Jubilee Park and Community Center

Outreach: The Community Outreach Team administers financial assistance though the Seeds of Hope fund. In 2023 that fund supported 73 households, comprised of 174 total individuals, with $51,038 in assistance to help with rent and utilities while they faced a financial hardship. Outreach also oversees Jubilee's food security work, provides essential resource referral for residents, and implements programming to engage senior citizens in both educational and social activities to avoid isolation. In 2023, 331 seniors were served by Jubilee's programming. Jubilee enhances programming through strategic partnerships in order to provide the highest quality services for our community. Jubilee was proud to partner with the Dallas Regional Chamber and their 2022 Leadership Dallas Class to create a client-choice food pantry, which opened in February of 2023. Throughout the year, the pantry served more than double its intended target, serving 341 households, providing 2,018 total shopping visits, and distributing more than 170,000 pounds of food to area residents.

Health & Wellness: Jubilee continued to expand its work in Health and Wellness in 2023, capitalizing on the new Jubilee Park Community Clinic and the additional bandwidth that space brought to the organization. The clinic, operated in partnership with our county hospital system, Parkland Health, as well as Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas, continues to serve more and more area residents, becoming a pillar of health access in this medically underserved community. This year we also saw Parkland launch dental services that will serve both children and adults. Parkland's medical team saw 1,723 patients across 4,009 appointments from October 2022 to September 2023 (Parkland's reporting year), while JFS served 102 clients though mental health services. Jubilee provides health and wellness education classes; youth sports programming; community activities for all ages like yoga, Zumba, walking clubs, cooking classes; as well as continued pop up services like blood pressure monitoring, mammograms, and others. In 2023, Jubilee served 376 adults in health education and programming, 285 children participated in youth sports, and 370 individuals attended our annual Health Expo. Jubilee also provides daily meals to all children in our afterschool program and summer camps, serves congregant meals for senior citizens twice per week, and is a host site for our regional food bank to provide fresh produce and nonperishable food boxes each month. In 2023, Jubilee provided 28,189 meals to children and seniors and 684 food boxes were distributed. The park at the center of our campus continues to be the only safe green space for family recreation within walking distance to thousands of Southeast Dallas residents. It includes a soccer field, basketball courts, a playground, open green space, and picnic areas.

Education: Jubilee's holistic Out-of-School-Time (OST) Program offers the only free, certified high-quality afterschool and summer programs in Southeast Dallas. For area students in grades K-12, Jubilee if often the only resource available for additional academic support, enrichment, skill building, and exposure to extra-curricular activities. 2023 saw Jubilee's OST Program continue its robust numbers post pandemic, serving 329 children and providing more than 51,998 hours of academic and enrichment activities. Teen programming continues to serve 6-12 grade students with a focus on mentorship, leadership development, college and career readiness, and service learning. Jubilee is the only program in the area, and possibly the city, to supplement our OST work by providing our Specialized Student Support (S3) program. S3 serves students with learning differences such as dyslexia and ADHD. S3 combines diagnostic tools, trained interventionists, one-one-one and small group support, as well as parent education to maximize each student's success.

Affordable Housing: Jubilee Park and Community Center serves as an advocate for residents and a facilitator of community-led initiatives for home improvement. Jubilee works to ensure that its neighbors have access and information to rent or own safe, quality housing. These efforts have included the construction of new housing, repair of owner-occupied homes, homebuyer education, property tax workshops, and more. Together with municipal and private partners, we have built 60 single family homes, built a 24-unit complex of senior apartments, and implemented a home repair program that has served 50 homeowners (28 in 2023 alone). We also provide ongoing housing education programs that served 148 homeowners or renters in 2023.

Workforce Development: In a community where only half of adults graduated from high school, and many people are employed in low-wage jobs, Jubilee provides workforce education classes including ESL, Career and Workforce Transitions and computer literacy, as well as workforce certificates to increase opportunity for adults in Southeast Dallas and connect them to living wage jobs. We also provide bi-annual job fairs that connect 86 residents with employers. In 2023, we supported 239 total individuals across our workforce programming.