JVS is a nonprofit, community-based health and human service organization, delivering a wide array of personalized services on a nonsectarian basis to nearly 20,000 individuals each year.  The people we help range in age from 14 to 100+. We provide services to individuals throughout New Jersey and business-to-business services to hundreds of companies across the State. Founded in Newark in 1939, JVS opened its doors to provide job placement assistance to unemployed members of the Jewish community who were faced with anti-Semitism following the Great Depression. Soon afterwards, JVS was called upon to provide a therapeutic work environment for refugees with physical and psychiatric disabilities who fled to the United States from World War II Europe.

Using the slogan “Helping People Help Themselves,” JVS repairs the world, one person at a time; allowing our clients to achieve the highest degree of independence and dignity. Our staff of more than 100 skilled professionals work with a diverse range of individuals in need of employment, education, training, rehabilitation, eldercare and other specialized services—from the unskilled single mother receiving public assistance to the highly skilled corporate executive; from the sixteen-year-old high school dropout in trouble with the law to the recent college graduate; from the non-English speaking refugee to American-born adults seeking to earn their GED; from the high school freshman with autism to the frail elderly woman living alone on a fixed income. JVS fulfills its mission each and every day by living our adopted credo: “The highest degree of charity is to take hold of persons who have been crushed . . . to find work for them and thus put them on their feet so they will not be dependent upon others.” (Moses Maimonides, 1135-1204)

Today, more than ever, we need your support to continue to offer the wide array of life-enhancing services our clients require. 

Please consider volunteering your time, reaching out on behalf of our clients to businesses and professionals you know, and making a tax deductible donation.

Thank you for your interest in JVS. Your generosity and support is greatly appreciated.

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