JESNA’s priorities for 2007-08 build on the strategic direction and program achievements outlined above.  Key priorities are:

1. Full implementation of our plan to make the Learnings and Consultation Center a multi-dimensional “hub” for JESNA’s knowledge synthesis, dissemination, and application work.  This includes a completely redesigned and expanded web presence; a “knowledge codification” process that will create a rich storehouse of “lessons learned” for the field; and enhanced consultation capacity and additional dissemination activities targeting both communities and cohorts of professionals and lay leaders.
2. Intensified support for central agency capacity-building, including professional development, knowledge sharing, and lay leadership development.
3. Expanding evaluation training for communities and other program providers.n>
4. Undertaking a major effort to strengthen the education of children and families not in day school (including those currently receiving no Jewish education) through the coordinated efforts of JESNA, PELIE, ADCA and other partners.
5. Expanding the Lippman Kanfer Institute’s initiative to maximize educational participation and impact by helping communities more effectively link programmatic and institutional “silos.”