Helping alien girls and women to adjust themselves socially and economically to their new environment is the major function of the Committee on Service to Foreign-Born of the New York section of the National Council of Jewish Women, according to a report by Mrs. Leo Sulzberger, chairman of the committee.
The work of the service has recently been augmented by a new vocational guidance service, believed to be the only one of its kind in the city. The latter service retrains and redirects immigrants for occupations which offer employment opportunities and where there is little competition with American workers.
In the case of refugees from Nazi Germany, who comprise a large percentage of the applicants for the committee’s help, an effort is made to effect proper mental adjustment where emotional and psychological conflicts exist as a result of hardships.
The committee also deals with international family problems, gives emergency relief, and naturalization and aids in all immigration problems. Almost 4,000 applications have been received from girls and women seeking assistance during the last year.
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