The Jewish Children's Regional Service (JCRS) is a social work agency and charitable fund providing help in the way of scholarships for Jewish summer camp programs, grants and no-interest loans for college, Jewish family counseling and referral, and tuition assistance and other aid for Jewish children with physical, emotional, and/or learning disabilities.  We serve Jewish children and young adults living in the seven Southern states of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. To see how we help and what we have done recently, please select the About Us option.

The agency began as an orphanage in 1855 and is currently the oldest, existing Jewish child welfare organization in the United States. We are also the only regional Jewish child welfare agency in the US. For more details about the origins of the JCRS, please select History .

Primary services include the JCRS Programs for scholarships for college education, overnight camps, and special needs.  The agency also conducts adoptive home studies and consults on developmental problems and issues related to the development and needs of children.   For an overview of the individual Scholarship Programs, qualification requirements, and the application procedures, please select Programs.