Special
Needs Services
Emily Malin
Director of Special Needs Services
The Special Needs Services
Department has seen many
changes throughout 2017.
Our Taglit Day Program now
has 37 full time young adults
supported by 25 full time staff
members! The new program
space expansion gave us the room to increase our
enrollment while keeping quality programing.
Our administrative staff has evolved in order to continue
supporting our growing programs. 2017 brought on a
whole new SNS leadership team, with Emily as Director,
two floor supervisors, a coordinator and a new Quality
Assurance Assistant Director.
Taglit Day Program operates as two unique groups:
Avodah (Vocational) and Ha-Ash-Arah (Enrichment).
Each group continues to fulfill the mission of The J and
Taglit by providing enriching programs emphasizing
wellness, education, and social action. While both
groups continue to enjoy opportunities for recreation
and volunteer activities within the J as well as in the
community, Avodah has a greater emphasis on work-
readiness with the hopes that this will improve progress
toward gainful employment opportunities.
The Taglit High School Summer Program and the
Camp J Inclusion Program are also experiencing
growth. Taglit Summer Program continues to offer
two tracts (Bogrim and Chalutzim) to meet the needs
and skills of our various summer participants. Camp
J Inclusion is excited to increase our enrollment for
the upcoming summer and begin serving some new
families from within our waitlists. Both summer
programs will continue to collaborate to provide
volunteer experiences for the high school program
while the inclusion program enjoys activities led by
Camp J.
Throughout the past year, the department has been
honored with awards and grants. We received another
5310 grant and should be receiving our new van
in 2018. In addition, Taglit was recognized for our
volunteer service and commitment to keep our parks
clean from Adopt-A-Park.