Minneapolis Family and Children's Service records 1876-2000

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Minneapolis Family and Children's Service records 1876-2000

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The Minneapolis Family and Children's Service (MFCS) contain annual reports, minutes, studies, correspondence, memoranda, manuals, pamphlets, photographs, newspaper clippings, and case records from MFCS and its predecessor agencies: Minneapolis Associated Charities, Juvenile Protective League, Children's Protective Society, and Family Welfare Association. The records reflect the evolution from early volunteer efforts to a professionally staffed casework agency and document numerous programs, including anti-tuberculosis, visiting nurse, visiting teacher, legal aid, emergency relief efforts during the Depression, child care, foster care, casework and family counselling, family budgets, and senior services. More recent records from the 1980s through the 2000s document agency planning and administration; its efforts to influence public policy relating to families and children; and a series of family and community strengthening programs.

22.25 linear feet in 16 manuscript boxes, 2 legal length boxes, and 15 record cartons.

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University of Minnesota Libraries. Social Welfare History Archives

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Minneapolis Family and Children's Service

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The Minneapolis Family and Children's Service had its origins in two charitable movements that spread across the country during the years following the Civil War. The humane movement, which sought to halt mistreatment of animals and, sometimes almost as an afterthought, children, was represented by the Minneapolis Humane Society, first established as a branch of the Minnesota Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1878. The Humane Society employed an agent to discover c...

Colcord, Joanna C. (Joanna Carver), 1882-1960

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Family Welfare Association (Minneapolis, Minn.)

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Associated Charities of Minneapolis (Minneapolis, Minn.)

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Bruno, Frank John, 1874-1955

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