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JFCS operates more than 40 educational and social service programs, among them assisted living for seniors, adoption, refugee resettlement, assistance to the disabled, services for victims of abuse, counseling, and mental health and education services for children and youth. [1] Each year, JFCS serves more than 100,000 individuals. [2]
Headquartered in Texas and with national reach, RAICES, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formally known as the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, promotes migrant justice by providing legal services, social services case management, and rights advocacy for immigrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking people and families.
A JFCS may have other names like Jewish Family Services, Jewish Family & Children's Service, Jewish Family & Community Services, Jewish Community Services, or other derivatives. Similar to the federation, a JFCS may be a part of the federation, the only Jewish service agency in a community, or may be several separate agencies. [11]
Department of Homeland Security (DHS): Within DHS, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has responsibility for adjudicating applications for refugee status and reviewing case decisions; the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) screens arriving refugees for admission at the port of entry. [5]
The National Immigration Forum is an immigrant advocacy non-profit group, [1] based in Washington, DC. It was founded by Phyllis Eisen and Rick Swartz, [2] with Swartz as the president and Eisen as the vice president. [3] The Forum uses its communications, advocacy and policy expertise to advocate for immigration, refugees and funding to ...
ACNS later became the Immigration and Refugee Services of America in 1994, and in 2004 changed its name to the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI). USCRI has acted under this name since 2004 and has continued to expand its programing, opening offices throughout the United States, as well as El Salvador, Honduras, México, and Kenya.
In 1949 a separate branch was started to deal with immigration through New York, the New York Association for New Americans (NYANA). In 1954 the national organization merged with the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) and the migration services of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in forming the United HIAS ...
The Jewish Board was created through the successive mergers of New York-area Jewish charitable organizations. The United Hebrew Charities was established in 2005 as an umbrella organization for the Hebrew Benevolent Fuel Association, the Ladies Benevolent Society of the Congregation of the Gates of Prayer (organized by Temple Shaaray Tefila), the Hebrew Relief Society (formed by Congregation ...