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The .Goal Of The Baron de
Hirsch Institute And Jewish
Quid Welfare Bureau, Of
Montreal: "To Seek The
Welfare Of Our City"
IT JOWN UPLAN, MUSIOIKT, �M MURRAY Mill AVENUE, MO HUM I
As I present our agency's ninety-ninth report on the eve of our centenary milestone, and the community joins with us in paying tribute to our predecessors for their ideals expressed in human service to their fellow-men, we reaffirm that, "Man ' is here for the sake of other men".
1962 thus becomes another chapter in a century of growth and evolution as our community grew from less than one thousand souls to over one hundred and two thousand. It is with this sober reflection on our past with its recorded experience of conscientious commitment to family life and to individuals, facing the prob-ktnfltlof human existence at every cfe^iBd*'stage, 'that I report a year's work of expansion and continuous reevaluation.
The essence of our work was recently summed up by a client who wrote that the worker had helped him in such a way that "He received advice, but not judgment; help but not iharity". This is what professional case-work treatment feels like. It is a warm, sustaining hand that helps one to confront the bewildering complexity of modern life in order to discover one's own true values and grow into the realization of one's aptitudes and abilities.
In 1962 all our services were in greater demand, especially family service. During the year as planned, our Family Welfare and Family Casework Counselling Departments were merged for more effective operation into the Family Service Department, and Miss Lottie Lotheim-was appointed as casework director. This will facilitate the in-service training programme of staff, give a unifying family-centered approach to all our work, and further integrate the joint psychiatric consultation and training program we have set up in cooperation **rith the Jewish General Hospital Psychiatry Department.
In fact, all our resources and services are incorporating the mental-health approach and techniques which are now indispensable in ceiling with a variety of specific individual and family problems. Our experience indicates that material indigency is now a residual one.
Without regard to class or position, emotional indigency is now the primary problem of our society, and our caseworkers must be trained and encouraged to refine their skills and use a variety of tesjB approaches. It is gratifying to note that our joint psychiatric proffraa b being studied as a modsi for similar agencies and �espUsh tfcroochoat tbe Province aad eomttfj. This too is in the a***�y, to experi-�H|rsjw tad better ways of ~sa�*tt�fu] and help-fml ^rvJesfJo htpaia betafs who *aB m fiirtlMfr few otf m*eA StrvicM Depart-Ill
arily from local residents during the year, of which three out of every four requests were for case-work counselling for marital, family, and parent-child difficulties.
Each month of the" year, the P.S.D. served 338 families who required counselling, while another 105 families received supplementary assistance. The Public Assistance Welfare Services in Quebec are becoming true partners in providing basic services for all residents in which income maintenance programs are provided for all residents so that our agency can begin to specialize in rehabilitation, and counselling services. We, however, still administer 20 public assistance cases in order to protect the individuals involved because of a number of supportive services required.
The public assistance agencies today, and in the near future, will be of strategic importance in balanced public and private welfare program. Our agency will then be able to deepen its resources and to pioneer in new and ever wider areas of service to Jewish families and family-life generally in our community.
We are extremely grateful fo* the ready cooperation of Dr. Nathan Epstein and the Psychiatry Department at the Jewish General Hospital, which permits our agency to render quick and effective services requiring either community resources or hospital care without any delay. We are pleased that our agency not only provides field-work post-graduate training for students from the McGill School of Social Work, but is also now in the second year of its unique use as a training agency for community psychiatrists.
Increasingly more preventive mental-health in family service wilt mean greater coordination between all the resources within the community. Our staff has responded to the challenges and tasks involved in upgrading and intensifying their skills.
We are aware that to provide the family-centered services of our agency means constant recruitment for more skilled staff who can remain with the agency for longer periods of time. Constant attention to salary scales and personnel practices is vital, as well ss proper office facilities, which need to be improved,.in all of which Federation's understanding and assist, ance is greatly appreciated.
Our ability to expand our services is directly related to the number of qualified staff whom we can attract and retain, for th� -community Is In need of this help. We know that various Synagogues are in ne�d of preventive premarital cotfaaeUiag on a group basia, and w� mgftt that we hav* only been abb to gfv* spedal help., to the Paretttt .Without Partaer* Group at the YJtVrW,HJL, aad to Neighbourhood Howe Nursery School parent*
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of reUtingr to one >nbtii�r *nd in j choosing constructive ways of be- ., having: and functioning,
It ia significant that our Income from .fees, however modest, ^ suggest* that there Is a large *un- ; met need in suburban arena and ' other middle-class parts of our > community, and we must find ways* of reaching out to them before,, their problems become unendpr-able.
In regard to pur financial assist-. ' ance service, it ia more and more rendered in protecting fatherless families, supplementing Needy Mother Allowance cases, and Old Age Pensioners. Fortunately, in July of the year, the Provincial' Department of Family and Social Welfare adjusted its regulations which affected the basic grants of beneficiaries and their rights for special assistance. Our agency has been most active in interpreting special assistance for relief budgets granted to needy persons by the Government We appreciate the positive cooperation of the leaders of the Department of Family and Social Welfare.
We believe that our financial assistance will increasingly be called on for rehabilitation and encouragement to help individuals improve their ability to function, as well as to protect the most vulnerable groups in our community who are threatened by illness, mental breakdown, lack of skills, and the problems of unemployment.
Though the number is small, our community does have what are now termed "multi-problem families". Because of a variety of difficulties, they find it impossible to manage without the constant support of a social agency.
We need more jpsearclt in understanding the- natara ol Ifceir^ p*oi� Jems- and how these may be solved without long periods of dependency from one generation to the next. All of us are as vulnerable as those community members who are in constant difficulty and conflict with the values and goals of our society.
In our Service to Elderly Persons, it has become clear that we must coordinate on a "problem-centred" basis this work with that of the Geriatric Clinic of the Jewish Hospital in order to avoid Duplication in helping Elderly Persons function as long as possible in the community before custodial care or death overtakes them. One of the results of this unusual collaboration in 1962 has been Federation's move to create a Professional Advisory Committee to the Council of Jewish Aging in order to study and improve all the re-
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One hundred and twenty-three elderly men and women were helped, to establish their eligibility for Old Age:' jtyf$Mj$| with the assistance of our Lewi Aid staff, r and as msny families and individuals received counselling in relation to improving their own attitudes to .one another,:and making plans for better care for relatives and old folks.
Our Visiting Homemaker Service of six staff homemakers assisted 129 families, made up of 261 adults and 357 children, for 1168 days' care, to meet the daily problems of a convalescent mother after confinement, or after return home from medical or psychiatric-hospitalization. In a direct way, this service prevents the disruption and break-up of families and placement of children.
Another 66 families, made up of 120 adults and 249 children, were given financial assistance to pay for domestic housekeeping services in order to manage more effect-
cent than in fortunate vacancies in which> again made us to give more int^siTe ^rvlcesV to children Ind th�r foaUr par* ents and natural (parents. We*> cared for 63 childr�4,in 84 famU-iea and 11 boys ano gftl� In oujf � Group Foster Hqm�L ^esWencesj ^ -
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ment were prQvid*4*fpr children whose own homes Neither were broken or could no$; keep them. .Half of our 34 foster families reside in the suburb^, of Cote St Luc, -Si. Laurent, afid Ghoniedey. The quality of our fjiter families care is improving, but we otyi are in need of more foetlfr; families to help us fulfil our priory purpose. Our Group Fostef Homes for boys and girl* have proven indispensable, and we rjwognise that expansion of such gityup care facilities must be undemken to meet the more difficult /problems of youngsters. Our psychiatric . consultation and training program also has -been effective for children in placement W|q need help with many problems(y!iot the least of which is to face ujjfto the many (Continued on Page Five)
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