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Gulf Coast JFCS
Gulf Coast JFCS helps the most vulnerable individuals throughout our community, from babies to seniors, find safety, comfort, and a path toward a fulfilling life. To help as many people as comprehensively as possible through complex life challenges, Gulf Coast JFCS programs span a broad human service spectrum reaching more than 30,000 people annually throughout Tampa Bay and beyond. The outcome - lives uplifted!
Gulf Coast JFCS employs more than 600 employees and serves nearly 30,000 people across Greater Tampa Bay and beyond.
Our programs allow us to reach the community’s most vulnerable people find safety, comfort, and a path toward a fulfilling life.
Gulf Coast JFCS employs more than 600 employees and serves nearly 30,000 people across Greater Tampa Bay and beyond.
Our programs allow us to reach the community’s most vulnerable people find safety, comfort, and a path toward a fulfilling life.
Purpose
Our vast array of programs serves diverse populations of all ages, faiths, cultures, and lifestyles, including individuals with behavioral health challenges with the tools necessary to function well in society; unemployed and under-employed individuals with the skills to find jobs, support their families and be better parents; refugees and survivors of torture with essential services that support them to adapt to life in America successfully; elderly and disabled citizens with support services enabling them to live independently, safely and with dignity; Jewish families with services that connect them to the Jewish community and improve their lives; and children in need with intensive support to ensure stability, safety and well-being. Each individualized service is based on research, evidence-based best practices, and trauma-informed care principles to positively impact the social determinants of health in the communities served.
Mission
Inspired by Jewish values, we protect the vulnerable, empower individuals, and strengthen families.
Additional Culture Details
Gulf Coast JFCS is LOVE in action. Living Our Values Everyday, or LOVE, starts with nurturing the seeds of inspiration in ourselves and in our coworkers and leads to becoming an inspiration in the lives of others as compassion in action.
Values
- Compassion
- Compassion is at the center of what Gulf Coast JFCS provides the community. It is our job to not only feel empathy for, but also work to protect the vulnerable, to not only feel the pain, but also work to fix the pain in the world around us, to speak up for the voiceless, and to channel our empathy into compassion.
It is a responsibility essential to interpersonal communications between colleagues and both and by management.