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Our Mission: Strengthen the individual, enhance the family, protect the vulnerable, with human services based on Jewish values.

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Who Are We?
At Jewish Family Service, we are One Source for a Lifetime of Help. When a family needs help following a disaster, when a teenage mother needs parenting skills, when a family yearns to adopt a child, when a single parent can no longer make ends meet—we make a difference in people’s lives.

With more than 50 programs and services, we’re dedicated to serving our entire community. You can see it in our past, you can feel it in our present, and you can count on it in our future.

Jewish Family Service was founded in 1918 by a consortium of women’s clubs who sought to address the myriad of human needs of the time. Today, we have grown into one of San Diego’s premier human care service organizations serving more than 30,000 people annually with twelve locations throughout San Diego County and three in the Coachella Valley.

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Board of Directors

Jill Spitzer and Steven LevinePresident, Board of Directors
Steven J. Levine

1st Vice President
Ronnie Diamond

2nd Vice President
Felicia Mandelbaum

Treasurer
Edward J. Carnot

Secretary
Cathy Babin Weil

Directors
Michael B. Abramson
Loretta H. Adams
Marsha Berkson
Marc L. Channick
Joan Eichberg
Judy Feldman
Mathew Fink
Ted V. Finkel
Joseph J. Fisch
Lisa A. Frank
Avi Frohlichman
Marcia Hazan
Steven Jacobson
Nadja Kauder
Mathew Kostrinsky
Jennifer Levitt
Rabbi Avi Libman
Philip Linssen
Barbara Lubin
Lawrence A. Oster
Sheryl L. Rowling
Devora Safran
Susan H. Shmalo
Fern Siegel
Jill Stone
Louis Vener
Adam Welland
Abraham Wineberg
George Wise

Immediate Past President
Ron S. Zollman

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Our Staff

Jill Borg Spitzer, ACSW, LCSW
Chief Executive Officer

Bonny J. Forrest, J.D., Ph.D.
Chief Operating Officer

Guinevere Kerstetter, CPA
Chief Financial Officer

Joel Craddock, MS, Ed.
Senior Director, Educational Services

Linda Hutkin-Slade, MSW, LCSW
Senior Director, Counseling & Case Management

Craig Lambert, MSW, LCSW
Senior Director, Older Adult Services

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Form 990s and Audited Financials

Mother and daughterTo read more about how we became One Source for a Lifetime of Help, click here.

For a complete list of our programs and services, click here

For our latest news, click here to go to our press room.

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Annual Report and Fact Sheet

Download our 2008-2009 Annual Report>>

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Turk Family Center
8804 Balboa Ave.
San Diego, CA  92123

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