[2] She then became a special agent for the United States Immigration Commission and also worked as a field investigator for the Chicago Juvenile Court.
[1] She believed that other immigrant social welfare agencies, both public and private, poorly served women.
[3] Bremer was concerned that the existing public and private agencies serving immigrants largely ignored women so she made her most important contribution by establishing the first International Institute in New York City as a YWCA experiment in December, 1910.
It provided recreational and club activities, English classes, and assistance with employment, housing, naturalization and other problems.
[6] By the early 1920s, over 55 international institutes had been established mainly in industrial cities with heavier immigrant populations such as Boston, Buffalo, and Detroit.
Harry Bremer was a resident at the Greenwich House settlement in New York City and then became a special agent with the National Child Labor Committee later on.