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The Bialskys are longtime trustees and volunteers of the organization. Jay is owner of JBialsky Premiere Design and Development, a builder of luxury homes in the Hamptons, and Terri was co-founder of Equinox Fitness Gear.
“Thanks to the extraordinary support of Daun Paris, Benefit Chair, the entire Benefit Committee, our honorees and our donors—we are thrilled to have set a record in revenue,” said Richard Altman, CEO of JCCA.
The JCCA provides a comprehensive range of services to children 16,000 at-risk children and families of all backgrounds who have been neglected or abused, immigrant families and those building new lives. These services include foster care, mental health and preventive services, educational services, residential treatment, services to recent immigrants, early childhood, special needs programs and adoption.
One teen in attendance at the gala, Renee, who came to JCCA’s Pleasantville Cottage Schools after having been placed in foster care as an infant, told the audience what the agency’s specialized care has meant to her.
“The staff helped me learn to trust and I gained trust,” she said. “Now I am currently working on getting discharged to a therapeutic pre-adoptive foster home. When I grow up, I want to be a lawyer or a social worker or a pediatrician. I want to start helping kids who are in my situation.”
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