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Jewish Child Care Association Promotes Foster Care Expert Paul Torres of Pleasantville to Top Position

Paul Torres, a senior executive at Jewish Child Care Association (JCCA), a comprehensive child and family services organization for children, teens and families of all backgrounds, was promoted to a top position in the Foster Care Division effective July 1, 2013.  

 

According to Richard Altman, CEO of JCCA, “These promotions streamline our foster care treatment by integrating 2 compatible programs.  The consolidation will enable us to provide more effective services to children who are in foster care and connect others to a full range of community services and a permanent, safe home.   Paul and Keturah have been instrumental in guiding our foster care programs and we look forward to their continued leadership. “   

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Paul Torres has been promoted to a new position, Senior Vice President, Foster Home and Coordinated Community Services.  His duties will include full responsibility for the Foster Home Division which provides a safe environment for children while families are supported through crisis, and the Division of Coordinated Community Services which provides wrap-around services for children (and their families) who are medically fragile or have serious emotional problems.  A Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Paul graduated from Hamilton College with a BA (economics) and Columbia University with an MSW.  He began working in child welfare in 1989 as a milieu counselor and later as a caseworker.  In 1993 he started  his career at JCCA as a Social Worker with Pleasantville Cottage School.  In 1996 he received  a Graduate Certificate in Social Work Administration at the Hunter College Graduate School of Social Work .He has had several promotions in various departments including Vice President of the Foster Home Division in 2008.  Also in 2008 he completed an Executive Certificate at the Institute for Not-for-profit Management at the Weiner Education Center of UJA-Federation & the Columbia University Business School. Paul has been the co-chair of the COFCCA Foster Boarding Home Committee since August of 2011 and a volunteer firefighter in his community since October of 2012.

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Jewish Child Care Association (JCCA) is a comprehensive child and family services agency. We work with those who need us most, including children who have been neglected or abused, immigrant Jewish families, and those building new lives. Most of our clients come to us because they struggle with poverty or family crises, and because they are working to create an independent future. JCCA helps more than 16,000 children and families every year and is consistently rated at the highest levels for the quality of our programs. In all our work, we are motivated by tikkun olam, the value within Jewish tradition the value within Jewish tradition that calls upon all of us to repair the world, and by our belief that every child deserves to grow up hopeful.

 

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Leslie Gottlieb

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