Vocational Adjustment Bureau, 1919-1951

The Vocational Adjustment Bureau, commonly known as the Vocational Adjustment Bureau for Girls or VAB, began operating in 1922 under the direction of Blanche (Mrs. Henry) Ittleson (1875-1975).

Earlier, in 1919, believing that social adjustment was not possible without industrial adjustment, BI had started the Committee on Vocational Guidance and Employment as part of the Jewish Big Sisters. By 1922 the demand for guidance and placement services had grown so much that the committee was reorganized into VAB, a city-wide, non-sectarian organization. It was incorporated in 1925 as the New York Vocational Adjustment Bureau, Inc. The records date the beginning of VAB to 1919, although it was not a separate agency until 1922.

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