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YOUTH PROGRAMS: Chabad offers a range of programs to educate and uplift young people while connecting them to their roots. Fun, hands-on holiday programs -- like a model matzah factory for Passover, a Shofar factory for Rosh Hashanah, and an olive oil press for Chanukah -- provide an exciting, interactive way for kids to learn Jewish history and culture. Students from both Jewish and public schools have been enriched and entertained by these annual holiday events.
                    
SUMMER CAMPS: We operate the Camp Gan Israel system, the world’s largest network of Jewish summer camps. Chabad’s 30 day camps on the West Coast host more than 10,000 children each year, providing most of them with financial aid. These camps make extra efforts to accommodate children of military parents and recent immigrants, as well as children with special needs. And this summer, we opened Camp Gan Israel Running Springs, a unique overnight camp with state-of-the-art facilities on a spectacular 70-acre mountaintop campus in the S. Bernardino National Forest.
                    
THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: The Friendship Circle matches teen volunteers with special needs children, and benefits everyone involved. Children of all faiths who must cope with autism and other disabilities look forward to the weekly visits from kind, caring peers -- and the volunteers feel the joy of befriending someone less fortunate.
                    
EDUCATION: Chabad places top priority on providing a positive learning environment for our children. This year, more than 7,000 Californians of all nationalities and income levels will benefit from the Chabad education system. We have more than 25 elementary and day schools that have been recognized for their academic standards. We also run many successful preschool programs that offer need-based scholarships and welcome children of all backgrounds; several preschools qualify for LAUP funds.

DRUG AND ALCOHOL REHABILITATION: The Chabad Residential Drug Treatment Center in Los Angeles -- America’s first nonsectarian rehab program run under Jewish auspices -- has won acclaim and achieved success rates well above the national average. The facility’s 80 beds are divided between a 6-month inpatient program and a sober living center. It serves clients of all faiths and backgrounds, and provides financial aid to the needy.

COUNSELING SERVICES: In 200 local community centers across the state, our trained rabbis work with individuals and families to provide counseling and spiritual guidance. When professional psychiatric care is needed, we offer referrals to mental health specialists.

ASKMOSES.COM: Chabad’s website AskMoses.com is an online resource offering information about Judaism and live counseling from scholars who are available to chat 24 hours a day, 6 days a week. One of the web’s most popular Jewish sites, AskMoses stands ready to help with everything from simple questions on homework assignments to complex life challenges like suicide attempts.

CRISIS INTERVENTION: Chabad’s crisis intervention program helps people coping with medical emergencies and unexpected financial setbacks. We offer assistance with doctor’s bills and utilities, ensure that people get the best possible medical care, make referrals to government agencies, and provide free burial services.

To remember those who are too often forgotten, we sponsor many services for the elderly. Chabad hosts events and holiday celebrations in retirement centers and nursing homes, and offers classes on safety, health, and aging. Our hospital visits bring comfort to the sick, and plans are underway to bring inner-city seniors and Holocaust survivors up to our mountaintop retreat in Running Springs.

The Sunshine Club  is designed to help seniors develop close ongoing relationships with volunteers. Should the volunteers need materials for their weekly visits, we can help provide stories, jokes, relevant upcoming Jewish holiday information and Torah thoughts. The Sunshine Club will work cooperatively with local seniors to match seniors who are interested in companionship with a Sunshine Club volunteer family or friend. The purpose of the match is to provide personal visits for the senior on a regular basis (weekly or twice a month is recommended). In addition, we hope to facilitate participation in local Sunshine Club events in order to alleviate isolation and loneliness, bringing "sunshine" into the lives of both seniors and our volunteers.
The main purpose however is to provide companionship and volunteers will be encouraged to talk about subjects that they and their senior both feel comfortable about sharing. If you’re not a chatterbox, some people will find reading to their senior will be absolutely fine. 

The Generations Connect organization provides social interaction for Holocaust survivors in need,and is one of six organizations that will participate in an L.A. conference on indigent Holocaust survivors, and the New York-based iVolunteer pair volunteers with survivors for one-on-one social interaction,Though survivors “don’t usually ask for help,” said one volunteer, “it means so much for them when they do have it.” Even more, “loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”Mendel Cohen, Dirctor of the prgram said that the survivor community, which dwindles with each passing year, has so much to offer, and that their poverty must be mitigated.“The one-on-one experience of the volunteers and survivors is priceless,” explained the rabbi. “These are the last remaining survivors around, and their courage and faith is of great importance for everyone.”

We provide a free burial service for those who are not able to afford the costly service,Chabad has helped multiple communities in providing the financial means for a jewish burial,and has many a time prevented cremation. To date, Chabad has helped paid for close to 1000 burials.