Healing Partners is directed by Malka Young, LICSW, and is a program of Jewish Family Service of Metrowest. Its programs are funded by the MetroWest Community Health Care Foundation, the Sudbury Foundation, the Friends of Hospice, and private donors. Most services are offered at no cost to faith communities and to any person or family in need, without regard to religious or ethnic affiliation. For more information, please contact Malka Young, Program Director (508) 875-3100 MYoung@jfsmw.org

Malka is a licensed social worker and experienced pastoral counselor who has worked with people facing life-changing illness, caregivers, and the bereaved. She has over twelve years of experience as a hospice social worker and fifteen years as a leader of bereavement support groups in the MetroWest community. Together with Jane Batchelder, she edited the Spiritual Tool Kit for Health and Well Being. Young was a guest speaker in March 2004 on the role of community agencies at an interdisciplinary gerontology course at Harvard Medical School, and represented Healing Partners in December 2003 in the San Francisco Bay Area at the 13th anniversary celebration for the Jewish Healing movement.