Overcoming Denial: The Challenge of Homelessness and Substance Abuse in the Jewish Community


 

Publication Date: January 1997

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Pinchas C. Berger

Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions

Keywords: Housing; Jewish Organizations; Health

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Over the past 25 years, Jewish Family Service (JFS) agencies have stood at the forefront of combatting the Jewish community's denial of the existence of homelessness and substance abuse within our community. JFSs have led and shaped the Jewish community's evolving response to meeting the needs of its vulnerable individuals and families.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.73 no.2/3, Winter/Spring 1996/1997.