Designing, implementing, and assessing the programs, services, and experiences that meaningfully connect families with young children to Jewish life. This includes Tot Shabbat, Baby & Me, intergenerational worship, family programs, parent education, and the communication systems that sustain them.

First, I seek to understand your community and goals. Then, I support your sacred work as we build the system around your family programming: the year-at-a-glance plan, the developmentally appropriate structure, the relational pathway that carries a family from a first visit into a returning rhythm, the parent communication that keeps the connection alive between gatherings, and the digital touchpoints that make all of it visible. A program can be shallow, but when we design a series of experiences that connect the participants in multiple ways, those experiences start to work together to amplify each other to add depth and meaning to the set of experiences. Engagement grows when you multiply the paths to participation, and many of those paths are simple solutions once the structure underneath them is clear.

Tot Shabbat is not ‘just’ for kiddos. Family education is part of this work: workshops, take-home resources, and communication that helps the adults in a family not only understand what their child is experiencing and carry Jewish life beyond the program but also how the experience is relevant to them as adults, too. The Jewish parent, the interfaith parent, the grandparent, the caregiver, each one needs a way in that feels like theirs.

Depending on what you need, an engagement can look like a focused program assessment with clear recommendations, a marketing and messaging plan to shift communications, a full redesign of an early childhood or family offering, a curriculum and structure build, a coaching arc for the educators who lead the work, or the design of a measurement framework that lets you see whether the program is doing what you hope. You walk away with a clearer plan, stronger systems, more confident educators, and a way to talk about the transformation your programming offers rather than only the activities on the calendar.