Yesh Tikva

Description of Organization:

Yesh Tikva, Hebrew for “There is Hope,” was established to end the silence and create a Jewish community of support for all Jewish people facing infertility. Yesh Tikva offers free professional psychosocial services, resources and tools to those struggling with infertility, while simultaneously educating the broader Jewish community through raising awareness and sensitivity to the issue. Yesh Tika offers a variety of groups including ones for women only, men only and couples groups. Yesh Tikva also offers groups for those facing a primary/secondary infertility diagnosis, pregnancy post infertility and parenting post infertility.

Yesh Tikva sends Care Packages of Hope to the 1 in 6 during difficult times of the year for those yearning to have children, including Purim, Hanukkah, and Mother’s/Father’s Day. Additionally, Yesh Tikva’s “Fertility Friends” program allows those experiencing infertility to be matched with a peer mentor who has been there, understands and is trained to hold space. Yesh Tikva’s goal is for everyone- family, friends and communal leaders- to be a part of that support village to the 1 in 6 in their lives. Yesh Tikva’s educational initiatives raise awareness and sensitivity through: Guides on how to be an ally; helpful resources about infertility; virtual events; infertility and Jewish law manuals; and training communal leaders to understand the issues surrounding infertility, ensuring that all Jewish people feel welcome within our synagogues and communal spaces.

Bnai Mitzvah Projects or Volunteer Opportunities offered by the organization for children ages 11 - 13:

1. Helping to pack our Care Packages of Hope
2. Working with our Annual Infertility Awareness Shabbat (IAS): A campaign to raise awareness across synagogues in North America and internationally to the sensitivities surrounding infertility
3. Helping to spread information about our Mikvah Infertility Awareness Campaign: An awareness campaign for women to increase meaning in a ritual that can become painful due to its association with the loss of a cycle
4. #OneCandle helping to make our one candles and personalize them for your home as prayer is an essential component of the fertility journey.

Minimum Age to Volunteer:

10

Offer family volunteer opportunities?

yes