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Helping You Meet Life’s Challenges

JFS has been helping people like you and families like yours since 1849. Whether you’re overwhelmed by caregiving, having difficulty coping with problems in your life, or want to complete your family through adoption, JFS is here for you.

JFS is a nonprofit that helps everyone in the Richmond, Virginia, community regardless of age, race, religion, gender, or circumstances. Our programs include adoption, home health care, skilled nursing care, elderly care management, counseling, psychological testing, and volunteers.

JFS is the oldest, continuously operating health and human services agency in Richmond. For 163 years, we’ve given people the tools they need to heal, grow, and thrive. We can do the same for you. Call us today at 804-282-5644.

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JFS Annual Meeting

You are cordially invited to join JFS and four other area agencies (JCFR, WJCC, RJF, and RTA ) for the first-ever, joint agency annual meeting. The cocktail reception begins at 5:00 p.m.; the meeting, at 5:45 p.m.

Date: Thursday, May 23
Time: 5:00 p.m. to 7:15 p.m.
Place: Weinstein Jewish Community Center
5403 Monument Avenue
Richmond, VA 23226
JFS Phone: 804-282-5644
WJCC Phone: 804-285-6500

JFS Provides Adoption Services to All

JFS offers adoption services to all prospective parents, regardless of age, gender, disability, religion, political belief, and family status.  We firmly believe great parents come from all walks of life, and all children deserve a permanent, loving home.

Russian Resettlement Project Update

From 1989 to 1997, JFS helped resettle over 800 Jewish refugees from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) to Richmond. Now, nearly 25 years later, JFS and students from the University of Richmond Hillel are working together to tell the compelling stories of these New Americans and their families. Stay tuned for further details as we work to complete a documentary film and museum display in late 2014.  This project is financially supported in part by the Genesis Fund of Richmond Jewish Foundation. Read more about this project here.