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The National Association of Social Workers records were a gift of the National Association of Social Workers board of directors, received in July 1964. The records of the Washington office were added in 1971.
The NASW records were received, administered, and described in two distinct entities. The initial accession, received in 1964 and comprising primarily the pre-1955 records of the predecessor organizations, were arranged and described upon arrival. A large shipment of records from the organization's Washington office, received in 1971, was described in less detail and administered as a separate "supplement" collection. The description of all NASW records, including smaller subsequent accretions, will be integrated into a single finding aid in this online version in the future.
The collection is arranged in ten record groups, each comprising the records of a separate organization -- the seven predecessor organizations that merged in 1955; two transitional organizations that operated during the merger process; and the post-1955 records of the National Association of Social Workers itself. The ten record groups are:
A detailed description of most of this collection is included in
University of Minnesota Libraries,
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) was established in October, 1955, following five years of careful planning by the Temporary Inter-Association Council (TIAC). Seven organizations – American Association of Social Workers (AASW), American Association of Medical Social Workers (AAMSW), National Association of School Social Workers (NASSW), American Association of Psychiatric Social Workers (AAPSW), American Association of Group Workers UAW Association for the Study of Community Organization (ASCO), and Social Work Research Group (SWRG) – merged to form the NASW.
The bulk of the records is from the seven organizations for professional social workers that merged in 1955 to form the National Association of Social Workers. They were the American Association of Social Workers, the American Association of Psychiatric Social Workers, the National Association of School Social Workers, the American Association of Group Workers, the Association for the Study of Community Organization, and the Social Work Research Group. Collectively they document the development from vocational placement bureaus into professional organizations concerned with raising professional standards and improving education offerings and working conditions. Secondarily they reflect the impact of war and of depression era social and economic programs on social workers and on the people they served.
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.
HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Established in 1917 as the National Social Workers' Exchange and reorganized in 1921 as the American Association of Social Workers, the organization addressed issues of concern, set professional standards, and (in the early years) served as a placement bureau for social workers. It was one of seven organizations that merged in 1955 to form the National Association of Social Workers.
The American Association of Social Workers was one of the seven
predecessor organizations which formed the National Association of Social
Workers in 1955; and its papers were included as a part of the NASW records.
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes and agendas of governing bodies and
committees, and financial records constitute, in general, the type of papers
contained in the collection. The organization's papers comprised thirteen
linear feet with the heaviest concentration of material in the 1930's and
1940's. An invaluable aid to this collection is the Association journal,
As the senior professional social work organization, the American Association of Social Workers traces its origin to the Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations. The Bureau was founded in 1911 by a group of New York alumnae of various colleges to provide vocational information to young ladies seeking employment in New York City. The many questions received concerning social work positions led, in 1913, to the formation of a special department within the Bureau -- the Department of Social Workers. Functioning as a clearinghouse for information regarding social workers and social work positions, the department also emphasized better standards in its placement and publications. The decision to become an independent organization war, made in 1917, and the National Social Workers Exchange (NSWE) was established with its own board of directors. The purpose of the Exchange was "to develop a better adjustment between workers and positions in the social field, to discover new opportunities, to encourage adequate preparation and professional training, to facilitate the choice of competent candidates for positions, and to secure equitable standards of employment."
The National Social Workers Exchange held its first meeting on May 18, 1918. Meeting concurrently with the National Conference of Social Work in Kansas City, a nominating committee composed of Arthur P. Kellogg, Ida M. Cannon, Alfred Fairbank, Gertrude Vaile and Edith Abbott presented a slate of candidates for board of directors. Edith Shatto King was named manager of the NSWE, while the elected officers were Richard H. Edwards, president; C. C. Carstens, vice president; Margaret Byington, secretary; and James S. Cushman, treasurer. At the third annual meeting in New Orleans, a resolution for incorporation "under Article III of the Membership Corporations Laws of the State of New York, pursuant to Section 5 of said law" was authorized by the national body.
In 1920, the board of directors set up a central council, which in
turn, appointed committees on placement, job analysis, training, industrial
service, recruiting information, publicity and education. The official organ of
the Exchange,
The Exchange continued to function as a non-profit employment
agency, but the need for a distinctly professional organization of social
workers developed. In short, according to discussion in
Providence, Rhode Island was selected as the place of the annual meeting in June 1922, and it was here that the central council became the national council. A report of a special committee, headed by Harry Hopkins, was also read. He spelled out a financial policy for the Association. Duly adopted by the assembled membership, this program, hereafter known as the "Providence Resolution," provided that dues and contributions from members would support all Association activities, after January 1, 1923. This undertaking was ideally to be realized by January 1, 1925 and in the interim, financial assistance would come from the above-mentioned sources as well from foundation grants. Financial difficulties forced the deadline to be extended to January 1927. The goal was finally met when the decision was made to separate the Vocational Bureau from the Association, as its operating costs were draining funds the treasury.
Structurally the organization experimented with several types of governing bodies. Through the course of the Association's existence governmental responsibility shifted from one group to another. The national council succeeded the original body of authority, the central council, in 1922. An executive committee was appointed to run Association affairs between council meetings. The national council became so unwieldy and its membership so widely distributed that it caused the council to lose its directing capability. In 1926 the executive committee assumed administrative duties. The national council henceforth functioned as a delegate body acting in an intermediary, advisory capacity. To compensate for the loss of' the council, an ad interim committee of the executive committee was created to act on urgent matters subject to final approval by the higher authority. The first members were Neva Deardorff, Dorothy C. Kahn, William Hodson, Linton B. Swift, John A. Fitch, and Katharine Tucker.
Since the formation of the Association, the following secretaries have directed the Association’s affairs in the national offices: Graham Re Taylor, 1921-1922; Edith Shatto King (acting executive secretary) 1922-1923; Philip Klein, 1923-1927, with assistance from Elizabeth de Schweinitz (Mrs. Karl de Schweinitz). Walter West assumed the position in November, 1927.
With the advent of the "Great Depression" and social work's
greater interest and involvement in government programs dealing with relief on
state and federal levels, financial problems and overwork plagued the
organization. According to
A word of explanation is necessary to describe the complicated evolution of the division on government and social work. At its annual meeting in Minneapolis in June 1931, the assembled membership of AASW authorized the formation of the commission on unemployment, which was to gather information on local situations through AASW chapters, and study and report on proposed programs meant to deal with unemployment, i.e., federal relief fund. A second assignment involved the study of the social and economic effects of unemployment and the possible regularization of employment by unemployment insurance. The first chairman of the commission was Mary Van Kleeck who was supported by a panel of distinguished citizens: Joseph P. Chamberlain, Stanley Be Davies, Helen Hall, David H. Holbrook, Porter R. Lee, Betsey Libbey, Harry Lurie, Linton B. Swift, Frances Taussig, and Walter West.
Coincidentally, executives of national agencies called for the Social Work Conference on Federal Action to discuss plans for action on governmental programs. The steering committee of this conference, with Linton B. Swift as its chairman, became the AASW's committee on federal relief under the auspices of the Commission on Unemployment. Not content with this label, the committee was renamed the federal action on unemployment committee. Linton Swift chaired the committee; its membership included Benson Y. Landis, Frank Bane, Allen T. Burns, C. C. Carstens, Joanna C. Colcord, Helen Crosby, David H. Holbrook, Paul U. Kellogg, Harry L. Lurie, the Rev. Dr. John O'Grady, Helen Hall, Ralph G. Hurlin, Walter Went, and Stanley B. Davies. Lack of funds caused the chairman of the commission to ask for the commission's discharge in April, 1933, but as many functions as possible were assumed by the division on government and social work under its first chairman, Linton B. Swift.
Dissatisfaction with this divisional structure was brought to the surface in August 1938, by the resignation of Florence Taylor (Mrs. Graham R. Taylor), who had served as an assistant executive secretary. She pointed out that the executive committee left too such decision making to the executive secretary. The ad interim committee could not cope with the responsibilities developing because the executive committee met too infrequently, the committees were too loosely organized, there was too heavy an administrative burden for the national office, and a difference of opinion existed regarding the basic policies and program of the Association. Faced with such explicit criticism, measures were taken the following year to remedy the situation by creating a new governing body, the national board of directors, from whose ranks an executive committee would be selected to exercise the powers of the national board between meetings of the latter group. Due to the reorganizational shuffle, the divisional apparatus gradually faded out, to be replaced by regionalized national committees. By March, 1941, the outstanding committees were executive, national membership, government and social work, personnel practices, chapter, personnel practices for national staff, and nominating. This basic pattern, changed only by addition or deletion of national committees, remained true of the Association's structure till dissolution in 1955.
The problem of administrative structure was thus amended. However, matters of procedures continued to plague personnel and employment practices' investigations, i.e., employment practices inquiry, 1940. The division of opinion regarding basic doctrine of the Association remained unresolved. One member commented that the struggle to solve these issues caused a loss of momentum in the Association's forward progress and resulted in the resignations of president, executive secretary, and members of the executive committee and board of directors. This period, 1941-1943, was one of internal dissension within all sections of the organization. After Walter West's resignation in the early part of 1942, Elisabeth Mills served as acting executive secretary until the appointment of Joseph P. Anderson as executive secretary on May 15, 1942. Anderson continued in that capacity until the dissolution of AASW in 1955 at which time he became the executive secretary of National Association of Social Workers.
Beset with financial difficulties and a scattered membership
involved in defense concerns during the Second World War, national conferences
were canceled in 1943 and 1945. However, during the postwar period, the
Association grew steadily. Reflecting the growth of professionalism in social
work,
A chronological statement of organizational highlights and a list of AASW presidents follow:
List of AASW Presidents, 1921-1955:
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes and agendas of governing bodies and committees, and financial records constitute, in general, the type of papers contained in the collection. Records date from the AASW's origins in 1922 until the 1955 merger, but the bullk of the material is concentrated in the 1930's and 1940's.
AASW's records have been divided into two major sections, the first of which shows chronologically the organizational development of the Association, i.e., constitution, bylaws, policy statements, board and committee minutes, conference proceedings, registration of members, personnel practices, finances, and chapter information (folders 1-154). The second division also includes records of the organization; because of their degree of specialization, they are arranged in an alphabetical, topical order, i.e., armed forces, ethics, government and social work, Donald S. Howard correspondence (AASW president, 1947-1949), migrants, National Recovery Administration, political parties, the practitioners movement, Social Security Act, war activities and the Wartime Committee on Personnel (folders 155-263). A list of publications removed from the AASW section and placed in the Minnesota Center's pamphlet collection is included in the appendix.
Copy of first approved constitution of National Social Workers’ Exchange and a proposed constitution for a new professional organization of social workers .
Historical data on formation of NSWE and transition to AASW in 1921. Minutes of meetings of NSWE and AASW, joint meeting with Association of Training Schools re training problems, round table discussions on terminology, "Providence Resolution," separation of Vocational Bureau from AASW.
Statements on Association program for the years 1938-1940 and excerpts by Walter West, executive secretary, and Wayne McMillen, president, from a special study of the Association, 1941-1942.
Proceedings of hearing on Association program by national office, questions for discussion, and miscellaneous correspondence.
Inquiry report by Walter West, executive secretary, re employment practices of the family Service Society of St. Louis County, Missouri.
Study by executive committee.
Minutes cover investigation of Association, 1941-1942, problems of qualification for membership, and over-view of organizational affairs.
Minutes and correspondence re group insurance and retirement benefits. Correspondents include Theodate Soule (American Association of Hospital Social Workers), Walter West, and Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, who requested support for the Child Labor Amendment and suggested an insurance plan.
Correspondence re evaluating executive secretary.
Correspondence re Association difficulties, 1941-1942; search for a new executive secretary; appointment of Joseph P. Anderson as secretary; and membership qualifications of group workers within AASW.
Historical data on Association progress from NSWE to AASW; minutes of central council; financial difficulties of AASW; Association disagreements, 1942-1943; wartime activities; and formation of Temporary Inter-Association Council.
Report stating grievances against Walter West, executive secretary, and Wayne McMillen, president.
Statements by Wayne McMillen re Association program; accumulation of data for charges re president’s conduct by the executive committee; tentative statement, "The Conduct of the President as a Factor in the Association Problem."
Report of subcommittee, headed by Lester Granger, NAACP executive secretary, re personnel study of AASW, including budget statement, change of address procedures, membership application processing, job descriptions, dues collection, and accounting systems.
Minutes, memoranda, reports, and correspondence re local draft boards and AASW aid; public social services; report, "Recreation, Education and Welfare of the American Soldier"; summary of activities; and dissolution material of committee reelecting Association financial difficulties.
Correspondence re grievance procedures from John A. Fitch and the National Association of Legal Aid Organizations re disciplinary action in grievance proceedings; reports from Chicago chapter re development of statement of principles.
Brief correspondence covering a series of cases showing the interest of politicians in relief programs.
Correspondence and newspaper clippings- re grievances in Columbus, Ohio, and Denver, Colorado, as well as six individual cases.
Reports, bulletins, memoranda, and minutes re formation of an international social welfare organization, continuation of services during the war, social welfare activities of the League of Nations, and cooperation services in Gary, Indiana.
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Audrey J. Maetzgold, student at New York School of Social Work and former Red Cross worker, compiled a report for AASW committee on the United Nations*; involvement with international cooperation for social welfare. Contains progress report and summary minutes re the United Nations’ activities in social welfare.
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Consists largely of process whereby committee gathered information to be published in a job analysis series, e.g., Louise Odencrantz, The Social Worker in Familyt Medical and Psychiatric Social Work.
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Memoranda, reports, and correspondence to gather information from other organizations on salaries. Newspaper clippings have been placed in the backs of folders for better preservation of manuscripts, unless they are an integral part of the material.
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Annual Membership Count
AASW: Membership Committee, Application Forms, Membership Cards, Bills, and Sample Stencils, 1919-1945.
Minutes of applications and national membership committee wherein discussions evolve around clarification of classification of elected members, membership qualifications, standards, and members elected under provision of Section 6 qualification.
Study of application of standards to technical courses at colleges and universities offering courses in social work.
Data on readmission of former members, definition and purpose of membership policy, and membership requirements.
Brochures from NSWE and AASW.
Memoranda and minutes "outlining the general content and plan for study of the problems related to the organization and planning of social services" in wartime and reconstruction.
Correspondence with Michael J. Shortly, director of vocational rehabilitation, Federal Security Agency Compass article, Rehabilitation of Handicapped Persons."
Reports and memoranda re approved technical courses, professional membership, skills of relief workers, and standards in social work stated by Grace Marcus and Walter West.
Correspondence between Herschel Alt, chairman of national committee on education, and Grace Marcus, chairman of division on personnel standards, re developing and supporting professional education in cooperation with American Association of Schools of Social Work.
Correspondence, agendas, and memoranda re recruiting personnel for professional education.
Proceedings and manuals for AASW conferences; first delegate conference: "Governmental Objectives for Social Work," 1934, with Grace Abbott, Fred Hoehler, Porter K. Lee, Wayne McMillen, Gertrude Springer, Kenneth Pray, Harry Hopkins, and Arthur Dunham re tasks of those in social work involved with governmental policies and agencies. Other proceedings included: 1935-1937, 1939-1941, 1947, 1949, and 1953. Delegates manuals for the years 1941, 1948, and 1950 are also included, plus a list of nominating districts for the 1953 delegate assembly.
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Proceedings of regional workshops: Southeast States, February, 1952; Chicago, May, 1952; Los Angeles, November, 1952; New England Regional, November, 1952; Fort Worth, Texas, February, 1953; North Mid-Western, October, 1953; St. Louis, February, 1954; District 5 (Ann Arbor, Michigan), April, 1954 North West, April, 1954; Mountain States, May, 1954; District 6, October, 1945, AASW Workshop on Legal Regulation of Social Work Practice, February, 1955-
Office manual on nomination and election procedure including a time schedule for July 1, 1953 to June 30, 1954; personnel of nominating committee; 1954 ballot; "Proposed Bylaws and Memorandum of Understanding," of TIAC; list of officers and members of the board of directors of NASW, September, 1955.
Materials on use of punch card tabulating equipment to handle membership records for a central registry of social workers undertaken by David French, Joe R. Hoffer, and Joseph P. Anderson; classification of social work studies; Joe R. Hoffer, "Basic Schedule— Social Workers."
Progress report by Joe R. Hoffer, (then director of Social Work Vocational Bureau) re need of classifying workers and positions to aid in placement service for social welfare workers.
Report sent out to members to stimulate discussion of Association objectives and program at the 1951 delegate conference.
Unofficial report
Booklet prepared for fourth annual AASW conference.
Statement adopted at 1947 delegate conference.
Statement prepared by committee on licensing to encourage discussion among members re licensing social workers.
Draft of handbook prepared for Personnel Practices Institute by personnel practices committee.
Proceedings of institute sponsored by the Ohio Welfare Conference, National Conference of Social Work, National Social Welfare Assembly, and Ohio Citizens Council.
Statement re standards for social work personnel, code of ethics, civil rights in social work, and personnel practices in social work adopted by 1961 delegate assembly.
Mimeographed statement approved by 1951 delegate assembly.
Correspondence and reports of procedure in grievance cases using specific cases as examples.
Handbook for AASW chapter committees on violation of personnel practices.
Sample of mimeographed materials circulated by the national office; agendas, memoranda, handbooks, committee reports, chapter communiques, etc. (Folders 111-112 arranged numerically, folder 113 arranged chronologically.)
See introduction for instructions on use of these records.
See introduction for instructions on use of these records.
See introduction for instructions on use of these records.
Chiefly correspondence re inclusion of national staff of AASW, a non-profit organization, for social insurance benefits; chronological history of negotiations compiled by Dorothy C. Kahn.
Memoranda, pamphlets, and printed statements re staff records on social security, etc. Historical data on beginnings of social security and processes involved in securing enrollment under plan, especially in New York State; suggested social workers’ platform on social security.
Alphabetical arrangement of financial records of AASW from late 1954 till dissolution in September,. 1955
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Reports from chapters: Cleveland, Toledo, New York city; position papers of AASW; 1945 hand-book for chapter officers.
Reference manual on chapter administration.
Alphabetical listing, by state, of chapters’ final report preceding October, 1955 dissolution,.
Andersen was Executive Secretary, 1943-1955
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Correspondence with charity organization society division of Russell Sage Foundation, particularly Joanna C. Colcord and Donald S. Howard (AASW President, 1947-1949)• Subjects covered are Joanna C. Colcord’s participation in AASW (until 1940), surplus commodities, AASW statement on foreign relief programs, UNRRA and the AASW draft statement on long range provision for displaced persons.
Brief correspondence re National Vocational Service, committee structure, and Southern participation in Association.
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Preparatory material.
Brief folder including agendas, AASW public welfare platform (1947) and minutes.
Correspondence, memoranda, and minutes. Statements on "New Frontiers in Social Work," AASW public social services, effect of war on social work in local communities, and foreign relief.
Minutes, correspondence, agendas, statement of committee assignment, and drafts for proposed statement by the Association.
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Several drafts of constitution with suggestions from Mary Van Kleeck.
Historical data on plans for the fourth international convention.
Notes on committee meeting and request for funds to support conference.
Notice of Howard Knight’s death (executive secretary of the National Conference of Social Work), correspondence from Dr. Rene Sand (president, ICSW), Fred Hoehler, George Haynes (treasurer-general, ICSW), Leonard Mayo (then president of NCSW), Ernest F. Witte, and Melvin Glasser, plus a membership list of the program committee.
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Correspondence, memoranda, and listing of topics.
Copies of three of the speeches.
Correspondence, minutes, memoranda, agendas, reports on reorganization of ICSW, tentative ICSW program schedules, material on appointment of Joseph P. Anderson as ICSW acting secretary general, United States Department of State "briefs" for foreign visitors, and committee membership list.
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, reports, handbooks, pamphlets, and memoranda from national office. Prominent in the folders are David H. Holbrook, Katharine F. Lenroot, Russell H. Kurtz, Helen R. Jeter (secretary, Family Security Committee), Walter McGuinn (dean, Boston College School of Social Work), Robert Lane (executive director, Welfare Council of New York City), Elizabeth Ross (director, AAPSW War Service Office), and John J. McCloy. Material re selective service, Canadian social workers in Royal Canadian Army, morale of servicemen, placement of social work graduates, cooperation with AAPSW in War Service Office, formation of Wartime Committee on Personnel, military classification of social workers, WACs as psychiatric social workers, and social work standards in the U.S. Army.
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Correspondence, press releases, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and report re family allowances and allotments of servicement. Correspondents include William Hodson, Dorothy C. Kahn, Jane Hoey, Paul Webbink, and various chapter members.
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Correspondence, newsletters, statements, and memoranda re chapter activities and selective service, and position of public welfare departments or agencies re conscription, local public welfare activities, and consultation centers.
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and bulletins re protection and rights of conscientious objectors; Louisiana laws re objectors.
Correspondence re need for psychiatric social workers in centers and classification needed for Army social workers.
Correspondence, reports, bulletins, press releases, and newspaper clippings re Class III deferment (deferred because of dependents); drafting social workers; New York chapter statement, "Suggested Position of AASW on Deferment of Social Workers."
Correspondence, press releases, and newspaper clippings re student deferment and deferment of medical students.
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Correspondence with social worker in Armed Forces re detention unit at Camp Pickett, Virginia.
Information guide published by American Council on Education.
Survey of social caseworkers in Army and number of graduates of schools of social work or with partial training in Armed Forces; military classification; listing of men in service and degree of social work education.
Correspondence and memoranda. Correspondence between AASW and a member, 1941-1943? re organization of Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, mental hygiene units; Mental Hygiene reprint, "Mental Hygiene Unit"; Transportation Corps school, New Orleans Army Base, Mental Hygiene Aids for the Line Officer (August, 1945).
Correspondence with social worker in service connected to the War Department and national office re pool of specialists available for service; commissions for social workers; Lehman committee; and program of division of military government.
Correspondence of Joseph P. Anderson re social work material for newsletter.
Correspondence with E. H. Ross of AAPSW’s war service office concerning problems of social workers in armed forces; Army hygiene units; classification of social workers; formation of Wartime Committee on Personnel by AASW; standards for military psychiatric social work; statement on Veterans Administration social work personnel and practice, and the Veterans Administration Corps Bill.
Correspondence re enlistment of WACs as psychiatric social workers, American Nurses Association, John J. McCloy, Elizabeth de Schweinitz; definition of military psychiatric social workers; WAG recruiting standards.
National organization correspondence collecting information on members’ activities, on use made of social work skills and experience in armed services, and, in turn, keeping members informed of Association activities as well as maintaining membership records and continuing dues collection. Arranged chronologically.
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Bulletins, memoranda, and pamphlets re information on selective service; selective service regulations; explanation of Class III deferments
Correspondence, pamphlets, memoranda, and statements re classification problems in Army, particularly securing classification for social workers; an address, "Classification Problems"; Luther E. Woodward, National Committee for Mental Hygiene, "The Value of Social History in Selection for the Armed Forces"; New Jersey chapter, AASW, "Handbook for Guidance of Social and Health Counsellor"; draft of a. platform for wartime welfare services in relation to manpower problems, and chapter activity for induction centers.
Correspondence, news release, interview report re screening process of selective service, data collected for use of Medical Advisory Board, military classification of social workers.
Materials re medical survey registrants.
Correspondence, releases, reports, radio script re medical survey. Reports and memoranda from Luther E. Woodward re survey, financial assistance from Social Security Board for survey (Jane Hoey), instructions to medical field agents, and sample information cards used in the medical survey.
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Correspondence and memoranda re chapter volunteers for gathering material for medical survey in Chicago, New York City, Washington, B.C.; question of violating civil rights raised by membership.
Reports of advisory committee re medical survey, evaluation of Negro social workers, WACs used as psychiatric social workers, standards for Red Cross social workers; designation of Elizabeth Ross (AAPSW) to represent Wartime Committee on Personnel on social service advisory committee to selective service headquarters; Luther E. Woodward’s reports re medical survey, summation of meeting with Army, Navy, psychiatric advisory committee and selective service re medical field agent program.
Correspondence, memoranda, and statements re social work contributions to selective service, i.e., volunteering aid of social workers to selective service (Donald S. Howard, Grace Marcus, and D. C. Kahn); suggestions by Conrad van Hyning, principal assistant, director of public welfare, Washington, B.C., re activity in national defense; Gordon Hamilton, "Suggested Principles for Social Workers on Selective Service Administration"; and reports from chapters on relations with selective service boards.
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Material re need for code of ethics, copies of chapter and private organization codes, correspondence with John D. Kenderdine (associate editor of the Survey) re ethics, publication of Lula Jean Elliott’s pamphlet, Social Work Ethics.
Pamphlets, reprints, and newspaper clippings related to pharmacists, trade associations, doctors, dentists, lawyers, industrial lenders, teachers.
Suggested codes of ethics from chapters, including notes from AASW committee attempting to summarize the issues.
Correspondence, reports, minutes, and conference notes. Correspondents include Joanna C. Colcord, David H. Holbrook (National Social Work Council), Harry L. Lurie, Linton B. Swift, Rt. Rev. John O’Grady, Edward P. Costigan (U.S. Senator, Colorado); conferences with Katharine Lenroot (U.S. Children’s Bureau) and Senator Costigan. Concerns the part social work should have in formulating a program of federal aid for unemployment relief.
(Successor to Steering Committee, Social Work Conference on Federal Action on Unemployment) Minutes, correspondence, and memoranda re Costigan-LaFollette hearing and bill, Federal Relief Administration, Emergency Relief Construction Act (1932), and the Bonus Army (1932); conference with Harry Hopkins, Temporary Emergency Relief Administration (1933)•
(Successor to AASW Committee on Federal Action on Unemployment) Correspondence, minutes, questionnaire, and reports re Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Conference on Governmental Objectives for Social Work, unemployment relief funds, subsistence homesteads, and Civil Works Administration.
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Reports, statements, bulletins, and minutes. Resume of materials includes federal reorganization plans affecting the Children’s Bureau; federal government in field of social service, Harry L. Lurie’s statement, "Administrative . Basis for Social Welfare Programs in the Federal, State, and Local Governments"; program to continue relief after dissolution of FERA; charts of proposed Bureau of Welfare; and formation of subcommittee on federal Department of Welfare.
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Memoranda and statements of subcommittee assigned to "develop general social principles basic in planning a national social welfare program . . . ."
Correspondence and minutes re unemployment compensation due to sickness. Correspondents include Grace Abbott, Antoinette Cannon, and Michael M. Davis (Committee on Research in Medical Economics).
Includes scrapbook of committee, information on Wagner-Ellenbogen Bill (1936), and bulletins.
Minutes and correspondence involve discussion of Wagner Bill, rent policies, and summation of housing activity in United States, 1942
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Information re formation of NHA and its functions. Series of case reports on solutions of housing management problems.
Minutes, correspondence, and comments on training social workers for housing by Leonard Mayo (Western Reserve) and others.
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Memoranda, minutes, and correspondence re formation of a technical advisory committee on national relief policy.
Memoranda, reports, questionnaires, bulletins, and reprints re relief problems and the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935-
Contains information from chapters re relief programs and attempts to solve problems as seen through the chapters. Situations included are in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Puerto Rico, Washington, B.C., and Washington State.
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Bulletins; clippings re provisions of Economic Security Bill (S. 1130); and material on administering relief and security program, child welfare services under Social Security Act, and unemployment insurance proposals and reports.
Report stating objectives of division on government and social work.
Correspondence and bibliographies concerned with transient and homeless in South Carolina and Illinois; material on migratory labor in California, Dorothy C. Kahn’s participation in Tolan committee hearings (House of Representatives’ committee to investigate interstate migration of destitute citizens), and the platform on interstate migration.
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Largely correspondence re information on NRA.
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Correspondence with National Social Work Council, Linton B. Swift, David H. Holbrook, and Paul U. Kellogg re codes; proposed "Code for Social Service Workers" by Chicago’s Social Workers Discussion Group.
Correspondence with Niles Carpenter of the 1936 Republican National Committee; Walter West’s statement of social work planks to Robert F. Wagner; Walter West’s support of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Brief folder.
Correspondence re meetings with national organizations and opposition to the Social Security Act.
Compilation of listings of social work scholarships and fellowship information.
Correspondence and reports on chapter activities in communities near war installations. Material from the North Carolina chapter and the "Eastern Groups." Effects of national defense on rural and farm problems, work relief and social conditions near defense operations in North Carolina, and survey of chapter members’ role in defense activities,
Minutes and memoranda re community problems of national defense, selective service, and confidentiality of records.
Correspondence and memoranda re securing well-qualified social work personnel for civil service administration, job descriptions from Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, and material on the merit system for civil administration.
Correspondence, memoranda, questionnaire, and reports on questionnaire sent to members of professional organizations re their educational plans, employment, training, employment records, and experience in Armed Forces.
Contains newsletters from New York School of Social Work and Louisiana State Department of Public Welfare.
Correspondence and newsletter re activities of Wartime Committee on Personnel, membership list of AASSW, and newsletters to answer questions about social work from those leaving the armed forces.
HISTORICAL SUMMARY: The American Association of Hospital Social Workers (AAMSW) in formed with the adoption of a constitution and bylaws on May 20, 1918. In 1926 AAHSW was incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and in 1934 it became the American Association of Medical Social Workers, a name it retained until its merger, in 1955, with six other social work membership organizations to become the National Association of Social Workers.
The formal origin of medical social work in America came in 1905 when Dr. Richard Clarke Cabot, staff member of Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, arranged for the employment of a "person of experience in health and social work" to assist is the out-patient department in solving problem of sickness and ill health related to social factors. Though volunteers and hospital auxiliaries had been engaged for many years in friendly visiting, sewing, and other services to hospitals and patients, this marked the beginning of an effort to provide adequate, consistent professional service to clients.
Organization of hospital social workers on a national scale came in May, 1917, when approximately thirty workers met in Pittsburgh in connection with the National Conference of Social Work to discuss the question of a national organization. Because of the war, further efforts were delayed until the 1918 National Conference in Kansas City, when a series of meetings were held, culminating in the organization of AAHSW.
According to its original constitution, the purpose of AAHSW was "to serve as an organ of intercommunication among hospital social workers, to maintain and improve standards of social work in hospitals and dispensaries, and to stimulate its intensive and extensive development." (The purpose was amended in 194, reflecting changed emphases within the profession, to read: "to promote the quality and effectiveness of social work in relation to health and medical care.") The constitution provided for the offices of president first and second vice-president, secretary, and treasurer, and opened membership to institutions and individuals in the United States and Canada. The bylaws adopted (folders 326-327) set forth duties of the officers and an executive committee, listed qualifications for membership, and provided for an advisory council, annual meetings and procedures for amendment of bylaws.
Original membership qualifications established active, associate, and honorary classes. Active members were paid hospital social workers or executives of social service departments. Associate members included individuals who had been active in hospital social work or allied fields but were not eligible at the time, or those who had only recently begun this work, and social service departments or organizations and institutions in fields allied with medical social work. Honorary members were individuals deemed by the Association to have made a significant contribution to medical social work. Subsequent changes in the constitution (which was repealed in 1944), bylaws, membership qualifications, etc., can be found in the bylaws themselves and the records of the bylaws and membership committees (folders 326-327, 352-353, 507-509).
An executive secretary (titled executive director after 1953) was employed part-time from 1918 and full-time from 1922. From 1936 to 1955 a business manager, Mrs. Ellen Michaels, directed the national office. Other part-time or full-time professional staff members were the consultant on education, Kate McMahon, 1925-1955; consultant on practice, Addie Thomas, 1953-1955 (this position was established in 1953); and consultant on recruitment (a position also established in 1953), Elma Phillipson and, later, Opal Gooden.
In 1920, in an effort to make a national organization less remote and more relevant to individual members scattered across the country, a plan for organization of the Association on a district basis was proposed. At the semi-annual meeting, held in conjunction with the American Hospital Association, the district plan was accepted by the membership with the provision that the executive committee approve district limits and that district constitutions conform to the national constitution. In 1945 specific criteria for districting were adopted. These included, among others, a minimum of 25 potential members, leadership, financial stability, and proposed district limits. During reorganization of the Association, 1940-1942, a plan for establishing five regions for members living in undistricted areas was adopted.
At the 1921 annual meeting, a group of psychiatric social
workers who were members of AAHSW, petitioned to form a psychiatric section
within AAHSW. In 1922 the Section was formed with its own bylaws, officers,
etc. In 1926 the Section dissolved its ties with AAHSW and formed the American
Association of Psychiatric Social Workers. One of the major study projects of
the Association rose from the education committee's subcommittee on medical
social workers' participation in teaching medical students (folders 393-412).
In 1943 this subcommittee formed a joint committee with a subcommittee of the
Association of American Medical Colleges. With a grant from the Milbank
Foundation the joint committee on teaching of social and environmental factors
in medicine studied and evaluated the teaching of information, attitudes, and
skills in selected medical colleges and schools (folders 401-404). After
publication of the study,
Mary A. Stites' detailed History of the American Association of Medical Social Workers (1955) gives a complete picture of the Association's structure and program, its committees and projects, and its development from 1918 to 1955. The Association's executive committee minutes, 1918-1941, (folders 339-345) are also useful in understanding the evolution of the Association and of the medical social work profession.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: The AAMSW records comprise 16.5 linear feet of records covering the years 1917 to 1956. The records have been arranged in so far as possible to reflect the working structure of the Association, are divided in sections.
The first series (folders 325-350) consists of papers tracing the formation and incorporation of AAMSW, its constitution and bylaws, papers of the officers and staff, and records of its policy-making committees and councils. The second series (folders 351-593) constitutes Association committee records, including regular, advisory, joint, and special committees (as far as these can be identified). Because the Association carried on projects largely through its committees and because these records are extensive, many major interests and accomplishments of the Association are reflected here. The third series is papers of the Psychiatric Section (folder 594). Records of the Association consultants on education, practice, and recruitment comprise the fourth series (folders 595-643).
The fifth series (folders 644-678) includes papers of Association districts and regions, arranged by date of admission to the Association. These records reflect the implementation of Association policies on a local level and provide information on activities and concerns of groups of members. The sixth series (folders 679-755) consists of the correspondence and papers of the Association in a subject arrangement. Included among these are financial records (folders 679-690), material pertaining to the transition from AAMSW to the National Association of Social Workers (folder 691), and records of the Association's relations with other voluntary associations and governmental agencies (folders 714-747).
It should be noted that certain themes recur in the AAMSW records so frequently that it is misleading to attempt to single out sections of the collection where they are contained. The records trace the problems of an emerging profession with its concern for definition of function, professional education, standards in practice, and relations with other professions. Maintenance of an adequate supply of trained medical social workers was a central concern of the Association long before the establishment of a recruitment committee in 1953. Also reflected in these records is the impact of war and the Depression on the profession and the interest of medical social workers and persons in related health field agencies in rehabilitation of persons handicapped by disease or injury. The collection, of course, documents trends in medical social work, casework method and skills, the generic-specific debate in social work, etc.
The following individuals appear prominently in these papers: Edith M. Baker, Harriett Bartlett, Helen Beckley, Zdenka Buben, Ida M. Cannon, M. Antoinette Cannon, Eleanor Cockerill, Ruth Cooper, Ruth Emerson, Dora Goldstine, Eckka Gordon, Mary L. Hemmy, Ruth E. Lewis, Mary Maxwell, Kate McMahon, Mary Blanche Hose, Mary L. Poole, Elizabeth P. Rice, Marian E. Russell, Pauline Ryman, Agnes H. Schroeder, Addie Thomas, Lenore Gottfried Van Vliet, Ruth Wadman, Margaret Wagner, Lena R. Waters, and Grace White.
A list of publications removed from the AAMSW section and placed in the Center's pamphlet collection is included in the appendix.
Notes of the May, 1917, meeting to consider formation of a national organization of hospital social workers. Correspondence and papers regarding the incorporation of the American Association of Hospital Social Workers in 1926.
Correspondence; papers; and copies of constitutions, bylaws, and amendments to these. Includes lists of early members of the Association.
Reports of annual meetings held each year in conjunction with the National Conference of Social Work.
Association members voted on the question of whether or not AAMSW should continue to participate in the Temporary Inter-Association Council (TIAC), which resulted in formation of the National Association of Social Workers.
Correspondence, minutes, and legal documents. This meeting to formally dissolve the Association was held at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (where Richard C. Cabot established the first hospital social service department in 1905)
Primarily requests for information addressed to the director (formerly the executive secretary) regarding tuberculosis, blinded veterans, ratio of medical social workers, rehabilitation of handicapped persons, a code of ethics for social workers, etc.
Annual and semi-annual reports to the executive committee or to the Association.
Reports of visits to hospitals, Association districts and regions, attendance at conferences, etc.
Addresses to annual or business meetings of the Association and reports (19^-19^9) to the executive committee.
Correspondence of Association officers. Copy of the Association’s resolution criticizing the destruction of Charlotte Towle’s Common Human Needs by Federal Security Administrator, Oscar R. Ewing.
Brief correspondence. Primarily lists of members of the council, appointed annually by the President to serve as advisors to officers, staff, and members of the Association.
Chiefly memoranda to the committee from the executive director. Material on repeal of the Association constitution, conference on problems of Mexican war workers, hiring of a recruitment consultant, Temporary Inter-Association Council (TIAC), Association
Excerpts from executive committee meetings regarding policy toward relationships with other organizations.
The subcommittee, appointed in July 1934, recommended the retention of the current secretary, Helen Beckley.
Correspondence, reports, and memoranda. Includes material on the Association’s application to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis for funds, organization of the National Association of Social Workers, hiring of personnel, etc.
Correspondence and reports re the work of the council, whose purpose was to integrate Association study committees and to build a sound program.
The committee was established to study the administration of medical social work.
Correspondence, reports, and copies of proposed amendments to the constitution and the bylaws.
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Correspondence, memorial speeches, and articles about Cabot, who founded the first social service department at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Formerly the case competition committee, which sponsored an annual contest to encourage casework skills. As the case evaluation committee, it evaluated treatment processes in medical social work.
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Individual case records submitted to the committee’s annual contest or submitted for evaluation by the committee.
One report. The committee sought to study the functions and activities of the Association’s standing committees.
Reports.
Correspondence and reports of the committee, which dealt with relations of hospitals and social service departments to the community, especially to community chests.
Formerly the publications committee. Correspondence, reports, and memoranda. Material on advertising, editorial policy, editorial consultants, evolution of a professional journal, public relations, and publication of the Association journal, Medical Socia
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Correspondence, reports, and manuscripts submitted for use by the Association or for publication in Medical Social Work.
Material on Association budgets and financing. The committee had responsibility for seeking contributions from Association districts and individual members.
The committee was appointed in 1949 to assist Mary Stites in writing her history of medical social work.
The advisory committee, formerly a subcommittee of the medical social practice committee, advised Caroline H. Elledge in her study, "Rehabilitation and the Patient.’
Material re child welfare services under the Social Security Act.
Material on the need for hospital social workers overseas.
Minutes and memoranda.
The Association committee advised the Public Health Service in 1920 to establish a social service section in its Hospital Division.
Correspondence and reports re medical social work in tuberculosis control programs.
Correspondence and reports reflecting concerns for differences between medical and psychiatric social work and the work of psychiatric social workers in hospital settings.
Correspondence and reports. Material re use of diet as therapy.
Correspondence, minutes, and reports. The committee, which was established to promote understanding and cooperation between the two associations, surveyed hospital social service departments to provide information on relationships within the hospital.
Correspondence with hospital social service departments participating in the committee study.
Material re function of medical social workers in public health organizations.
Correspondence and handbook for medical social workers in cancer clinics.
Correspondence and reports reflecting concern with the function of medical social workers and the relations of public health nurses to medical social workers.
Reports. The committee recommended that the Association ask its members to respond to proposed legislation as individuals rather than have it take a position as an association.
The committee’s study recommended that the administrative committee take greater responsibility for planning the Association program.
The committee prepared a "Statement of Principles Relating to Medical Social Aspects of a National Health Program."
Material on criteria for organizing Association districts.
The committee was established to clarify policies of communication between districts and national office and to examine the need for more effective publications.
The committee prepared a series of statements of responsibilities of the executive director, president, first vice-president, business manager, and consultants on education and practice.
Report. The committee voted against substituting the office of president-elect for that of first vice-president.
Correspondence and report.
The committee considered whether or not the Association should issue a new statement on national health planning to replace the 1948 statement.
Reports.
Reports and memorandum.
Correspondence, minutes, and reports of the Section, which was established within the Association in 1922 and separated from it in 1926 to become the American Association of Psychiatric Social Workers. Includes a 1944 letter from an Australian social work
Correspondence, minutes, and reports.
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Scattered correspondence of the committee, which was concerned with "psychosomatic thinking" in the casework training of the medical social worker.
The subcommittee sought to identify and define medical social work concepts.
Correspondence, reports, bibliographies, and course outlines.
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Correspondence and papers.
Correspondence and reports re special training for eye clinic staff. Includes a 1936 "Report Regarding Special Courses in Eye Work."
Correspondence, reports, and memoranda. Includes material on the study of field work, definition of terms, problems of field work supervisors, supervision of students in medical social work placements, and contents of field work instruction.
Correspondence and reports re the study of practice in field work training. Includes a final report, "Field Work Teaching in Medical Social Work: A Descriptive Study.’
Primarily correspondence re establishing the subcommittee and defining the area of study.
Correspondence and reports. Material on medical courses for social workers, public health content in the curriculum, medical social work subject matter, and health problems in casework.
Correspondence and reports re the "induction" period.
Formerly the committee on participation in teaching social and environmental factors in medicine. Correspondence, minutes, and reports.
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Questionnaires regarding hospital social service departments’ participation in teaching medical students. Includes questionnaire forms, replies from 24 departments, and evaluations by Eleanor Cockerill, chairman of the committee.
Surveys done of medical school teaching of social and environmental factors in illness.
First draft of the committee’s report.
A Study of the Teaching of Social and Environmental Factors in Medicine,Final report.
Questionnaires re use of current casework methods in teaching medical students and re inter-department relationships.
A casebook of illustrative material demonstrating specific contributions by medical social workers in teaching medical students.
Material used in compiling Medical Social Workers Participate in Medical Education.
This project to secure information regarding concepts covered in medical social work courses was abandoned in 1942. Correspondence and papers.
Correspondence, reports, and scattered course outlines. The material reflects problems of relationships between medical social work and psychiatric social work. The subcommittee studied psychiatric course content in the medical social work curriculum.
The subcommittee did a preliminary survey of recruiting practices and needs in 1940 but declined to undertake an extensive project. It prepared a tentative report in 1941.
The subcommittee attempted to secure and interpret data on medical social workers and to formulate a simplified method for reporting all students completing the medical social work sequence.
Correspondence and reports re teaching aspects of medical social work to nurses. Includes material on medical social work in the nursing curriculum, and nursing in the medical social work curriculum.
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Formerly the subcommittee on teaching of students in hospital administration. Correspondence, minutes, and reports re social work content of the hospital administration curriculum. Includes pilot study of the University of California School of Public Heal
Correspondence and reports regarding matters of common interest to the education committee and AASSW, especially to its curriculum committee: curriculum content, recruitment, professional education, and accrediting of schools of social work. Contains mate
Correspondence re medical social work positions in civil service and the Association’s role in determining standards for such positions.
APHA asked the Association to assist in developing material for civil service merit system examinations in medical social work.
Material re procedure for Association approval of medical social work courses initiated by schools of social work.
Correspondence re a proposed history of medical social work to be done by Ida Cannon.
Correspondence and reports re appointment of Association representatives to CSWE’s subcommittee on teaching materials and the importance of the use of medical social work case records for teaching.
Material re formulating a definition of "full course" which determined eligibility for active membership in AAMSW. The education committee decided in 1946 to allow individual medical social work faculty to define the term.
Medical social work consultants were members of the education committee. Chiefly correspondence re concern for adopting the best of medical social work practice to Army needs.
The committee compiled materials illustrative of medical social work activities in public programs. Includes sample case records and samples of consultation services to state and county health departments .
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In 1944 and 1945 the education committee contacted schools of social work in an attempt to assist OVR in finding medical social workers for state rehabilitation programs. Material re the education committee’s advisory committee to OVR.
One report of a survey of sixteen instructors.
Chiefly reports and memoranda re committee planning for Association exhibits at annual meetings of the American Hospital Association and other organizations.
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Formerly the plans and estimates committee and later the planning and finance committee. Minutes and correspondence of the committee, which had responsibility for long-range financial planning, year-by-year budgeting, and staff administration.
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Report of a study of eight clinics’ placement of convalescing children in foster homes.’
Correspondence and reports. Includes material on the inter-relationship of disease and social maladjustment, the contribution of the social casework method to institutional practice of medicine, the persisting concern of AAMSW for casework method and skil
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Exhibit of Steps in the Study and Definition of the Hospital Social Worker’s function. Exhibit manual which traces the history of the committee on functions, 1920-1930.
Case material for use of instructors which was also used as source material for the publication, Medical Social Work; A Study of Current Aims and Methods in Medical Social Case Work.
Selected Statistics and Study Outlines Includes list of participating social service departments, instructions to participants, plan of publication and plan of presentation of the study, etc.
Selected Statistics and Study Outlines. Material on study projects, 1936-1941 including sample forms, memoranda, etc.
Material regarding the cardiac, pediatrics, and eye and ear clinics.
Material illustrating individual referral cases, orthopedic ward cases, pediatrics cases, and a "full demonstration of a brief case."
Six cases from the diabetes ward.
Material illustrating individual referral and "full demonstration of brief cases.
Mixed (medical) services cases illustrating individual referral and 100 percent contact.
Mixed (medical) services cases.
Eighteen cases, "fully recorded," showing the method of 100 percent social review. Cases from dermatology, eye, surgical, and medical services.
Material regarding ear, nose, and throat cases; medical clinic cases; medical ward cases; pediatrics ward cases; and "full demonstration of brief cases."
Six cases.
Mixed (medical) services cases.
Correspondence re cases sent to AAMSW. Includes evaluation, by Irene Grant, of all cases submitted.
Forty-one "brief cases" from VA hospitals in Hines, Illinois; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Indianapolis, Indiana; Cheyenne, Wyoming; and Hot Springs, South Dakota.
Cases submitted by the District for functions committee projects.
The District appointed a study committee to analyze case records illustrating trends in casework practice. Includes five cases submitted to the Association and a report of the study committee’s analysis.
Cases submitted from the University of Minnesota Hospitals, the Wilder Clinic, Mayo Clinic, and Minneapolis General Hospital.
Case of a diabetic child, illustrating the relationship of disease and social maladjustment.
Cases submitted for Junctions Project C, "full demonstration of a brief case."
The committee considered the expanding need for professional personnel and the Association’s inability to provide it, and the problem of increasing use of non-medical social workers in medical settings.
The Joint Vocational Service was an organization offering "vocational" and placement service to nurses, public health nurses, and social workers.
Correspondence and reports re volunteers.
Correspondence and reports. Includes material on the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), public relief clients, venereal disease programs, social aspects of expanding medical care programs, and medical social work in tax-supported health and w
The Study was conducted as a joint project of APWA and AAMSW with APWA providing most of the financial support. Includes preliminary report which was never released for circulation.
Contains material re AAMSW’s response to the joint committee’s report, "Hospital Care for the Needy.
Material re formulating a statement submitted by AAMSW to the U.S. Children’s Bureau suggesting qualifications and appropriate activities for medical social workers in state programs for crippled children.
The committee did "Two Studies of the Social Aspects of Health Problems of Public Relief Clients." The studies focused on Cook County, Illinois; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Correspondence, minutes, and reports. The report of the reorganization committee resulted in placing various Association study committees involved in practice under the practice committee. The committee was concerned with continuous study of medical socia
The subcommittee functioned also as a joint committee with the American Hospital Association1s committee on the administration of social service departments in hospitals. Correspondence; reports; and a statement describing the structure and organization,
Correspondence and reports re the use of case material in classroom teaching.
Correspondence and reports re social and emotional implications of chronic illness for patients, families, and society.
Correspondence and reports re determining of methods of evaluating social service departments.
Correspondence. Concern for definition arose out of the study of the use of non-medical social workers in medical social work positions.
Correspondence and reports re clarification of the role of the medical social worker in rehabilitation programs.
Correspondence, minutes, reports, and interviews with state health department staff members.
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Correspondence and reports.
Reports.
Correspondence and reports, Final report: Administering a Hospital Social Service Department.
Correspondence, minutes, and reports re ratios (defined as the number of medical social workers needed per patient per year).
Reports.
Correspondence and reports. The statement was intended to be a guide in organizing and improving social service departments in hospitals and clinics.
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Correspondence and reports. The subcommittee considered the effects of World War II on practice.
Correspondence, reports, and final statement.
Correspondence, reports, and material re methods of recording in hospital social service departments.
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Correspondence and reports. This subcommittee attempted to define elements in medical social work which might be changing or developing as psychosomatic factors were given increasing recognition in medical practice.
Scattered correspondence.
Correspondence and report, "Working with Other Professional Personnel in the Medical Setting."
The subcommittee was formed out of concern for the trend away from specialization in social work education and its effect on social service departments .
Correspondence re medical social work practice in venereal disease settings. Study to determine the effect, if any, that new medical treatment and new public health organization were having on medical social workers. Includes final reports, "Medical Socia
The practice and education committees cooperated in sending questionnaires to 1948 graduates of medical social work sequences in schools of social work to determine how effectively their education had prepared them for practice. Includes a copy of the que
Correspondence and reports re eligibility for membership, problems of standards in hospital social service departments, analysis of Association membership groups, recruiting, student membership, and establishing and altering membership requirements.
Correspondence and reports.
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The committee was concerned with sound personnel practices both in the field of medical social work and with AAMSW’s national staff. Includes material on hiring, contracts, tenure, hours, physical conditions, and minimum standards. Includes A Statement of
Correspondence and reports.
Correspondence and reports.
The committee’s report recommended similar minimum standards for medical social workers in both hospitals and public health programs. Reflects flux within the profession because of the debate of generic vs. specific social work, the use of non-medical soc
Correspondence and reports re the Association’s concern for establishment of satisfactory qualifications and examinations for medical social work positions under public auspices, and its relations with the Civil Service Assembly.
Correspondence; drafts of the "Place of the Medical Social Work in Civil Defense.
Correspondence, reports, and programs. The committee had responsibility for planning Association participation in the Annual Forum of the National Conference of Social Work, and planning the Association’s annual meeting, which was held in conjunction with
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Correspondence, minutes, and reports. Material on the numbers of members in Association districts and the amount of dues paid by members. The committee was formed in response to criticism of the basis of representation on the Association executive committ
Correspondence, minutes, and reports. Includes material on exhibits and interpretation of medical social work to related professions and to the public.
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A prize was awarded for the article submitted which best interpreted the medical social work function to non-social workers. Includes correspondence and contest articles.
Pamphlets, radio scripts, and lists of films with medical social work implications.
Correspondence and reports. The committee was concerned with recording of "social information" by the hospital social service department and making this information available to other hospital departments.
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Correspondence, minutes, and reports. The committee was responsible- for long-range development of recruitment policies and served as advisor to the recruitment consultant.
The committee was composed of representatives from health, social work, education, and vocational guidance fields.
Pamphlets, leaflets, and brochures.
Reports. Social service committees, composed of representatives from hospital administration, the medical staff, the community, etc., served in an advisory capacity to social service departments.
The committee was appointed by the president in June 1940, to make recommendations regarding reorganization of the Association. Includes preliminary and final reports, and material on functions of standing committees and duties of national staff members.
The committee was established in 1953 as a subcommittee of both the public relations committee and the publications committee (which later became the editorial committee). Later in 1953 the subcommittee became the reprints committee, whose function was to
Correspondence and reports. The committee, which apparently was reactivated after 1944 following a series of scholarship grants from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, had responsibility for developing a continuous scholarship program.
Correspondence, minutes, and reports re standards to be met by hospital social service departments.
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Correspondence, minutes, and reports re statistical reporting of services to patients by social service departments.
Reports of votes cast for the election of Association officers.
Material re the use of volunteers in medical social work.
Correspondence, minutes, reports, and memoranda. Includes a letter (February 14, 1942) describing conditions in Hawaii after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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Material re efforts of the Association to involve its districts and regions in the Office of Civilian Defense’s emergency medical services programs.
Material reflects the concern with problems of the relation of medical social work and war industry.
Material re medical social work participation in resettlement and in programs for Japanese in relocation centers.
Material re concern for new emergency rehabilitation needs, new groups of people seeking services, and the importance of rehabilitation of those not normally "usable" during wartime.
Material re medical needs of rejected draftees.
Material re medical social work in venereal disease programs, clinics, and treatment centers.
Correspondence re collection of material on volunteers.
Correspondence, minutes, and reports dealing generally with the involvement of these associations in various defense or war-related programs: American Association of Schools of Social Work, American Association of Social Workers, American National Red Cro
Correspondence, minutes, and reports dealing generally with Association involvement in and services to the following agencies: Office for Emergency Management, War Manpower Commission; Office of Civilian Defense; Office of Defense, Health and Welfare Serv
Role of medical social workers in UNRRA.
Correspondence, reports, and papers of Kate McMahon, consultant from 1927-1956. Material on the shortage of trained workers, the impact of the Depression, and the quality of medical social work education.
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Correspondence, reports, and papers of Addie Thomas, who was appointed consultant in 1953.
Formal reports of consultation visits to hospitals, medical schools, and Association districts and regions.
Material re social service departments.
Material re the physical lay-out of the social service department.
Material re the organization and general problems of social service departments.
Material re supervision, "recording," and participation in medical education.
Material re statistics and "recording."
Material re "recording."
Correspondence re concern for standards of social service departments.
Correspondence chiefly re arrangements for visit.
Community Services sought to develop a concept of normal practice in a social service department.
Material re social service departments in these hospitals, which were designated for Negro patients.
The Institute was the cancer research center for the New York State Health Department.
The hospital was, in effect, removed from the list of accredited hospitals by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals. Material re the controversy about alleged political control of the hospital.
Material re fee-charging in social service departments.
Routine correspondence re proposed trip.
Material re fee-charging, "recording," working with groups of glaucoma patients, and social service departments.
Correspondence and "Social Service Department Anthology," a collection of articles re activities of a social service department in a general hospital.
Correspondence re visits to Region II and to the Gulf and Eastern Canada districts.
Correspondence re planning of the orientation trip.
Correspondence and reports of visits to Louisville, Kentucky; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Texas.
Reports of student-supervisor evaluation conferences, case records, medical social work students’ self-evaluations, and case conferences of social work teams.
Correspondence and proceedings of the School of Social Service Administration’s Summer Workshop on Consultation in which Addie Thomas participated
Correspondence and Addie Thomas’ shorthand notes on the Institute on Growth and Development of Children, which was sponsored by the Harvard University School of Public Health and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Correspondence, lists of topics to be discussed and of participants, and Addie Thomas’ shorthand notes.
Addie Thomas led the workshop. Correspondence, minutes, and resource materials.
Correspondence, outlines of program, preliminary materials, study materials, and speeches given at the Institute, which was titled "Social Work Practice in Medical Care and Rehabilitation Settings: Goals, Principles, Techniques and Problems in the Compreh
Correspondence and reports. The Association recruitment program was supported by a National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis grant.
Correspondence and copies of district constitutions and bylaws. Each district drew up its own constitution.
Minutes and reports of the council, which was composed of district chairmen.
Material re Association financing, medical social work personnel, social legislation, membership, procedure for terminating Association business in 1955, and recruiting.
Correspondence, minutes, reports, and financial and membership data.
Correspondence and reports.
Correspondence and reports. Material re training of medical social workers, volunteers, and recruitment. In 1938 the district urged consideration of a merger with the American Association of Social Workers.
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Correspondence, minutes, and reports. Includes material on the effect of World War II, recruitment, and consideration of a merger of district medical social workers with the local chapter of the American Association of Social Workers.
Correspondence and reports. Material on membership problems and recruitment.
Correspondence and reports.
Correspondence and reports. The district was dissolved about 1932.
Correspondence and reports.
Correspondence and reports. Historical material and material on recruitment.
Correspondence and reports. Material on hospital social service in Cleveland (Ohio), civil defense and medical social work, and the Depression.
Correspondence and reports. Material on the history of the district and World War II.
Correspondence and reports. The district petitioned the Association in 1934 to be permitted to dissolve and form two California districts.
Correspondence and reports. Includes material regarding cooperation with the American Association of Social Workers, standards for patient eligibility for county medical care in California, and personnel standards.
Correspondence and reports. Includes material on cooperation with the local American Association of Social Workers.
Correspondence and reports. Includes material on community health, recruitment, and the development of the district.
Correspondence and reports.
Correspondence and reports. The material reflects the problems and procedures of formation of a district.
Correspondence and reports. Material re the formation of a district.
Correspondence and reports.
The region comprised the Hawaiian Islands. Correspondence and reports reflecting problems of organizing and maintaining a functioning region.
The region included all or parts of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. Correspondence.
The region included all or parts of Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia. Correspondence and reports.
The region included all or parts of Iowa, Nebraska, and North and South Dakota. Correspondence and reports.
The region included all or parts of Virginia, Georgia, Florida, and North and South Carolina. Correspondence and reports.
Correspondence re Association financial matters.
Brief financial statements submitted annually to the state of Massachusetts.
Tax forms and correspondence re tax-exempt status of the Association and its status in regard to social security, old age insurance, and Washington, D.C., unemployment compensation.
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Correspondence re group sickness and accident plans.
Correspondence, reports, and applications which frequently include discussion of the Association’s program and financial needs. Early financial support came principally from the Russell Sage Foundation.
Material re hiring of secretaries for the section, referral of membership applications to NASW, and memoranda re section organization.
Correspondence and reports re the role of medical social workers in civil defense.
Report of the AHA survey committee and discussion of it by medical social workers; copy of the "Report of the Committee on the Training of Hospital Social Workers of the American Hospital Association," 1922.
Material re approval of medical social work curricula in schools of social work. The accreditation function was transferred in 1950 to the American Association of Schools of Social Work. Includes lists of schools of social work with approved medical socia
Correspondence and forms. Material re enrollment of medical social work students in schools of social work.
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Includes chart showing the distribution of social service departments in the U.S. and miscellaneous historical statements.
The Association sought legal opinions on the confidentiality of social worker-client relationships, membership dues, procedures for mailing of ballots, and liquidation of the Association.
Correspondence re congressional and state hearings and legislation of interest to the Association. Includes material on hearings on the 1946 National Health Bill.
Correspondence sent to associate members informing them of dissolution of the Association; to emeritus and honorary members elected at the June 1955 meeting.
Obituaries of Association members or material on honors awarded them. Includes material on Edna G. Henry, Ruth Lewis, Mary E. Wadley, Elizabeth E. Payne, Agnes H. Schroeder, Edith M. Baker, Ida M. Cannon, and Garnet I. Pelton.
After Miss Goldstine1s death, a fund was set up to commemorate her work through a series of University of Chicago lectures. Correspondence re contributions.
Job descriptions for the following positions: executive director; president; first vice-president; business manager; consultants on education, practice, and recruitment; and secretary to the recruitment consultant. Includes forms for clerical positions.
Association policies regarding personnel, business practice, and travel.
Correspondence and statement of policy. Includes report of the Association representative to the 1949 American Association of Social Workers’ delegate conference.
Includes statements of the function, objectives, and program of the Association; material on the relation of AAMSW to other associations; and a "Summary of Program of the American Association of Medical Social Workers, 1952-1954, and Projected Program to
Correspondence and reports of salary studies of medical and other social workers.
Legal-length items separated from previous folder
Correspondence and reports. Material on Association participation in revision of The Cerebral-Palsied Child and His Care in the Home, a book published by the Association for Aid to Crippled Children.
Chiefly inquiries addressed to the Association re policy of hospital social service departments charging fees.
Correspondence and report, "A Method of Determining the Number of Medical Social Workers Needed for Case Work in a General Hospital.
Material on case loads and reporting of statistics.
In 1928 the Association sought the advice of nine organizations re the advisibility of making surveys of social service departments to determine how to improve standards, conditions, etc.
Report of an unidentified committee.
Minutes of an informal committee meeting on the relationship of national organizations interested in social casework. Ida M. Cannon represented the Association.
Correspondence, minutes, and reports.
The committee was composed of members of national agencies, including AAMSW, and functioned under the auspices of AASSW.
Minutes of a meeting of "concerned" professional social work organizations with AASSW1s committee to discuss implications of federal legislation affecting civil service classification.
Material re revision of manual used by ACS to rate hospitals. The Association revised the section on social service departments.
Correspondence re Association representation on the Council.
Correspondence re relations between the two associations. Includes material about a study of hospital care of chronic alcoholics conducted by AHA in 1943.
Correspondence and reports. Includes material on the function of medical social workers in public health and public medical care programs.
Correspondence re the California Association’s offer of money for medical social work scholarships. AAMSW was concerned about the implications of accepting money from this collecting agency.
The Commission was a private "public service committee" studying hospital service in the U.S. Includes report of the Association president to the executive committee re the work of the Commission.
Report on the development and status of medical social work prepared for the committee by AAMSW.
Correspondence, minutes, and reports. Material on the Ernest Hollis-Alice Taylor study of social work education (the Hollis-Taylor Study); the formation of CSWE from the National Council on Social Work Education and the American Association of Schools of
Material issued by the Commission, which based its accreditation on hospital structure, organization, and facilities.
Correspondence, minutes, and reports. Formerly the Wartime Committee on Personnel. The committee, which was affiliated with the American Association of Social Workers, began as an inter-association committee to increase the supply of trained social work p
This inter-association committee, of which AAMSW was a member, represented the social work profession to the national defense program. Correspondence and reports.
Correspondence and reports re rehabilitation of the handicapped. AAMSW withdrew from representation on the Council in 1949.
Correspondence, applications, and reports. The grants, which were intended to "support the educational program" of the Association, were used to provide consultation services to schools of social work and medicine and services to the field of practice in
NFIP granted $3,000 to the Association to reorganize its office files.
Correspondence and material re grants.
Brief routine correspondence.
Correspondence re Association participation in NHC, especially in a Health Careers Project.
Report of an NRA conference by an Association representative.
Correspondence and reports re the function and program of NSWA.
The Conference was established in 1940 as the Social Case Work Council of National Agencies to consider problems and opportunities of national agencies in regard to industries, refugee travel, alien registration, and military concentration. Includes mater
Requests for information on research studies related to casework practice.
Material re the Bureau’s review of its function of counselling and placement.
Correspondence and reports. When the American National Red Cross transferred its casework program to the Army, the Association provided consultants to assist in incorporating these services into the Army program.
Correspondence about these traineeships established for medical social workers by the National Institute.
The Association provided information on medical social work for the Commission.’
Correspondence, reports, and memoranda re the personnel situation in social work. Includes a preliminary draft of the Public Health Service Health Manpower Source Book.
Correspondence re the Association’s efforts to cooperate with OVR, which expanded its programs following the Vocational Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1943- Includes material re the availability of rehabilitation training grants under the Vocational Reh
Reports of institutes and conferences re development of social work in medical institutions, administration of hospitals, community health needs, community organization, etc.
Proceedings of the workshop on social workers’ collaboration in multi-discipline programs.’
Correspondence re termination of publication after 1955.
Scattered correspondence, clippings, and exhibit material. Includes photographs of Edna G. Henry, Mary L. Hemmy, Opal Gooden, Agnes H. Schroeder, and participants in the 1931 annual meeting of the Association.
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Correspondence, requests for information, and other material re studies conducted by individuals and organizations. Includes material on clinic admissions; study of dues, income, and expenses of various national associations; private nursing homes in Monr
HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Established in 1919 as the National Association of Visiting Teachers and Home Visitors; after several name changes, it became the National Association of School Social Workers in 1945. The organization's purpose was to define the role of school social workers, advance the quality of social service in public and private schools, and improve standards of training. In 1955 the NASSA merged with six other organizations to form the National Association of Social Workers.
In 1916, fifteen visiting teachers met to consider the formation of a national organization of visiting teachers. The First World War effected a temporary postponement of their plans, but in 1919 the National Association of Visiting Teachers and Home Visitors was established, with Jane Colbert elected the first president. Because the field was closely allied to both education and social work, the Association hold its annual meetings alternately with the National Education Association or the American Association of School Administrators and the National Conference of Social Work. The organization's name was changed several times.
Through the years the major objectives of the Association involved
defining the role of school social workers, organizing the development of
social work programs in schools, and improving standards of training. Several
surveys were undertaken to meet these objectives. One survey, done in 1921,
The National Committee on Visiting Teachers was made up of many members of the National Association of Visiting Teachers, but apparently an independent committee seems to have advised the Association from 1921 to 1930. It worked to extend the establishment of social workers in more and more schools, set up demonstration centers, and issued reports that were published by the Commonwealth Fund.
The Association was administered by the executive officers, consisting of a president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer who were elected annually at first and biennially after 1931. Standing committees on membership, education, standards, program, ways and means, nominating, publicity, as well as regional committees, did such of the work of the Association. Other administrative and study committees such as resolutions and amendments, were formed when the need for them arose. By 1947, the Association was able to establish a permanent office with a full time executive secretary, Mildred Sikkema. Inadequate funds forced the closing of the office and the elimination of the position in 1951, but they were reestablished in 1954, with financial help from the Grant Foundation and with individual contributions. The office employed Marjorie Case as a professional consultant. Interest in forming a comprehensive national organization of social workers, which had been building since the late 1940's, culminated in the NASSW joining six other professional organizations to form the National Association of Social Workers in October, 1955.
List of NASSW Presidents:
SCOPE AND CONTENT: This collection, containing material from 1922 to 1955, comprises six regular and two legal size folders. The papers are scattered and most of the material covers the years from 1928 to 1934. The Membership News Letter, of which there is a complete run in the Center's pamphlet collection, is indispensable for 1947 through 1955, where there is no correspondence or substantive material. A list of publications removed from the NASSW section is included in the appendix.
Shows various constitutional changes throughout these years.
Legal-length items separated from previous folder.
This folder contains agendas and reports of standing committees re keeping records, financing the Bulletin, voting by mail, and the National Committee on Visiting Teachers.
Committee reports and some speeches re the effects of the Depression, keeping records, publicizing the Association, and standards in the field and the Association.
Membership standards and classification, publicity for the Association, financing the Association, and proposed employment of an executive secretary. The papers are scattered.
Legal-length items separated from previous folder.
Membership requirements and classification, committee personnel, correspondence with the National Education Association re formation of a department of school attendance in NEA, active members in the Association, and procedures in keeping records.
Discussions and papers were presented re the visiting teacher’s relations with parents and school officials, clerical service for the Association, teacher training courses, keeping records, attendance officers, status of the visiting teacher, cooperation with state and national agencies, casework, psychiatric clinics, advisory services, and supervision of visiting teachers.
HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Begun in 1922 as the Section on Psychiatric Social Work of the American Association of Hospital Social Workers and organized as an independent organization, the AAPSW, in 1926, the organization sought to define and set standards for social work practiced in connection with psychiatry. The AAPSW was one of seven organizations that merged in 1955 to form the National Association of Social Workers.
In 1920, the American Association of Psychiatric Social Workers began in Boston as an informal discussion group of seventeen members, headed by Mary C. Jarrett, who called themselves the National Psychiatric Social Workers Club. In 1922, the group was organized on a national basis as the Section on Psychiatric Social Work of the American Association of Hospital Social Workers. In May of 1926, the members of the Section voted to withdraw from the Association (which later became the American Association of Medical Social Workers) and form an independent national organization, the American Association of Psychiatric Social Workers.
In these early years, the purposes of the Association were: (1) to promote association among members; (2) to establish standards of training; (3) to improve practice; and (4) to engage in continuous study of function in order to define the relationship of social work to psychiatry.
The growing membership, employed in a variety of agencies, represented an expanding field. By 1929, there was evident confusion over which of two areas of activity the Association was pledged to foster and promote -- whether it was to be "social work practiced in connection with psychiatry" or "social work in whatever setting a worker took adequate working knowledge of mental hygiene." (Reflections from the Trend Study, Memorandum l, "Executive Committee, Correspondence and Papers, February 3, 1938, p. 2.)
The bases for membership in the AAPSW, dependent upon the individual's vocational position as well as his or her educational background, were broadened throughout the first decade of its existence, but discussion of membership qualifications continued. A study committee under the leadership of Mrs. Lois Meredith French undertook an analysis of trends in the AAPSW in the 1930s, and the report was formally published in 1941. At the annual business meeting, the AAPSW membership voted to clarify the responsibility of the Association in “fostering social work in relation to the practice of psychiatry and contributing to the study, treatment, and prevention of mental disease. Relationship with other professional social work organizations . . . [would] be strengthened." In addition, the Association hoped to achieve a closer relationship with the field of psychiatry.
The Second World War indicated a need for additional training of personnel and integration with other professional groups. The war service office, with Elizabeth Healy Ross as secretary, was set up by the AAHSW in 1942 in response to the greatly increased wartime demand for psychiatric workers. It was financed through a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1944, the National Committee for Mental Hygiene joined the AAPSW in sponsoring the office, and the name was changed to the war office of psychiatric social work. The work of the office included recruiting psychiatric social workers, evaluating military social work and standards, undertaking studies of personnel, and coordinating the placement of psychiatric social workers in the most urgent positions. The office was also concerned with the Veterans Administration, the American National Red Cross, standards in psychiatric social work, and the Wartime Committee on Personnel. Members of the joint committee to the war office included Mrs. Ethel Ginsburg, Dr. Marion Kenworthy, Dr. David Levy, Marion McBee, Madeleine Moore, Mildred Scoville, Dr. Frank Fremont Smith, and Dr. George S. Stevenson.
Two other war oriented committees were established during the war years. One committee focused on relations with the Red Cross, and the other worked with the American Psychiatric Association and later with the American Association of Medical Social Workers to stress the importance of keeping up standards of psychiatric and medical social service in military installations. The AAPSW was also represented on the Wartime Committee on Personnel, along with the American Association of Social Workers, the American Association of Medical Social Workers, the American Association of School Social Workers, and the American Association of Group Workers.
After the war, the AAPSW continued to increase in size. In the tradition of the Trend Study, a study of AAPSW personnel was undertaken from 1947 to 1949. The AAPSW also sponsored the Dartmouth Conference on Education for Psychiatric Social Work in September, 1949, at which there were “representatives from all schools of social work offering a psychiatric social work sequence who met to review, consider, and revise current educational programs in relation to the practice of psychiatric social work." An educational secretary, Madeleine Lay, was employed through grants from the Commonwealth Mind from 1947 to 1950 to assist schools in the development of their educational programs. In the 19501s, a research project was undertaken to study the work experience of the membership.
Discussion of forming a national social work organization began in the late 1940s and AAPSW worked through the Temporary Inter Association Council to study the situation. Over the years, AAPSW representatives to TIAC were Ethel Ginsburg, Christine Robb Thompson, George E. Levinrew, Luther Woodward, Leon Lucas, Anna Aldridge, Maida Solomon, and Ruth I. Knee. The merger was a major topic of consideration until the AAPSW and other social work groups combined to form the National Association of Social Workers in October 1955.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: The collection comprises three and one half
linear feet, and includes thirty three regular folders and one legal size
folder. The papers cover the years from 1921 to 1958, but the bulk of the
material is found between 1926 and 1955. The collection is arranged in three
basic sections. Annual material includes minutes of the annual meetings,
secretary's reports, and presidential addresses. The committees are divided by
function, whether administrative or study. Not all the com¬mittees are covered
for all the years of AAPSW's existence. AAPSW publications include the serial
publications, which are the
A summary of the year’s work read at the annual business meeting. Arranged chronologically. Not all reports are available.
Arranged chronologically. The minutes for some years are missing.
Summaries of each year’s work in the Association, which usually reflect trends. These addresses were given at the annual business meeting. Not all the speeches for these years are available.
Correspondence and papers re the separation of the Section from the AAHSW and the formation of AAPSW. These papers are possibly part of a manual on AAPSW early history which was passed down to the various chairmen of the bylaws committee. Maida Solomon and Katharine Moore Wickman are prominent in the folder.
Setting up the new Association, members delinquent in paying dues, standards, Veterans Bureau social work, membership requirements and classifications, local groups, quorum, the relationship of psychiatric social workers to public and private agencies, National Committee on Mental Hygiene, Milford Conference, recruiting, and International Congress of Mental Hygiene.
Committee reports, Trend Study, standards, bylaws, membership requirements and classification, International Congress on Mental Hygiene, recruitment, National Organization of Public Health Nurses, American Orthopsychiatric Association, educational standards, local groups, effect of the Depression on standards and salaries, and American Psychiatric Association. Prominent people include Maida Solomon, Mildred Scoville, Christine Robb Thompson, and Lois Meredith French.
Ways and means committee, local groups, Trend Study, membership classification and requirements, considered merger with AASW, evaluation of committee structure, bylaws, social security, American Psychiatric Association, educational standards, Joint Vocational Service, and specific grievances on personnel standards and practices.
Membership classifications, mental hospitals, Joint Vocational Service, civil service standards, relations with American Psychiatric Association, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Trend Study, membership classification, district branches, effects of World War II, and the government and psychiatric social work. Important correspondents include Katharine Wickman, Leona Hambrecht, and Elizabeth de Schweinitz.
Defense committee, Red Cross, local groups, membership committee, dues, civil service, effect of World War II, Veterans Administration, "encom-passable jobs," social work vocational bureau, recruiting, Inter-professional Advisory Committee (AAPSW, AASSW, AAMSW, AASGW), war service office, development of a constitution, and financing the News-Letter.
Personnel survey, National Council on Social Work Education, military psychiatric social work, district branches, Veterans Administration, membership qualifications, professional education, research project, Study of Training and Practice in Psychiatric Social Work, Dartmouth Conference on Education for Psychiatric Social Work, and merger of professional social work organizations. Noteworthy correspondents include Ethel Ginsburg, Margaret Hagan, George Levinrew, Madeleine Lay, Ethel Bellsmith, and Tessie Berkman.
Professional education, membership requirements and classification, TIAC, bylaws, National Council on Social Work Education, teaching social work in medical schools, research project on work experience of membership and curriculum study.
Membership requirements, AAPSW executive procedures, local groups, Trend Study, American Psychiatric Association, training, standards, bylaws, suggested affiliation with AASW, standards in national organizations, and attempts to define "approved social work agencies." Names prominent in the folder are Maida Solomon, Christine Robb Thompson, Mildred Scovllle, and Elizabeth Brockett Bech.
Memoranda on the Trend Study, membership qualifications, administrative procedures, and compilations of committee personnel. Katharine Moore Wickman, Christine Robb Thompson, and Maida Solomon are prominent.
Membership standards and procedures, quorum, educational requirements, district branches, military psychiatric social work, effect of World Warr II, cooperation between psychiatry and psychiatric social work, statements of "encompassable jobs," and lists of committee personnel to 1941. Leona Hambrecht and Irene Grant are prominent in the folder.
Sncompassable jobs, child guidance study committee, effects of World War II, development of a constitution, facilities for training psychiatric social workers, refresher courses, financing the war office of psychiatric social work through a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, civil service, and Social Work Vocational Bureau.
Psychiatric nursing, basic issues in psychiatric social work, payment of dues, membership classifications, and Council on Social Work Education. The papers for these years are scattered.
This committee, chaired by Elizabeth Healy Ross, was established in 1942 as a response to the increased need for psychiatric social workers in military and naval hospitals and for the purpose of advising the Red Cross on employment practices and personnel policies. Subjects covered include military social work, military classification of social workers, in-service training, scholarship program for psychiatric social workers, job supervision, and generally the effect of World War II on professions.
Minutes and correspondence re checking with other national professional organizations for the form and content of their bylaws.
Minutes and correspondence.
Voting by mail, local and regional organization, election of the membership committee, dues, and change in the dates of the fiscal year.
Parliamentary procedure and the Trend Study. Mildred C. Scoville and Katharine Moore Wickman are prominent in the folder.
Minutes and correspondence.
Legal-length items separated from previous folder
District branches, functions of the bylaws committee, and the development of a constitution. The material is scattered after 1941.
Correspondence, articles, reports, and speeches. Joint committee members include Mrs. Ethel Ginsburg, Dr. Marion Kenworthy, Dr. David Levy, Marion McBee, Madeleine Moore, Mildred Scoville, Dr. Frank Fremont Smith, and Dr. George S. Stevenson.
Policies and procedures re processing AAPSW membership applications according to the bylaws and the constitution, which set up standards of membership based on educational background and professional experience. Membership requirements and classification, standards in psychiatric social work, American Association of Schools of Social Work, dues, bylaws, membership statistics, recruiting, and effect of World War II on membership.
A standing committee chaired by the treasurer of the Association whose duties centered around financing the organization. Included are summaries of meetings, treasurers’ reports, and budgets. Changing the fiscal year, the relationship of membership classification to dues, traveling expenses, financing administrative positions, dropping members for non-payment of dues, and Joint Vocational Service.
A resource book prepared by the committee to explain procedures through which a group of AAPSW members could establish a district branch.
Pamphlets, reports, and statements put out by the committee. "Essentials of Psychiatric Social Service Techniques in Mental Hospitals and Mental Hygiene Clinics Attached to Mental Hospitals," 1934, 1939-1940. Statements regarding practices and standards for social service in mental hospitals, 1939-1940, 1942.
The survey was undertaken by the AAPSW and the National Committee for Mental Hygiene to determine the state of the field. Correspondence and papers re setting up the survey and reporting the findings. Prominent individuals include Madeleine Lay, Ethel Ginsburg, and Francis Been, the chairman of the committee.
The committee examined psychiatric social workers’ jobs in specific settings with the ultimate goal of relating this to an evaluation of training, experience, job responsibilities and the special problems in the field. Subcommittees were established on standards in hospitals, clinics, and private agencies Minutes, papers, and correspondence.
Minutes and papers re the study of curricula and training programs in various schools offering degrees in social work, standards in the field, recruitment, and relations with other professional associations.
Memorandum, articles of association, and reports.
HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Organized in 1936 as the National Association for the Study of Group Work and reorganized as the American Association of Group Workers in 1946, the organization sought to define and promote higher professional standards for social work with groups. Most of its members were employed by settlement houses, YMCAs and YWCAs, and recreation and camping organizations. The AAGW was one of seven organizations that merged in 1955 to form the National Association of Social Workers.
The American Association of Group Workers (AAGW), a national professional organization, evolved out of the National Association for the Study of Group Work (NASGW). The NASGW was organized in May 1936, to develop and refine the aims, methods, and practice of group work. This purpose was accomplished through local study groups, an annual conference, and by publication and distribution of material of interest to the practitioner. Membership was open to any person interested in the study of group work, regardless of their prior affiliation in other social welfare organizations. As an organization of professional group workers, the NASGW cut across all agency, religious, racial, and occupational lines. In 1939 the organization became the American Association for the Study of Group Work, and in April 1946, the AAGW was formed, replacing the AASGW as the professional organization of group workers. By 1948, membership in the AAGW had grown to 19811, with members from such organizations as the settlements YMCA's, YWCA's, Jewish Community Centers, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, Schools of Social Work, recreation organizations, etc. For most members, the AAGW was not the primary professional organization. The AAGW tried to professionalize group work wherever it existed, rather than to initiate new programs independent of already existing social welfare enterprises.
The AAGW sought constantly to professionalize its work, and by 1948 it had defined quite clearly what it conceived group work to be. A 1947 description of the AAGW's nature and functions (AAGW records, folder 806) states: "Group work is a method of group leadership used in organizing and conducting various types of group activities. While group work developed first in connection with recreation and voluntary informal education . . . its use is not confined to those fields. It is increasingly being used in various types of institutions, in hospitals and clinics, in. the extra-curricular activities of schools and in similar situations. The guiding purpose behind such leadership rests upon the common assumptions of a democratic society; namely, the opportunity for each individual to fulfill his capacities in freedom, to respect and appreciate others and to assume his social responsibility in maintaining and constantly improving car democratic society."
The inter-agency character of the AAGW is demonstrated by the fact that the executive personnel were already heavily involved in other professional occupations. For example, Arthur L. Swift, Jr., a professor at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, was actively involved in the formation and early operation of the Association. Similarly, other people prominent in the organization, such as Louis Kraft (of the National Jewish Welfare Board and chairman of many important AAGW committees), Ann Elizabeth Neely (on the national board of the YWCA, chairman of the AASGW, 1940-1942, and active on numerous AAGW committees), and Edna d'Issertelle (of Girl Scouts, Inc. and secretary of the AASGW), were prominent in the work of their own agencies. Until 1946, there was no full-time, paid executive secretary for the organization, indicating the voluntary nature of the AAGW. For a more complete description of internal organization, see folders 795-796 and 811-813.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Individuals who appear prominently in the collection are Theodore T. Tarail, executive secretary of the AAGW from 1946 to 1948; Agnes Leahy of the Girl Scouts of America, who was secretary of the AASGW from 1938 to 1941; Charles Hendry, first chairman of the Association; Joe R. Hoffer, who succeeded Neely as chairman of the AASGW and is currently (1969) executive secretary of the National Conference on Social Welfare; Helen Rowe, president 1946-1948; Saul Bernstein, president, 1948-1950, and prominent in the merger with the NASW; John McDowell, treasurer from 1946 to 1948 and president, 1950-1952; Harleigh Trecker, president from 1952 to 1955 and active in the area of publications; and Janet W. Korpela, who served as administrative secretary, 1953-1955.
Prominent issues include cooperation with similar groups, recruitment of social workers in general and group workers in particular, accreditation of schools of social work, problems of recreation and leisure, professionalization of group works discussion groups at the local level, cooperation with government agencies and programs, social welfare in wartime, psychiatric casework, juvenile delinquency, labor disputes in welfare organizations, standards in group work, and the 1955 merger with the NASW. The papers dealing with the merger have been removed and placed with the "TIAC" section of the NASW collection.
The papers, which comprise 1.5 linear feet and cover the years 1936-1955, were arranged in alphabetical order and this order has been retained in the final organization.
Minutes of meetings; statement on the function of the committee, AASGW officers, and the central committee; description of the roles of the Association’s committees.
Primarily correspondence re affiliation of AAGW with AAHPER. Minutes of one AAHPER executive committee meeting.
Constitution, statement of origins and purpose of AALTE, and report of regional meeting (1938). Correspondence and studies re cooperation of AALTE and AASGW, including a comparison of nature and functions.
Notices of meetings, information and correspondence re shortage of social workers, copies of AASGW bylaws, minutes of the accrediting committee meetings, newsletters to directors of schools, reports of the accrediting committee, reports on students in schools of social work, and statements on various aspects of social work education.
Information on AASW’s position on group work.
Statements on Red Cross hospital recreation, especially in military hospitals. Correspondence re a Conference on Training Resources for Hospital Recreation and scholarships for hospital recreation workers.
Report of a conference for hospital recreation workers, reports and minutes of joint committee on recreation, and general correspondence re problems of recreation.
Conference transcripts and notes of the sessions.
Correspondence re group work in Canada and its affiliation with AAGW.
Memoranda on play, recreation, and leisure; minutes and agendas of meetings; and correspondence and committee reports re the professionalization of AAGW.
Bulletins, minutes of meetings, bylaws, notices of meetings, information of the Commission on Accreditation, lists of committees and their members, and correspondence re programs of CSWE and their relationship to AAGW. Prominent individuals include John Kidneigh, Nathan E. Cohen, and Janet W. Korpela.
Correspondence among contributors, editorial staff, and committee members re publication and review of articles submitted for publication. Information re relationship of The Group to the new NASW journal, Social Work. Prominent correspondents are Frank Fierman, Harleigh Trecker, and Janet W. Korpela.
Study, questionnaire, and report of the committee.
This committee is a continuation of the old central committee (folder 806).
Correspondence, minutes, and reports re termination of AAGW and creation of NASW group work section. Summary reports (August, 1955) of the activities of all AAGW committees since their inception. General summary of AAGW work, 1946-1955. Prominent correspondents are Janet W. Korpela, Howard Gibbs, Margaret Mudgett, Joseph P. Anderson, and Harleigh Trecker.
Summary of AAGW activities before merger with NASW.
Minutes of organizational conferences, descriptive brochures, list of nominees for coordinating committees, bylaws, and membership requirements and information.
list of members and correspondence re nature and functions of the committee, which was to represent the needs of AAGW to various federal agencies.
Correspondence re the organization and editorship of this official AAGW publication and minutes of the editorial committee and the publications committee meetings. An incomplete run of the publication, 1945-1955, is filed in the Center’s pamphlet collection.
Three papers on the correlation of group work and casework services.
Correspondence, reports, and minutes of the committee, which sought to define precisely the role of group workers and group therapy in relation to group psychiatric therapy. Prominent correspondents include Gisela Konopka, Saul Bernstein, Etta Saloshin, John McDowell, Grace Weyker, and Janet W. Korpela. Materials re education for group work in these settings.
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Correspondence among Gisela Konopka, Janet W. Korpela, Raymond Fisher, and others, and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare re institute of June 27-July 2, 1955; papers re applying for NIMH grant, inviting participants, and planning the program; and financial statements and material re publication of the results of the institute.
Primarily papers relating to the committee on an emergency program and the committee on group work in wartime. Minutes of meetings, statements on the war’s impact on group work and vice versa, and correspondence re these statements and the general problems of war and group work.
Correspondence re racism and list of the commission members.
Correspondence re membership of the Commission, list of members, minutes, and reports. The material deals primarily with local study groups.
Correspondence and memoranda re committee organization and meetings, manual and study guides for local groups, minutes of the committee, studies and correspondence re narrative group records, and list of AASGW members. Also includes evaluation of local study groups and a list of these groups, minute and other material re the activities of local chapter development committee, copies of study outlines on group work with surrounding documents, and papers on group work topics. Louis Kraft is a prominent correspondent.
Descriptive brochure of AASGW, statement of membership qualifications, list of members, and minutes of committee meetings.
Correspondence between AAGW administrative officials and members who were ineligible to become NASW members until they paid full dues.
All the studies and correspondence deal with problems of war and social welfare. Includes a study of group work in wartime and critiques of the study, reports on activities of the Committee, minutes of the meetings, material re psychiatric casework, communications with Veterans Administration and various war offices, and correspondence re formation of a National Committee on Personnel in the Social Services.
Programs of conference on social group work, analysis of the social group work section of NCSW, proposed programs of the various conferences, and minutes of the annual meetings.
Mimeographed communications and handbook on prevention of juvenile delinquency.
Minutes of the steering committee (headed by Carl L. Nordly) which met to organize the conference.
Correspondence re cooperation of private and public recreation groups, minutes of the committee, report on committee objectives and operations, and material on the relationship of AAGW and the National Recreation Association.
Transcript of the annual meeting (22 April 1948).
Minutes and reports of the committee, correspondence and studies re professional education for group work, surveys of schools and colleges offering courses in group work, lists of personnel and papers of faculty conferences, statements on the content of professional education for group work, reprints on such education, and pamphlets on group work. Prominent correspondents include Ann Neely, Joe R. Hoffer, Margaret E. Adams, Theodore T. Tarail, Florence Ray, and Janet W. Korpela.
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A booklet published by AAGW and entitled Toward Professional Standards is a selection of articles on group work and education for it.
Correspondence and reports re legislation for services to youth. Minutes of a joint committee of AASW, AASGW, and Associated Youth-Serving Organizations (AYSO).
Minutes of meetings and correspondence re meetings.
Edna d’Issertelle, secretary of AASGW, is prominent in the correspondence, which deals with the script and details of the broadcast. Includes minutes of meetings and plans of the committee.
Material re Margaret Svendsen’s report on group work, including critiques of it and a copy of her study, "An Attempt to Discover What Happens to People in Groups."
The National Conference on Facilities for Athletics, Recreation, Physical and Health Education was formed in 1946 to sponsor workshops on physical education and athletic and recreation facilities. Includes minutes of steering committee and a copy of a platform on recreation.
Report of the committee and report on conference planning and group work.
Correspondence and mimeographed forms re the compilation of Selected Studies and Research Projects in Group Work, 1948-1953 . As chairmen of the committee, Harleigh Trecker and Margaret Mudgett headed the study.
Correspondence re loan to AASGW for publications; budget for AASGW publications.
Summary of 1941 meeting; 1942 summary of entire project
Correspondence and papers re the dispute of employees of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, the strike of Brooklyn YWCA workers, and problems of collective bargaining.
Data on the nature and work of the Bureau, minutes of Bureau meetings, occupational study questionnaires, and material on classification of social welfare positions.
Reprint of an article and tentative report on criteria and standards for group work agencies.
Suggested studies of camping, juvenile delinquency, role of volunteers in social agencies, board and staff relations, group workers in wartime, record-keeping in group work, public relations, needs of racial and nationality groups, and "democracy" in the operation of an agency.
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Memoranda re clarification of the term "group work."
HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Formed in 1946 and incorporated in 1947, ASCO sought to increase understanding and improve professional practice of community organization for social welfare. It differed from other professional social work organizations in that it accepted educators and other non-social workers as members. The ASCO was one of seven organizations that merged in 1955 to form the National Association of Social Workers.
The Association for the Study of Community Organization (ASCO), a national non-professional organization, was a temporary organization from August, 1946, to August, 1947, when it was incorporated and bylaws were adopted. The primary purpose of the Association was to study community organization, and consequently membership was open to anyone interested in that subject. As Arthur Dunham, first president of ASCO, said in January, 1947: "We are of course interested in improving standards of professional practice in community organization, and in this our aims are similar to the established professional associations." However, "We are not strictly a 'professional organization' in the sense that we limit membership to persons with certain qualifications of professional education and experience." (Letter of January 6. 1947, folder 857) Thus ASCO attempted to improve the study of community organization without professionalizing it to the extent that many interested practitioners were excluded. The membership, which peaked at around 500, included professional social workers, educators, professors, and practitioners from diverse occupations and positions in life. ASCO merged with the NASW in October 1955, and thereafter the NASW assumed all ASCO functions.
The Association provided many services during its brief existence,
including publication of a newsletter and a quarterly
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Prominent individuals who appear in the collection include Arthur Dunham, a professor of community organization at the University of Michigan, who was active in the origins of ASCO and was its first president, 1946-1948; John B. Dawson, president of ASCO, 1948-1949; C. F. McNeill of Ohio State University's School of Social Administration and president of ASCO, 1949-1951; Ernest B. Harper, a professor in the Department of Social Service at Michigan State University and president of ASCO, 1951-1952; Merrill F. Krughoff, president from 1952-1954; Philip E. Ryan, executive director of the National Health Council and president of ASCO, 1954-1955; and Joseph P. Anderson, then executive secretary of the American Association of Social Workers (AASW) and a leading participant in both ASCO and TIAC.
The collection comprises 1.25 linear feet and covers the years 1944-1955. When received, the folders were arranged in alphabetical order, and this order has been retained in the final organization. The Partial Subject Inventory provides finding aids for scattered materials pertaining to the subjects listed.
Correspondence re the organization and operation of a joint committee on teaching materials on community organization. Prominent correspondents are Arthur Dunham, president of ASCO, and Sue Spencer, executive secretary of AASW.
Correspondence re TIAC. Prominent correspondents include Arthur Dunham and Joseph P. Anderson, executive secretary of AASW.
Report of the investigation into the methods of the Family Service Society of St. Louis, Missouri, in recognizing the supervisory responsibility in the agency.
Historical statements, reports of the various committees, and extensive information re TIAC.
Minutes of meetings, list of members, bylaws, notices and agendas of meetings, and correspondence re the business of the board. Prominent correspondents are Merrill F. Krughoff, Amy Wells, Arthur Dunham, Philip E. Ryan, C. F. McNeil, John B. Dawson, Ernest B. Harper, Norman B. Finch, and Paul L. Benjamin. Includes data re Checklist.
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Report of the chairman, outline of readings, and list of participants.
The Checklist, which began publication in October, 1948, focused on bibliographies of community organization. The Newsletter was a more general publication providing news of ASCO. The annual reports contain information re publication policies and costs, editorial staff, and the nature and scope of these publications.
Deals primarily with operating details, including such matters as printing and editorial personnel. Editors and contributors to the publications include Ernest B. Harper, Everett Shimp, Virginia S. Ferguson, Arthur Dunham, and Evelyn Butler. Copies of the two publications are found in the SWHA’s pamphlet collection.
Historical statement, list of staff, policies on content, manual of style, classification plan, printing and mailing procedure, and distribution-of-copies policy.
A copy of Commanity Organization, a newsletter of ASCO which included a summary of the development of ASCO to February, 1947. Definition of "community organization." A bibliography of community organization for health and welfare services.
Minutes of meetings, history of ASCO, and correspondence re meetings.
Correspondence inviting ASCO to meet with the Council.
Correspondence among Aubrey Mallach (chairman of the committee), Ernest B. Harper, and prospective members of the committee.
Invoices, communications with banks, bills, receipts, budgetary statements, reports of treasurer and chairman, and expense statements and accounts. See also material which was removed and placed in legal folder 47
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Correspondence between the treasurer of ASCO, Henry L. Zucker, and the chairman of ASCO, Arthur Dunham, concerning requests for funds, payment of bills, etc. Includes financial statements.
Minutes of early formative meetings, correspondence with Arthur Dunham and Philip E. Ryan concerning early organization problems, progress reports from Dunham to the executive committee of ASCO, and summaries of the historical development of ASCO.
Communications with local groups re nature and extent of the discussions and organizations, reports of the committee, and minutes of local discussion groups.
Mallach was a member of the board of directors and head of the committee on education for community organization. Includes notices of meetings of the board, minutes of the meetings, and correspondence between ASCO officials and Mallach re operating matters of the organization.
Membership lists, letters, application blanks, and correspondence re membership problems.
Material relating to NASW’s takeover of ASCO functions and publications.
Correspondence between ASCO officials and Joe Hoffer regarding cooperation of ASCO and NASW. Certificate of ASCO’s membership in NCSW.
Certificate of incorporation (copy) of NCSWE. Correspondence re cooperation of ASCO and NCSWE and article on social work education.
Notes taken at "inter-group meetings" on community organization held at Princeton University in January and April, 1947.
Invitations to serve on the committee, reports of the committee, evaluations of candidates and suggestions for candidacy, and correspondence re the work of the committee.
Program suggestions from various sources; description of the work of ASCO; and correspondence among committee members, especially Ernest B. Harper and Jane Stewart, chairman of the committee.
Correspondence re the various ASCO publications, minutes of the committee, and reports to the board of directors. Arthur Dunham’s suggestion (1944) for a journal of community organization. Correspondence between Dunham and the Russell Sage Foundation re publications and financing of them.
Correspondence concerning keeping records in community organization and on the composition of the committee.
Progress reports, minutes of the board of directors, etc. The scrapbook contains a sample of every piece of printed or mimeographed material issued by ASCO. A few pieces of typed material—reports, notices, etc.—are also included. Materials are arranged in chronological order. Volume II contains a description of the history, nature, and scope of the work of ASCO. Indexed.
HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Established in 1949 to provide a means of communication and to further the development of research within the social work profession. The SWRG was one of seven organizations that merged in 1955 to form the National Association of Social Workers.
The Social Work Research Group (SWRG) was formally established at the National Conference of Social Work in June 1949, “to provide a medium of communication for social work practitioners [and] to establish a permanent organizational structure to further the development of research in social work." Communication, standards of practice including ethics and personnel practices, public relations, and research were the major objectives of the group.
The governing body of SWRG consisted of three elected
officials-president, secretary, and treasurer -- and a steering committee.
Three committees were set up to fulfill the objectives of the organization: the
committee on research function and practice, the committee to study structure
of advisory committees, and a committee on education. The group published SWRG
In October 1955, SWRG joined NASW and became the research section of that organization. Prominent members of SWRG included Ann Shyne, David French, and Tessie Berkman.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Folder 895, labeled "SWRG Research, 1952-1955," contains extensive material relating to the American Association of Social Workers.
The papers include minutes and reports re TIAC, legislation on research in various aspects of child life (Douglas and Battle bills, 1950), membership requirements, standards in social work research, and statements on the organization and role of SWRG. The material is scattered.
This committee had the dual responsibility of defining both theoretical and actual standards and practices in social work research. It also considered whether SWRG should be an informal group of interested persons or a professional organization with standards that would be eligible to join NASW. Prominent persons in the folder include Isaac Hoffman, William Gordon, and Werner Boehm.
Reports.
Reports from other associations: AAMSW, AAGW, AAPSW, and AASW re studies of research practices and topics undertaken by these groups. Minutes of one meeting. Ann Shyne, as chairman of the committee, is a prominent correspondent.
Papers and correspondence re a social work research seminar conducted by the University of Michigan Department of Sociology on the research basis of welfare practice and material on a project by the Welfare Federation of Cleveland on leisure-time services. Prominent correspondents are Joseph Anderson, Virginia K. White, and Wilber Newstetter.
HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Originated informally in 1947 as the Committee on Inter-Association Structure of Professional Organizations in Social Work by five professional social work associations to promote better cooperation and coordination among the associations. The TIAC was formed in 1950 to work toward a single, unified professional membership organization. The seven participating associations merged in 1955 to form the National Association of Social Workers.
The Temporary Inter-Association Council of Social Work Membership Organizations, hereafter referred to as TIAC, grew out of a meeting called by the American Association of Social Workers and the American Association of Schools of Social Work in the fall of 1947. The meeting itself was entitled "Conference on Proposals for Inter-Association Activities.” The American Association of Social Workers (AASW), the American Association of Medical Social Workers (AAMSW), the American Association of Psychiatric Social Workers (AAPSW), the American Association of Group Workers (AAGW), and the National Association of School Social Workers (NASSW) were all represented. This preliminary session created the Committee on Inter-Association Structure of Professional Organizations in Social Work which met in December 1948, and began functioning actively in January 1949. The purpose of the Committee was to exchange information about the participating associations' objectives, membership requirements, programs and administrations, finances, etc., and in this way work toward a plan for one unified professional social work organization.
As the talks progressed, the need for a more permanent organization arose. The committee, after due discussion, dissolved on June 10, 1950, and became the TIAC. The discussions of TIAC centered on two major problems -- the type of organization needed for a new association and the actual deliberations necessary in constructing a functioning social work association. During the years of negotiation and discussion, the Association for the Study of Community Organization (ASCO) and the Social Work Research Group (SWRG) were invited to and accepted membership on the Council in 1952 and 1954, respectively. The Council itself was guided by two chairman, Dora Goldstine, 1950-1953, and Sanford Solender, 1953-1955, who appear prominently in these records.
The member associations rejected the idea of an organization for social workers that was merely an inter-professional committee, and the same fate lay in store for the projected plan of a federated professional organization. The need for a single unified organization was found most appealing to the TIAC delegates and their home organizations. It met the needs of an entire profession by having a broad membership base, creating division of members grouped according to specialized interest, and establishing committees to deal with projects related to broad interests. Therefore, following the structural lines of a single membership organization, the governing body was composed of a delegate assembly, which elected the top officials and a board of directors. To reflect the evolution of specialization within social work, five sections were developed; group work, medical social work, psychiatric social work, school social work, and social work research. The Council determined that ASCO would be represented by a committee on community organization and could petition for section status once NASW began functioning.)
In October 1955, the plans for a single professional organization for social workers reached fruition and the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) began operating. Its first president was Nathan Cohen, and Joseph P. Anderson was selected to serve as executive secretary.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: The collection has two major divisions. The first pertains strictly to the activities and functioning of TIAC (folders 896-965), and the second reflects the reaction of the participating associations to the aforementioned activities (folders 966-1006).
Within the first division the papers have been grouped by the three chronological phases of TIAC's development: the initial stage of inter-association cooperation under the Committee on Inter-Association Structure (1948-1950), the formation of TIAC and its deliberations in negotiating for a single professional social work organization (ca. 1950-1953), and finally, the actual process of planning for the operations of NASW (1954-1955).
The second major division contains the papers of four of the constituent organizations, and they are arranged alphabetically: AAGW, AAMSW, AASW, and ASCO. Within each of the subdivisions the organization's papers have generally been arranged chronologically.
On receipt of the NASW collection, there were specific records of Dora Goldstine, chairman of TIAC and member of AAMSW; and Joseph P. Anderson, secretary and treasurer of TIAC and executive secretary to TIAC. These files were placed in those sections to which they best pertain: Dora Goldstine, folders 896, 905-906, 924, and 970; Joseph P. Anderson, folders 908, 938-941, 983-987, 991, and 998-999; and, Melvin Glasser, folders 982, 988-990, 992-997, and 1000-1003. The TIAC records comprise approximately four linear feet.
Invitations to set up joint committee on inter-association structure; correspondence of temporary chairmen Helen Rowe, Clyde Murray, and Ruth Smalley, and of Dora Goldstine, permanent chairman of TIAC (1950-1953). Other correspondents include Benjamin Youngdahl and Joseph P. Anderson.
Local chapters of associations met to discuss formation of one single social work membership organization in St. Louis, Washington, D.C., Maryland, etc.
Reports re purpose, membership, and summary of Committee’s work (January to May 1949)5 summary of materials on administration and program of AAGW, AAMSW, AAPSW, AASW, NASSW; and report on structure and program of same organizations.
Minutes re discussions over types of cooperation to develop between organizations and material on setting up formal organization for discussion— Council of Social Work Membership Associations.
Correspondence, minutes, and reports of subcommittees on one organization and structure and program and financing.
Correspondence, draft and revision of bylaws for TIAC, policy statements, and material on suggested areas of responsibility for social work profession.
Correspondence, minutes, report, and recommendations of Committee on Inter-Association Structure.
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and reports re TIAC; resolutions of NASSW and AASW re establishment of TIAC; and draft of "Plan for a Single New Organization of Social Workers."
Chiefly correspondence of Dora Goldstine as chairman of TIAC: regular business of Council, relationship of SWSG and ASCO to TIAC, defense mobilization, AASW national board resolution re TIAC; reports on principles, proposals, and issues in inter-association cooperation; and Dora Goldstine’s letter of resignation.
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Bylaws of AAGW, AAMSW, AAPSW, AASW, and NASSW.
Reports from AAGW, AAMSW, AAPSW, AASW, and NASSW re respective associations’ objectives and functions.
Listings from AAGW, AAMSW, AAPSW, AASW, and NASSW on their respective committees and committees’ functions.
Contains material available in national office of each constituent member of TIAC re basic materials used in implementing report, distribution of report, and recorded reactions to it.
Chiefly correspondence and memoranda re subcommittee activities, drafts of reports, and listing of membership of subcommittees.
Reaction of membership organizations to the report and dispersal of report.
Preparatory folder compiled by Dora Goldstine containing reports to presidents of participating associations; drafts of materials to be used in the report; and information on subcommittees.
Copy of report and revisions.
Correspondence and reports of subcommittees; membership; program and structure; sections, officers, board of directors, and executive committee; delegate body; commissions and committees; chapter organization; and statement of purpose and finances.
Correspondence of member associations indicating reactions to report, and compilation of reactions sent to all participating associations.
Correspondence and reports on TIAC activities and replies from presidents of participating associations.
Dissemination of material re TIAC activities to members of TIAC.
Minutes
Discussion of questions dealing with incorporation procedures, dissolution, and disposition of assets and liabilities of membership organizations.
Proposed TIAC legislation.
Correspondence, minutes, and reports re local organization; formulation of petition for chapter status in NASW; and report and recommendations of the committee.
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Minutes and correspondence re planning for NASW.
Papers collected by Joseph P. Anderson re planning committee and its activities.
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Formulation of questionnaires sent out to seven associations re individual associations’ program; one general, the second re specific committees of the associations; and report of questionnaire results.
Results of AAMSW mail referendum re AAMSW negotiations with TIAC reported to planning committee and, in turn, reported to membership.
Policy statements for AAGW, AAMSW, AAPSW, American Public Welfare Association (APWA), AASW, and SWRG.
Statements on personnel policies and practices of several social work organizations: AAPSW, AAGW, AASW, and National Conference of Social Work (NCSW).
Reports, memoranda, and correspondence re recruiting members for committee; questionnaires for personnel practices and chapter development; summary of data re program committee activities; report on AASW and AAMSW program; and material on consultation services of AAMSW and NASSW.
Memoranda and minutes re publication of unified journal and goals of publications program.
Minutes and reports re membership in other social work organizations, annual report of National Social Welfare Assembly, and statement of principles and recommended criteria governing AASW affiliation with other organizations.
Minutes. Policy statements dealing with legislation in fields of health and welfare and material on proposed areas on which positions and actions should be taken prior to formal organization of NASW. Draft statement on public welfare prepared by Elizabeth Wickenden.
Reports and recommendations from committee and material on the relationship of NASW with the Council on Social Work Education.
Correspondence and final report re dissolution of constituent bodies and formation of NASW.
Selection of two nominees for each office on the slate.
Information arranged alphabetically.
Contains memoranda and minutes for committee of tellers, procedure for counting ballots, sample ballot, time schedule for election, and final report of nominations and elections committee re conduct of election.
Minutes, reports, and recommendations.
Minutes, report, and recommendations re national office policy and procedures for closing national offices of membership organizations.
Correspondence re TIAC and reaction of Canadian Association to reorganization and possibility of joining the organization in the United States.
Correspondence and TIAC resolution on former chairman’s death.
Correspondence and report of TIAC re effective use of social work personnel in defense mobilization, and report of NASW and CSWE assuming functions of NCSWDM.
Reports on election of NASW officers and formation of a new social work association.
Accumulated reports of the TIAC committees.
Materials dealing with the transition of national and local AAGW organization into the group work section of NASW. Prominent correspondents include Janet Korpela, Nathan Cohen, Joseph P. Anderson, and officials of TIAC and AAGW. Data on nominations for the new section’s committee.
Listing of NASW personnel on the committee for organizing group work section, statement on content of group work practice, and notices of meetings.
Communications re formation of committee, appointment of AAMSW representatives on committee, and ideas AAMSW should press for in committee meetings. Correspondents include Dora Goldstine, Mary Blanche Moss, and Elizabeth Rice.
Minutes and summary of AAMSW program and objectives for committee.
Minutes of Conference on Proposals of Inter-Association Activities, report of relationship of associations’ relationship with AASSW, and review of scope and character of inter-association activities.
Correspondence and memoranda re Association participation in TIAC.
Communications from TIAC and committees and AAMSW reaction to TIAC activities.
Report of committee to study results on questionnaire/opinion poll sent to local AAMSW chapters re TIAC, analysis of poll on TIAC report, and supplementary poll on TIAC future activities.
Copies of proposed NASW legislation and comments by AAMSW officials.
Minutes, statements, and correspondence re planning for NASW and reaction of AAMSW; statements on job descriptions from AAPSW and NASSW employment practices of AASW; and information on AAMSW office personnel.
Correspondence re AAMSW membership on committee and draft of general principles on health.
Material re elections for NASW.
Documents illustrating attempts to discuss merger with other social work groups dating from 1946 AASW delegate conference, negotiations with AASSW re subject, national board recommendations re TIAC report, etc.
Correspondence and resolution of AASW executive committee re TIAG activities and discussion of continuing participation of AASW in TIAC.
Correspondence and reports re AASW relationship with TIAC, resolutions of 1951 AASW delegate assembly delegating authority to national board to negotiate with TIAC, questionnaires to chapters re AASW participation in TIAC, AASW resolution favoring invitation to ASCO to participate in TIAC, and appointment of Melvin Glasser as chairman of AASW delegation to TIAC.
Correspondence asked for clarification of national board resolutions re TIAC Report.
Correspondence asked for clarification of national board resolutions re TIAC Report.
Materials on actions taken by assembly on national board resolution re TIAC, national board recommendations re sections in NASW, action on inviting SWRG to TIAC, highlights of delegate assembly, and Melvin Glasser’s notes on presentation to delegate assembly on TIAC.
Statements on purpose, program, and structure of TIAC; suggested plans for constitutional convention; drafts of proposed legislation for NASW; and letter re legality of Council on Social Work Education by-laws.
Copy of certificate. Correspondence re AASW national board decision re TIAC legislation, as well as communications from AAPSW and AAGW.
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Reports re time schedule for establishing new association, progress report of TIAC.
Invitation extended to Melvin Glasser to represent AASW on TIAC, correspondence re national board decision on TIAC Report, reactions of other organizations to TIAC, and evaluation of Joseph P. Anderson as executive secretary of AASW.
Correspondence, statements, reports, and minutes re formulation of policy statements for NASW; testimony of Katharine Lenroot on child welfare; statement by APWA re social policy and action; and list of social issues and legislation.
Statements, minutes, reports, and correspondence dealing with preparation for local organization of NASW; Glasser speech notes re AASW local chapter organization; compilation of chapter information from all member organizations.
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Reports and minutes re ASCO participation in TIAC, statement of principles and recommended criteria governing AASW affiliation with other organizations, and relationship with AAMSW, Canadian Association of Social Workers, NCSWDM, and CSWE.
Consists largely of minutes, but includes some correspondence and reports to presidents, AASW instructions re plans for single organization and timetable for action, and summary of inter-association activity leading to NASW.
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Minutes, report, and recommendations of committee, and summary of information re publication committees of constituent members of TIAC.
Correspondence, reports, and minutes re procedure for transition from AASW to NASW; material re membership corporations law in New York State; referendum and work schedule of new organization; and policy and procedure certifying AASW members in NASW.
Compilation by Melvin Glasser of important materials tracing formation of NASW through committee on inter-association structure and TIAC.
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Speech notes of Melvin Glasser for meetings of local chapters of AASW re TIAC and NASW.
Correspondence and rough draft of article by Melvin Glasser
for the last issue of
Correspondence between ASCO officials and TIAC officials re ASCO’s participation in TIAC and problems in the dissolution of ASCO. Chief correspondents are Ernest B. Harper, Irene Conrad, and Philip E. Ryan.
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HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Created in 1950 by five national professional social work associations to address the need for maximum concentration of social work services during the Korean War period. The committee disbanded in 1955 when its functions were assumed by the newly-formed National Association of Social Workers.
In 1950, five national social work organizations created the National Committee on Social Work in Defense Mobilization (NCSWDM) to address the need for maximum concentration of social work services during the Korean War period. The organizations were the American Association of Group Workers, the American Association of Medical Social Workers, the American Association of Psychiatric Social Workers, the American Association of Social Workers and the National Association of School Social Workers. Liaison representatives from the National Social Welfare Assembly and the Council on Social Work Education (at first, the American Association of Schools of Social Work) also participated. The Committee on Inter-Association Structure, which had been recently formed to investigate ways to coordinate activities of national social work organizations, could not undertake the additional task of dealing with governmental and non-governmental agencies in a national defense emergency. Building on the experience of the Wartime Committee on Personnel, a similar cooperative effort during the Second World War, the NCSDM concentrated on a number of issues – the role of social work in national defense on both civil and military levels, the development of needed social welfare services in military and in defense-affected communities, the utilization of manpower, and recruitment for the social work profession.
The National Committee on Social Work in Defense Mobilization was financed by the United Defense Fund (UDF) from 1951-1955 and was one of fourteen organizations comprising the United Community Defense Services. The American Association of Social Workers served as the Committee's fiscal agent. The various chairmen of the Committee were William Kirk, Ethel Ginsburg, Frank J. Hertel, and Harold Roberts. Evelyn F. Cooper served as vice-chairman and Joseph P. Anderson succeeded Ethel Ginsburg as treasurer-secretary. Mrs. Cathryn S. Guyler was appointed executive secretary in January, 1952, and remained in that position until termination of the Committee in September 1955, when the activities of NCSWDM were assumed by the National Association of Social Workers.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: There are four sections to this collection, the first being organizational papers (folders 1375-1405), followed by one dealing with liaison activities between the social welfare profession and various public and private agencies and organizations related to the national defense effort (folders 1406-1419). The third part is devoted to the Committee's services to individuals (folders 1420-1426), and the last, to the relationship of NCSWDM with the United Community Defense Services (folders 1427-1430). The arrangement of the first section reflects the organization and activities of the Committee; the last three are alphabetical. A list of publications removed from the NCSWDM section and placed in the Center's pamphlet collection in included in the appendix.
Correspondence, memoranda, pamphlets, and financial statements re origins of NCSWDM.
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Minutes of meetings of representatives from the participating associations: AAGW, AAMSW, AAPSW, AASW, and NASSW.
Minutes.
Minutes and draft of letter to Nathan Cohen, president-elect of the National Association of Social Workers, requesting that NASW assume NCSWDM activities.
Material on role of social workers in civil defense, setting up local organizations of health and welfare services in time of emergency, and need for civil defense (folder incomplete).
Minutes and material on the possibility of study of social work in relation to the armed forces.
Brief folder re funds.
Includes a statement covering purposes and goals of NCSWDM.
Minutes re meeting of representatives of TIAC and NGSWDM discussing continuance of NCSWDM activities under NASW.
First draft of a report by Elizabeth Wickenden. Includes comments and criticisms of the report.
Correspondence, reports, and comments on and criticisms of Elizabeth Wickenden’s report by social work leaders as well as by military men involved in social work.
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Correspondence and clippings re Public Law 779 ("Doctors and Dentists Draft Bill") as applicable to social workers in the armed forces.
Correspondence re advice on recruitment methods for social work.
Memoranda, recruitment literature, and some correspondence re recruitment activities of social work profession as well as of NCSWDM.
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Confirmation of Cathryn S. Guyler as executive secretary of NCSWDM; statements on job qualifications and responsibilities and personnel policies and practices.
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Correspondence re request to member organizations for contributions of funds to support NCSWDM.
Correspondence and memoranda re financial budgeting and planning of NCSWDM. Principal correspondents are Ethel Ginsburg, Joseph P. Anderson, and John Moore, executive director of United Community Defense Services.
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Detailed information on financial budgeting and planning.
Minutes, memoranda, and correspondence re termination of NCSWDM and negotiations with TIAC and NASW to preserve the functions of NCSWDM.
Minutes, official reports, memoranda, and correspondence related to Committee activities in connection with Air Force headquarters, specific installations, and personnel practices.
Correspondence re personnel practices at Lackland Air Force Base Separation Center.
Memoranda and correspondence re withdrawal of American Red Cross social casework services in Army hospitals, replacement of Red Cross medical and psychiatric social workers, and developments within the Red Cross in relation to the military social work pro
Reports, symposium proceedings, memoranda, and correspondence related to Committee activities in connection with Army headquarters, specific installations, and personnel practices.
Correspondence re legislation for additional colonels in MSC and positions then available to social workers, as well as medical benefits for dependents (known as medicare in the armed services).
Correspondence re recruitment for social work profession.
Correspondence re utilization and training of social workers in Array, and Military Adoption Boards in Germany.
Correspondence showing Committee relationship to federal civil defense program, and matters of mutual concern between FCDA and NCSWDM; material on preparation of a pamphlet discussing the role of social workers in civil defense.
Minutes, correspondence, report on the military situation, and a list of activities and problems of organizations involved in defense program.
Agendas and minutes of special meeting of NSWA to discuss cooperation of social welfare agencies and the military, and an inventory of national emergency needs and services.
Correspondence related to activities in connection with Naval headquarters, specific installations, and personnel practices.
Correspondence re NCSWDM questionnaire sent to schools of social work re students’ draft eligibility and reserve status.
Statements, memoranda, and correspondence chiefly concerned with requests for deferment of social work students and officer classification of social work graduates.
Chiefly correspondence gathering information about armed forces and social work and dispensing said information to interested people and agencies.
Summary of information services to social workers re military social work, programs, policies, and procedures. Includes a partial list of correspondents .
Correspondence re problems of social workers in military service.
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Correspondence re initiation of NCSWDM as a participating organization in UCDS.
Correspondence, memoranda, and service reports showing relationship with United Defense fund and reports of NCSWDM activities as a member of UCDS.
HISTORICAL SUMMARY: The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) was established in October, 1955, following five years of careful planning by the Temporary Inter-Association Council (TIAC). Seven organizations – American Association of Social Workers (AASW), American Association of Medical Social Workers (AAMSW), National Association of School Social Workers (NASSW), American Association of Psychiatric Social Workers (AAPSW), American Association of Group Workers UAW Association for the Study of Community Organization (ASCO), and Social Work Research Group (SWRG) – merged to form the NASW.
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) was established in October, 1955, following five years of careful planning by the Temporary Inter-Association Council (TIAC). Seven organizations – American Association of Social Workers (AASW), American Association of Medical Social Workers (AAMSW), National Association of School Social Workers (NASSW), American Association of Psychiatric Social Workers (AAPSW), American Association of Group Workers UAW Association for the Study of Community Organization (ASCO), and Social Work Research Group (SWRG) – merged to form the NASW.
At the time the predecessor organizations united, provision was
made for an analysis of NASW after the first five-year period of operation. A
committee for the purpose of review of NASW's structure was formed and the
delegate assembly adopted its final report and recommendations in 1963; the
changes went into effect on July 1, 1963. The papers of this review of
structure give the best description of the format of the current organization
(folders 1067l-1078. See the organization chart for the present structure of
NASW in David G. French's "Professional Organization,"
The records of NASW deal with approximately the first five years of the organization and the process of transition to the present professional organization of social workers. Records of the actual formation and organization of NASW can be found in the papers of the Temporary Inter-Association Council.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: There are two divisions of the NASW papers. The first (folders 1007-1079) represents the broad scope of the national organization's activities during its initial phase of operation and includes papers of the delegate assemblies, plans for certification of social workers, and material on personnel standards and practices, social work practice, and review of NASW structure.
The second division (folders 1080-1374) comprises the papers of the five NASW sections that were formed to continue the specializations of the predecessor organizations. The sections were group work, medical social work, psychiatric social work, social work research, and school social work. The records are arranged alphabetically by section, except that those of the social work research section precede the school social work section in accordance with its position on the organization charts of the Temporary Inter-Association council. Although each section is represented nominally in the present holdings, the medical social work section is more nearly complete.
The medical social work section (folders 1081-1355) has been arranged to show continuity between the section and its predecessor, the American Association of Medical Social Workers. Therefore, papers illustrating the relationship between the national organization and the medical social work section have been placed first (folders 1081-1087), followed by those of the section itself. Within the latter part are represented the activities of section chairmen (folders 1091-1093), committees (folders 1094-1152), joint committees (folders 1153-1218), consultants an education, practice, and recruitment (folders 1220-1324), relations with other organizations related to social work (folders 1325-1345), regional and chapter organization (folders 1346-1354), and finances (folder 1355). The arrangement of each division can best be seen by use of the folder inventory.
Because the formal operation of NASW began on October 1, 1955, this date was used as a guideline in separating those papers of the predecessor organizations that overlapped the period of transition. However, in the NASW papers, one will discover instances where some of the papers may predate the formation of NASW; in most cases this has been done by necessity to preserve continuity.
Material sent to delegates.
Material handed out to delegates.
Correspondence re distribution of delegate assembly workbooks I and II to chapters.
Report by executive director and copy of resolutions approved by assembly.
Memoranda and correspondence re discussion material for assembly, i.e., voluntary certification; list of official delegates.
Correspondence.
Correspondence re special edition.
Correspondence re national voluntary certification between chapters and national organization.
Press releases and correspondence re publicity.
Official folder for delegates.
Correspondence and reports re drafting of policy statements on regulation of social work by the Southern Minnesota Chapter.
Reports and memoranda re steps toward certification; announcement of Academy of Certified Social Workers.
Correspondence re proposed regulation of practice for NASW members and schedule for implementation of certification.
Chapter reaction to certification.
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Correspondence re Academy of Certified Social Workers.
Minutes.
Routine correspondence.
Correspondence and memoranda of joint committee of NASW and Social Work Vocational Bureau re job information service.
Correspondence and memoranda appointing committee to oversee job information service.
Correspondence, memoranda, and reports re rewriting civil rights statement.
Minutes of NASW Chicago area chapter committee project proposing code of ethics; report to delegate assembly.
Statements on legal regulation, retirements, and code of ethics.
Manual in draft form.
Correspondence and reports re ACSW and procedure re unethical behavior of members.
Documents re standards of personnel practices, complaints involving violations of social work personnel practices, etc.
Minutes, correspondence re subcommittee study of social work ethics and violations for use in teaching.
final reports of TIAC on NASW program; assignments of personnel to commission on practice.
Minutes and reports of sections and subcommittees re social work practice.
Harriett Bartlett’s memoranda re commission and its projects.
Correspondence, memoranda, agendas, minutes, and position statements re development of research proposal to study social work practice.
Correspondence re appointment of members, committee structure and composition, and meeting attendance of the committee.
Correspondence and memoranda re proposal for social work practice research and conceptual framework for study.
Minutes, reports, draft of proposal for study, and memorandum of understandings re project.
Correspondence and proposed statements re research for development of methodology and instruments to study social work practice; comments on research proposal by members of commission, main correspondents include Margaret Blenkner, Genevieve W. Carter, Bertram Beck, and Harriett Bartlett.
Correspondence requesting funds for project.
Exploratory study by chapter on social work practice and its report on final results.
Minutes and statements on definition by Harriett Bartlett, William E. Gordon, and committee members.
Correspondence illustrating reactions to draft of working definition.
Correspondence re committee membership, minutes, and revision of definition.
Pre-meeting memoranda, progress reports re working definition, and report to commission.
Minutes; reports; memoranda; correspondence; preliminary statements on delinquency and crime, supervision, and various aspects of social work practice; and comments by chapters on statements.
Routine correspondence and reports.
Correspondence and chapter responses to consensus statements.
Correspondence re formation and assignment of committee.
Correspondence, reports, and statements.
Memoranda and correspondence re establishment of communications between private practice and NASW to explore ways to administer private practice procedure.
Background report prior to study of inconsistencies between social work activities and social work values.
Minutes of NASW Southern Minnesota chapter re social work practice committees of chapter and comments on national activities in the field of practice; routine correspondence.
Correspondence re development of social work practice committees and/or activities by local chapters.
Depository central file containing reports, minutes, and correspondence of local NASW chapters’ activity in the field of social work practice.
Correspondence.
Memoranda re plan for structure review, committee membership, formation of task forces, and setting up priorities for program review.
Reports and recommendations of steering committee, plan for structure review, and membership listing of task forces.
Correspondence with members of central review committee and material on distribution of report and chapter reactions to it.
Correspondence re structure review, procedure manual of psychiatric social work section, statement on interim report, and material on relations with the Council on Social Work Education.
Correspondence and reports from sections re interim report.
Excerpted comments re structure review from individuals and chapters for committee and staff use.
Correspondence with central review committee and task forces.
Correspondence re chapter reaction.
Lists of NASW personnel, statement on content of group work practice, and notices of meetings.
Correspondence re transition from American Association of Medical Social Workers to National Association of Social Workers’ medical social work section.
Communiques from the commissions on social work education, social action and policy, and personnel standards, practices, and interpretation.
Memoranda and correspondence on publications, public relations, nominations, membership, finance, and chapter organization and administration.
Chapter Service Packet for Chapter Chairmen, recruitment material available from Council on Social Work Education.
Information on formation and functions of NASW for use by section staff.
Correspondence re operation of section, Dora Goldstine memorial lectures, and tributes to Irene Grant and Kathleen Allen. Main correspondents include Mary Hemmy, Edith Alt, Addie Thomas, and Catherine Purcell.
Correspondence re recommendations by section executives for placement of medical social work personnel.
Reports of section chairmen: Eleanor Cockerill, Helen E. Woods, and Eleanor Barnett.
Proceedings of conference held in Chicago (February, 1958) to discuss the philosophy, purpose, and program of the section.
Minutes of the committee and budgets of the section.
Mary Poole’s correspondence, memoranda, and notes re executive committee meetings.
Correspondence re use of grant funds and study of medical social work education; policy statement on approval of committee reports.
Proceedings of meetings evolving from chairman’s conference to discuss the professional education program of schools of social work.
Memoranda and reports re "Description of Medical Social Work Practice.’
Report of "Pilot Study of Second Year Medical Social Fieldwork.’
Minutes and reports on activities of subcommittee.
Correspondence re participation of social workers in training medical students.
Final Report.
Correspondence and data re relationship with CSWE and study of medical social work curriculum.
Reports and correspondence re review of medical social work curriculum
Reports and correspondence re council of delegates (CSWE) and educational consultants’ services.
Reports and correspondence re placement and international exchange of social workers. Main correspondents are Mary Hemmy and Theodate Soule.
Reports, memoranda, and correspondence re the study of local medical social work sections’ programs.
Reports, membership statistics, and material on revision of membership requirements.
Correspondence and memoranda re arrangments for medical section meetings at the National Conference.
Correspondence and memoranda re nominations for medical social work section and NASW.
Correspondence re Army social services and committee budget, report on studies in medical social work section, and draft revision of statement on policies and procedures of committee.
Minutes of committee and reports from chairmen of committees and subcommittees.
Correspondence re notice of meetings.
Correspondence.
Correspondence.
Report: "Some Considerations Regarding Studies of Medical Social Work Participation in Policy Making and Program Planning in the Agency and Participation in Community Planning."
Questionnaire for study of medical social practice, outline for study of practice (Harriett Bartlett, Mary Hemmy, and Margaret Shutz), and results of 1960 questionnaire.
Correspondence re use of aides for social workers.
Correspondence re development of a statement on medical social worker in rehabilitation, minutes reports, and questionnaire.
Reports re preparation of a statement establishing professional controls and guidelines over social work services and decisions.
Correspondence and reports re development of a statement on standards for social service departments in hospitals issued by the medical and psychiatric social work sections.
Correspondence and reports re statistical system to record medical social work services, including "Social Work in Medical Settings.’
Correspondence and pilot study re inter-disciplinary conferences ("Medical Social Contributions, Objectives, Principles, Techniques and factors in the One to One Patient-Centered Conference with Another Professional Person").
Memoranda and reports re extension of study into inter-professional conferences.
Minutes.
Memoranda .
Correspondence and report. Principal correspondent is Celia B. Moss.
Correspondence.
Eleanor E. Cockerill, "The Life Process Continuum as a Frame of Reference for the Further Delineation and Analysis of Social Work Practice in Health, Medical Care and Rehabilitation Settings"; Harriett Bartlett, "Characteristics of Medical Social Work: Tentative Discussion" and "Essentials of Medical Social Work as a Held of Social Work Practice: Comprehensive Description and Analysis" (preliminary outline).
Correspondence.
Correspondence re expenses, organization of the committee, responsibilities of the section editor, and other routine matters.
Correspondence re format of newsletter and copy for it.
Correspondence re search for reprintable material and request for dismissal of committee.
Correspondence re recruitment on state and local level, plans for recruitment, foreign exchange programs, and scholarships for social workers.
Minutes.
Agenda and proceedings of workshops sponsored by the section’s recruitment committee.
Agendas and list of participants for workshops.
Manuscript written by Anne Shyne.
Correspondence.
Minutes, correspondence, and memoranda.
Recommendations of committee.
Agendas, reports, minutes, and correspondence re joint study and AHA institute. Main correspondents include Sarah Hardwicke and Mary Hemmy.
Correspondence and materials re institutes and medical social work section participation.
Statements and suggestions on definition of medical social work.
Correspondence re study and draft of study.
Draft and revisions of study undertaken by AHA and medical social work section; the study was financed by the U.S. Public Health Service.
Routine correspondence re continuation of study of joint committee with psychiatric section. Principal correspondent is Grace White.
Legal-length items separated from previous folder
Correspondence with members re meetings and appointment to committee and resource material from the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine.
Minutes and correspondence re formulation of study questionnaire, list of participants, and reports of the committee.
Card file made from 1955 questionnaire.
Bibliographies on social workers’ participation in medical education.
Correspondence and results of questionnaire from preliminary survey.
List of social workers involved in medical school teaching and summary of replies to questions on topics for regional meetings re medical education and social worker participation.
List of regions for the 1955 survey and responses to regional meetings on social workers’ participation in medical education.
Schedule for reporting social workers’ participation in first and second year undergraduate medical curriculum and drafts and final copy of study questionnaire.
Correspondence re follow-up of 1955 preliminary study on the regional level and plans for the future course of the study,
Replies to questionnaires re medical social workers’ participation in residency training. Arranged alphabetically by state.
Correspondence re joint meeting with psychiatric social workers at NCSW to study participation in medical education.
Correspondence about the committee’s budget.
Routine correspondence.
Drafts and revisions of questionnaires for survey.
Preliminary sampling for survey questionnaire.
Minutes and correspondence re questionnaire.
Correspondence re developing roster of social workers participating in medical education.
Correspondence with persons or staffs not participating in medical education.
Replies from medical schools. Material arranged by regions with key indicating distribution of medical colleges within regions.
Tabulations on forms with responses of social workers. Arranged alphabetically by state.
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Completed questionnaire forms from social work personnel participating in medical education. Arranged alphabetically by state.
Completed forms from personnel participating in medical education but not teaching. Arranged alphabetically by state.
Reports from medical schools re social work curriculum in school. Arranged alphabetically by state.
Evaluation of study made by Margaret Blenkner which includes tables and charts for study of content area in social work courses offered in medical schools.
Final tables, statistics, and notes and correspondence re questionnaire returns.
Memorandum of decisions and proposal for planning grant by the steering committee of the joint project with the psychiatric social work section.
Reports to the executive committee on relationship to other organizations and activities in social work education, material on appointment of technical advisory committee, and miscellaneous correspondence.
Minutes, study of practice consultation, and analysis of education consultant’s activities.
Routine correspondence, job descriptions, reports to executive committee, agendas and memoranda, information on consultation services, statements on financing consultation visits, and "The Practice of Social Group Work" (report).
Correspondence re recommendations, congratulatory notes, and Addie Thomas’ resignation.
Correspondence re attendance at meetings and requests for consultant to speak at meetings.
Listings of federal consultants in U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the Veterans Administration.
Statements re social service departments charging fees.
Reading material on medical social work field of practice and a statement, "Description of the Field of Medical Social Work Practice," prepared by the committee on description-of-practice.
Information sheet on available films related to medical social work.
Material collected for Arden House meeting (March, 1957).
Correspondence re preparations for conference, material for use at conference, job descriptions, material on staff committees and functions, reports on hospital services, summary of a staff development situation, and workshop proceedings and list of attendants.
Correspondence, list of persons attending, agenda, and proceedings of workshops.
Draft statements from workshops V and VI on professional development for experienced workers in preparation for publication.
Correspondence re bibliography.
Correspondence and case records.
Correspondence re sample curricula for nursing education.
Addie Thomas’ resource files containing pamphlets, studies, Beth Israel Hospital’s publications, Chronic Illness Newsletter, and medical social work job descriptions. Includes information on Los Angeles County Health Department, Conference on Individualized Services (National Social Welfare Assembly), private patients, recording, statistics, tuberculosis, and chapter talks.
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Revisions of criteria for evaluating social service departments in hospitals; Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals report, "Standards for Hospital Accreditation"; joint committee of NASW medical social work section, American Hospital Association
Survey of practice consultant’s visits, correspondence and reports re consultation services, and information and pamphlets collected during consultation visitations Arranged alphabetically by state
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Expense sheets, bills, travel vouchers, report of educational consultant, and schedule of practice consultant’s visits.
Study of practice consultation by Ethel Cohen.
Correspondence re approved medical social work curricula, complimentary letters on recruitment publications, material for picture story on National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis scholarship program, and summary of recruitment program for medical social work.
Statement on policies and principles in medical social work section recruitment program, job description for regional consultant on recruitment, and routine correspondence re appointment of New England regional consultant.
Correspondence re production and showing of one-minute film on medical social work, correspondence re use of recruitment filmstrip, and special orders for films, slides, and brochures.
Clippings re stories on medical social work and/ or medical social workers used for recruitment purposes in pamphlets, brochures, etc.
Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings on medical social work.
Releases permitting the section to use photographs in all phases of publications and communications media.
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Data on requested recruitment material; revision and stock of recruitment pamphlets; routine correspondence re production of pamphlets: "Ten Questions and Answers," "A Man-Sized Job," "A Message from Dr. Paul Dudley White," and "Decision"; and recruitment
Out-of-print recruitment pamphlets, brochures, etc.
Correspondence.
Material on distribution of information on medical social work recruitment literature and samples of other NASW sections’ recruitment literature.
Two issues of newsletter.
Literature for social workers issued by American Medical Association Women’s Auxiliary, American Sociological Society, American Psychological Society, and the Council on Social Work Education; information on summer work experience.
CSWE recruitment kit, "Organizing for Social Work Recruitment."
Correspondence.
Memoranda and brochures re health scholarship program of NFIP, sample application forms, and routine correspondence.
Lists of 1959 NFIP health scholarship winners in medical social work, data on NFIP health scholarships for mailings, and letters to chapters urging selection of a college student candidate for medical social work scholarship.
Requests for application forms and information on the NFIP scholarships.
Correspondence re participation of social workers in medical education, 1956 report of AAMC’s committee on educational research and services, and summary of activities at the AAMC annual meeting.
Correspondence re formation of a joint committee on standards.
Correspondence re participation in the APA annual meeting.
Correspondence re Mary Hemmy’s resignation.
Minutes of the committee on public health and the behavioral sciences (October, 1955), program of annual meeting, and revised statement on educational qualifications for social workers in public health programs.
Correspondence re annual convention and medical social work section’s participation.
Correspondence re appointment of a representative to the Council.
Correspondence re workshop on medical social work at the Conference.
Correspondence re requests to NFIP for grants for practice, education, and recruitment programs of the section; report to NFIP on use of grants.
Minutes of meeting of executive committee on health education, board of directors, and committee on research administration of NHC; correspondence re medical social work section’s participation in NHC.
Summary of first meeting of National Advisory Committee on Rehabilitation Counselor Education.
Correspondence re medical social work section representation, program of tenth anniversary meeting, and report on tax exemption and national agency salaries.
Correspondence re revision of classification standards for clinical social workers, draft of statement, and comments by practice consultant (Addie Thomas) on tentative draft.
Correspondence, agenda, and list of participants in joint conference of national organizations related to work of HEW.
Letter re Mary Hemmy’s resignation.
Correspondence re OVR teaching and traineeship grants and Mary Hemmy’s resignation.
Correspondence re conference with schools of social work, notes on conference on social work research in tuberculosis, and list of social workers involved in medical school teaching.
Reprints, near-print material, and articles on tuberculosis; list of tuberculosis reprints.
Draft of proposed survey of salaries and working conditions in hospitals in large communities.
Correspondence re national conference on "The Effective Use of Womanpower" and revision of Handbook on Women Workers.
Correspondence re Mary Hemmy’s resignation.
Job description of field director for regional institute program and guidebook to facilitate the establishment and maintainance of the program.
Revised edition (chapter one missing).
Correspondence re organization of sections within the local chapters and membership status of former members, copies of newsletters and bylaws, and petitions for formation of sections.
List of chairmen, notification to section of National Health Council’s health forum, and requests for lists of members affiliated with medical schools.
Requests for information on members joining medical social work sections, lists of new members in these sections, and membership figures.
Tentative recommendations re purposes, functions, and suggested structure for medical social work sections; proposed bylaws for sections.
Routine correspondence re establishment and organization of sections in newly-formed NASW chapters, lists of sections, petitions, and list of chapter chairmen.
Routine correspondence notifying of formal approval of medical social work sections. Arranged alphabetically by state and chapter.
Routine correspondence notifying approval of affiliation with medical social work sections.
Correspondence re payments for consultation services, travel expenses, publication costs, budgets, payroll payments, and expense account forms.
Minutes, report of national private practice committee, statement on purpose and scope of study of job responsibilities of social workers in psychiatric hospitals and clinics, and memoranda on preparatory material for the commission on social work practice.
Minutes; reports of section committees, NCSW meetings, and of the subcommittee on social research: "Social Security Cooperative Research and Demonstration Grant Program: Role of Voluntary Agencies in Cooperative Social Research Program"; budget.
Correspondence re establishment and membership of committee, minutes, and draft report of program planning committee. Main correspondents are Margaret Blenkner, Edward E. Schwartz, and Lili G. Sweat.
Correspondence and memoranda re establishment and membership of committee, report on developing monograph on methodology in social work research, suggestions for developmental workshop, and reports of subcommittees.
Minutes of education, publications, and workshop committees; progress report of committee on research component of social work curriculum; and final report and recommendations of the communications committee.
Report of conference on NASW program and meeting with representatives of the Council on Social Work Education.
Correspondence re assignment, membership, and establishment of committee.
Report on "School Social Work Practice in Twelve Communities"; survey of public school trends in Texas and educational preparation for Michigan visiting teacher program; survey of pre-social work program at Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; workshops on practice; paper on special services in schools; questionnaire on role of school social workers in consultation service; correspondence and reports illustrating development of school social work program.
Definition of consultation, correspondence re International Association of Pupil Personnel Workers and school social work participation in convention, and copies of papers presented at the convention.
Proceedings of the Institute on School Social Work sponsored by Fordham University School of Social Service.
Manuscript by Joseph Rosner.
A ... Study of the School Adjustment Counsellor Program in ... Massachusetts . . . , by Doria Amelia Berggren, Phyllis Marie Borah, Beverly Elizabeth Singer, Albert Scofield, and Mary Kate Siedle, Boston University School of Social Work.
The School Social Worker: An Analysis of Present Teaching Programs in Relationship to Job Junctions, by Robert Bernard Rowen, University of Arizona.