Mission & Values

Mission

Supporting and enhancing the wellbeing of the Jewish community of Victoria.

Vision

Benefiting the community by providing excellent support and care for individuals and families.

My Community. My Choice.

Jewish Care belongs to the community - each of us owners and stakeholders. With ownership comes responsibility. We each play a role in ensuring the care of those in need.

The strength of our community is in our diversity and in our togetherness - young and old, rich and poor, healthy and sick, religious and unaffiliated. Together we are one.

Jewish Care's mission speaks to all of us, not just the vulnerable. Through the delivery of the highest quality of care coupled with real choices and real options, we will transform Jewish Care from a provider of necessity to a provider of choice.

Values

Jewish Care's values are universal and enduring in nature, but are also particular to the Jewish approach to creating a meaningful life and a strong, cohesive community.

Our values define who we are and underpin everything we do. They pervade every aspect of our organisation, informing relationships amongst colleagues, between staff and clients and between our organisation and the wider community. Our foundational values are about people - they provide a moral compass for the way we respond to challenges and the decisions we make.

 
is a concern for others. By focusing
our efforts in practical ways that
really make a difference, we take
kindness to the highest level and
help others to help themselves.

is about all-inclusive, unconditional
belonging. We are a diverse
community; young and old, affluent
and disadvantaged, Australian-born
and migrant, observant and secular.
Despite these differences, we are
all members of the one family.
We all matter, and we all belong.

is the foundation of all human
relationships. There is something
special about each and every one
of us, regardless of age, ability,
status or background. Derech eretz
acknowleges that specialness
in everyone.

from the Hebrew, meaning justice,
tzedakah is about making the world
a better place. While often financial in
nature, tzedakah is also about sharing
what you have with others, be it your
time, skills, experience or unique
qualities. The reward is in the giving.