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...houses hinders more than one hundred Phillips Brooks House volunteers in their efforts to prevent juvenile delinquency. Most understaffed settlement house directors are too involved in other activities to give some volunteers the guidance they need. Feeling very much alone without competent supervision or esprit de corps with other PBH workers, these volunteers lose their zeal and eventually quit, disillusioned...
...Although PBH records do not reveal the exact number of drop outs, a conservative guess would be that one out of every three volunteers quits sometime during the year. The effects of dropping out are extremely detrimental to the children at the settlement houses, because the children develop dependencies upon their worker...
Recognizing these problems, PBH's Social Service Committee has taken several preliminary steps to encourage interest among volunteers and to compensate for the severe limitations of professional guidance. Yet as more organizations come to depend critically on PBH's services, so PBH's projects become more ambitious. The problem of inadequate professional supervision plus the prospect of larger undertakings lead to the conclusion that the Social Service Committee needs its own professional supervision...
Unlike the overburdened settlement house director, this professional social worker at PBH could focus his complete attention on specific problems of the volunteers. In short, he could help students deal with questions which now go unanswered and problems which now go unsolved...
...University would take a different attitude, however, toward the arrest of students working on the PBH project at Miles College, Birmingham, Ala. These students, said Monro, "have a connection" with the University, since their work is sponsored by a "semi-official organization...