“For Every Closed Door… There Is One That Is Opened.”
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Opening the Doors Provides services to the following SCHOOLS Congregations Day Schools Early Childhood Beth Achim Akiva Hebrew Day School Gan Shalom Preschool Beth Shalom Beth Jacob School for Girls Hillel Day School Birmingham Temple Lubavitch Cheder Early Childhood Center B’nai Moshe Frankel Jewish Academy Temple Beth El Nursery JPI Hillel Day School Temple Emanu-El Nursery Shaarey Zedek Yeshiva Beth Yehuda Susan and Rabbi Harold Loss Shir Tikvah Yeshivas Darchei Torah Early Childhood Center Temple Beth El Akiva Day School Preschool Temple Emanu-El Yeshiva Beth Yehudah Temple Israel Preschool Temple Kol Ami Yeshivas Darchei Torah Temple Shir Shalom Preschool The Shul ATID Efshar Circle OPENINGOPENING Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit 6735 Telegraph Road, Suite 370 Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301 THETHE jewishdetroit.org For more information, contact: “For every Ellen Maiseloff Associate Director, Special Education closed door… 248-205-2533 DOORSDOORS [email protected] there is one that Helene Kohn, Program Assistant Shoshana Baruch, Administrative Assistant is opened.” Helen Keller Like us on Facebook Go to: Alliance for Jewish Education Opening the Doors Program .O. Box 2030 P Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303-2030 ©2014 Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit Opening the Doors (OTD) Efshar Circle • Developed into a nationally recognized program which • An Opening the Doors, Friendship Circle and ensures that over 1080 students, with diverse learning and The Shul collaborative partnership Sunday behavioral challenges receive a quality Jewish education School Program with their peers, at no cost to families • Provides students with more diverse learning differences • Responds to critical community needs by providing one Master Level Special Educator in each of the 26 early an individualized, multi- childhood, congregation, sensory comprehensive Hebrew education and day schools • Special educators and one-to-one volunteers assist • Builds long lasting relationships, strengthens support students to reach their potential systems, helps fulfill family dreams, and links families to the Jewish community Harold Wade Madrichim • Provides early childhood Para educators, enables parents, Leadership Institute educators and mental health practitioners to hear top experts at community- Anita Naftaly wide education and professional development seminars, and provides a Family Circle Conference • Specialized interactive training program that Madrichim Leadership Institute Teen Training program raises awareness and empowers congregational • Annual community wide educational conference school teens with practical strategies to help students with diverse needs participate in a Jewish Education • National renowned expert speaker provides latest “cutting edge” strategies Master Level Special Educator with their peers and resources for parents, educators, and mental health practitioners to • Works closely with the General Education teacher and School boost children’s success at school and home. Directors to provide individualized strategies and techniques for students, according their needs, strengths and abilities Day School Conference • Modifies curriculum, provides practical strategies, creates academic and behavioral plans, and individualizes Bar/Bat mitzvah lessons to ensure the • Established an opportunity for local day school educators and adminis- child’s success trators to participate in a meaningful day of professional development • Special Educators Network receive ongoing training from renown expert • National renowned Secular and Judaic speakers provide latest “cutting speakers and share techniques and best practices. edge” academic and behavioral techniques to help teachers reach and teach students. Doors to the Future Program February Jewish • Places Para Educators to provide individualized short term intervention for ‘high risk’ early Disability Awareness childhood students in eight early childhood Specialist Series schools Month • Joins communities across North America to recognize Jewish Disability • Provides professional development opportunities for our Pre-School • Based on scientific research that early Awareness Month; to raise awareness and increase understanding of the Directors and Special Educators in topics of Special Education intervention reduces behavioral, social and needs of people with disabilities, and how to empower them to learning difficulties participate in all aspects of life Anti-Bully Policy • Gateway to synagogue/temple involvement and • Collaborates with community agencies to plan multiple interactive • Opening the Doors crafted an “Anti-Bully Policy” in collaboration with beginning of continuum of educational support programs, movies, and speakers which provide innovated strategies and School Directors and the Special Education Committee — to be resources for teachers, parents, teens and mental health practitioners • Generously funded by Mandell L. & Madeleine H. Berman Foundation implemented or adapted in all OTD Schools..