The Children's Bureau legacy : ensuring the right to childhood.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Children's Bureau, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Children's Bureau--History.

United States.

United States. Children's Bureau.

Child welfare--United States.

Child welfare.

Children--Services for--United States.

Children.

Children--Services for.

Genre:

Ebook.

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([233] pages) : color illustrations

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, [2013?]

Summary:

Comprehensive history of the Children's Bureau from 1912-2012 in eBook form that shares the Bureaus legacy of leadership and commitment to improving the safety, permanency and well-being of children, youth and families.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Chapter 1; Chapter 1: America's Conscience Gives Birth to the Children's Bureau; Introduction; Industrial Revolution: A Mixed Bag for Children; Who Were the Children? ; The Progressive Era and the Advent of Professional Social Work; The Settlement Movement ; Envisioning the Children's Bureau; Origins of Foster Care: The Orphan Train Movement; 1909 White House Conference on the Care of Dependent Children; National Child Labor Committee; The Bureau Is Established; Julia Lathrop: First Chief of the U.S. Children's Bureau, 1912-1921; Chapter 1 Notes; Chapter 2.

Chapter 2: Saving Babies and Restoring Childhood (1912-1929)Introduction; Getting Started; The Important Role of Women's Clubs; Why Babies Die: The Bureau's First Research Program; Seven Decades of Infant Care; Guidance for Parents; Defending a Right to Childhood: The Bureau and Child Labor; Baby Weeks, Children's Year; The Bureau's International Program Begins; 1919 White House Conference on Standards of Child Welfare; Child Welfare News Summary (1919-1935); Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act; Grace Abbott: Chief of the Children's Bureau 1921-1934.

Delinquency, Dependency, and Disease: The Bureau's ResearchDelinquency and Juvenile Courts; Mothers' Aid; Illegitimacy; Child Welfare; Disease; Decline of Indian Boarding Schools ; Chapter 2 Notes; Chapter 3; Chapter 3: The Great Depression and Social Security (1930-1939); Introduction; 1930 White House Conference on Child Health and Protection; The Children's Charter, White House Conference on Child Health and Protection, November 22, 1930; Documenting Need: The Depression's Early Years; Relief Efforts Begin; Katharine Lenroot: Chief of the Children's Bureau 1934-1951.

A New Deal for Children: The Social Security Act of 1935Special Attention to Minority Groups; Child Labor Reform and the Depression; The Child (1936-1953) ; Chapter 3 Notes; Chapter 4; Chapter 4: Wartime and Recovery (1940-1956); Introduction; White House Conference on Children in a Democracy; Care for Refugee Children Leads to International Influence; Domestic Wartime Concerns; Day Care; Children in Wartime; Juvenile Delinquency; Children in Wartime ; Providing Maternity and Infant Care for Soldiers' Families; Changes for the Bureau; Martha Eliot: Chief of the Children's Bureau 1951-1956.

Midcentury White House Conference on Children and YouthThe Children's Bureau's Research Agenda: Renewed Commitment to Vulnerable Children; Children (1954-1971) ; Grant-in-Aid Programs Expand; Maternal and Child Health; Crippled Children; Child Welfare Services; Chapter 4 Notes; Chapter 5; Chapter 5: A Growing Government Shrinks th; Introduction; The Bureau in the Late 1950s; Strengthening Family Life; Social Security Amendments; Training Professional Staff; Health Programs ; Katherine Oettinger: Chief of the Children's Bureau 1957-1968.

Notes:

Mobi and epub versions available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from title screen (viewed April 24, 2014).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

0160917220

9780160917226

129988010X

9781299880108

OCLC:

867012777