University of
Minnesota Libraries. Social Welfare History
Archives [swha]
American Public
Welfare Association
American Public Welfare
Association Records
1930-1970
19 linear feet
(45 manuscript boxes)
The collection consists
of minutes, correspondence, memoranda, reports, publications, speeches,
statements, and news clippings generated or collected by the American Public
Welfare Association. APWA, founded in 1930 as the American Association of
Public Welfare Officials, is a professional organization for staff members of
public agencies and others interested in public welfare. APWA studies and
distributes information regarding legislation and also offers its members
professional development opportunities. The collection is particularly strong
in documenting the development of Social Security legislation during the 1950s
in addition to such other legislative concerns of the 1950s and 1960s as
juvenile delinquency, intergovernmental relations, and Aid to Dependent
Children.
SW 54
English
Administrative Information
Use of Materials
Open for use in Social Welfare History Archives reading room.
Copyright
Copyright has been retained by the American Public Welfare
Association.
Acquisition Information
The collection was a gift from the American Public Welfare
Association, received between 1967 and 1973. Copies of the minutes of board of
director's meetings were made in 1982.
Processing Information
The collection was processed in 1981-1982 with financial assistance
from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in three series:
- Administration
- Activities
- Reference
Other Finding Aid
Unpublished inventory available. Please contact Archives for more
information.
History
A group of public welfare officials attending the 1929 National
Conference of Social Work (NCSW) in San Francisco agreed there was a need for
an independent professional organization of their own. The group voted to
organize such an association at the 1930 NCSW meeting. The American Association
of Public Welfare Officials, organized June 12, 1930, in Boston, was the
result.
Association founders agreed initially to limit their membership to
state public welfare officials and, as the board minutes of June 12, 1930
expressed it, "that the object of the Association should be to make these
officials acquainted and bring about a good exchange of information." Later,
membership in the association was opened to professional staff members of
public agencies at the federal, state, and local levels. Among the first areas
of concern were "interstate problems and to promote reciprocity in the transfer
of cases to their proper places of residence and to bring about as large a
degree of universal legislation as possible in regard to settlement laws,"
(June 12, 1930 board minutes).
A grant from The Rockefeller Foundation's Spelman Fund enabled the
association to hire, in 1931 , its first administrator, Frank Bane, formerly
commissioner of the Virginia State Department of Public Welfare. The
association grew rapidly, from the initial 151 persons to nearly 1,000 members
two years later. In May 1932, the association changed its name to the American
Public Welfare Association. (APWA)
One of APWA's earliest activities was promoting passage of the Social
Security legislation in 1935. Indeed, Social Security has been one of the
organization's long-time interests. APWA faithfully monitored Congressional
action on the amendments of the 1950s and 1960s. Among APWA's other legislative
interests have been aging, medical care, and Aid to Dependent Children.
APWA also organized annual regional conferences and biennial national
conferences, remembering the association's original goal of giving officials a
chance for "good exchange of information." Executive Development Seminars were
offered in the 1960s to give officials a chance to improve their managerial
skills.
Initially, the association's offices were in Washington D.C., but in
1932, APWA moved its headquarters to Chicago. It returned to Washington D.C. in
1974, where APWA remains at this writing.
For more detailed historical information, the researcher should
consult the article regarding the American Public Welfare Association in
Social Service Organizations, Peter Romanofsky and
Clarke A. Chambers, editors, pp. 131-138. Additionally, Narayan Viswanathan's
"The Role of the American Public Welfare Policies in the United States:
1930-1960" (Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University School of Social Work,
1961), offers more detail. To mark APWA's 50th anniversary, the American Public
Welfare Association's journal Public Welfare (vol.
38, #1, Winter 1980) contains historical material. (See folder 1:1).
Scope and Content
The American Public Welfare Association's records offer researchers
material regarding public welfare officials' collective efforts to improve
themselves and the legislation they must administer. Even though the collection
dates from 1930-1970, most of the material hails from the 1950s-1960s.
The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, memoranda,
reports, publications, speeches, statements and news clippings generated or
collected by APWA.
The collection is organized into three series: Administration,
Activities and Reference. The Administration series includes minutes of board
of directors and committee meetings plus supporting documentation in addition
to the proceedings of conferences and seminars. If the Administration series is
considered the records from "inside" the organization, then the Activities
series can be thought of as the records generated as a result of APWA's efforts
that extended into the "outside" world: legislative activities, publications
and other projects. The Reference series includes misc. information and
speeches that do not directly relate to APWA's work. APWA's publications and
directories are filed in the Social Welfare History Archives' ephemera
collection.
The collection has several strengths, chief among them the legislative
files. Although APWA headquarters were in Chicago between 1932-1974, the
organization maintained a Washington D.C. office staffed by a representative
who followed legislation of interest to APWA and occasionally spoke on behalf
of the organization. Elizabeth Wickenden served as legislative representative
until 1951, when she was succeeded by Marie Lane. Harold Hagen succeeded Lane
in 1963.
The legislative files provide a picture of the breadth of APWA's
legislative interests: particularly the development of Social Security
legislation between 1950-1962. Correspondence between APWA's Executive Director
Loula Dunn, Washington representatives Wickenden and Lane, and members of
Congress and various public officials provide insight into the APWA's efforts
and positions on behalf of Social Security.
Other legislative topics that are well documented are health and
medical assistance bills, intergovernmental relations, juvenile delinquency,
migratory labor, and reciprocal support of dependents.
APWA's efforts to educate its members while giving public officials a
chance to convene and compare experiences are well documented in the
conferences and seminars sub-series. Most of the papers that were delivered at
APWA regional and national conventions between 1953-1961 are included, and
these speeches provide an idea of public welfare workers' concerns and
interests over time.
In addition to the legislative files and the papers of conferences and
seminars, APWA's efforts in the fields of medical care, Aid to Dependent
Children, and aging are documented. Additionally, APWA closely followed the
controversial public assistance plan of Newburgh, NY. The researcher can follow
this controversy through correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles,
public statements, and press releases.
With the exception of the board of director's minutes dating from
1930-1963, the collection is weak in documenting APWA's internal
administration. No financial, legal, or personal records are included.
Committee records are scant.
Besides staff members Executive Director Loula Dunn, Elizabeth
Wickenden, Marie Lane, Harold Hagen, Pearl Bierman, medical care consultant;
and Guy Justis, the executive director who succeeded Dunn; the collection
contains a variety of material from federal, state and local public officials.
They include Katharine Lenroot, Wilbur Cohen, Oveta Culp Hobby, William
Mitchell, Katherine Oettinger, Raymond Houston, Val M. Keating, Robert
Lansdale, Norman Lourie, Agnes Meyer, Harry O. Page, Jay L. Roney, Charles
Schottland, John Tramburg and Ellen Winston. Little information regarding
former APWA Executive Directors Frank Band (1931-1936), Fred Hoehler
(1936-1943) and Howard Russell (1943-1949) is included.
Related Collection
Related collections include the papers of Fred K. Hoehler (SWB H671)
who was APWA executive director from 1936 to 1943, the Loula Dunn collection
(SW 48), and the Leroy Halbert papers (SW 26).
Material Removed From Collection
A number of pamphlets, books and ephemeral material that was published
by a variety of social service organizations has been moved to the pamphlet
collection. A list of these organizations may be found following the Detailed
Description of the Collection.
Separated Material
Pamphlets, books, and ephemeral material published by the following
organizations have been removed to the pamphlet collection.
- Ad-hoc Committee for a Guaranteed Income (GAIN)
- American Association for Social Security, Inc.
- American Association of Social Workers
- American Council for the Community
- American Council on Education
- American Enterprise Association
- American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial
Organizations [AFL-CIO]
- American Institute of Actuaries
- The American Magazine
- American Medical Association
- American Nurses Association
- American Orthopsychiatric Association
- American Parents Committee, Inc.
- American Public Welfare Association
- California Institute of Social Welfare
- Canadian Welfare Council
- Chamber of Commerce of the United States
- Chicago Jewish Forum
- Columbia University
- Commerce Clearing House, Inc.
- Committee for the Nation's Health
- Commonwealth Club of California
- Community Research Associates, Inc.
- The Council of State Governments
- Council on Social Work Education
- Editorial Research Reports
- Howard University
- International Social Service
- Labor Press Association, Inc.
- Massachusetts Committee on Children and Youth
- National Association for Mental Health
- National Association of Housing and Redevelopment
Officials
- National Association of Manufacturers
- National Association of Social Workers
- National Committee on Employment of Youth
- National Conference on Social Welfare
- National Consumers League
- National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.
- National Council of Jewish Women
- National Social Welfare Assembly, Inc.
- Nevada Taxpayers Association
- New England Free Press
- Ohio Chamber of Commerce
- Pennsylvania Citizens Association for Health and Welfare
- Public Affairs Committee, Inc.
- Shearon Legislative Service
- Social Legislation Information Service, Inc.
- Survey Associates, Inc., The
- Tax Foundation, Inc., The
- United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization [UNESCO]
- United Way [Community Chests and Councils of America]
- University of British Columbia, School of Social Work
- University of Buffalo
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Chicago
- University of Southern California
- University of Wisconsin
- Woman's Foundation, The
- Yeshiva University
- YWCA
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog
of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about
related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these
headings.
American
Public Welfare Association -- History -- Sources.
American
Association of Public Welfare Officials -- History -- Sources
Detailed Description of the Collection
Administration,
1933-1970
(8 linear feet. Boxes 1-20)
In the Administration series are association by-laws, minutes of
board of directors' and its executive committee meetings, policy statements
approved by the board of directors, some correspondence relating to proposed
association projects that would have required the financial support of
foundations, and association resolutions of 1969. Included with the minutes of
board of directors' meetings are minutes of executive committee meetings and
supporting documentation.
The series also includes minutes, reports, and membership lists of
various association councils and committees. With the exception of the
Committee on Social Work Education and Personnel, these committee records are
very incomplete. APWA reorganized its committee structure in 1965, creating
divisions (or areas of interest), which association members were urged to join.
Some records of the Division on Administration are included. Few records of the
remaining three divisions are included.
Conference and seminar reports make up the remainder of this
series. The conferences and seminars sub-series, 1934-1969, includes programs,
summaries, minutes, participants speeches and formal papers, photographs and
some are the most complete during the decade of the 1950s. The APWA sponsored
six regional conferences yearly: Northeast, Southeast, Central States,
Southwest, Mountain States and West Coast. Additionally, national round table
conferences were held every other year.
Overall, the conferences and seminars sub-series is arranged
chronologically, although arrangement within each conference report varies.
Generally, the first folder of each conference contains a program that lists
session subjects and speakers. The conference papers are then arranged in the
order the sessions appear in the program. However, a few conferences are
arranged by subject. In those cases, tables of contents or indices (filed in
the first folder of the conference report) explain the arrangement. There are
no programs or tables of contents available for the 1955 Biennial Conference or
the 1959 Southwest Regional Conference. In the former, the researcher must rely
on the tab dividers that designate subject areas. Colored sheets or paper
divide subject areas in the 1959 conference.
Some of the papers presented at APWA conferences were ultimately
published in the association's quarterly journal, Public Welfare, or as
separate publications. A few of these publications have been included in this
sub-series. Occasionally, APWA staff members annotated papers as they
considered them for publication. Initials of association staff members that
appear on papers include: L.D. (Loula Dunn, executive director, 1949-1964),
V.D. (Virginia Doscher, publications advisor), M.M. (Malvin Morton, public
information specialist), and P.B. (Pearl Bierman, medical care consultant).
Correspondence and misc. planning materials are included in the
various seminar reports. The association's Executive Development Program,
1966-1970, is fairly well documented.
1
1
Public Welfare - 50th Anniversary Issue,
Winter 1980
1
2-3
Annual Reports,
1933, 1943-1947
1
4
By-Laws and Revisions,
1941, 1948, 1963, 1966-1967
1
5-11
Board of Directors - minutes,
1930-Sept. 1950
Includes Executive Committee and Supporting Documents; folder
1:11 contains "A Survey of Resources for the APWA" by Raymond Rich
Associates.
2
1-12
Minutes,
Nov. 1950-Nov. 1955
3
1-9
Minutes,
July 1956-Dec. 1959
4
1-6
Minutes,
Nov. 1961-1969
4
7-8
Policy Statements,
1947, 1949, 1951-1955, 1957-1958,
1960-1961, 1964-1966, n.d.
4
9
Correspondence and Office Memoranda,
1950, 1952, 1963, 1965, 1968,
n.d.
4
10
Loula Dunn - Appointment as Director,
July 1949
4
11
Project Proposals,
1964-1965, 1967-1968
Foundations,
4
12
Columbia,
1942, 1944
4
13
Field,
1944
4
14
Rockefeller,
1941
4
15
Resolutions,
1969
5
1
APWA Reference Book,
ca. 1965
5
2
APWA Library, Bibliographies,
ca. 1962
National Councils
5
3
Field Representatives,
1961, 1963
5
4-5
Local Public Welfare Administrators,
1940-1943, 1948, 1957-1958,
1967
5
6
State Directors of Programs for Children and Youth,
1958-1959
5
7
State Public Welfare Administrators,
1966
Committees
5
8
Membership Lists,
1946-1950, 1953
5
9
Committee on Administrative Practices,
1947-1949
5
10
Committee on Aging,
1954, 1960-1965, 1969, n.d.
5
11
Subcommittee on Manpower,
1968
5
12
Survey - Use of Subprofessionals,
Nov. 1968
5
13
Correspondence [alphabetical by state or
organization],
1969
5
14
Subcommittee on Social Component in Living
Arrangements for Older People,
1963-1964, 1966-1969
5
15
Committee on Assistance Standards,
1948
5
16
Child Welfare Committee,
1945
5
17
Committee on Services to Children,
5
18
Agendas, Minutes, and Annual Reports.,
1947-1950, 1954, 1959,
1961-1963
5
18
Correspondence and Reports,
1947-1950
5
19
Subcommittee on Services to Children in Their Own
Homes,
1947
5
20
Committee on Civil Defense and Public Welfare,
1951, 1953
5
21
Special Committee on Financing Committee and Councils,
1958
5
22
Committee on Interstate Problems,
1931-1939
6
1
Medical Care Committee,
1948, 1952-1961, 1964-1965
6
2
Membership Committee,
1948, 1959, 1968
6
3
Personnel Committee,
1948
6
4
Committee on Public Welfare Accounting -
Correspondence re Survey,
1940
6
5
Self-Study Committee - Report and Recommendations,
June 1965
6
6-10
Committee on Social Work Education and Personnel,
1949-1963
6
11
Regional Structure Committee,
1951-1953
6
12
Committee to Study Council Structure,
Nov. 1950
Welfare Policy Committee
6
13
Agendas, Minutes and Correspondence,
1948, 1950-1953
6
14
Policy Statements,
1948-1949, 1951-1953
Divisions
7
1
General,
1965-1969
Division on Administration
7
2
Minutes and Membership Lists,
1967-1969
7
3
Correspondence,
1968
7
4
Committees,
1965-1969
7
5
Sections,
1968-1969
National Association of Public Welfare Attorneys,
7
6
Minutes, Membership Lists and Rules,
1967-1969
7
7
Correspondence,
1968-1970
7
8
Division on Direct Services,
1966, 1968
7
9
Division on Health and Medical Care,
1967
7
10
Division on Personnel and Staff Development,
1968
7
11
Conferences and Seminars,
1934
7
12
Conferences,
1936
7
13-14
Joint Conference of Housing and Welfare Officials,
May 1939
7
15
State Public Assistance and Welfare Administrators,
Minutes,
Dec. 1940
7
16
Conferences,
1946-1947
7
17
Northeast Regional Conference,
May 1950
8
1
Central States Regional Conference - "The Outlook in
Public Welfare", Fred K. Hoehler,
June 1951
8
2
Conferences,
1952
8
3
Northeast Regional Conference - Agnes Meyer Speech,
Sept. 1953
National Biennial Round Table Conference,
Dec. 1953
8
4
Contents and Program
8
5
Eisenhower Telegram
8
6
General Sessions, Stassen Telegram, Terry Award and
National Councils
8
7
Special Group Meetings and Child Welfare
8
8
Administration
8
9
Personnel, Aging and Medical Care
8
10
Emergency Welfare, Services in Civil Defense,
Indians, and Publicity
8
11
Conferences,
1954
8
12
Regional Conferences,
1955
National Biennial Round Table Conference,
Nov.-Dec. 1955
8
13
General Sessions and National Councils
8
14
Administration, Personnel and Aging
9
1
Child Welfare, Medical Care, Community Planning, and
Housing
9
2
Photographs
Southwest Regional Conference,
April 1956
9
3
Contents, Program and Report
9
4
General Sessions, Administration, and
Aging
9
5
Case Records and Child Welfare
9
6
Medical Care, Personnel, Councils and
Publicity
Central States Regional Conference,
April 1956
9
7
Contents, Program, and Conference Report
9
8
Administration and Aging
9
9
Casework in Special Areas and Child
Welfare
10
1
Civil Defense, National Councils, Publicity and
Photographs
Mountain States Regional Conference,
June 1956
10
2
Program and Report
10
3
Sessions of June 17-18
10
4
Sessions of June 19-20 and Publicity
Northeast Regional Conference,
Sept. 1956
10
5
Session Reports
10
6
Photographs
Southeast Regional Conference,
Oct. 1956
10
7
Program, Report, and Sessions of Oct. 3,
1956
10
8
Sessions of Oct. 4, 1956
10
9
Sessions of Oct. 5, 1956 and Publicity
10
10
West Coast Regional Conference,
Oct. 1956
Southwest Regional Conference,
March 1957
11
1
Index, Program , Report, General Sessions and
Strengthening Family Life
11
2
Medical Care, Training and Research
11
3
Volunteers, National Councils and
Publicity
Mountain States Regional Conference,
March 1957
11
4
Index, Program, Report, General Sessions,
Administration, Aging and Child Welfare
11
5
Medical Care, National Councils, Special Groups and
Publicity
Central States Regional Conference,
April 1957
11
6
Contents, Program, General Sessions, Medical
Services and Rehabilitation, and Services in Public Welfare
11
7
Aging and Training
12
1
Administrative Planning and Strengthening Family
Life
12
2
Sharing Public Welfare, National Councils and
Publicity
12
3
Northeast Regional Conference,
Sept. 1957
Southeast Regional Conference,
Sept. 1957
12
4
Sessions of Sept. 25, 1957
12
5
Sessions of Sept. 26-27, 1957
West Coast Regional Conference,
Oct. 1957
12
6
Session Reports
12
7
Publicity
12
8
National Biennial Round Table Conference,
Dec. 1957
13
1
Southwest Regional Conference,
March 1958
Central States Regional Conference,
April 1958
13
2
Program and Sessions of April 10, 1958
13
3
Sessions of April 11, 1958
Mountain States Regional Conference,
May 1958
13
4
Session Reports
13
5
Publicity
Southeast Regional Conference,
Sept. 1958
13
6
Program and Sessions of Sept. 10, 1958
13
7
Sessions of Sept. 11, 1958
13
8
Sessions of Sept 18-19, 1958 and
Publicity
Northeast Regional Conference,
Sept. 1958
14
1
Program and Sessions of Sept. 17, 1958
14
2
Sessions of September 18-19 and
Publicity
14
West Coast Regional Conference,
Oct. 1958
14
4
Southwest Regional Conference,
April 1959
14
5
Central States Regional Conference,
April 1959
14
6
West Coast Regional Conference,
May 1959
Mountain States Regional Conference,
June 1959
14
7
Program and Sessions of June 14-15, 1959
14
8
Sessions of June 16-17, 1959 and
Publicity
Northeast Regional Conference,
Sept. 1959
15
1
Program and Sessions of Sept. 9, 1959
15
2
Sessions of Sept. 10, 1959
15
3
Sessions of Sept. 11, 1959 and Publicity
Southeast Regional Conference,
Sept. 1959
15
4
Program and Sessions of Sept. 15, 1959
15
5
Sessions of Sept. 16, 1959
15
6
Sessions of Sept. 17, 1959 and Publicity
15
7
National Biennial Round Table Conference,
Dec. 1959
Central States Regional Conference,
April 1960
15
8
Program and Sessions of April 10-12,
1959
15
9
Sessions of April 13, 1959
Southwest Regional Conference,
April 1960
16
1
Program and Sessions of April 19-21,
1960
16
2
Sessions of April 22, 1960 and Publicity
Mountain States Regional Conference,
May 1960
16
3
Program and Sessions of May 24-25, 1960
16
4
Sessions of May 26, 1960
16
5
Sessions of May 27, 1960 and News
Releases
Northeast Regional Conference,
Sept. 1960
16
6
Program and Sessions of Sept. 6-7, 1960
16
7
Sessions of Sept. 8, 1960
17
1
Sessions of Sept. 9, 1960 and Publicity
Southeast Regional Conference,
Sept. 1960
17
2
Program and Sessions of Sept. 21, 1960
17
3
Sessions of Sept. 22, 1960
17
4
Sessions of Sept. 23, 1960 and News
Clippings
17
5
West Coast Regional Conference,
Oct. 1960
17
6
Southwest Regional Conference - "Trends and Issues in
Social Welfare", Wilbur J. Cohen,
March 1961
Northeast Regional Conference,
Sept. 1961
17
7
Program and Sessions of Sept. 12-13,
1961
17
8
Sessions of Sept. 14-15, Publicity and
Photographs
18
1
Southeast Regional Conference - Gov. Buford Ellington
Address,
Sept. 1961
18
2
West Coast Regional Conference - "Manpower Problems of
the 1960s", Seymour L. Wolfbein,
Oct. 1961
National Biennial Round Table Conference,
Nov.-Dec. 1961
18
3
Program and Opening Session
18
4
Strengthening Services through Money Management
Counseling
18
5
California's Money Management Program
18
6
Sessions of Nov. 29, 1961
18
7
Sessions of Nov. 30, 1961
Through "Depressed Areas, Unemployment and Public
Welfare"
18
8
Sessions of Nov. 30, 1961
Through "Do They Get Your Message?"
18
9
Sessions of Nov. 30, 1961
"Rehabilitation through Self Support" through "Legislative
Priorities in Social Security"
19
1
Sessions of Dec. 1, 1961
Through "New Areas of International Cooperation"
19
2
Sessions of Dec. 1, 1961
"Program Development..." through "Homemaker Services..."
19
3
Sessions of Dec. 1, 1961
"Helping through Social Group Work" through Awards
Banquet
19
4
Sessions of Dec. 2, 1961
"The Patient Comes First" through "How Sound Are Our Social
Insurance Programs?"
19
5
Sessions of Dec. 2, 1961
"Adapting Services to the Newcomer" through Closing
Session
19
6
Conferences,
1963-1969
19
7
Executive Development Program - Participant Memoranda,
1966-1970
19
8
Asilomar, CA,
May 1966
19
9
Athens, GA,
1968
20
1
Berkeley, CA,
Nov. 1966
20
2
Columbia University - Arden House,
1965-1966, n.d.
20
3
Arden House,
1967
20
4
Tarrytown, NY,
1968
20
5
Tarrytown, NY,
1969
20
6
Kenwood,
1965-1966
20
7
Linden Hill,
1967
20
8
Evaluations,
1967
20
9
Menninger Foundation,
1965-1966
20
10
Evaluations,
1966
20
11-12
General,
1967-1968
20
13
Merger of Services to Children and Families under CSW
and AFDC Programs (seminar),
Dec. 1968
20
14
Strengthening Public Welfare Programs, seminar,
Dec. 1958
Activities,
1944-1963
(9 linear feet. Boxes 21-43)
Included in the Activities series are legislative files:
correspondence, reports, speeches and testimony, and office memoranda generated
by the association's Washington, DC office between 1944 and 1963. During that
time, three APWA staff members served as the association's Washington office
representative: Elizabeth Wickenden (to 1952), Marie Lane (1952 -1963), and
Harold Hagen (1963- ). The legislative sub-series is arranged alphabetically by
subject or legislative issue. This subject arrangement was established by the
Washington office. Also included are copies of APWA Federal Legislative
Objectives (1949, 1956, 1959-1968) and copies of testimony or speeches by
association representatives regarding various legislative issues. As a rule,
copies of bills, selections from the Congressional Record and other reference
material were removed from these files.
The series also includes some records generated by the
association's medical care consultants (Pearl Bierman and Mary Davis).
Additionally, the medical care sub-series contains minutes of the APWA and the
American Public Health Association's joint committee on medical care (1949,
1951-1952), and minutes of the Inter-Association Committee on Health,
1949-1961.
Correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles, press releases,
and policy statements regarding the controversial welfare plans of the city of
Newburgh, NY are also included in this series.
The Research and Publications sub-series contains correspondence,
research and reference materials, drafts and final reports of various
APWA-sponsored publications. The publications include two studies on Aid to
Dependent Children: Future Citizens All (1952), American Dependency Challenge
(1963), The Needs of Older People and Public Welfare Services to Meet Them by
Elizabeth Wickenden (1953); and studies and surveys of various state and city
welfare departments services (1934-1953). These reports examine the departments
services and offer recommendations for improvements. Reciprocal agreement
studies (1938-1939), are also included.
APWA staff members often served on Federal Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare advisory committees. Records of these committees
(minutes, agendas, correspondence, research and study materials, statements as
well as drafts and the final reports) are all included in the HEW Advisory
Committees sub-series. The activities of the Advisory Council on Public
Welfare, of which APWA Executive Director Guy Justis (1964-1973) was a member,
is particularly well documented. The advisory committee's efforts resulted in a
1966 report, Having the Power, We Have the Duty. Materials from other HEW
advisory committees may be found among the Washington D.C. office's legislative
papers.
Legislative Office Records,
Boxes 21-29 are legal length material.
21
1
APWA - Federal Legislative Objectives,
1949, 1956, 199-1968
21
2
Testimony,
1946, 1948-1950, 1953-1956, 1958, n.d.
21
3
Correspondence,
1946, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1954-1956
21
4
Adoption - Foreign Children,
1956
21
5
Advisory Councils - Public Assistance, Child Welfare
Service, and Illegitimacy,
1959-1960
21
6
Aging (including the White House Conference on Aging),
1944, 1955, 1958-1959
21
7
Medical Care for the Aged,
1960
21
8
Tax Provisions for the Aged,
1963
21
9
AFL-CIO Community Services Committee,
1956, 1959, n.d.
21
10-12
Appropriations - Legislation,
1949-1952
21
13
Association of Juvenile Compact Administrators,
1961
21
14
Child Health and Welfare Services [HR 7448],
1954
21
15-16
Children's Bureau,
1942-1955
21
17-18
Commission on Intergovernmental Relations,
1953-1954
22
1
Commission on Intergovernmental Relations,
1955-1958
22
2
Press Releases and Clippings
22
3
Study Committee on Federal Aid to Welfare,
1954-1955
See also: Federal Grants-in-Aid and Federal-State
Relations.
22
4
Commission on the Organization of the Executive Branch
[Hoover Commission],
1953
22
5
Committee on Training and Personnel [Advisors to the
Children's Bureau and Bureau of Public Assistance],
1953-1954, 1956, n.d.
22
6
Confidentiality of Records,
1951-1956
22
8
Congressional Correspondence,
1949-1952
22
9
Depressed Areas,
1959
22
10
Federal Grants-in-Aid,
1946-1954
See also: Committee on Intergovernmental Relations and
Federal-State Relations.
22
11
Federal Matching Formula,
1952-1953, n.d.
22
12
Federal-State Relations,
1948-1954, n.d.
See also: Committee on Intergovernmental Relations and Federal
Grants-in-Aid.
22
13
Food Stamps,
1943-1944, 1953-1954, 1956
22
14
Foreign Students,
1953, 1958
22
15
General Assistance,
1959
Health
22
16
Health and Hospitals,
1949, 1952-1955, n.d.
23
1-2
Legislation,
1950-1952, 1959-1962
23
3
Community Health Services and Facilities Act,
1961
23
4
Health Insurance Study,
1950
23
5
Hospital Insurance,
1963
23
6
Ives Health Bill,
1953
23
7
Medical Assistance,
1950, 1955-1958, n.d.
Health, Education and Welfare, Department of,
23
8
Appropriations,
1954
23
9
Legislation,
1955, 1961-1962, 1965
23
10
Luncheon Meeting Conferences,
1955-1956
23
11
Proposals to Create HEW, Various Executive Level
Reorganization Plans,
1946, 1949-1950, 1953
23
12
Housing,
1953-1955, 1959
23
13
Housing Act of 1957,
1957-1958
23
14
Joint Committee on Housing,
1959-1961
23
15
Public Interest Advisory Committee [Housing and Home
Finance Agency],
1959-1960
24
1
Hungarian Relief,
1957
24
2
Indians,
1953-1959
24
3
Office of Indian Affairs,
1948-1952
24
4
Investigation of Welfare Funds,
1954
24
5
Joint Committee on the Economic Report,
1949
24
6
Joint Federal-State Action Committee,
1958
24
7-10
Juvenile Delinquency,
1943-1950, 1953-1955, 1957-1960,
n.d.
24
11
Labor,
1943-1946
24
12
Legislation,
1949-1951
24
13
Lobbying Act,
1954, 1957-1958, n.d.
24
14
Registration of APWA,
1938, 1941, 1946-1951
24
15
Low Income Families [Congressional Subcommittee],
1955-1956
25
1
Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation
[bill],
1963
25
2
Memorial Foundations and Projects (Agnes Van Driell
and Philip Schift),
1956, 1958
25
3
Migratory Labor,
1952
25
4
Clinics for Domestic Migratory Agricultural Workers,
1962
25
5
Committee on Migrants,
1948-1951
25
6
President's Commission,
1951
25
7
Minimum Wage,
1949, 1955-1960
25
8
National Conference on Citizenship [8th],
1953-1954, 1957
25
9
National Conference on Social Welfare,
1959
25
10
National Service Corps [VISTA],
1962-1963, n.d.
25
11
National Social Welfare Assembly,
1956-1958
25
12
Public Assistance [Third Supplemental Appropriations
Bill],
1954
Reciprocal Support of Dependents
25
13-14
Correspondence,
1949-1953, n.d.
25
15
Laws, Statutes, etc.,
1950, 1952-1954
25
16
Council of State Governments,
1950-1956
25
17
Conferences,
1952-1953
25
18-19
Rehabilitation,
1953-1959
25
20
Repatriation,
1953-1959
25
21
Salk Vaccine,
1955
26
1
School Lunches and Milk,
1953-1958
26
2
Social Legislation Information Service,
1959-1960
26
Social Security,
1950
26
3-4
HR 6000, Correspondence,
1948-1950
26
5
Congressional Correspondence,
1949-1951
26
6
Correspondence with other Organizations,
1949-1950
26
7-8
State Correspondence,
1949-1950
26
9
Disability Insurance,
1947, 1949-1951
26
10
Farm Coverage,
1949-1950, n.d.
26
11
Reference Material,
1949-1950
27
1
Testimony, Statements and Releases,
1949-1950
27
2
Social Security,
1950-1951
27
3
Social Security [HR7800],
1952
27
4
Social Security,
1953
27
Social Security,
1954
27
5
HR7199, HR7200, HR7448,
1953-1954
27
6
HR9366,
1954
27
7
Social Security,
1954-1955
27
Social Security,
1956
27
8-10
HR7225,
1951, 1955-1956
27
11
Social Security,
1956-1957
27
12
Rockefeller Grant, Implementing Amendments,
1956
28
1-3
Social Security,
1958, 1960, 1962
28
4
Advisory Committee on International Activities,
1956-1959, 1961, n.d.
28
5
Chamber of Commerce Proposal,
1952-1953
28
6
Consultants Report on Extension,
1953
28
7
Curtis Committee Study,
1953-1954
28
8
Forand Bills,
1946, 1949, 1954-1955, 1959, n.d.
28
9
Hospitalization,
1958-1960
28
10
McFarland Amendment,
1953-1954
28
11
State and Local Coverage,
1952-1953
28
12
Special Education and Vocational Education,
1962
28
13
Special Education Subcommittee,
1959-1960
28
14
Standard Setting for Institutions,
1953
28
15
Suggested State Bills,
1942, 1945, 1948
28
16
State Laws,
1952
29
1
Tax-Exempt Educational and Philanthropic Organizations
[investigation],
1953-1954
29
2
Taxation,
1943
29
3
Unemployment,
1949
29
7
Veterans,
1943-1945
VISTA,
See National Service Corps.
29
8
Vocational Rehabilitation,
1949-1950
See also: Special Education and Vocational Rehabilitation.
29
9
White House Conference on Children,
1958-1959
29
10
Women's Bureau,
1950, 1954
29
11
Youth Employment Act,
1963
Medical Care
APWA and the American Public Health Association
30
1
Rockefeller Foundation Grant,
1952
Joint Committee on Medical Care
30
2
Minutes,
1949, 1951-1952
30
3
Statement,
1952
30
4
Policy Statement,
1955-1956
30
5
Bureau of Family Services,
1962, 1964
30
6
Bureau of Public Assistance,
1951, 1955, 1957-1962
30
7
Medical Reporting System,
1960-1961
30
8
Correspondence,
1964-1966
Inter-Association Committee on Health,
30
9
Correspondence,
1954, 1961
30
10-11
Minutes,
1949-1956
31
1
Minutes,
1957-1961
31
2
News Releases,
1949-1952
31
3
Institute on the Administration of Medical Care for
the Needy [University of Michigan],
1961
31
4
Medical Assistance Research Project - Advisory
Committee,
1958-1961
31
5
Correspondence, S.J. Axelrod,
1958-1961
31
6
Memoranda,
1957-1961
31
7
Planning,
1955-1957
31
8
Progress Reports,
1957-1961
31
9
Role of the State Public
Assistance Agency in Medical Care [reports],
1953-1955
Newburgh Plan
31
10
Correspondence,
1961-1962
31
11-12
Newspaper and Magazine Coverage,
1960-1962
31
13
Public Assistance Audits,
ca. June 1960
32
1-2
Press Releases, Policy Statements and Analysis,
1960-1962
Research and Publications
Aid to Dependent Children - Studies
32
3
Future Citizens All -
Project Proposal,
1950-1952
32
4-6
Correspondence with State Agencies,
1950-1951
Alphabetical by state.
32
7
Correspondence with State Directors,
1950-1952
32
8-9
Advisory Committee Correspondence and Minutes,
1949-1952
33
1
Follow-up Correspondence,
1952-1953
33
2
Publicity,
1952-1954
33
3
Future Citizens All
[final report],
1952
33
4
An American Dependency
Challenge - Project Proposal,
1959-1960, 1963
33
5
Advisory Committee - Agendas, Minutes,
Correspondence and Lists of Members,
1960-1962
Correspondence
33
6
Bureau of Public Assistance,
1960-1961
33
7
Funding and Printing,
1960-1964
33
8
General,
1960, 1963-1964
33
9
Memoranda to APWA Board Members
33
10
State Agencies,
1960-1961
33
11
Ellen Winston [Advisory Committee Chairman],
1960-1963
33
12
Research Methods and Study Outline,
1960-1961, n.d.
33
13
Preliminary Report by M. Elaine Burgess,
1961
Study Drafts
33
14
Preface, Acknowledgements and Errata,
1962-1963
33
15
Foreword,
Oct. 1962
34
1
Chapters 7 and 8,
Aug. 1962
34
2
An American Dependency
Challenge [final report],
1963
34
3
Summary,
1963
Publicity
34
4
Clippings and Reviews,
1963-1964, n.d.
Correspondence
34
5
Distribution,
1963, n.d.
34
6
Promotion,
1962-1963, n.d.
34
7
News Releases,
1963
Other Aid to Dependent Children Studies
34
8
State Studies,
1948-1949
34
9-10
Other Studies,
1951, 1953, 1960-1962
34
11
Local Demonstration Grant Projects,
1962
34
12
The Needs of Older People and
Public Welfare Services to Meet Them, Elizabeth Wickenden [Chicago: APWA,
1953]
Research Materials
34
13-14
Bibliographies,
1947-1949, 1951-1953
Protective Services
35
1
Articles and Reports,
1937, 1941-1946,
1948-1953
35
2
Correspondence,
1952-1953
Institutional Programs
35
3-4
Articles and Reports,
1944-1953
35
5
Correspondence,
1952-1953
Research
35
6
Articles and Reports,
1950-1952
36
1-2
Articles and Reports,
1952-1953
36
3
Correspondence,
1952-1953
36
4
Public Interpretation,
1952-1954
36
5
Institutes and Training,
1950-1953
36
6
Reciprocal Agreement Studies,
1938-1939
City and State Welfare Services Surveys
36
7
Conneticut - "Survey of the Stamford Welfare
Department",
1953
36
8
Delaware - "Public Welfare Survey of the State of
Delaware",
1938
Illinois
36
9
"State and Local Public Assistance Administration
in Illinois",
1938
36
10
"Welfare Survey of Highland Park, Illinois",
1938
36
11
"Organization of State Public Welfare Services in
Illinois",
1942
36
12
"Ninety-Day Experiment of Chicago Relief
Administration on Dependency Investigations",
1942
36
13
Kentucky - "Louisville Personnel Study",
1945
36
14
Louisiana - "Survey Report of the New Orleans City
and Orleans Parish Department of Public Welfare",
1947
36
15
Maryland - "Relation of Public Welfare Departments
in Maryland to the Civilian Defense Councils",
1942
Minnesota
36
16
"Minneapolis Must Have a Capable Director of
Welfare and Relief",
1936
37
1
"Public Welfare Survey of Hennepin County",
1938
37
2
"Public Welfare Survey of Minneapolis, Minnesota",
1938
37
3
"Minnesota State Public Welfare Study",
1940
37
4
"Mental Health Program in Minnesota",
1940
37
5
"Public Child Care in Minnesota",
1940
37
6
Ohio - "Civil Service for Public Welfare in Hamilton
County, Ohio",
ca.1936
37
7
Oklahoma - "Survey of Family and Child Welfare
Services in Tulsa and Tulsa County, Oklahoma",
1947
37
8
Oregon - "Survey of Public Welfare in Oregon",
1934
Pennsylvania
37
9
"Social Study of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County",
1935
37
10
"Pennsylvania Study",
1937
37
11
Tennessee - "Public Welfare and Related Problems in
Grundy County, Tennessee",
1940
Texas
37
12
"Dallas Welfare Survey",
1938
37
13
"Public Welfare Survey of San Antonio Texas",
1940
37
14
Virginia
1936
37
14
"Survey of the Department of Public Welfare and
Social Service Bureau of the City of Richmond, Virginia",
1936
38
1
"Survey of the Social Service Bureau of Norfolk,
Virginia",
1948
38
2-6
Washington - "Survey of the Coordination and
Integration of Federal, State, and Local Services Operating in Thurston County,
Washington",
1940
38
7
Ontario, Canada - "Survey of the Toronto Department
of Public Welfare",
1944
Public Advisory Committees
38
8
Medical Advisory Committee, Bureau of Old Age and
Survivors Insurance, Social Security Administration - Reports and Minutes,
1955-1963
38
9
Advisory Council on Public Assistance - Report and
Correspondence,
1959-1960
38
10
Consultants on Medical Matters, Bureau of Public
Assistance,
1960-1961
Nationwide Review of Eligibility in Aid to Families
with Dependent Children [AFDC],
38
11
Minutes and Agendas,
1962
38
12-13
Correspondence,
1962-1963
39
1
Final Report,
July 1963
39
2
General Accounting Office Report,
Nov. 1963
39
3
Background Material,
1962
39
4
Press Releases and Clippings,
Aug. 1963
39
5
Consultants to the Division of Medical Services of the
Bureau of Family Services,
1962-1966, n.d.
39
6
Vocational Factors in Evaluating Disability [meeting],
Bureau of Old Age and Survivors Insurance, Social Security Administration,
Nov. 1962
Advisory Council of Public Welfare
39
7-14
Minutes,
1964-1966
39
15-19
Agenda and Discussion Materials,
1964-1965
Public Hearings
40
1
New York, NY,
Feb. 1965
Chicago, IL,
March 1965
40
2
Correspondence, Mailing Lists and Summary
40
3-5
Statements 1-55
40
6
Washington D.C.,
April 1965
Atlanta, Georgia,
May 1965
40
7
Schedule and Mailing Lists
40
8-9
Statements 1-19, unnumbered
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
July 1965
40
10
Schedule and Report
40
11-12
Statements 1-25
Correspondence
40
13
General,
1965-1966
40
14
Numbered Letters from HEW, 1-9
41
1-4
Numbered Letters from HEW, 10-11, 13-14, 16-45,
49-51
41
5
Reports
41
5
"Operation Big City" - Draft,
Oct. 1965
41
6-8
Staff Papers, 1-6, 8-9, 12, 18-23
Council Report
41
9
Draft,
March 1965
41
10
Work Outline,
ca. Sept. 1965
42
1
Draft,
Oct. 1965
42
2-3
Draft,
Jan. 1966
42
4-5
Draft,
April 1966
42
6-9
Draft,
May 1966
42
10
Draft - Summary of Recommendations,
n.d.
42
11
Press Release,
June 1966
42
12
Having the Power, We Have
the Duty [final report],
June 1966
Reference
42
13-14
Work Kit,
ca.1965
43
1-2
Work Kit,
ca.1965
43
3-5
General Material,
1963-1966
43
6
Medical Advisory Committee, Social Security
Administration [meeting],
July 1965
Reference
(2 linear feet. Boxes 43-45)
The Reference series is composed of materials the APWA apparently
collected or received merely for information purposes. Most of the series is an
alphabetically-arranged assemblage of speeches regarding social welfare issues.
The individuals read these papers before such groups as the Council on Social
Work Education, Congressional committee hearings, or state and local welfare
agencies. (Speeches by APWA staff members or representatives before APWA
conferences are filed in the conferences and seminars sub-series.) The APWA
office generated the speeches file partially to aid Executive Director Loula
Dunn's speech-writing tasks. For that reason, a small file of miscellaneous
speech materials -- e.g., quotations -- is included in this sub-series.
43
7
Civil Defense,
1958-1959
43
8
Family Service Association of America - Demands of the
Black Caucus,
Nov. 1969
43
9
Lake County, Indiana Department of Public Welfare,
1952
43
10
Adoption,
1952
43
11
Aid to Dependent Children,
1952
43
12
Citizens Committee - "Ability of Responsible Relatives
to Support Their Dependents",
1951-1952
43
13
Divorce,
1952
43
14
Poor People's Campaign [Southern Christian Leadership
Conference],
May-June 1968
Speeches,
44
1
Correspondence and Agendas,
1951-1952, 1957
44
2
Speech Writing material,
1951, 1955-1956, n.d.
44
3
Anonymous
44
4
Andrews through Burns,
1951-1955, 1957-1958
44
4
Andrews, Elmer V.
44
4
Baldwin, Joseph E.
44
4
Bane, Frank
44
4
Benner, Paul V.
44
4
Bixby, F. Lovell
44
4
Boehm, Werner W.
44
4
Bowen, Howard R.
44
4
Bowers, Swithun
44
4
Brown, J. Douglas
44
4
Burns, Eveline M.
44
5
Campbell through Cohen, Eli,
1951, 1954, 1957, 1961
44
5
Campbell, W. Glenn
44
5
Carmichael, Odelle
44
5
Carroll, Dr.Thomas H.
44
5
Clague, Ewan
44
5
Cohen, Eli
44
6-7
Cohen, Wilbur J.,
1954, 1956-1959, 1961
44
8
Corey through Foley,
1949-1952, 1957-1958, 1960
44
8
Corey, Arthur F.
44
8
Cruikshank, Nelson H.
44
8
Danstedt, Rudolph T.
44
8
Davidson, George F.
44
8
de Schweinitz, Karl
44
8
Dunham, Arthur
44
8
Dunn, Catherine M.
44
8
Dunn, Loula
44
8
Ellickson, Katherine
44
8
Flemming, Arthur S.
44
8
Foley, Raymond M.
44
9
Folsom, Marion B.,
1955-1958, 1960
44
10
Ginzberg through Keyserling,
1949, 1951-1958, 1960
44
10
Ginzberg, Eli
44
10
Gossett, William T.
44
10
Henican, C. Ellis
44
10
Hobby, Oveta Culp
44
10
Hodges, Luther H.
44
10
Hoehler, Fred K.
44
10
Hohaus, Reinard A.
44
10
Holland, Daniel M.
44
10
Houston, Raymond W.
44
10
Hubbard, John R.
44
10
Hughes, Philip S.
44
10
Johnson, Kenneth D.
44
10
Keating, Val M.
44
10
Kestnbaum, Meyer
44
10
Keyserling, Leon H.
45
1
Lansdale through Matteson,
1948-1949, 1951-1952, 1954,
1956-1958
45
1
Lansdale, Robert T.
45
1
Lavin, Charles G.
45
1
Leader, George
45
1
Long, Clarence D.
45
1
Lotwin, Gertrude
45
1
Lourie, Norman V.
45
1
Matteson, Robert J.M.
45
2
Meyer, Agnes E.,
1955-1956, 1960-1961
45
3
Mintener through Roney,
1946, 1950-1952, 1954-1958,
1969
45
3
Mintener, Bradshaw
45
3
Mitchell, William L.
45
3
Mommsen, Dr.
45
3
Oettinger, Katherine B.
45
3
Olzendam, Roderic
45
3
Page, Harry O.
45
3
Patterson, J. Milton
45
3
Perkins, John A.
45
3
Perlman, Helen Harris
45
3
Podell, Lawrence
45
3
Roney, Jay L.
45
4
Schmidt, Carl K. Jr., and Charles I. Schottland,
1951, 1953-1955, 1957-1958
45
5
Shoemaker through Strayer,
1950, 1953-1954, 1957, 1960
45
5
Shoemaker, Garth A.
45
5
Simpson, Arthur
45
5
Somers, Anne R. and Herman M.
45
5
Stearns, James G.
45
5
Steininger, Fred H.
45
5
Stevenson, Adlai E.
45
5
Strayer, Paul J.
45
6
Ten Broek through Youngdahl,
1951, 1953-1957, 1961-1962
45
6
Ten Broek, Jacobus
45
6
Thigpen, J.A.
45
6
Tieszen, D.W.
45
6
Tramburg, John W.
45
6
Vasey, Wayne
45
6
Vogt, Philip H.
45
6
Willcox, Alanson W.
45
6
Winston, Ellen
45
6
Witt, Allan J.
45
6
Witte, Edwin E.
45
6
Woodward, Ellen S.
45
6
Youngdahl, Benjamin E.