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  • HOME
  • ABOUT
    • Leadership
    • Our Rabbi
    • Educational Staff
    • Office Staff
    • Membership
    • History
    • Cemetery
  • OBSERVANCE
    • What is Reconstructionism?
    • Shabbat Services
    • High Holiday Speeches >
      • Amy's 2019 HH Speech
    • Holidays
    • Life Cycle Events
  • COMMUNITY
    • Committees
    • Social Groups
    • Teens
    • 2017-2018 Slideshow
    • 2018-2019 Slideshow
  • LEARNING
    • Hebrew School
    • Shabbat B'yachad
  • CONTACT US

Kesher Program/Community Social Worker

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Kesher (connection) provides a synagogue-based social worker to assist members of the congregation during life transitions and crises. Kesher also serves as Congregation Agudas Achim’s gateway to additional social services provided both within the Jewish community and in the broader community. Our Kesher Social Worker, Amy Small (LICSW) is available to meet with congregants, families, and individuals for short-term counseling, information and referral, crisis intervention, or just to talk. These services are all provided on a confidential basis.  

In addition, Kesher provides programming on family life and social concerns such as parenting teens; caring for aging parents; alcoholism and addictions in the Jewish community; raising children with special needs and more. If you have a concern or need for which you would like to see the community respond, please contact Amy or a member of the Board of Trustees to discuss.


The Kesher program is funded by Jewish Family Service of Rhode Island.

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Past Kesher Programs Include:

  • Financial literacy for teens
  • Parents of teens support and discussion group
  • Support group for parents of special needs children
  • Caregivers support group
  • Golden lunch bunch
  • Internet safety workshop
  • Values-based parenting
  • Golden Lunches

Kesher Blog

Amy writes a monthly column on a variety of subjects of interest to our congregants. Subjects have included:
  • Community
  • Change
  • Hope
  • Mindfulness
​Go to the Kesher Blog

Contact Amy

Email: asmall@jfsri.org

​Phone: 401.338.8301

IMPORTANT NOTE: Amy is on maternity leave from July through October 2017. In her absence, please contact Rose Murrin LICSW at 401.331.1244 or rose@jfsri.org
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Congregation Agudas Achim
901 N. Main St.
Attleboro, MA
02703
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508-222-2243