• Recruitment of CJE staff initiated
• Outreach program started in East Rogers Park
• CJE Evaluation Service Center opens on Western Avenue—counseling, nursing, housekeeping, community aides, home delivered meals (7457 N. Western Avenue)
• CJE Transportation service initiated (first bus donated by Chicago Women’s Aid)
• Shabbat Luncheon Program involving 20 different synagogue sisterhoods is initiated (at Beth Shalom Synagogue in East Rogers Park)
• Merger of CJE and Jewish Home for the Aged-BMZ

• Opening of newly constructed Swartzberg House
• Opening of new Morse Avenue Neighborhood Center (1522 W. Morse)
• Initiation of Family Support Program with special grant from Illinois Department on Aging

• Gidwitz Place for Assisted Living and The Friend Center for Early Alzheimer’s Care open at Weinberg Community for Senior Living in Deerfield
• CJE and Drexel Home Boards of Directors merge
• Lieberman Geriatric Health Centre opens an 8-bed Medicare Unit
• Agency mobilizes resources to minimize negative impact of Welfare Reform on older Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union

• New Strategic Plan completed and approved by Board of Directors; Introduction of new mission, values and vision
• Broke all CJE records for volunteerism with 752 regular volunteers and 2500 additional volunteers, providing 62,000 hours of in-kind service, valued at over $1 million
• Improvements at Lieberman Centre included new landscaping, artwork for the first and second floors and lighting, plumbing and flooring upgrades to resident rooms
• Launch of Chicago Life Opportunities Initiative (CLOI), a partnership of organizations across Chicago, coordinated by CJE that is mobilizing adults age 50+ to use their talents and expertise to address urgent community needs
• Development of new administrative structure to include promotion of Joe Atkin to Executive Vice President and hiring Laura Prohov, Director of Planning and Government Affairs and Herb Sier, M.D., Vice President of Medical Affairs
• Initiation of a wide range of staff morale-building initiatives such as Employee of the Year, Employee Emergency Fund, FUN Committee(s), Jeans Day
• Establishment of Management Training Program
• Development of an agency-wide marketing plan with overall outreach strategy that includes a formal synagogue outreach program
• Completion of Partners in Care (PIC) research. PIC was a four-year grant with 1648 treatment participants. The project included an 18-month social work intervention component during which social workers were placed in seven primary care offices. There were also four control sites that had no social work intervention. Eleven funders, including private donors, foundations such as the Michael Reese Health Trust and some pharmaceutical companies contributed just under $2 millionto the project . Research demonstrated that improved clinical outcomes are associated with the into primary care settings heavily populated with older patients
• Adult Day Services-Evanston expands its hours to be flexible for caregivers who work. Additionally, a once-weekly satellite program opens at The Park for residents with memory loss or isolation

• Selection of a new brand identity, after 36 years: CJE Senior Life. New name, tagline (Jewish Values for Positive Aging) and logo (an abstract of a pomegranate) is introduced to staff in December with launch to the community beginning in January 2008
• Continued positive assessment and planning for new Deerfield Campus with successful zoning and Expression of Interest Campaign
• Initiation of CJE at Sinai Adult Day Services program
• Initiation of Levy House renovation program       

• Initiation of the Virtual Senior Center
• Refinement of CJE website with video streaming
• Update of CJE Strategic Plan

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• Community Engagement expands My Go-To Place Niles program to additional location at Horwich Center for JCC Community Tuesdays in Chicago.
• As the pandemic strikes, CJE proclaims “Life Goes On” and applauds essential workers.
• CJE Counseling Services pivots to Telehealth in response to a shelter in place order and growing stress it had caused our seniors.
• Community Engagement launches CJE Cyber Club.
• We find new ways of keeping residents connected.  
• Tamarisk NorthShore opens its doors in August to its first residents. (Take a Virtual Tour)
• CJE First Virtual Annual Meeting from Tamarisk NorthShore.  
• For the first time in 48 years, Celebrate CJE  was held virtually via Zoom.
• Adult Day Services—Evanston temporarily relocates to Village Center as ground is broken for a new building construction at Evanston site.
• Eversound amplifier headsets introduced at Weinberg Community and Lieberman Center to accommodate meetings between residents and their loved ones from a safe distance.

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