Those responsible for caring for a loved one with a condition like dementia are invited to enjoy a relaxing event to hopefully lighten their load.
Caregivers Day Off is hosted by the Gesher Human Services nonprofit and is designed to be a relaxing, enjoyable, and supportive event for metro Detroiters responsible for the care of loved ones.
The event is being offered on Sunday, Dec. 3 by the Dorothy and Peter Brown Jewish Community Adult Day Program at its West Bloomfield location. Adults living with dementia will be dropped off at the Brown Program, located at 6720 W. Maple Road in West Bloomfield, at 10 a.m. and caregivers will then walk across to the Lillian and Samuel Hechtman Senior Apartments, located at 6700 W. Maple Road, for the day’s activities which begin at 10.30 a.m. and finish at 3 p.m.
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Gesher Human Services is hosting its 15th annual Trade Secrets Fundraiser on Nov. 16 at the Detroit Marriott Troy.
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With the holidays around the corner, The Detroit News is giving back to the community with its seventh annual Holiday Cheer for Charity competition, which awards one nonprofit $20,000 based on reader votes.
“With the Detroit News celebrating its 150th anniversary, we are thrilled to have an incredible and diverse group of charities participating in our 7th annual Holiday Cheer for Charity campaign,” said Maryan Toma, a marketing specialist for Gannett and the USA Today Network. “Being able to give back to some of the most deserving organizations during such a joyful and festive time underscores The News’s deep commitment to the Metro Detroit community.”
Readers have 14 charities to choose from in the 2023 competition’s first round. First round voting begins at noon on Sunday through this link and will be open through Nov. 26 at 11:59 p.m.
An opportunity to help women in the community — or just to dress up and enjoy a night out — is coming to the Troy Marriott with the Trade Secrets fundraiser.
The 15th annual Trade Secrets event, a fundraiser for Gesher Human Services’ many workforce initiatives for women — including Women to Work, financial education, computer training, resume writing, homebuyers’ assistance and more — has the goal of providing women facing challenges with what they need to be successful and self-sufficient.
“The fundraiser started 15 years ago. Women to Work is one of the programs the event helps to fund. We are close to 35 years that we’ve been doing Women to Work. It originally was called ‘Displaced Homemakers,’ which is clearly not an appropriate thing to call it now,” said Gesher CEO Paul Blatt. “If you’re interested in supporting women in the workplace and helping women obtain new skills like computer classes, this is an amazing way to support those efforts. Bring your friends. It will be a wonderful evening.”
Women to Work,
one of the important free programs offered, helps women re-enter the workforce after significant life-changing events such as a financial need due to family job loss, divorce, death or disability of a spouse or partner. Women are provided with assessment, testing, and job search training, emerging from the program with renewed self-confidence, market-ready job skills, and an action plan. With its many programs benefiting jobseekers, Gesher supported more than 10,000 women in metro Detroit in the last year.
This year’s Trade Secret’s event aims to raise $400,000; well over $2 million has been raised since the event first started. Monni Must, this year’s keynote speaker and honoree, will inspire attendees with her story of resilience and her ability to channel her grief into positivity after the loss of her daughter Miya, the oldest of her four girls. Working with Holocaust survivors, must memorialized their struggles and triumphs in Living Witnesses, a two-part book series of portraits and bios that honored over 400 living survivors in seven countries, many of whom were local Detroiters.
During critical life changes such as divorce, death of a husband or financial losses, many local women benefit from free workforce programs offered by Gesher Human Services.
Through Gesher’s Women to Work career counseling, financial education, computer training and support services, they are able to gain job-hunting skills, build confidence and jumpstart a career. Gesher is a nonprofit human services organization created through the unification of JVS Human Services and Kadima.
The 15th annual Trade Secrets event, a fundraiser for Gesher Human Services’ many workforce initiatives for women, including Women to Work, financial education, computer training, resume writing, homebuyers’ assistance and more, will be held at the Detroit Marriott Troy (200 W. Big Beaver Rd, Troy, MI 48084) on Thursday Nov. 16 at 6 p.m. Women to Work, one of the important free programs offered, helps women re-enter the workforce after significant life-changing events such as a financial need due to family job loss, divorce, death or disability of a spouse or partner. Women are provided with assessment, testing, and job search training, emerging from the program with renewed self-confidence, market-ready job skills, and an action plan.
Gesher Human Services’ Trade Secrets fundraiser will be held on Thursday Nov. 16 at 6 p.m. at Detroit Marriott – Troy. The fundraiser supports the nonprofit’s workforce programs serving women and families which includes Women to Work Financial Education Homebuyers’ Assistance and other Business & Career Services initiatives.
Keynote speaker and honoree Monni Must a certified Master Photographer will inspire attendees with her story of resilience after the loss of her daughter Miya channeling her grief into memorializing Holocaust survivors in a two-part book series.
15th Annual Trade Secrets Fundraiser is 6-9 p.m. Nov. 16, Detroit Marriott – Troy, 200 W Big Beaver Road, Troy, 248-233-4343, to support Workforce Initiatives for Metro Detroit Women to Achieve Success, www.geshermi.org/events/trade-secrets, $150 and young adult tickets are $75, visit www.geshermi.org/events/trade-secrets, email [email protected] or 248-233-4343.