Jewish Family Service Helped Turn My Life Around – Jovette’s Story

Meet Jovette. Now 35, she is one of eight children and lost both parents when she was about 20 years old. Around the same time, Jovette was in a serious car accident that left her then 10-month-old son Richard with a head injury and her with a long-term condition causing severe stomach aches and seizures.

She came to Jewish Family Service of Colorado seven years ago through a welfare-to-work program at the agency’s SHALOM Denver division. After completing the workforce training program, Jovette was offered a job as a mailing machine operator – a role critical to the organization’s assembly, packaging, and mailing operations.

Instead of collecting disability and social security, Jovette took the job and has been a proud and productive employee of JFS for more than six years.

“I’m very grateful for my job. It helped me stabilize my family so that my son could finish school successfully,” she said. “And, I get to be a role model for him. I’m living proof that someone can turn their life around through programs like this.”

Every day, Jewish Family Service of Colorado helps people like Jovette get their lives back on track. JFS helps more than 21,500, people across the Denver metro area each year who are facing a life challenge – people who otherwise may not get the help they need.

JFS needs your support now more than ever to continue helping thousands of people in need. While a substantial donation may not be possible for you right now, everything helps whether it’s a donation of $5 or $500. Make an online donation now to help a child struggling in school, a mother trying to feed a hungry family, or someone like Jovette trying to get back into the workforce.