Improved business conditions should afford an opportunity for more adequate planning and financing of human welfare needs, speakers agreed today at opening sessions of institutes conducted by the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel for about 100 welfare specialists.
Meetings were also held by social service groups. The institute sessions are preliminary to the fourth annual assembly of the Council, which opens Saturday.
A special committee of the vocational service section of the Council to study trends in employment services recommended use of scientific methods in job adjustment. Harry Greenstein, director of the Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore, explained that Jewish vocational guidance agencies would work in cooperation with public employment agencies set up under the Unemployment Insurance Act.
Sidney Hollander, of Baltimore, urged organized Jewish philanthropic groups to keep abreast of changed conditions. Frances Taussig, director of the Jewish Social Service Association, asked wider community support of private welfare agencies.
“The aim of the family welfare agency is to aid the needy to rise beyond the aid of need,” she said. “Many people believe relief is the chief job of the family agency, but the social worker finds that relief plays a small part in family rehabilitation. All sorts of sociological and psychological factors enter into the work.”
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