Unless otherwise noted, all events are virtual. Some events require an RSVP or enrollment in our programs, so please confirm your spot in advance. Please check directly with JFS on program dates, as dates may change.
Start your week off with a habit to help foster happiness! As we face ever changing uncertainty in our daily lives, we know there are habits that foster happiness regardless of our circumstances.
Join us as we start our week developing simple habits for greater happiness based on experts in the field.
Happiness Habits is a free hallf-hour program in partnership between JFS, the Kansas City Public Library, and the Greater Kansas City Mental Health Coalition.
The program is open to anyone, but registration is required through the library’s website.
Register Here:
https://www.kclibrary.org/node/29440/register
Each half-hour interactive program has a theme.
Happiness Habits Topics
• March 15: Media’s Impact on Happiness
•March 22: Impact of games on Happiness
•March 29: Finding Happiness in the Spring
•April 5: Happiness with our Pets/Animals
•April 12: Physical & Mental Health’s impact on Happiness
•April 19: Happiness through Mindfulness
•April 26: YOUR Happiness
For more information, please email navigator@jfskc.org or call (913) 327-8250.
Start your week off with a habit to help foster happiness! As we face ever changing uncertainty in our daily lives, we know there are habits that foster happiness regardless of our circumstances.
Join us as we start our week developing simple habits for greater happiness based on experts in the field.
Happiness Habits is a free hallf-hour program in partnership between JFS, the Kansas City Public Library, and the Greater Kansas City Mental Health Coalition.
The program is open to anyone, but registration is required through the library’s website.
Register Here:
https://www.kclibrary.org/node/29440/register
Each half-hour interactive program has a theme.
Happiness Habits Topics
• March 15: Media’s Impact on Happiness
•March 22: Impact of games on Happiness
•March 29: Finding Happiness in the Spring
•April 5: Happiness with our Pets/Animals
•April 12: Physical & Mental Health’s impact on Happiness
•April 19: Happiness through Mindfulness
•April 26: YOUR Happiness
For more information, please email navigator@jfskc.org or call (913) 327-8250.
Start your week off with a habit to help foster happiness! As we face ever changing uncertainty in our daily lives, we know there are habits that foster happiness regardless of our circumstances.
Join us as we start our week developing simple habits for greater happiness based on experts in the field.
Happiness Habits is a free hallf-hour program in partnership between JFS, the Kansas City Public Library, and the Greater Kansas City Mental Health Coalition.
The program is open to anyone, but registration is required through the library’s website.
Register Here:
https://www.kclibrary.org/node/29440/register
Each half-hour interactive program has a theme.
Happiness Habits Topics
• March 15: Media’s Impact on Happiness
•March 22: Impact of games on Happiness
•March 29: Finding Happiness in the Spring
•April 5: Happiness with our Pets/Animals
•April 12: Physical & Mental Health’s impact on Happiness
•April 19: Happiness through Mindfulness
•April 26: YOUR Happiness
For more information, please email navigator@jfskc.org or call (913) 327-8250.
Your mental health is just as important as your physical health and must be a priority. Join JFS and Erik Hulse, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher at the Midwest Alliance for Mindfulness, who will guide participants through his Loving Kindness program to help establish routines and habits to strengthen mental health.
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- Join on Facebook Live facebook.com/jfskc
OR Join on Zoom
Meeting ID: 964 8553 4851
Join a group of your peers along with a JFS licensed clinical professionals and two registered nurses for:
• Safe and confidential space
• Peer support
• Coping skills
Space is limited.
To join this FREE support group, email: nursespeersupport@jfskc.org
Meets Virtually 2nd & 4th Thursdays each month
7:30 – 9 a.m.
Join a group of your peers along with a JFS licensed clinical professionals and two registered nurses for:
• Safe and confidential space
• Peer support
• Coping skills
Space is limited.
To join this FREE support group, email: nursespeersupport@jfskc.org
Meets Virtually 2nd & 4th Thursdays each month
7:30 – 9 a.m.
We live in a hectic, fast-paced world now made more challenging by the ongoing pandemic. More people are experiencing stress and anxiety and are reaching out for tools to help them cope with our complex reality.
To address the rising need, Jewish Family Services is offering Mindful Mondays, a free, virtual mindful training program offered every Monday from 11:30 a.m. to noon through Dec. 13.
Using the Zoom platform, the sessions are free, but registration is required at Mindful Mondays registration link. Once registered, participants will receive a link to join each session. Participants may attend one or all virtual sessions.
Mindfulness is a practice anchored in science and focused on being intensely aware of what an individual is sensing and feeling in the moment without interpretation of judgement.
Led by Sondra Wallace, MSED, JFS YouBeYou and Mental Health Coalition Coordinator and Julia Grimm, LMLP, JFS therapist.
Weekly themes:
Sept. 27: Self-Compassion
Oct. 4: Generosity
Oct. 11: Non-Judging
Oct. 18: Body Scan
Oct. 25: Letting Go
Nov. 1: Sitting with Emotions
Nov. 8: Trust
Nov. 15: Values
Nov. 29: Generosity
Dec. 6: Acceptance
Dec. 13: Patience
For more information, contact Sondra Wallace at swallace@jfskc.org.
Join a group of your peers along with a JFS licensed clinical professionals and two registered nurses for:
• Safe and confidential space
• Peer support
• Coping skills
Space is limited.
To join this FREE support group, email: nursespeersupport@jfskc.org
Meets Virtually 2nd & 4th Thursdays each month
7:30 – 9 a.m.
Join a group of your peers along with a JFS licensed clinical professionals and two registered nurses for:
• Safe and confidential space
• Peer support
• Coping skills
Space is limited.
To join this FREE support group, email: nursespeersupport@jfskc.org
Meets Virtually 2nd & 4th Thursdays each month
7:30 – 9 a.m.
Learn more about the critical challenges facing Kansas Citians and how JFS is responding during our virtual speaker series.
For our last session, Sondra Wallace, YouBeYou and Mental Health Coalition Coordinator and chair of the Johnson County Suicide Prevention Coalition will share how our youth, schools, and adults are using the YouBeYou resources, Sources of Strength model, and JFS services to build communities of strength anchored in caring, connected, positive relationships and social networks. Register here.
“Working with more than 10,000 individuals a year, our team has a unique lens into the complicated problems facing Kansas Citians. This series is an opportunity for the public to learn more about the critical social issues we’re collectively tackling,” said Don Goldman, Executive Director and CEO of JFS. “It’s also an opportunity to have a dialog with us about the evolving challenges due to the pandemic.”