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  1. JSSA’s Volunteer Juliann Goldman Wins National Hospice Volunteer of the Year Award

    Juliann Goldman started as a JSSA Hospice volunteer in 2007.  More than 14 years later, she…
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  2. MEET RUTH RUSKIN, JSSA’S NEW BOARD PRESIDENT

    Ruth Ruskin was elected JSSA’s new Board President effective July 1, 2021, after serving as…
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  3. How to Celebrate Father’s Day Without Dad

    Being an adoptive father was the most important part of his life.
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  4. JSSA’s Community Impact Fund Event – Turn the Tide on Mental Health Stigma

    Recently, JSSA hosted our annual Community Impact Fund event – Turn the Tide on Mental…
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  5. LGBTQ+ Pride Month and Resources

    JSSA is strongly supportive of diversity, equality, and inclusiveness of all people —…
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  6. Strategies to Deal with Difficult Times

    We’ve been in a pandemic for over a year, and talking about mental health is now more…
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  7. Useful Tips & Articles About Mental Health

    Everyone has struggled in big and small ways over the last year as we navigate social…
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  8. Empathy Instead of Sympathy

    Growing up with a mental health diagnosis, you must learn very quickly that you may perceive…
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  9. Seven Tips for Managing Your Mental Health During a Global Pandemic

    Life has changed radically since March 2020. One week we were comfortably sitting in our…
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  10. Yom Hashoah Panel Discussion – In Case You Missed It!

    On April 8, people around the world commemorated Yom HaShoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day. On…
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