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Sephardic Bikur Holim (S.B.H.) is a non-profit 501 (C)(3) charitable organization. Formed thirty years ago to visit the sick, we have grown to become a comprehensive social services and mental health agency. Our focus is to provide services which are not available elsewhere or do not respond to the unique social, cultural, and/or economic needs of the community.
Each year more than 500 families come to us for direct assistance. S.B.H. allocates funds for food, shelter, clothing, emergency medical and/or home care. We enable families facing crisis to remain in their homes and community to live in dignity. More than l.6 million dollars in direct aid is distributed each year.
S.B.H. relies heavily on volunteers to accomplish its goals. Each case is assigned a volunteer captain who works with the family. Our professional staff provides case management services and an array of services such as crisis intervention and assisting our clients with activities of daily life. The youth and young adult divisions are involved in visiting the sick and homebound, big brother/big sister projects and trips, holiday package distribution, holiday parties for children and projects too numerous to mention.
Our medical referral program provides referrals to doctors, hospitals, and health care systems. Through our program doctors donate pro-bono services and our clients are able to take advantage of the best medical care available. Our mental health division provides referrals to psychologists, social workers, and psychiatrists, and offers therapy and counseling in house as well.
Our small but well-trained professional staff partnered with a volunteer, works with each family to address the myriad of social and mental illnesses, marital and individual counseling, and whatever it takes to help a client face the issues that block his or her ability to live happy and healthy. In addition, our support groups enable our clients to gain further insight and develop methods to deal with their problems. S.B.H.’s holistic approach to treatment and full scope of services enable the client to become self-empowered and self-sufficient.
For further information please click on the link below:
http://www.sbhonline.org
The Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation was established in 1991 as a donor recruitment organization to help save the life of New Jersey leukemia patient Jay Feinberg. Between 1991-95, the organization launched an ambitious grassroots campaign to recruit donors of Eastern-European Jewish ethnicity throughout North America and abroad.
Over the course of four years, 60,000 donors registered with the National Marrow Donor Program in the United States, as well as other national registries in Canada, Israel and many other countries through Gift of Life's campaign.
In 1995, the very last donor tested turned out to be Jay's match, and he was transplanted in Seattle at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Although it started as a grassroots effort to save one life, the campaign facilitated transplants for hundreds of other patients also in need of donors.
Gift of Life's mission did not end with Jay's successful transplant. The organization is as vibrant and dynamic today as the day it was founded. Today, Gift of Life manages a registry of over 100,000 bone marrow donors and a bank of over 500 umbilical cord blood units. Since 1991, Gift of Life has facilitated transplants for well over 1,000 patients in need; 326 of them from 2002-2006 alone. During that same time period, Gift of Life made 1,627 confirmatory level matches. One in 1,000 of the donors in Gift of Life's registry actually donate their marrow or blood stem cells each year, a statistic that exceeds by twofold the international average.
Gift of Life is an Associate Donor Registry of the National Marrow Donor Program and a member of the worldwide registry Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide. Gift of Life facilitates transplants for patients around the world, and in Israel Gift of Life works closely with the registries at Hadassah University Hospital and Sheba Medical Center, both to recruit donors and transplant patients.
Gift of Life has been publicly recognized for its work helping the Jewish community. Most notably, Gift of Life's founder, Jay Feinberg, is the inagural recipient of the Charles Bronfman Prize and the National Marrow Donor Program's Allison Atlas Award. Jay is also the recipient of the Hadassah International World Citizenship Award. Most recently, Jay recieved an Honorary Doctorate from Yeshiva University with Senator Hillary Clinton.
For further information please click on the link below:
http://www.giftoflife.org
Helps individuals navigate the complexities of the health-care system, provide life-saving referrals to the best doctors and health care institutions, holds lectures on critical contemporary topics, offers referrals. It sees that questions are answered, treatment is obtained, needs are met, and families are cared for in the interim.
Please contact:
Nancy Sutton
Sonia Didia
Debbie Rahmey
Rebecca Cohen
Call 24-7 @ 718-787-1800
For further information please click on the link below:
http://www.sbhonline.org
Chai Lifeline is a not for profit organization dedicated to helping children suffering from serious illness as well as their family members.
We offer a comprehensive range of services to address the multiple needs of patients, parents, and siblings.
At Chai Lifeline we are passionately devoted to alleviating the burden of those facing medical challenge.
If there's anything that can be done to help, Chai Lifeline will do it.
From the moment of diagnosis, through the arduous months and years, in good times and bad, thousands of families have discovered that Chai Lifeline is a friend for life.
Chai Lifeline. Fighting Illness with Love.
For further information please click on the link below:
http://www.chailifeline.org
The National Marrow Donor Program helps people who need a life-saving marrow or blood cell transplant. We connect patients, doctors, donors and researchers to resources they need to help more people live longer,healthier lives.
For further information please click on the link below:
http://www.marrow.org
About The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society – NYC Chapter
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society® is the world’s largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research and providing education and patient services. The Society’s mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. Since its founding in 1949, the Society has invested more than $486 million in research specifically targeting leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma. Last year alone, the Society made 4.2 million contacts with patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals.
For more information about blood cancer, visit
http://www.LLS.org/nyc or call the Society’s Information Resource Center at (800) 955-4572, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. EST.
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