Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service.
Biographical notes:
The Bureau led the fight for new laws to improve conditions in tenements.
From the description of Photograph collection, [ca. 1900]-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155457826
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- 1866 Brooklyn Children's Aid Society founded.
- 1866 Union of Christian Work founded.
- 1870 Sheltering Arms Nursery founded.
- 1878 Brooklyn Bureau of Charities founded.
- 1901 Union of Christian Work consolidated with the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities.
- 1920 Sheltering Arms Nursery absorbed by the Brooklyn Children's Aid Society.
- 1945 Brooklyn Bureau of Charities renamed Brooklyn Bureau of Social Service.
- 1948 Brooklyn Bureau of Social Services and Brooklyn Children's Aid Society merge, becoming the Brooklyn Bureau of Social Services and Children's Aid Society.
- 1960s Brooklyn Bureau of Social Services and Children's Aid Society renamed Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service.
- 2010 Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service renamed Brooklyn Community Services.
- Sources:
- Goldman, Esther. 100 Years of Concern for Human Needs, 1866-1966. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Bureau of Social Service and Children’s Aid Society, 1966.
From the guide to the Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service records, circa 1860 to 1990, (Brooklyn Historical Society)
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Subjects:
- Abused children
- Blind
- Blind
- Charities
- Child health services
- Children
- Child welfare
- Family social work
- Family social work
- Foster care
- Home economics centers
- Juvenile deliquency
- Nonprofit organizations
- Nursing homes
- Orphanages
- People with disabilities
- Physically handicapped services
- Poor
- Social settlements
- Social case work
- Social work with older people
- Social work with people with mental disabilities
- Women
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Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) (as recorded)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |x Social conditions (as recorded)
- New York (State)--New York (as recorded)
