Child welfare/family relief case files 1909-1942.

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Child welfare/family relief case files 1909-1942.

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Series documents early child welfare and family relief efforts in Oregon and shows the inter-relationship between private charities and organizations and state relief and child welfare agencies. Series includes a sample of case files from the Associated Charities, Portland; the Child Welfare Commission; and the State Relief Committee. Records include home relief grant records, case histories, financial data, emergency food receipts, invoices, state aid approval forms, adoption information, food budgets, and correspondence with child care facilities. Topics include unemployment, single parent families, child and spouse abuse, placement of children in institutions or foster homes, adoptions, domestic abandoment, temporary relief, sickness, and divorce.

5 cu. ft.

Oregon State Archives

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Oregon. State Relief Committee

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Oregon. State Public Welfare Commission

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The Public Welfare Commission was created in 1939 as a result of the combination of duties of the Child Welfare Commission and the State Relief Committee. The Welfare Commission was created in 1919 succeeding the state-aided Child Welfare Committee founded in 1913. The Child Welfare Commission was responsible for licensing institutions which cared for neglected and dependent children, preparing adoption reports for courts, and investigating reports of child abuse and neglect. ...