STUDENT SUPPORT
JFS's Student Support Service provides a range of school-based counselling modalities to students attending Jewish schools which have a fee for service contract with JFS. Confidentiality of students and their families is assured.
Services offered include:
- Short term individual and family counselling
- Energency and crisis intervention
- Play therapy
- Anti-bullying and anti-violence programs
- The Friendship Club social skills group
- Consultation with school staff regarding individual and classroom issues.
- Consultation and referral to other social service resources.
- Specialized workshops and presentations developed in collaboration with each school.
Groups services are offered for:
- Children experiencing seperation, divorce, and loss.
- Families needing guidance concerning issues of substance abuse, gambling, and adolescent sexuality.
- Shalom Bayit
Students and families may be referred to the Jewish Family Services Counselling Unit for longer term therapy.
Jewish Family Services is proud to welcome Stacey Young to the position of Student Support Worker at Young Torah Academy in addition to her duties at Hillel Academy. |
Psycho-educational testing
JFS is pleased to have the services of a school counsellor, Stacey Young, M. Ed. (Psych), who also provides psycho-educational testing to children aged 6 - 16 in a timely fashion, for a reasonable cost. For more information, please contact Stacey Young at 613 722-2225 ext 420, syoung@jfsottawa.com
For more information regarding JFS Student Support services, contact Lynn Sherwood at 722-2225, ext. 409 or lsherwood@jfsottawa.com |
