Family Service Association of America

The Family Service Association of America began in 1911 as the American Association for Organizing Charity, and was later known as the Family Welfare Association of America. It promotes, sets standards for, and serves as a vehicle for communication among social work agencies that provide casework and related services.

The Family Service Association of America (FSAA) was formed in as an independent national organization in 1911. Representing the effort to promote and coordinate the charity organization movement in cities throughout the U.S. and Canada, it grew out of meetings at the annual National Conference of Charities and Correction as well as the work of the Russell Sage Foundation's Charity Organization Department. The organization's name has evolved frequently: National Association of Societies for Organizing Charity (1911-1912); American Association of Societies for Organizing Charities (1912-1917); American Association for Organizing Charities (1917-1919); American Association for Organizing Family Social Work (1919-1930); Family Welfare Association of America (1930-1946); Family Service Association of America (1946-1983); Family Service America (1983-1993); and Alliance for Children and Families, part of Families International, Inc. (1993 to the present). After operating out of offices in New York City for 70 years, the organization moved its headquarters to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the mid-1980s.

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