The Jewish Renaissance Foundation Inc

Youth educational services 1. School based youth services program (sbysp)offers perth amboy high school students year-round intervention, activities, mental health supportive services and entrepreneurship training. 2. Student training & enrichment program for urban progress (step- up)provides direct services to all students and their families at the academy for urban leadership charter school (aul). 3. Leadership entrepreneurship achievement program (leap)provides high school students with two types of experiences in partnership with the school based youth services (sbys) program and the stepup program. Emerging leaders for a healthier community (el): provides youth with handson experience in community health and the opportunity to make lasting change. After developing their strategy during the school year, the els spend the summer putting their plans into action while earning summer stipend pay. Youth entrepreneurship (yep): focuses on preparing students to start their own micro-enterprises. We partner with the network for teaching entrepreneurship (nfte) to provide a comprehensive experience for our teens. 4. Americorps the recently awarded grant focuses on expanding our current health education, promotion services, activities, and programs improving the quality of health education and community assistance programs throughout middlesex county. Americorps members will support sites through wellness- focused mental health initiatives, planning and promoting self-care days, hosting emotional health-themed workshops, and implementing socially distanced and virtual social events. Members will have the opportunity to earn up to an educational stipend and a modest living allowance in return for their commitment and service.

Community & family services 1. Bayside family success center (fsc)is a community strength-based, family centered neighborhood-gathering place where families can go for support, information, and services. 2. Family assistance center (fac)distributes direct cash assistance to help with emergency situations leading to loss of job or housing. In addition, we offer my choice store to tackle food insecurity with the purpose of promoting healthy eating, healthy living by choice. 3. Perth amboy alliance for community (paac)aims to revitalize the neighborhood identified as paac by providing resources, support and empowering the neighbors. 4. Training and testing center the jrf training & testing center offers in demand employment training,support and testing. Our priority is to provide our students with theresources needed to be licensed and certified in the field of theirchoice. We value the idea of obtaining a certification as it generatesbetter job opportunities to earn a living wage." 5. Alternative education institute (aei)the aei program is a comprehensive educational program delivered in anon-traditional learning environment to help at-risk youth between theages of 16-24 and adults over the age of 25 earn their new jersey statehigh school equivalency diploma. Upon completion, the aei program willcontinue to assist its students with entrance into post-secondaryeducation, trade school and/or employment. There are two majorcomponents in the aei program; academic and life skills. The academiccomponent focuses on providing students the skills needed in thefollowing four subject areas: language arts (reading/writing), math,science, and social studies. The life skills component focuses onexposing and teaching our students the skills necessary to overcome thechallenges of everyday life. These skills include but are not limitedto goal setting, leadership and civics, preventative health andnutrition, computer literacy, financial literacy, work readiness andcollege readiness."