Terri Schiavo group helping family of comatose Jahi McMath [UPDATE] OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 1 (UPI) -- The family of Terri Schiavo, a comatose woman who died in 2005, has become involved in helping the family of a comatose California teenager. Jahi McMath's family hopes to transfer the 13-year-old from Children's Hospital Oakland to New Beginnings, a New York facility dedicated to Schiavo's memory, the San Jose Mercury News reported. Jahi's family has gone to court to force Children's to keep her on a ventilator, while the hospital contends she is brain dead. Schiavo was the focus of a lengthy legal battle between her husband, who wanted to remove her from a feeding tube and allow her to die, and her parents. In the months before her death, the case attracted national attention. The Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Foundation said Tuesday it has been helping Jahi's family but has done so quietly because of the case's "sensitivity." Jahi McMath has been labeled a 'deceased' person. Yet she retains all the functional attributes of a living person, despite her brain injury," the foundation said. This includes a beating heart, circulation and respiration, the ability to metabolize nutrition and more. Jahi is a living human being. Allyson Scerri, the founder of New Beginnings in Medford, N.Y., made a similar statement Tuesday on her Facebook page, the Mercury News said. Children's Hospital Oakland says Jahi is brain dead with no chance of recovery, KGO-TV, San Francisco, reported Wednesday. Jahi's family has won a court order requiring the hospital to keep her on the ventilator until next Tuesday, the day a hearing is scheduled in federal court. Relatives say the girl cannot be moved until she has a tracheotomy and surgery necessary to insert a feeding tube.