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Publication Date: June 1997
Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America
Author(s): Martin L. Birnbaum; Bessie Pine
Research Area: Culture and religion
Keywords: Professionalism; Jewish Organizations; Informal Jewish Education
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
Until the 1960s the Jewish Community Centers were seen as the embodiment of good group work practice, but changes within the field and within group work practice and education contributed to a decline of the saliency of group work within Centers. This article describes a project designed to revitalize group work within Centers by facilitating a collaboration between a school of social work and Centers, raising awareness of the importance of group work skills among Center professionals, and establishing a curriculum and methodology for training such professionals in group work.
In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.73 no.4, Summer 1997.