Reorganize Child Welfare Work, Federation of Jewish Charities of San Francisco

Beginning this month, the service to dependent Jewish children in San Francisco will operate under a plan designed to effect a practical division and coordination of function among the agencies concerned in child care, and to provide specialized and centralized supervision for dependent children who must be cared for away from their own homes.

Under the new plan, all applications for the community care of children must be made to the Eureka Benevolent Society, which shall conduct the necessary social and financial investigations. Children who require placement away from their own families shall be assigned for care to the Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home Society, which will now conduct both the institution proper (Homewood Terrace) and a Foster Home Department for the boarding of children in private family homes.

The Children’s Welfare Bureau, constituted of representatives of the Eureka Benevolent Society, the Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home Society and the Federation of Jewish Charities, will act as the controlling body to pass upon applications for the placement of children in the light of the investigations made by the Eureka Benevolent Society. In the event the child requires community care, the Children’s Welfare Bureau will determine whether such care shall be in an institution, in a boarding home, or in any other type of facility. The Children’s Welfare Bureau too will maintain close contact with all children, whether under care of the Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home Society or the Eureka Benevolent Society, with the object of making readjustments for the best interests of the individual child.