Paulette Coley has worked for 20 years as a home care aid. A job that has become increasingly important and increasingly challenging during the pandemic.
Program helps New York home health agency face coronavirus challenges in real time
It’s 6 a.m. As the sun rises in Rochester, senior home health aide Elaine Duckey mentally checks off the coronavirus symptoms she does not have this morning — no cough, shortness of breath or sore throat — and scrolls through the series of questions on her company-issued phone.
Recruiting in a Crisis: Why Home Care Agencies Are Overhauling Their Onboarding Programs
Over the years, training and “upskilling” in-home care workers has been a key strategy to improve retention for providers struggling with turnover.
KAVOD SHEF and Selfhelp Community Services Support Holocaust Survivors
The KAVOD Survivors of the Holocaust Emergency Fund (SHEF) initiative was launched in March 2019 by Seed the Dream Foundation in partnership with KAVOD-Ensuring Dignity for Survivors to support thousands of Holocaust survivors across the United States.
‘Witness Theater: The Film,’ a Collaboration of HS Students and Holocaust Survivors, Premieres Tuesday
Many have asked, “What happens when Holocaust survivors stop sharing their stories?”
Witness Theatre – Selfhelp’s Holocaust Survivor Program – Jewish Life TV Show
Jewish Film Festival soldiers on as a virtual event
Nonprofit for Holocaust survivors lands lease in Coney Island
A nonprofit offering services for Holocaust survivors has signed a roughly 15,000-square-foot, 10-year lease for a new facility on Coney Island.
Nonprofit Selfhelp Consolidates into Sheepshead Bay Offices
Transwestern Real Estate Services (TRS) represented Selfhelp Community Services in its 14,889-square-foot lease at 626 Sheepshead Bay Rd. in Brooklyn. The nonprofit will consolidate two facilities into the new Sheepshead Bay location, which will house two programs offering services to Holocaust survivors and the elderly.
Eva Konrad Hawkins, 90, Holocaust survivor who designed underwater museum exhibits
Against daunting odds, both historical and political, Eva Konrad Hawkins fulfilled her dream of becoming a scientist.
