Family Service of Los Angeles Area and Welfare Planning Council scrapbooks 1940s-1960s

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Family Service of Los Angeles Area and Welfare Planning Council scrapbooks 1940s-1960s

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This collection of scrapbooks originated with Family Service of Los Angeles Area and the Welfare Planning Council. The albums contain clippings regarding adoption; materials on the activities and functions of the Southeast Advisory Council of Family Service; the Welfare Planning Council; and the Neighborhood Youth Association of the Episcopalian Church. Also included is an album celebrating Evelyn Davis' nomination and reception of the Koshland Award. The dates of the scrapbooks' material range from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.

20.0 linear ft.; 11 boxes

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6650210

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Family Service of Los Angeles Area. Southeast Advisory Council.

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Los Angeles County (Calif.). Dept. of Children and Family Services

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Neighborhood Youth Association (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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Historical Note The Neighborhood Youth Association began as charitable organization under the aegis of the Episcopal Church in 1914. Using a settlement house approach, the Association's original goal was to acculturate immigrants to Los Angeles' West side neighborhoods to American culture and values. Over the years the Association has broadened its mission to include providing social service and couneling for poor families and teenaged childr...

Welfare Planning Council, Los Angeles Region

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The Welfare Planning Council was created in 1953 when the Welfare Council of Metropolitan Los Angeles was reorganized at the recommendation of the Citizen's Study Committee of the Welfare Federation of Los Angeles. To create a division responsible solely for programs and agencies, the committee had judged that the Welfare Council should be separated from fund-raising functions of the Los Angeles Welfare Federation, then known as the Los Angeles Community Chest. This establishment of the Welfare ...