Securing Employment for the Handicapped

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Excerpt from Securing Employment for the Handicapped: A Study of Placement Agencies for This Group in New York CityThe present report gives an interesting account of the way in which New York City answers this question. It shows 12 agencies serving the physically and mentally handicapped, receiving in four weeks more than applicants, doctors and psychiatrists examined and treated the sick and advised on suitable types of employment for them, social workers gave training, vocational advice and friendly help to the discouraged, large numbers of employers were seen, and some were convinced that, in a partica lar job, a disabled man or woman can earn a living. This task ofpreparing the disabled for industry and of preparing industry to receive and keep them when they are ready is inherently difficult and complicated, but real progress is being made, as the report Shows.However, several of the agencies doing this work are not content with what is being accomplished in their field. They want to improve their service, organize it more effectively and plan for future growth in relation to all the other social work of the com munity. This involves a careful study of the existing organizations and an assembling and analysis of the facts about the field as a whole. These agencies were fortunate in securing so competent a person as Mary La Dame of the Department of Industrial Studies of the Russell Sage Foundation to make such a study.Miss La Dame's report, in which Moses A. Leavitt of the Jewish Social Service Association has shared, contains exhaustive data about the Operation of the employment agencies for the handi capped as they are now being conducted. She presents the detailed facts about a number of problems which will point the way to their solution: Why should 12 separate agencies serve those suffering from dis abilities and each one in turn approach the same employers for jobs?Why Should one organization serve the crippled and disabled men and boys, an entirely different one, the hard of hearing, a third, girls with mental and behavior problems?Why should crippled girls and women be without service and the blind and tuberculous be inadequately cared for?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.