
JCRC is proud partners with Mental Health Access powered by CJP. Together, we’re breaking barriers to improved mental health with more access, less stigma, and no cost services. If you need help, your Jewish community’s got your back.
JCRC is proud partners with Mental Health Access powered by CJP. Together, we’re breaking barriers to improved mental health with more access, less stigma, and no cost services. If you need help, your Jewish community’s got your back.
The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston is deeply committed to ensuring people can live self-determined lives with safety, meaning and connection, free from barriers and stigma. In partnership with council members and community allies, we are committed to identifying and advancing policy interventions that address urgent needs exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting stresses, isolation, financial insecurity, and increasing experience of discrimination and antisemitism.
Access to mental health care is at the intersection of these concerns, and we have seen dramatically increased need across the Jewish community and residents of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Interactions in our day-to-day lives and in data collected before and during the pandemic compel us to address this crisis as a collective, rooted in our commitment to advancing social, economic, and racial justice.
Principles as Adopted by JCRC Council on April 26, 2022:
JCRC supports legislation and public policies that ensure access to residents within and beyond the Jewish community that: