Appointment of Jacob L. Trobe as executive director of the Jewish Child Care Association of New York, was announced today by Irving Mitchell Felt, president of the association, which is the nation’s largest voluntary child placement agency. Mr. Trobe, who is presently associate executive director of the Jewish Board of Guardians, will assume his new duties on September 1.
By far the largest portion of Mr. Trobe’s professional career has been directly in child care work. During and immediately after World War II, he served overseas with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. He received his professional education at the Graduate School for Jewish Social Work, following undergraduate study at the University of Pittsburgh, where he received a B.A. degree in 1932.
The JCCA, whose $4,000,000 budget provides care for 1,100 children in its foster homes, treatment institutions and group residences, is an affiliate of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York City.
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