Meeting agenda and minutes, 1935-1984.

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Alabama. State Dept. of Pensions and Security. Meeting agenda and minutes, 1935-1984.

Meeting agenda and minutes, 1935-1984.

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The Dept. of Human Resources is responsible for promoting a unified development of welfare activities administered by agencies of the state and local governments. This record series, meeting agenda and minutes, 1935-1984, documents the actions of the Board of Public Welfare, later known as the Board of Pensions and Security, in establishing the policies, rules, and regulations under which the Dept. provides services to dependent children, the blind, handicapped, aged, and others deemed eligible for public assistance. The series is arranged chronologically by year; the records for each year are contained in separate loose-leaf notebooks. Included among the minutes of quarterly board meetings are correspondence between board members, memoranda, telegrams, newspaper clippings, press releases, financial statements, departmental audit reports by the Examiners of Public Accounts, proposed budgets, agreements and contracts between the Dept. and other state and federal agencies, lists of permanent and temporary employees, progress reports on personnel, resolutions and legislation, and blank application forms for persons applying for welfare assistance. Of particular interest are the records for the years 1935-1949 when Luola Dunn served as Commissioner of Public Welfare. The records document the period during which the Dept. assumed many of the duties and responsibilities of the Ala. Relief Administration, the Works Progress Administration, and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Some topics discussed include: the allocation of federal funds to the counties; the licensing of maternity hospitals and foster homes for children; the establishment of day care facilities for working mothers during World War II; the investigation of persons seeking "undue hardship" exemptions from local draft boards; the screening of applicants for the Women's Army Corps; follow-up services for syphilis and gonorrhea patients; and the development of curricula for graduate and undergraduate degrees in social work. Significant correspondents include Thad Holt of the Ala. Relief Administration and Aubrey Williams of the Works Progress Administration.

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