Records, 1863-1922.

Boston Children's Service Association

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Boston Society for the Care of Girls

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The Boston Female Asylum (BFA) was established in 1800, incorporated in 1803, and changed its name in 1910 to The Boston Society for the Care of Girls. The Boston Female Asylum, organized by Mrs. Hannah Stillman, was the "first public charity projected and established by women in the town of Boston."The objective of the Society was to "raise funds for the benefit of female orphan children from three to ten years of age." During the Society's first two years, the girls were boarded out to good ho...

Boston Children's Aid Society

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The Boston Children's Aid Society was founded in 1863 to provide temporary reformative care for children and to bind them out to appropriate families. It later provided homes for destitute children as well. By 1900 it had closed its three homes and began to provide foster and medical care for needy children. In 1923 it merged with the Boston Society for the Care of Girls to form the Children's Aid Association, later to become the Boston Children's Service Association. From the descri...

Children's Aid Association (Boston, Mass.)

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The Children's Aid Association was formed by the merger of the Boston Children's Aid Society and the Boston Society for the Care of Girls in 1922. It merged with the Boston Children's Friend Society in 1960 to become the Boston Children's Services Association. The CAA was a private child welfare agency that dealt with foster care placements, adoptions and counseling. From the description of Records, 1915-1960, 1922-1960. (University of Massachusetts at Boston). WorldCat record id: 52...