Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island

Activities

JCCGCI is an active non-profit organization in Southern Brooklyn. The organization offers education, management, and vocational support services to the low income residents of Southern Brooklyn. Additionally, JCCGCI provides case management, homework assistance, personal development, job counseling, resume creating, and vocational training services. The organization also provides welfare services for senior citizens.

Since 1981, JCCGCI provides social and human service to the communities of southern Brooklyn and Citywide. Over the past two decades, JCCGCI expanded into a “One-Stop” center addressing a large spectrum of social and human service needs (and was designated as a “Settlement House” by New York State). JCCGCI’s service divisions respond to the challenges being faced by the frail, low-income elderly; the educationally at-risk youth; the vocationally disadvantaged poor; immigrants as well as the capacity building needs of non-profit organizations throughout New York City. Commensurate with this mission, JCCGCI implements innovative responses to evolving unmet needs, on an ongoing basis.

Core programs and services include: ■ Senior Support Systems provides homecare, transportation [Borough-wide for Holocaust survivors], friendly visiting, telephone reassurance, senior center services (at five sites), congregate and home-delivered meals, case assistance, Sunday Senior Center services and ESL/Civics instruction to elderly refugees;

■ Vocational Support Systems [Citywide] provides occupational skills training in fields which are in market demand, such as computer, medical and office fields, along with employment counseling and job placement to unemployed and under-employed individuals. We also provide Work Experience Program (WEP) services to recipients of Public Assistance attending college at a contracted level of 1,000 students. In addition, we provide Adult Literacy to 453 limited English-speaking individuals who require enhanced language and employment skills to advance in their careers (or secure employment) and skills training & job placement services to 152 individuals in numerous low-income immigrant communities;

■ Educational Support Systems [multi-Borough] provides dropout prevention, extended school day (including homework and tutoring assistance), attendance improvement, peer mentoring and parental support services to students in Brooklyn; Comprehensive Afterschool System of NYC (COMPASS NYC) Programs at 2 sites, and an Advantage After School Program providing after-school programming to children of indigent, immigrant families in several Brooklyn neighborhoods and Queens; and Intergenerational Services.

■ Management Support Systems (now known as the “Nonprofit Helpdesk”)[Citywide] has assisted hundreds of nonprofits, in all five boroughs, by providing capacity building technical assistance to improve the management capacity, efficiency and accountability of their programmatic, fiscal and administrative operations.

■ Community Support Systems

focuses primarily on the southern Brooklyn neighborhoods adjacent to where JCCGCI’s central offices are located. Programs include Cure Violence Program, Community Organizations Active in Disasters (COAD) Program, Urban Neighborhood Services, In-School Conflict Resolution, Gun-Violence related Mental Health Counseling and Domestic Violence Services and Housing Preservation Initiative.

Hurricane Sandy

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the central offices of the JCCGCI sustained heavy damage. A senior center run by the organization was also affected.