Agency Leadership

Our Board of Directors and staff are comprised of committed members of our community who are dedicated to the mission of Jewish Family Service and committed to making a difference.

2021-2022 OFFICERS and EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Julie Teicher - Chair
Marc Bakst - Chairperson-Elect and Treasurer
Shelly Rubenfire - Secretary
Suzan Curhan - Immediate Past Chair
Dorothy Barak
Danielle DePriest
Karen Goldberg Driggs
Helen Katz
Jason Page
Amy Singer

Perry Ohren- Chief Executive Officer

BOARD

PAST PRESIDENTS

Mina Bargman*
Jerry Bielfield*
Susan Citrin
Albert M. Colman*
Marvin C. Daitch
Sandy Muskovitz Danto
Arnold Faudman*
Marcy Feldman
Janice B. Friedlander
Joseph Garson*
Edward D. Gold
Amy Hoffman Haimann
Merle Harris*
Edythe Jackier*

John E. Jacobs*
Benjamin E. Jaffe*
Sylvia Jaffe*
Mary Lakoff*
Terran Leemis
Samuel L. Levin*
Theodore R. Levin*
John D. Marx
Mark Milgrom
Milford R. Pregerson*
Donald Rochlen
Lawrence H. Seltzer*
Max M. Shaye*
Helen Shevin*

Herbert P. Sillman*
Gilbert B. Silverman*
Abraham Srere*
Bernard Stollman
Sheldon Stone
George M. Stutz*
Brent S. Triest
Stewart Weiner
Belle Welt*
Melville S. Welt*
Kathleen Wilson-Fink
Betsy G. Winkelman

*Of Blessed Memory

STAFF LEADERSHIP

Perry Ohren, Chief Executive Officer

Perry Ohren has been the CEO of Jewish Family Service of Metropolitan Detroit (JFS) since 2011. Prior to that, since 2004, he was JFS’ Director of Older Adult Services and then its Chief Program Officer. Perry also has worked for the Jewish Federation in Detroit, directing a program helping older adults to age in place. Before that he worked for Detroit’s JVS Human Services, supervising and managing a variety of programs and services including refugee employment services, supported employment services and school to work transition. Perry started his professional career at JFS in the early 1990s as a clinical social worker in a family violence intervention program. Ohren has served on the following Boards of Directors: Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies (currently the Immediate Past Chairperson), Metro In-Home Solutions, Association of Jewish Family and Children’s Agencies, Oak Park Business and Education Alliance, Greater Detroit Network of Social Innovators, KADIMA and the Wayne State University School of Social Work Board of Visitors. He received his MSW and BA degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1984 and 1990. Ohren grew up in Cincinnati and has three young adult children.

248.592.2302 • pohren@jfsdetroit.org

Yuliya Gaydayenko, Chief Program Officer, Behavioral Health & Older Adult Services

Yuliya Gaydayenko, MA, LMSW is a Chief Program Officer, Behavioral Health & Older Adult Services at Jewish Family Service of Metropolitan Detroit. She has been at JFS Detroit for over 13 years and has been working in the non-profit community for the past 26 years, starting as an ESL tutor and Refugee Resettlement Coordinator at the Jewish Community Services in Flint, Michigan, where she then served as an Executive Director from 2003 to 2008. She is a past President of the Board of the Senior Regional Collaborative, member of the Transportation Options Network, and other collaborative bodies. Yuliya was selected to participate in the Practice Change Leader 2018 national fellowship program and received a prestigious Mandell L. and Madeleine H. Berman Award for Outstanding Professional Service in 2015. Yuliya has three adult children and a young rescue dog, who filled the empty nest.

248.592.3962 • ygaydayenko@jfsdetroit.org

Jim Janetzke, Chief Operating Officer

Jim Janetzke is the Chief Operating Officer and leads the Finance, Human Resource, Information Technology, Quality Improvement and Facility departments. Having worked at multiple non-profit agencies, he believes his value comes from a balance of technical and interpersonal skills allowing for positive outcomes related to 1) tracking and improving cash flow, 2) operational and strategic planning for transformational changes, 3) regenerated and revitalized program, both in impact and fiscally, and 4) staff buy-in regarding changes and advances in mission and vision. Jim holds a BBA in Accounting from Eastern Michigan University and an MBA in Finance from Oakland University.

248.592.2329 • jjanetzke@jfsdetroit.org

Amy Newman, Chief Development Officer

Having lived in Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Jerusalem and Los Angeles, Amy Newman has called Detroit home since 2002. She has worked in some form or fashion in the Jewish community since 1993 when she realized doing so would be spiritually rewarding and could be a career. She received her BA from Indiana University in Jewish Studies and Religious Studies and a Master’s degree in Jewish Education from Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion/ Rhea Hirsch School of Education. She has worked at the Hillel Jewish Student Center on a college campus as well as in Jewish day schools and supplementary schools across the United States as teacher and an administrator. Amy has been the Chief Development Officer at Jewish Family Service since 2018.  Prior to this she was the Director of Leadership Development at the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. Amy loves meeting new people, making connections and helping others find ways to connect meaningfully to the community and their giving.  Amy is currently the co-chair of the Development Professionals Affinity Group for the Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies. She has three sons and is married to Max.

248.592.2327 • anewman@jfsdetroit.org

Dini Peterson, Chief Program Officer, Family and Community Services

Dini Peterson, LMSW is the Chief Program Officer of Family and Community Services. In her 10+ years at JFS, Dini has focused her career in the areas of case management and poverty alleviation in the Detroit Jewish community. She currently oversees JFS safety net and mental health services. She has also enhanced JFS’ outreach initiatives to local Orthodox Jewish communities. Dini received the Meyerhoff Early Career Professional Fellowship and currently serves on local boards addressing food insecurity and other basic needs throughout Oakland County. Dini lives in Oak Park with her husband and three young children.

248.592.2332 • dpeterson@jfsdetroit.org