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Title: WCJCS June 26thPage 1

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World Council of Jewish Communal
ServicesFoundation Casip - Cojasor (France)

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Summary

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History of the French Jewish community

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The CASIP COJASOR Foundations Presentation

CASIP COJASOR Foundation results from the merger
between the CASIP, created in 1809, initially
named Beneficence Committee (Comité de
Bienfaisance), and the COJASOR, created in 1945,
after World War II, to allow persons victims of
Nazism to rebuild themselves
A private service, employs 420 employees for its
establishments and its Social Service

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The CASIP COJASOR Foundations Social Service
Key figures

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The French jewish family today

The traditionalist family model originating from
Northern Africa
The Jewish family tries to preserve its culture,
identity and Judaity in French society
The most vulnerable families are often the ones
that get closer to a strong religious practice
Continuously exists the fear of assimilation in a
society that does not organize anything for a
Judaism practice
the French Jewish families appear to be united
and solidary in order to resist in a weakened
French society

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Families characteristics

separations and divorces lead to family torn
apart, violence, psychological maltreatments,
irreversible breaks
a high-density of single-parent population (One
forth of our population followed) with mothers
who are unable to assume themselves and their
children, most of them unable to complete their
studies or trainings
more and more youths without professional
training. They patiently wait to turn 25 to get
RMI (guaranteed minimum welfare allowance)

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First request to the Social Service

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The 4 problems defined

The employment problem
The most crucial
In France, there exist legal aids granted by the
State
more professional qualifications required
wages, under the SMIC (guaranteed minimum wage),
are often equal to the legal allowances they can
get. They are labelled as working poor
The social workers role is to encourage the
persons concerned to keep such jobs

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The 4 problems defined (next)

The over indebtedness problem
Consumption loans are a cancer for the French
society
( important amounts, directly transferred on
their bank accounts within 48 hours)
Certain persons are in the incapacity to repay
their installments all the more that interest
rates reach 17
In such cases, banks impose a so important
pressure on the persons concerned that they have
no other solutions than applying for the
overindebtness status

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The 4 problems defined (next)

The housing problem
One of social workers greatest concerns
families
lack housing and live in accommodation centers
live in housings too small or too big
live in unhealthy and wet housings without
privacy
live in private housings with too expensive rents
face a lack of revenues to be eligible for a
social housing
are evicted from their housings for non-payment
of rents due to their small revenues

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The 4 problems defined (next)

The housing problem
One of social workers greatest concerns
families
Social workers feel powerless in front of this
society crisis .Repercussions are important in
the field of family relations
But, when a person gets housing, the fulfilment
of administrative steps has to be very quick.

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The isolation problem

Is part of social problems leading persons
towards exclusion. (precariousness, wandering,
illness, mental disorders, etc)
The person is locked into a total isolation
Communication is made only by violence. The
occasions of Jewish festivals revive more the
ill-being
Interviews with social workers are essential
renewing their family links by restoring dialogue
Social work is oriented today on collective
accompaniment and less on a individual approach (
A collective action has been implemented on a
group of isolated women)

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The community Social Services missions

The social workers mission is at the relational,
educational, psychological levels and the
partnership work with the other social,
administrative, psychiatric and communitarian
bodies is essential
But this mission depends on the users
cooperation. What is the deep meaning of users
requests?
Finding their places in the Jewish community
Being recognized in their religious and identity
practice
Recreating a social link
Finding a privileged listening

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Conclusion

Social workers receive families in a symbolic
place
Evolve the social situation of everyone
by recreating a link
and trying to make them getting out of isolation
and social precariousness
Users are largely attached to Israel and
political events in Israel (terrorist attacks,
wars ) have an impact on their morale
Witnesses before History, actors of a progressing
history, day-to-day partners of the Jewish
population in difficulty in France