Our incredible HOSTs (Host Organization Support Teams) provide continuity of relationship, connection, and support, from preparing housing for new arrivals to teaching digital literacy, providing transportation, enrolling in ESL classes, job skills mentoring, tutoring...
JFS staff has been growing…and growing! The New American Program has hired 14 new staff since August – with three additional new staff coming on board in the coming weeks. The new staff come from seven countries and speak eight languages. Sara Bedford, our New...
Monday, March 28at 6:45 p.m., via Zoom Immigration is among the hot-button topics of today’s political and cultural discourse. Susan J. Cohen, an immigration attorney with Boston's Mintz law firm and author of Journeys From There to Here: Stories of Immigrant Trials,...
Lander Grinspoon Academy's 4th, 5th and 6th grade classes helped JFS prepare to welcome incoming Afghan evacuees. The 5th grade class, with their teacher Morah Hilary Gollis, ran a school wide collection of clothing for newly arriving Afghan evacuees. The students...
Thank you to Rachel's Table for their generous donation to JFS from the Healthy Community Emergency Food Fund* to help fight food-insecurity. This gift allowed us to provide sixty $100 Visa gift cards to refugee evacuee families! In addition, the Rachel's...
Over the past four months, JFS has resettled 148 Afghan evacuees, 27 to Framingham in partnership with JFS of Metrowest, 29 to the Berkshires. JFS also resettled 16 refugees from Syria, Iraq, Iran, and El Salvador. Our work with Afghan evacuees has been aided...
