JVS uses its special skills, knowledge and training to help its clients become economically self-reliant, productive citizens earning their own living in constructive careers. At all levels of abillity, people deserve the opportunity to be useful and share in the dignity of work.

JVS's highest priority is helping those individuals who need its help the most, including:

• the unemployed family wage earner
• the physically and mentally disabled
• the newly arrived immigrant
• the aging worker
• the single parent
• the dislocated downsized employee
• the unskilled and educationally disadvantaged
• the next working generation.