Decentralization, Community Control, and Citizen Participation in the Provision of Services for the Jewish Ages

Publication Date: June 1975

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Bernard Warach

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: Elderly; Community Relations; Jewish Organizations

Type: Report

Coverage: New York

Abstract:

The author describes the experiences of his agency, the Jewish Association for Services to the Aged (JASA) in New York, over the past six years in completing new building projects and interacting with communities on the local and neighborhood level. JASA was most effective, the author explains, when it was decentralized, well-established in the particular neighborhood, and in places in which Jewish populations made JASA's sectarian affiliation an asset.