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Chicago Child Care Society

Introduction: The Chicago Child Care Society (CCCS) is the oldest child welfare organization in Illinois. Founded in 1849 as the Chicago Orphan Asylum, the agency exists to protect vulnerable children and strengthen their families by providing high quality and effective child welfare services. A rare and informative history of this pioneering child welfare agency is…

Child Welfare

Child Welfare: A Brief History by Linda Gordon, Ph.D., New York University, New York, NY January 19, 2011 Children have been central to the development of welfare programs in the United States. Indeed, sympathy for poor and neglected children was crucial in breaking through the strong free-market individualism that has been mobilized repeatedly to…

The History of Child Care in the U.S.

The History of Child Care in the U.S. by Sonya Michel, Ph.D., University of Maryland January 19, 2011 In the United States today, most mothers of preschool and school age children are employed outside the home. American mothers have invented many ways to care for their children while they work. Native Americans strapped newborns to…

Aid To Dependent Children: The Legal History

For its first three decades, AFDC operated much like a private charity, with its case workers given discretion in investigating clients, cutting off benefits to those determined to be unsuitable, and reducing benefits to those found in violation of any of AFDC’s myriad regulations. Starting in the mid-1960s the National Welfare Rights Organization, built primarily by African American women and functionally a part of the civil rights movement, began organizing to defend welfare recipients’ rights.

Aid for Dependent Children

Aid To Dependent Children: The Legal History By Linda Gordon, Professor of History, New York University and Felice Batlan, Professor of Law, Chicago Kent School of Law Aid to Dependent Children or ADC (later renamed Aid to Families with Dependent Children, AFDC) was Title IV of the Social Security Act of 1935. At first it…

Claiborne, Virginia Spotswood McKenney

Virginia Spotswood McKenney Claiborne (1887 – 1981): activist for women’s education and occupational opportunity, museum director by Alice W. Campbell The author is grateful to Meg Hughes, Director of Collections and Chief Curator at The Valentine and to Christine K. Vida, Elise H. Wright Curator of General Collections at The Valentine, for bringing the…

Bureau of Vocations for Women, September 1915. (Woman’s Occupational Bureau)

BUREAU OF VOCATIONS BEGINS WORK FOR SEASON College Women’s Club Plans to Vigorously Assist in Forward Movements This Winter. FIGHT HARMFUL LEGISLATION Equal Suffrage League Members Will Give Their Views to Charter Change Committee at Meeting to Be Held on September 13. The organization formerly known as the Woman’s Occupational Bureau has resumed…

Your Girl and Mine (suffrage film)

Your Girl and Mine by Alice W. Campbell, VCU Libraries The author is grateful to Ray Bonis, Special Collections and Archives, for bringing the ESL photograph and coverage of the event to my attention. and to John McClure of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture for help identifying several members of the Equal Suffrage…

What is Social Welfare History?

By John E. Hansan, Ph.D. 2017. Social welfare history reflects the lives of people living, being educated, working and voting in the nation. It is an interdisciplinary study of the evolution of charitable works, organized activities related to social reform movements and non-profit or public social services designed to protect or benefit individuals, families and citizens of the larger society.