, and Jewish Community Advocacy Day, sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council and MAJF, as well as Super Sunday, Combined Jewish Philanthropies' fundraising day.
Yesodot's program with the Jewish community's sister city of Haifa, Israel, funded through CJP's Boston-Haifa connection. Yesodot fosters family to family connections in the two cities via email. In late March, '06, staff and two parents traveled to Israel to meet with parents. A Yesodot family trip to Israel is planned for 2008. For more information, go to the featured article page.
The Special Needs Professional Committee of the Greater Boston Jewish Community sponsors Disability Awareness Month, held during the Jewish month of Iyar, in cooperation with Synagogue Council of Massachusetts. Conceived of by Yesodot's executive council of parents, Disability Awareness Month focuses on issues of awareness and inclusion of people with disabilities in all aspects of Jewish community life. For more information, go to the Disability Awareness Month webpage here.