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Social Work Practice: Alive and Well in the JCC
Publication Date: January 2004
Publisher(s): Jewish Communal Service Association of North America
Author(s): Jay S. Sweifach
Series: Journal of Jewish Communal Service, 80:2-3
Special Collection: Berman Jewish Policy Archive
Topic: Social conditions (Public welfare and social services)
Keywords: Jewish Organizations; Jewish Values; Employment
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
A study of JCC professionals reveals congruence between social work and JCC practice. Social workers employed by JCCs are committed to Jewish practices and principles and to the Jewish function of the agency, and they possess knowledge and skills that are very much in tune with the social service mission of the JCC. Some of the anti social work sentiment that has dominated the literature was based on supposition, rather than actual experience.