Senior Services of Southeastern Virginia

Jewish Family Service of Tidewater, located in Virginia Beach, Va., and founded in 1946, provides a variety of services for the health, education and welfare needs of the Hampton metropolitan area residents. The organization has a team of trained staff, volunteers, board of directors and members of the community that provide services to people of all ethnic, racial, social and economic groups. It also offers services and programs, including adoption, pregnancy counseling, adoptive families, adoption home studies, child placement and post-placement services. Jewish Family Service of Tidewater provides a variety of programs for individuals, couples and families, such as counseling, services for people with special needs, food closet, baskets of hope,information and referral and Soviet-Jewish adaptation program.

The Tidewater Youth Services Commission, formerly known as the Tidewater Regional Group Home Commission, is a regional agency that provides community-based programs for children. It works with local court service units, social service departments, and mental health and substance abuse agencies. The agency also offers services for youth and families. The Tidewater Youth Services Commission provides nonresidential solutions. In addition, it offers wraparound and specialized group treatment services. The agency serves adults and adolescents with assaultiveness and impulse control solutions. The Tidewater Youth Services Commission also provides short-term residential programs and individual and group counseling services. Its facilities include Westhaven Boys Home, Crisis Intervention Home, Centerville Group Home and the Tidewater Regional Family Group Home System.