Please direct all press inquiries to JSSA's Marketing/Communications department. Call 301-610-8309 or send an email inquiry.
2012 Press Releases and Media Advisories
SAFETY NET SERVICES FOR METRO DC HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR COMMUNITY IN CRITICAL NEED OF FUNDING Rockville–April 26, 2012–JSSA's (Jewish Social Service Agency) nearly 20 year old Holocaust Survivor Program is facing critical funding shortfalls this coming year and for the next 10 or more years. Several hundred frail, poor and ill Holocaust survivors reside in the greater DC area. Due to unprecedented increases in survivor applications for services as this population nears the last few years of their life, their growing need for basic safety net services including personal care, homemaker, health, social services, and financial assistance are currently outpacing available funding. Changing demographics, increasing frailty, the downturn in the economy, and changes in eligibility criteria for Claims Conference (CC) funding have contributed to this dire situation.
JSSA is our community’s primary provider of safety net services for the Holocaust survivor community.
Please contact Lise Bram at lbram@jssa.org or 301-610-8312 to learn more.
JSSA HOARDING PROGRAM Rockville, MD–March 21, 2012–In 2011, JSSA realized that there were no local support programs designed specifically for family members of people that collect excessively. As a result, JSSA has developed the first such program in the area. Currently, in collaboration with the City of Gaithersburg Hoarding Task Force, JSSA offers an educational seminar series featuring expert speakers. In addition, JSSA also facilitates a monthly support group and can provide telephone and periodic email support. For information on JSSA’s programs for family members, significant others and friends of people with hoarding behaviors, please contact Beth Shapiro, LCSW-C at 301-816-2665 or or email bshapiro@jssa.org
JSSA's and JCCNV's GOING PLACES! SOCIAL CLUB PROGRAM CHOSEN FOR 2012 KOVOD AWARD Rockville, MD–March 20, 2012–JSSA (Jewish Social Service Agency) and the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia (JCCNV) have been chosen as the 2nd place winner for the 2012 Association of Jewish Family and Children’s Agencies (AJFCA) KOVOD Award for Collaborative Community Partnerships for the Going Places! Social Club program.
Each year, the AJFCA reviews award submissions received from member organizations throughout the United States and Canada. JSSA and the JCCNV’s Going Places! Social Club program was chosen as the 2nd place award recipient of the KOVOD Collaborative Program Award. The award will be presented in April to JSSA staff attending AJFCA’s annual conference in Houston.
For more information, call 301-610-8312 or email lbram@jssa.org
Rockville, MD--March 15, 2012--JSSA (the Jewish Social Service Agency), in partnership with B'nai B'rith's Project H.O.P.E and local area synagogues, will assemble and deliver 500 kosher Passover baskets to Jewish individuals and families in the metropolitan Washington DC area who need our assistance to observe Passover. The baskets will include kosher for Passover matzah, gefilte fish, matzah meal, candles and other holiday items.
For thousands of years, around the time of Passover, Jews have given to those in need. The Jews of Ancient Babylon donated wheat so the poor in their communities could have matzah. Two thousand years later, after WWII, American Jews shipped matzah to impoverished communities in Europe, and in the 1970’s, American congregations sent matzah to refuseniks in the USSR. In 2012… who will you feed?
For more information, call Keren Korman, 301-610-8395 or email kkorman@jssa.org
JSSA’S ANNUAL GALA SET FOR MAY 20, 2012 Rockville–February 6, 2012–JSSA (Jewish Social Service Agency) will hold its largest annual fundraiser, Gala 2012, on May 20 at 6:00 p.m. at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert Street, NW, Washington, DC. JSSA Gala 2012 – An Evening of Passion and Purpose – will feature performance artist, David Garibaldi. The evening will support the agency’s broad range of services and programs for children, adults, families, seniors and individuals with disabilities of all faiths throughout the greater Washington community.
JSSA SEEKS VOLUNTEERS FOR HOSPICE AND TRANSITIONS PROGRAM January 16, 2012—Rockville, MD—Do you want to help people during their most challenging days? Do you want to make a real difference in the life of a patient or family by volunteering your time and compassion? JSSA (Jewish Social Service Agency), a non-sectarian community agency, is seeking volunteers over the age of 18 to help enhance the quality of life of individuals and families facing life-threatening or terminal illness. Russian speakers and massage therapists are especially needed.
JSSA offers specialized training for prospective volunteers for its Hospice and Transitions programs. JSSA’s Hospice provides professional care and volunteer support to terminally ill individuals and their families in our community; it also provides bereavement support for 13 months following a loved one’s death.
For more information, call 301-610-8311 or email Amy Goott; 301-816-2650; agoott@jssa.org
2011 Press Releases and Media Advisories JSSA APPOINTS DR. LISA CULLINS DIRECTOR OF PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES September 27, 2010--Rockville, MD— JSSA (Jewish Social Service Agency) has appointed Lisa Cullins, M.D., Director of Psychiatric Services. In this role Dr. Cullins will provide direct clinical psychiatric care to children and families including evaluations and medication management while taking on a variety of other roles in psychiatric services, the JSSA Training Institute, and program development.
For more information, call 301-610-8311 or email mkatz@jssa.org FOR THIRD CONSECUTIVE YEAR, JSSA EARNS CHARITY NAVIGATOR'S TOP RATING FOR SOUND FISCAL MANAGEMENT Rockville, MD – September 26, 2011 – For a third consecutive year, Charity Navigator, America’s leading independent charity evaluator, has given its top rating—four stars—to JSSA (Jewish Social Service Agency) in recognition of sound fiscal management. The renewal of the four-star rating represents a major achievement for JSSA as the economy continues to lag, raising social service needs while adding challenges to fundraising.
For more information, call 301-610-8311 or email mkatz@jssa.org
SHIRA OLER JOINS JSSA'S DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT (August 30, 2011) -- JSSA (Jewish Social Service Agency) has named Shira Oler the development department’s director of planned giving and major gifts.
In managing JSSA’s Planned Giving Program, Oler will be responsible for defining and expanding the program through the identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of current and prospective donors, the oversight of planned giving materials and the creation of partnerships with essential third parties.
For more information, call 301-610-8311 or email mkatz@jssa.org
JSSA APPOINTS LORI SCHOR ULANOW CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER Rockville, MD - August 23, 2011 -- JSSA (Jewish Social Service Agency) has appointed Lori Schor Ulanow as Chief Development Officer. Schor Ulanow will join JSSA’s senior management team on September 7. Schor Ulanow will oversee a staff engaged in a wide range of development activities -- annual giving, planned giving, special appeals, special events, cultivation of new and potential donors, stewardship of existing donors, grants and government contracts.
For more information, call 301-610-8311 or email mkatz@jssa.org
Bram will become part of JSSA’s senior management team with responsibility for developing and implementing a strategic marketing and communications plan. Strassman will focus principally on growing programs by developing new business relationships, job development, supported employment, career coaching, and related services.
For more information, call 301-610-8311 or email mkatz@jssa.org
ADHD EXPERT DR. LARRY SILVER TO JOIN JSSA AS A PRO BONO CONSULTANT Rockville, MD–May 24, 2011– Larry Silver, M.D., an expert on learning disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), will join JSSA as a pro bono psychiatric services consultant. Dr. Silver, who retired this year from his private practice, will build on his longtime association with JSSA by consulting with the agency’s child and family professionals and by assisting the agency to ensure that the highest standards of care are in place.
For more information, call 301-610-8311 or email mkatz@jssa.org
JEWISH FEDERATION'S FARBER AWARD WILL HONOR JSSA AND JCCNV EMPLOYEES WHO CREATED SOCIAL CLUB FOR ADULTS WITH ASPERGER'S Fairfax, VA—May 17, 2011—Employees of JSSA (Jewish Social Service Agency) and the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia (JCCNV) have been named recipients of The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington's annual Ted B. Farber Professional Excellence Award. Dawn Kaye, a JSSA clinical supervisor and Melissa Hochberg, a JCCNV resource specialist, received the award for conceptualizing and leading the innovative Going Places! Social Club for young adults with Asperger’s syndrome.
For more information, call 301-610-8311 or email mkatz@jssa.org
Rockville, MD (April 13, 2011) – The Jewish Social Service Agency (JSSA) is proud to announce that their CEO, Ken Kozloff, has been named one of the 25 CEOs You Need to Know by The Gazette of Politics and Business. This award honors Maryland business leaders, and recognizes them for the success of their companies and their charitable work in the community.“
The Gazette of Politics and Business is proud to acknowledge a leader like Ken Kozloff as one of our esteemed honorees for our 25 CEOs You Need to Know program for 2011,” says Cliff Chiet, publisher of The Gazette of Politics & Business. “Ken is not only running an outstanding organization, but also plays a big role in his community. He is the kind of leader who knows how to execute a strategy, inspire others to follow his vision and the kind of person that you would want to know.”
For more information, call 301-610-8311 or email mkatz@jssa.org
Rockville, MD (March 15, 2011) – JSSA (Jewish Social Service Agency) will hold its largest annual fundraiser, Gala 2011 – Celebrating JSSA’s Legacy, on May 22 at 6 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda, 7400 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland. This year’s recipient of the Joseph Ottenstein Award for an outstanding record in public leadership will be presented to Barry Forman who has a long and distinguished history of leadership in the Jewish and general communities of greater Washington including support for Jewish education, philanthropy and synagogue life.
New York, NY (November 18, 2010) --- Thomas J. Moran, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Mutual of America Life Insurance Company, announced today that Going Places! A social club for young adults with Asperger’s Syndrome & related disorders of Rockville, Maryland, was named a Merit Finalistfor the 2010 Mutual of America Community Partnership Award. Going Places! was developed by Jewish Social Service Agency (JSSA) in partnership with the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia (JCCNV). Going Places! received the award for offering young adults between the ages of 18 and 30 with Asperger’s and related disorders a blend of expert guidance, companionship and recreation.
For a second consecutive year, Charity Navigator, America’s leading independent charity evaluator, has given its top rating—four stars—to JSSA (Jewish Social Service Agency) in recognition of sound fiscal management. The four-star rating represents a major achievement for JSSA as the economy continues to lag, raising social service needs while adding challenges to fundraising.
JSSA Hospice has been accredited by the Community Health Accreditation Program, Inc. The accreditation is a signal of the high quality of care JSSA Hospice provides to the terminally ill and their families of all faiths in Montgomery County, Maryland.
JCS (Baltimore) and JSSA Partner to Expand Adoption Services, June 2, 2010 JSSA announces a new partnership between Jewish Community Services (JCS) in Baltimore, and JSSA’s Adoption Options program to offer expanded adoption services to families in the Baltimore-Washington area that will provide a range of coordinated services to adoptive families, adoptees and birth parents.
JSSA Press Releases and Media Advisories 
