Ruderman Foundation and Joint form $6 million partnership to help those with special needs in Israel
Monday, The Ruderman Family Foundation officially launched a $6 million partnership with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Israeli government to help better serve Israel’s nearly 700,000 special needs citizens.
The Ruderman family made a decision when it started six years ago to focus on the special needs community, and has spent millions of dollars in the Boston area working with the Combined Jewish Philanthropies provide better services for special needs students in 12 of the area’s Jewish day schools.
(If you got the Fundermentalist newsletter yesterday, hopefully you read about the Ruderman Family Foundation’s work with Jewish special needs education in the Boston area.)
In Israel, the foundation is trying to help a much broader spectrum of the special needs community.
The partnership -- called Masad Disabilities — will unite Israel's Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Finance, and National Insurance Institute with JDC, according to the Joint.
The group will try to create new models of service for a number of special needs populations: Parents with disabilities, people with multiple disabilities, the newly disabled, new immigrants who are disabled, young adults and aging adults.
The partnership will work to create job training, support groups, better coordination among service agencies helping the disabled population and more…
For more about the partnership, read this from the Joint.
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