Family Services of Los Angeles and Welfare Planning Council scrapbooks, 1940s-1960s.

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Family Services of Los Angeles and Welfare Planning Council scrapbooks, 1940s-1960s.

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This collection is an unusual assortment of scrapbooks originating, mainly, with Family Services and the Welfare Planning Council. Five albums (from Family Services) contain solely clippings of newspaper stories about adoption from California newspapers. Album no. 3 has information identifying the agency that gathered these clippings for Family Service--Allen's. Two albums (nos. 6 and 7) contain materials on the activities and functions of the Southeast Advisory Council, Family Services. Two others concern the Welfare Planning Council: albums nos. 9 and 10, while album no. 8 concerns the Neighborhood Youth Association of the Episcopalian Church. Finally, album no. 11 celebrates 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 linear ft. (11 boxes)

University of Southern California, USC Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8117025

University of Southern California, USC Libraries

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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 ...

Family Services of Los Angeles Southeast Advisory Council

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