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Creator: | Council for Human Services in New Jersey |
Title: | Council for Human Services in New Jersey records |
Dates: | 1904-1992, bulk 1920-1976 |
Quantity: | 30.5 cubic feet (28 records center cartons and 12 phase boxes) |
Abstract: | Through its annual conferences, the Council for Human Services in New Jersey provided a forum for the exchange of information and ideas between persons from private charities, religious organizations, and government agencies who were involved directly "with the problems of human affliction and distress." Between conferences, the Council's additional work in studying both societal problems and the delivery of social welfare services in New Jersey was largely carried out through its committees (e.g., the Child Welfare Committee). Agricultural laborers, older people, refugees, drug addiction, juvenile delinquency, public assistance (welfare), and public health were among the topics addressed by the Council. Separate from its conferences, the organization also disseminated information, study results, and revised standards through its publications. Its advocacy contributed to the formation of other organizations (including the New Jersey Association for Mental Health and the Rutgers University Graduate School of Social Work) and influenced the adoption of state regulations and legislation. The Council was known by several different names, including as the New Jersey Welfare Council from 1938 to 1975. Included in the records of the Council are constitutions and bylaws; minutes; resolutions; annual reports; various financial records; a chrono file; conference papers and agendas; committee files; subject files; historical files; publications; files of the affiliated Social Welfare Research Foundation of New Jersey; photographs; a membership card file; a publications index; and scrapbooks. |
Collection No.: | MC 913 |
Access: | Stored offsite. Advance notice of two working days required to consult bulk of collection. (Only oversize scrapbooks in boxes 29-40 avalable without advance notice.) |
Language: | English |
Repository: | Rutgers University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives |
The Council for Human Services in New Jersey, originally known as the New Jersey Conference of Charities and Correction (1) was founded in 1901. It was strongly supported by the New Jersey State Charities Aid Association, a semiofficial body which acted as an inspector of charitable institutions. Its purpose was to "bring together the hundreds of men and women who are dealing at first hand with the problems of human affliction and distress," and to show "the points of contact, and the need of co-operation between private benevolent agencies and public relief officers." (2) Over one hundred delegates attended the first conference in Trenton in 1902, where Emily E. Williamson of Elizabeth, secretary of the Charities Aid Association and advocate for children and prisoners, was elected president. During the early years of the Council's history, several distinguished figures in New Jersey social welfare served as presidents, including Edward R. Johnstone, executive director of the New Jersey Institution for the Feeble Minded at Vineland, penal reformer Caroline Wittpenn of Hoboken, and social settlement founder Cornelia Bradford of Jersey City.
For a quarter century, the main purpose of the Council was to hold the yearly conference. Early session topics included: public sanitation and hygiene, the relationship of immigration to dependency and crime, almshouse management, women in industry, and municipal and social responsibility for the mortality of children. During this period, the conference effectively brought together activists and intellectuals from all sectors of the social welfare community—state agencies, private charities, and religious organizations.
The Council was run by a President, Vice Presidents, Treasurer, Secretaries and an Executive Committee. Standing committees dealt with conference planning and with nominations. After 1905 the Commissioner of Charities and Correction sat ex officio on the Executive Committee and an Advisory Board and Auditing Committee were added. In December 1925, the Council was reorganized on a year-round basis with a full time Executive Secretary and an office in Newark. The revised constitution expanded the Council's purpose to include: Obtaining and disseminating information and data on social conditions and social service activities, and stimulating workers, institutions and agencies, both public and private in the improvement of their activities for social betterment. (3)
In 1929, the Council's Interracial Committee conducted a statewide survey of African Americans in New Jersey in conjunction with the State Department of Institutions and Agencies, which had been founded in 1918. The Committee studied the health, welfare, and social, economic, and political status of African Americans in communities throughout the state, with a focus on the existing provisions for social services. The survey led to several publications: a detailed report— The Negro in New Jersey (1931), a pamphlet— The Negro: New Jersey's Twentieth Citizen (1932), and reports on individual communities.
The Council also prepared A Social Worker's Guide to Foreign Communities in New Jersey (1930), a directory of the many ethnic social service organizations in the state, and several brief studies that were published both as individual pamphlets and in the Council's monthly Bulletin, including: Advantages and Disadvantages of Federalized vs. Commission Form of State Welfare Organization (Bulletin, January 25, 1932); The Courts of New Jersey (April 14, 1934); and Brief Tentative Outline of the Social Security Act and New Jersey Statutes (October 1, 1935). The Council's Committee on Standards in Child Adoption published Standards for Child Placing Agencies (1932), in which it adapted national standards to the New Jersey context.
During this period, of course, the economic and social dislocation resulting from the Depression had a major impact on social services in the state. In fact, New Jersey was the first state to set up an Emergency Relief Administration, in October 1931, a year and a half before the Federal Emergency Relief Administration was established. (4) Leaders of the Council served on the Advisory Section on Social Welfare Problems to the New Jersey Emergency Relief Administration. As well as suggesting ways to coordinate and standardize the administration of relief in the state, the Advisory Section helped develop social work training courses for Administration workers at Dana College in Newark and Rutgers University Extension in New Brunswick. In 1934, the Council began to advocate the establishment of a school for social workers in New Jersey, a goal not achieved until the opening of the Graduate School of Social Work at Rutgers University in 1955.
In 1934, the chairman of the Committee on Social Work Training, Dr. Ellen Potter, was elected president of the Council. Ellen Potter (1871-1958), who had made her mark as an early woman physician, public administrator, and public health advocate, served as Director of Medicine at the State Department of Institutions and Agencies from 1930 to 1949. At the 1934 conference, the Council passed a resolution calling for an end to the ban on sending birth control information through the mail, which cost the support of some Catholic organizations. In spite of this opposition, under Potter's leadership the Council continued to support birth control and voluntary sterilization. During Potter's presidency, the Council also began to plan for the future administration of relief in New Jersey, anticipating the eventual demise of the state Emergency Relief Administration, which indeed ceased operations in 1936. It drew up a plan for a state public welfare department which would distribute relief through counties rather than through municipalities, which was eventually embodied in several legislative proposals.
During the Depression, contributions to the Council declined, and, in 1935, a bank called in a loan, leaving a balance of nine dollars in the organization's treasury. In 1937, the Council launched a major fundraising campaign, the Common Sense Appeal, which was moderately successful.
The Council's financial situation worsened, however, during the Second World War because of higher taxation and the competition from wartime charities. In general, committee work declined during this period, with the notable exceptions of the Child Welfare and Health Committees and their various subcommittees. In 1942, the Child Welfare Committee was reorganized to deal with issues related to defense, such as the need to provide day care for the children of women factory workers, violations of the 1940 Child Labor Law, and juvenile delinquency. At the same time, the Child Welfare Committee continued its regular program of research into the treatment of developmentally disabled children and facilities for the care of adolescents. The Health Committee addressed unsanitary conditions in areas around military bases and factories, which were crowded with migrants from other parts of the country. It conducted extensive surveys of public health administration in the state, contributing to the reorganization of the State Department of Health in 1946 and the establishment of a Division of Chronic Illness Control in 1952.
In the years following the war, the increase in the birth rate and continuing migration into the state led to an increase in case loads and institutional populations. The Council was extremely busy during this period, expanding its focus to include several new areas, such as the plight of displaced persons from Central Europe who had immigrated to New Jersey after the war. The work of the Council's Committee on Displaced Persons, in cooperation with Rutgers University and a grant from the East European Fund, led to the establishment of the New Jersey Resettlement Project for East European refugees in 1953.
Beginning in the mid-1940s, the Council's committees were also active in the area of mental health. The Mental Health Committee, founded in 1944, supported improved services and increased appropriations for the mentally ill and developmentally disabled, the establishment of the Interstate Compact on Mental Health (1957), the provision of special educational services for emotionally and socially maladjusted children, and the foundation of community mental health clinics. (5) In 1947, the Council brought together professionals and citizens interested in mental health and held a series of regional conferences leading to the formation of the New Jersey Association for Mental Health the following year. Under the leadership of Council President Elizabeth Boggs, who was on the Board of Directors of the American Association for Mental Deficiency, the Council supported legislation converting Bordentown Manual Training School into a school for the developmentally disabled. In 1961, Council President Marion Rieman served on the State Mental Health Study Commission.
The Council also continued campaigns which had originated in earlier decades. The Adoptions Committee, originally a subcommittee of Child Welfare, worked to improve and standardize adoption practices. It sought "to spread information regarding good adoption practice, encourage the use of adoption agencies, and work for the passage of the proposed adoption law." (6) Indeed the campaign contributed to the passage of the Adoption Law of 1953. The Council also continued to advocate the integration of state and local public assistance in New Jersey. (7)
In 1959, struck by the number of addicts living near its office in Newark, the Council formed a Drug Addiction Study Committee at a time when there was little public interest or citizen activity in this field. Over the next ten years, the Committee studied and made recommendations regarding legislation, sponsored sessions and workshops, and produced a directory of treatment resources in the state. By 1968, when the Committee voted to disband, New Jersey had established a Bureau of Narcotics and Drug Abuse under the Division of Community Affairs of the Department of Institutions and Agencies, and clinics had been established through the state. (8)
During this period, the Council also addressed the issue of who should pay for social welfare programs. In response to the rising living costs of the 1960s, the Council's Fees for Service Committee published Guidelines to the Measurement of Ability to Pay for Health and Social Services, which appeared in several editions between 1962 and 1973. In addition to committee work, the Council continued to hold yearly conferences and workshops and to publish its newsletter, the Bulletin, as well as the Legislative Information Bulletin (1954-1975), which monitored social welfare bills in the state legislature. Between 1956 and 1969, the Council held an annual Legislative Forum, where both sides of pending bills were presented.
In spite of the Council's many achievements during the postwar era, it continued to suffer from financial difficulties. In 1946, because of new regulations, it could no longer accept tax exempt contributions. The Council tried to appeal this ruling several times, resolving in 1950 to stop any activity which could be construed as lobbying. Committees were directed to present both sides of issues in reports and testimony, although they were encouraged to try to influence legislation indirectly. (9) In this year, the Council also changed its structure, grouping committees into three subject based divisions—Group Services, Individual Services, and Health—each of which had a director.
In order to further address the problem of its tax status, the Council founded a branch organization, the Social Welfare Research Foundation of New Jersey, in 1964. The purpose of the Foundation was to raise money to perform and disseminate research in the field of social welfare. It was governed by its own board of trustees, but shared headquarters with the Council; the two organizations had a joint steering committee and representation on mutual committees. The Foundation devoted much of its time to the planning of the Annual Institutes, workshops for social workers given at the Council's annual conference on issues such as juvenile justice, drug abuse, mental health, disabilities, and crisis intervention. The Institutes, which were partially underwritten by a grant from the Switz Foundation, attracted from 400 to 500 participants a year. The Foundation also undertook a study of New Jersey's laws relating to young people, which resulted in the publication of a pamphlet for teenagers, The Law—Get With It (1967), and a second edition, The Law—For Real (1970), which were distributed in schools and community organizations. The success of this project led to the publication of the Far Out Green Super Cool series of comic books aimed at grade school children.
Even after the establishment of the Social Welfare Research Foundation, the Council continued to attempt to regain tax exempt status. It feared losing the support of the United Funds (later United Way), its greatest source of income. (10) In fact, in 1967, because of the Council's financial problems, the two organizations negotiated a merger, but terminated the agreement the following year because of administrative and budgetary difficulties. The Council remained active, however, during the early 1970s. In 1972, Vice President Jessamine Merrill represented the Council on the New Jersey Child Care Planning Committee, which brought together parents, professionals and citizens to evaluate and plan for day care in the state. The Committee formed the Coalition for Children of New Jersey in 1973. During this period, the Council also published the Directory of Social Welfare and Health Services in New Jersey (1973), as well as serving as a referral service for people seeking help or information about social welfare.
In 1975, the New Jersey Welfare Council and the Social Welfare Research Foundation merged to form a new tax exempt organization, the Council for Human Services of New Jersey. In spite of the merger, the Council's financial difficulties continued. Membership and contributions declined, as many of the Council's functions were taken over by the state, and it faced competition from better funded and more narrowly focused organizations. The 1976 conference failed to attract anticipated attendance, leaving the Council seriously in debt and forcing it to lay off its Executive Director and Secretary and vacate its office in Trenton. The Council found new space in Trenton in the Contemporary Club, of which Merrill was an officer, and continued its activities largely through volunteer effort. As well as continuing to hold the annual conference and publish its newsletter, the Council joined the Alliance for Affordable Housing, which successfully opposed attempts to prevent the courts from forcing municipalities to build low cost housing. In 1985, the Council was also one of several amici curiae petitioners seeking to require the New Jersey Department of Human Services to establish and enforce adequate standards for public assistance.
In 1989, the Council had to vacate its office at the Contemporary Club and place its records and furniture in storage. In November 1990, Board member Charlotte Kohn Abberman allowed the Council to operate out of her office in Fairfield, New Jersey. Attempts to contact it in 1997 were unsuccessful.
(1) The Council went through several name changes during its ninety year history. Originally known as both the New Jersey Conference of Charities and Corrections and the New Jersey State Conference of Charities and Correction, it was renamed the New Jersey Conference for Social Welfare in 1919, the New Jersey Conference of Social Work in 1925, and the New Jersey Welfare Council in 1938. In 1975, it merged with the Social Welfare Research Foundation of New Jersey and took on its name, but the following year renamed itself the Council for Human Services of New Jersey. The name was modified slightly to Council for Human Services in New Jersey in 1983.
(2) Hugh Fox, "History of the New Jersey Conference of Charities and Correction," typescript (1912), box 23, folder 13.
(3) "Revised Constitution of the New Jersey Conference for Social Welfare," The New Jersey Conference of Social Work Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting [Proceedings] (Asbury Park, N.J., 1926). The organization later moved its office to Montclair in late 1965 and then to Trenton in early 1969.
(4) Douglas H. Macneil, Seven Years of Unemployment Relief in New Jersey, 1930-1936 (Washington, 1938), iv.
(5) "A Brief History of the New Jersey Welfare Council, 1881-1962," typescript (1974), box 23, folder 14.
(6) Minutes of the Adoptions Committee (February 19, 1953), box 15, folder 28.
(7) See discussion in James Leiby, Charity and Correction in New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J., 1967), 348-352.
(8) Final Report of the Drug Addiction Study Committee (November 7, 1968), box 16, folder 36.
(9) Minutes of the Public Welfare Committee, box 19, folder 11.
(10) Report from the Committee to Obtain Tax Status (December 13, 1966), box 8, folder 41.
The records of the Council for Human Services in New Jersey span the period 1904 to 1992, with the bulk dating from 1920 to 1976. The collection is 30.5 cubic feet in size (28 records center cartons and 12 oversize scrapbooks).
The records contain relatively little material about the Council's history between 1904 and 1920, except for some fragments of early minutes and correspondence in the GENERAL FILES, a few conference programs, and some early histories of the Council in the HISTORICAL FILES. The records document the administration of the Council, as well as its areas of study and advocacy. The administrative files or GENERAL FILES comprise the largest series (7.8 cubic feet). They document the evolution of the structure of the Council, the workings of the board of directors, the day-to-day operation of the office, as well as the planning of conferences, fundraising, advocacy of legislation, cooperation with other social work organizations, finances, and relations with the membership. Much of this material is fairly routine, with the exception of Ellen Potter's files during her presidency in 1935, which document her work with transients and social work training, and the minutes of the Advisory Section on Social Welfare to the Emergency Relief Administration (1931-1933), which recommended ways to standardize and coordinate government relief in the state, as well as helping to set up training programs for relief workers. The GENERAL FILES also include records of the administrative or standing committees, while the COMMITTEE FILES contain records of the ad hoc committees, which were usually subject based. Additional information on the administration of the Council is provided by the CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS; MINUTES; RESOLUTIONS; ANNUAL REPORTS; AUDITOR'S REPORTS; FINANCIAL RECORDS; and CHRONO FILES series. The COMMON SENSE APPEAL FILES document a major fund-raising campaign in 1937.
The COMMITTEE FILES (4 cubic feet) and SUBJECT FILES (3.5 cubic feet) both document areas of Council investigation and advocacy. Although these two series overlap, the SUBJECT FILES consist chiefly of supporting materials, while the COMMITTEE FILES contain chiefly committee minutes and correspondence. The COMMITTEE FILES document the work of the Interracial Committee, which published The Negro in New Jersey in 1932; the Mental Health Committee (1944-1964), which helped found the New Jersey Association for Mental Health; and the Child Welfare, Mental Health, Narcotics Addiction, Public Welfare, and Rural Health Committees. The SUBJECT FILES primarily contain reference materials on topics that the Council followed such as civil rights, child labor, health insurance, crime and corrections, housing, juvenile delinquency, migrant labor, aging, reconciliation of married couples, and welfare. Many of these subjects are also documented in the CONFERENCE PAPERS AND AGENDAS series. Conference proceedings were published by the Department of Institutions and Agencies from 1901 until 1930; this series contains conference papers from 1922 to 1960, continuing with some gaps until 1973.
As well as minutes, correspondence, financial records, and conference materials, this collection contains material in several other formats. The PUBLICATIONS series contains pamphlets, serials and miscellany published by the Council on various subjects. The SUBJECT FILES contain published material from other social welfare organizations. Almost all series include newspaper clippings about the Council, which have been photocopied for preservation. In addition, the collection contains a small number of photographs which document conferences chiefly from the 1960s. The Council preserved its publications, newspaper clippings and ephemera in a series of scrapbooks dating from 1921 to 1957. The Council also stored information on 3 x 5 cards. The MEMBERSHIP CARD FILE records names and addresses of members from 1928 to 1972, while the PUBLICATIONS INDEX lists articles from the Bulletin by title between 1928 to 1963.
Finally, this collection contains the records of the Social Welfare Research Foundation of New Jersey, the fund-raising and research arm of the Council, from its foundation in 1965 to its merger with the Council in 1975, comprising one cubic foot of material. These records document the administration of the Foundation, the planning of the annual workshops, and the Youth and the Law project, which produced educational materials for children and teenagers.
The need to integrate the three accessions of records and their poor state of organization necessitated some rearrangement of the collection. In the storage facility, all types of material were grouped together by year. Consequently, the minutes, committee files, subject files, publications, annual reports, and auditor's reports were separated and placed in alphabetical and/or chronological order and combined with the corresponding files from the original accession. The remaining files, comprising the administrative correspondence of the Council, were arranged chronologically by year, and headings were arranged alphabetically within each year. Overlapping files were ordered according to the beginning date on the file headings. Original headings were retained when possible, although in some cases were modified to more accurately reflect the contents of the file. Some file headings varied according to the terminology of the time. For instance, "Mental Deficiency" became "Mental Retardation," which later became "Developmentally Disabled."
Special Collections and University Archives at Rutgers holds several manuscript collections related to the Council for Human Services in New Jersey, including records of the New Jersey Emergency Relief Administration Training Unit (1932-1936), which were received with the Council's records; the papers of Council treasurer Jessamine Merrill; and some papers of Julia Minor, chairman of the Child Welfare Committee (1946-1949).
In its cataloged book collections, Special Collections and University Archives holds the New Jersey Conference of Charities and Corrections Proceedings, 1902-1930, and a complete run of the 1932 The Negro in New Jersey: Community Reports (SNCLNJ E185.93 .N54N32), as well as other publications also found in the Council's records.
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Council for Human Services in New Jersey Records. MC 913. Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
This section provides descriptions of the materials found within each record series. Each series description is followed by a container list, which gives the titles of the folders and their locations in the numbered boxes that comprise this collection.
CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS, 1934-circa 1987 (1 folder) | |||||||||||
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically. | |||||||||||
Summary: Constitutions and bylaws of the Council including certificates of incorporation, proposed changes, and amendments. Also includes minutes, correspondence and reports of the Bylaws Committee (1963). | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 1 | 1934-1973 | |||||||||
2 | circa 1987 |
MINUTES, 1904-1976 and 1983-1991 (1.5 cubic feet) | |||||||||||
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically (with gaps). | |||||||||||
Summary: Meeting minutes of the Executive Board and of the Board of Trustees of the Council for Human Services in New Jersey. Also includes minutes of the annual meeting. The bulk of the series consists of meeting minutes. Other document types include related correspondence, membership lists, charts, brochures, resolutions, reports, financial statements, committee rules, agendas, and constitutions and bylaws. | |||||||||||
Subjects discussed include committee formation, actions of Board, membership, finances, nonprofit tax exempt status, possible mergers with other organizations, and conferences. Includes reports of committees on subjects such as public assistance, child welfare, and legislation. Of interest is a long transcript of the October 25, 1925, Board Meeting at which the rewriting of the Council's constitution was discussed. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 3 | 1904, 1911 and undated | |||||||||
4 | 1919-1926 | ||||||||||
5 | 1927 | ||||||||||
6 | 1928 | ||||||||||
7 | 1929 | ||||||||||
8 | 1930-1931 | ||||||||||
9 | 1932 | ||||||||||
10 | 1933 | ||||||||||
11 | 1934 | ||||||||||
12 | 1935 | ||||||||||
13 | 1936 | ||||||||||
14 | 1937 | ||||||||||
15 | 1938 | ||||||||||
16 | 1939-1940 | ||||||||||
17 | 1941-1942 | ||||||||||
18 | 1943-1944 | ||||||||||
19 | 1945 | ||||||||||
20 | 1946 | ||||||||||
21 | 1947 | ||||||||||
22 | 1948-1949 | ||||||||||
23 | 1950 | ||||||||||
24 | 1951 | ||||||||||
25 | 1952 | ||||||||||
26 | 1953-1954 | ||||||||||
27 | 1955 | ||||||||||
28 | 1956 | ||||||||||
29 | 1957 | ||||||||||
30 | 1958-1960 | ||||||||||
31 | 1961-1962 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 1 | 1963 | |||||||||
2 | 1964 | ||||||||||
3 | 1965 | ||||||||||
4 | 1966 | ||||||||||
5 | 1967 | ||||||||||
6 | 1968 | ||||||||||
7 | 1969-1970 | ||||||||||
8 | 1971 | ||||||||||
9 | 1972 | ||||||||||
10 | 1973 | ||||||||||
11 | 1974 | ||||||||||
12 | 1975 | ||||||||||
13 | 1976 | ||||||||||
14 | 1983-1984 | ||||||||||
15 | 1985 | ||||||||||
16 | 1986 | ||||||||||
17 | 1987 | ||||||||||
18 | 1988-1989 | ||||||||||
19 | 1990 | ||||||||||
20 | 1991 | ||||||||||
21 | Annual Meeting, 1984-1986 |
RESOLUTIONS, 1936-1966 (3 folders) | |||||||||||
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically. | |||||||||||
Summary: Original copies of resolutions of the Board and committees of the Council for Human Services in New Jersey. | |||||||||||
The bulk of the series consists of resolutions. Also included is some correspondence and copies of statements made at government hearings. | |||||||||||
The series illustrates areas of Council research and activity. Most resolutions express support or opposition to proposed legislation or actions of the state government. Subjects covered include adoption, juvenile delinquency, state budgets, public health, mental health, immigration, the elderly, public welfare, civil rights, and worker's compensation. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 22 | 1936-1945 | |||||||||
23 | 1947-1956 | ||||||||||
24 | 1957-1966 |
ANNUAL REPORTS, 1951-1966 (2 folders) | |||||||||||
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically (with gaps). | |||||||||||
Summary: Reports on Council's yearly activities in various formats. The Annual Report became more formal in 1964 and began to include treasurer's reports. | |||||||||||
Documents activities of Board and committees, as well as publications, research, conferences, legislation, information service and fundraising. Also gives membership statistics. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 25 | 1951-1963 | |||||||||
26 | 1964-1966 |
FINANCIAL RECORDS, 1937-1946, 1960-1966 and 1987 (.6 cubic feet) | |||||||||||
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically. | |||||||||||
Summary: Primarily ledgers documenting income and expenditures of Council for each year. Also includes a few loose documents such as a list of members and their dues payments and monthly budget reports. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 27 | Expenditures, 1937 | |||||||||
28 | Income, 1937 | ||||||||||
29 | Expenditures, 1938 | ||||||||||
30 | Income, 1938 | ||||||||||
31 | Expenditures, 1939 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 1 | Income, 1939 | |||||||||
2 | Expenditures, 1940 | ||||||||||
3 | Income, 1940 | ||||||||||
4 | Expenditures, 1941 | ||||||||||
5 | Income, 1941 | ||||||||||
6 | Expenditures, 1942 | ||||||||||
7 | Income, 1942 | ||||||||||
8 | Expenditures, 1943 | ||||||||||
9 | Income, 1943 | ||||||||||
10 | Expenditures, 1944 | ||||||||||
11 | Income, 1944 | ||||||||||
12 | Income, 1945 | ||||||||||
13 | Income, 1946 | ||||||||||
14 | Budgets, 1960-1964 | ||||||||||
15 | Cash Disbursements and Expenses, 1962 | ||||||||||
16 | Cash Disbursements and Expenses, 1965 | ||||||||||
17 | Expenses, Income and Cash Disbursements, 1966 | ||||||||||
18 | Budgets, 1987 |
AUDITOR'S REPORTS, 1957-1961 and 1971-1974 (2 folders) | |||||||||||
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically. | |||||||||||
Summary: Audits of Council's financial records. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 19 | 1957-1961 | |||||||||
20 | 1971-1974 |
GENERAL FILES, 1909-1992 (7.8 cubic feet) | |||||||||||
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year and alphabetically within each year. | |||||||||||
Summary: Administrative files of the Council for Human Services in New Jersey. Document types include correspondence received, copies of correspondence sent, minutes, reports, copies of bills, budgets, membership lists, agendas, programs, publications, press releases, and newspaper clippings. | |||||||||||
Documents the planning and execution of the yearly conference, annual meeting and Board meetings, nominations to the Board, fundraising, support of legislation, relations with membership particularly the United Funds and Councils (United Way), finances, and relations with other social service organizations. Among the organizations with which the Council cooperated were the Citizens Association on Correction, the Citizen Committee for Mental Health, the Inter-Agency Committee for Education of the Handicapped, the Consumers League of New Jersey, and the League of Women Voters of New Jersey. | |||||||||||
In the 1970s, these files document the Council's function as a clearinghouse for social welfare information. | |||||||||||
Until 1926, when the Council established a year-round office, the records solely pertain to the yearly conference. Of interest in this section is a survey of attendees asking for ideas for the next conference. After 1926, the Council did several surveys of health and social welfare provision in the state, including a survey of municipalities in Bergen County (1928), counties (1937), and of the policies and structure of local welfare councils (1961). | |||||||||||
Of particular interest are the minutes and reports of the Advisory Section on Social Welfare to the Emergency Relief Administration (1931-1933) on which several Council officers served. Among the Council's recommendations were the establishment of a special department to make loans to the "white collar class" and the better training of relief workers. Also of interest is the correspondence of Ellen Potter during her presidency of the Council (1935). As well as fundraising and administration, her correspondence refers to the policies of the Emergency Relief Administration, particularly in relation to relief of transients and the homeless; and her support for the New Jersey Birth Control League and the Federal Social Security Act. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 21 | Correspondence, 1909-1914 | |||||||||
22 | Correspondence, 1915-1916 | ||||||||||
23 | Funding Correspondence, 1919-1924 | ||||||||||
24 | Financial Documents, 1920-1923 | ||||||||||
25 | List of Officers and Correspondence, 1920-1925 | ||||||||||
26 | Civic Forum, 1921 | ||||||||||
27 | Conference Programs, 1922-1924 | ||||||||||
28 | Honorary Guarantors, 1922-1923 | ||||||||||
29 | New Jersey Council of Churches, 1922 | ||||||||||
30 | Conference, 1923 | ||||||||||
31 | Committees, 1924 | ||||||||||
32 | Conference, 1924 | ||||||||||
33 | Fund-raising Correspondence, 1924 | ||||||||||
34-35 | Miscellaneous, 1924-1925 | ||||||||||
36 | Contributors List, 1925 | ||||||||||
37 | Appeal, 1926 | ||||||||||
38 | Appeal Correspondence—Barstow, Buzby, Chubb, and Hetrick, 1926 | ||||||||||
39 | Appeal Correspondence—Walter Kidde, 1926 | ||||||||||
40 | Conference—Program Committee, 1926 | ||||||||||
41 | Constitution and Bylaws, 1926 | ||||||||||
43 | Correspondence—Other Organizations, 1926-1928 | ||||||||||
44 | Correspondence—Probation, 1926 | ||||||||||
45 | Fund-raising Correspondence, 1926 | ||||||||||
46 | Fund-raising Correspondence, 1926-1930 | ||||||||||
47-49 | General Correspondence, 1926 | ||||||||||
50 | Newspaper Publicity, 1926 | ||||||||||
51 | Officers, 1926 | ||||||||||
52 | West Hoboken Day Nursery, 1926 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 1-2 | Wisconsin Conference of Social Work, 1926 | |||||||||
3 | Year-Round Conference, 1926 | ||||||||||
4 | Almshouses, 1927 | ||||||||||
5 | Biographical Information on Conference Speakers, 1927-1928 | ||||||||||
6 | Conference—Vineland, 1927 | ||||||||||
7 | Contributions, 1927 | ||||||||||
8-9 | Correspondence, 1927 | ||||||||||
10 | Kindred Groups, 1927 | ||||||||||
11 | Notes on Interviews, 1927 | ||||||||||
12 | Social Service Bureau, 1927-1928 | ||||||||||
13 | Somerset County Conference, 1927 | ||||||||||
14 | State Department of Institutions and Agencies, 1927-1929 | ||||||||||
15 | The Survey, 1927-1929 | ||||||||||
16 | Sussex County Conference of Social Work, 1927-1929 | ||||||||||
17 | Treasurer's Report, 1927-1929 | ||||||||||
18 | Bergen County Survey—Allendale Englewood Cliffs, 1928 | ||||||||||
19 | Bergen County Survey—Garfield-Oradell, 1928 | ||||||||||
20 | Bergen County Survey—Palisades Park-Wyckoff, 1928 | ||||||||||
21 | Social Legislation, 1928 | ||||||||||
22 | Russell Sage Foundation, 1929-1930 | ||||||||||
23 | List of Social Workers, 1930 | ||||||||||
24-25 | Conference, 1931—Questionnaires | ||||||||||
26 | Correspondence—General, 1931 | ||||||||||
27 | Correspondence—General, A-J, 1931 | ||||||||||
28 | Correspondence—General, M-S, 1931 | ||||||||||
29 | Fund-raising Drive, 1931 | ||||||||||
30 | Fund-raising Drive $100 Prospects, 1931 | ||||||||||
31 | Silk and Labor Committee, 1931-1932 | ||||||||||
32 | Social Work Publicity Council, 1931-1932 | ||||||||||
33 | Statistics—State Wards, 1931 | ||||||||||
34-35 | White House Conference—Miscellaneous, 1931 | ||||||||||
36 | Citizens' Committee on Institutional Development, 1932 | ||||||||||
37 | Conference, 1932—Continuation Committee | ||||||||||
38 | Correspondence—A, 1932 | ||||||||||
39 | Correspondence—B, 1932 | ||||||||||
40 | Correspondence—C, 1932 | ||||||||||
41 | Correspondence—William J. Ellis, 1932 | ||||||||||
43 | Correspondence—L, 1932 | ||||||||||
44 | Correspondence—M-N, 1932 | ||||||||||
45 | Correspondence—O-Q, 1932 | ||||||||||
46 | Emergency Relief Administration, Advisory Board—Minutes, January-April 1932 | ||||||||||
47 | Emergency Relief Administration, Advisory Section—Miscellany, 1931-1932 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 1 | Emergency Relief Administration—Printed Materials, 1931-1932 | |||||||||
2 | Emergency Relief Administration—Advisory Section—Reports, 1932 | ||||||||||
3 | Emergency Relief Administration—Miscellany, 1932-1933 | ||||||||||
4 | Fundraising Lists, 1934-1935 | ||||||||||
5 | Correspondence—Fundraising, 1935 | ||||||||||
6 | Correspondence—Ellen Potter, January-February, 1935 | ||||||||||
7 | Correspondence—Ellen Potter, March-June, 1935 | ||||||||||
8 | Correspondence—Ellen Potter, June-September, 1935 | ||||||||||
9 | Correspondence—Ellen Potter, September, 1935 | ||||||||||
10 | Correspondence—Ellen Potter, August-October, 1935 | ||||||||||
11 | Correspondence—Ellen Potter, November-December, 1935 | ||||||||||
12-13 | William Ellis—Speeches, 1935-1937 | ||||||||||
14 | Finance Committee, 1935 | ||||||||||
15 | Fundraising—Bernardsville, 1935 | ||||||||||
16 | Fundraising—Hackensack, 1935 | ||||||||||
17 | Fundraising—Jersey City, 1935 | ||||||||||
18 | Fundraising—Newark, 1935 | ||||||||||
19 | Fundraising—New Brunswick, 1935 | ||||||||||
20 | Fundraising—The Oranges, 1935 | ||||||||||
21 | Fundraising—Plainfield, 1935 | ||||||||||
22 | Fundraising—Trenton, 1935 | ||||||||||
23 | Montclair Meeting, 1935 | ||||||||||
24 | Newark Dinner, 1935 | ||||||||||
25 | Pamphlet Materials, circa 1935 | ||||||||||
26 | Press Releases, 1935 | ||||||||||
27 | Annual Meeting, 1937 | ||||||||||
28 | Catechism of the Conference—Dr. Edward C. Lindeman, circa 1937 | ||||||||||
29 | Newspaper Clippings, 1937 | ||||||||||
30 | Questionnaires, 1937 | ||||||||||
31 | Resolutions, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||
32 | Standing Committees, 1937 | ||||||||||
33 | Bulletin Materials, 1938 | ||||||||||
34 | Correspondence—David Fales, 1938 | ||||||||||
35 | Finances—Correspondence and Reports, 1940 and 1947 | ||||||||||
36 | Group Work, circa 1940 | ||||||||||
37 | Essex County Regional Forum, 1941 | ||||||||||
38 | Members, 1941 | ||||||||||
39 | Regional Forums Committee, 1941 | ||||||||||
40 | Regional Forums Committee—Minutes and Reports, 1941-1942 | ||||||||||
41 | Resolutions Committee, 1941-1954 | ||||||||||
42 | Conference of Committees of New Jersey Health and Welfare Organizations, 1943 | ||||||||||
43 | Board of Directors, 1944 | ||||||||||
44 | Tax Exempt Status, 1944-1946 | ||||||||||
45 | Committee Reports, 1945 | ||||||||||
46 | Council and Budgeting Subcommittee, 1946-1947 | ||||||||||
47 | Council Promotion, 1947 | ||||||||||
48 | County Representatives, 1948 | ||||||||||
49 | Committee Reports, 1950 | ||||||||||
50 | Tax Exempt Status, 1950-1961 | ||||||||||
51 | Constitution and Amendments, 1951 | ||||||||||
52 | Council Programs, 1951 | ||||||||||
53 | Executive Secretary—Responsibilities, 1951 | ||||||||||
54 | Board of Directors—Correspondence and Reports, 1952 | ||||||||||
55 | Committee Reports, 1952 | ||||||||||
56 | Board of Directors Correspondence, 1953 | ||||||||||
57 | Chests and Councils Meeting, 1953 | ||||||||||
58 | Committee Reports, 1953 | ||||||||||
59 | Legislation, 1953-1955 | ||||||||||
60 | Program Committee, 1953 | ||||||||||
61 | Committee Reports, 1954 | ||||||||||
62-63 | Conference—Biographical Data on Speakers, 1954 | ||||||||||
64 | Legislation Supported by Welfare Council, 1954 | ||||||||||
65 | Meder Report and Bylaw Amendments, 1954 | ||||||||||
66 | Chests and Councils, 1955 | ||||||||||
67 | Committee Reports, 1955 | ||||||||||
68 | Conference Program Planning Committee, 1955-1956 | ||||||||||
69 | Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1955-1957 | ||||||||||
70 | Program Committee, 1955 | ||||||||||
71 | Resolutions, 1955 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 1 | South Jersey Correspondence, 1955 | |||||||||
2 | Charges to Committees, 1956 | ||||||||||
3 | Conference Planning Committee, 1956-1957 | ||||||||||
4 | Legislation, 1956-1957 and 1959 | ||||||||||
5 | Merger with Health and Sanitary Association, 1956-1958 | ||||||||||
6 | Public Relations Committee, 1956 | ||||||||||
7 | Charges to Committees, 1957 | ||||||||||
8 | Chests and Councils, 1957 | ||||||||||
9 | Committee Reports, 1957 | ||||||||||
10 | Conference—Biographical Data on Speakers, 1957 | ||||||||||
11 | Family Relations Luncheon—Papers, 1957 | ||||||||||
12 | Finance Committee, 1957-1958 | ||||||||||
13 | Marguerite Galloway Memorial Lecture, 1957-1964 | ||||||||||
14 | Legislation, 1957 | ||||||||||
15 | Nominating Committee, 1957 | ||||||||||
16 | Personnel Practices, 1957-1958 | ||||||||||
17 | Treasurer, 1957 | ||||||||||
18 | Advisory Committee on Council of State Organizations, 1958-1959 | ||||||||||
19 | Community Chests and Councils Committee, 1958-1967 | ||||||||||
20 | Legislation, 1958 | ||||||||||
21 | Publicity, 1958-1959 | ||||||||||
22 | Services to Local Councils, 1958-1961 | ||||||||||
23 | Conference Presentations, 1959-1960 | ||||||||||
24 | Legislative Committee, 1959-1961 | ||||||||||
25 | Membership, 1959 | ||||||||||
26 | Membership, 1959-1961 | ||||||||||
27 | National Conference on Social Welfare, 1959-1961 | ||||||||||
28 | Annual Meeting, 1960 | ||||||||||
29 | Board of Trustees—Correspondence, 1960 | ||||||||||
30 | Budgets, 1960-1963 | ||||||||||
31 | Citizens Association on Correction, 1960 | ||||||||||
32 | Conference Planning, 1960 | ||||||||||
33 | Conference Publicity, 1960 | ||||||||||
34 | Executive Committee, 1960 | ||||||||||
35 | General Correspondence, 1960 | ||||||||||
36-37 | Institutes—Correspondence, 1960 | ||||||||||
38 | Press Releases, 1960 | ||||||||||
39 | Resolutions, 1960-1963 | ||||||||||
40 | Annual Meeting, 1961 | ||||||||||
41 | Board of Trustees, 1961 | ||||||||||
42 | Board Listings, 1961-1963 | ||||||||||
43 | Chests and Councils, 1961 | ||||||||||
44 | Citizens Association on Correction and Morrow Association, 1961-1964 | ||||||||||
45 | Conference Planning Committee on Inter-Group Relations, 1961 | ||||||||||
46-47 | Conference Planning Committee on Inter-Group Relations—General, 1961 | ||||||||||
48 | Conference Planning Committee on Inter-Group Relations—Mental Health Program, 1961 | ||||||||||
49 | Conference Publicity, 1961 | ||||||||||
50 | Correspondence—Executive Director, 1961 | ||||||||||
51 | Executive Committee, 1961 | ||||||||||
52 | Institutes, 1961 | ||||||||||
53 | Legislation, 1961 | ||||||||||
54 | Legislative Bulletin—Supporting Materials, 1961-1963 | ||||||||||
55-56 | Local Council Survey, 1961-1962 | ||||||||||
57 | New Jersey Fund and Council Executives Association, 1961 | ||||||||||
58 | Nominating Committee, 1961-1962 | ||||||||||
59 | Treasurer, 1961 | ||||||||||
60 | Annual Meeting, 1962 | ||||||||||
61 | Board Correspondence, 1962 | ||||||||||
62 | Board of Trustees, Action Taken by, 1962-1963 | ||||||||||
63 | Budget, 1962 | ||||||||||
64 | Conference—Mailings, 1962 | ||||||||||
65 | Conference Publicity, 1962 | ||||||||||
66 | Council of Social Agencies Workshop, 1962 | ||||||||||
67 | Executive Director's Correspondence, 1962 | ||||||||||
68 | Foundations, 1962 | ||||||||||
69 | Laurin Hyde Survey, 1962 | ||||||||||
70-71 | Legislation—Mailings from Other Organizations, 1962 | ||||||||||
72 | Legislative News, Annotated, 1962 | ||||||||||
73-74 | President's Correspondence, 1962-1963 | ||||||||||
75 | Television, 1962 | ||||||||||
76 | Treasurer, 1962 | ||||||||||
77 | Annual Meeting, 1963 | ||||||||||
78 | Board of Trustees—Agendas and Correspondence, 1963 | ||||||||||
79 | Bylaws Committee, 1963-1964 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 1 | Citizens Committee on Mental Health Bills, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
2 | Committees, 1963 | ||||||||||
3 | Conference Planning, 1963-1967 | ||||||||||
4 | Consumers League of New Jersey, 1963-1968 | ||||||||||
5 | Executive Director's Correspondence, 1963 | ||||||||||
6 | Institute on State and Local Planning, 1963 | ||||||||||
7 | Membership Committee—General, 1963 | ||||||||||
8 | Membership Committee—Minutes and Correspondence, 1963 | ||||||||||
9 | New Jersey Associations—Correspondence, 1963-1965 | ||||||||||
10 | Nominating Committee, 1963 | ||||||||||
11 | Organizational Structure, circa 1963 | ||||||||||
12 | Personnel Committee, 1963 and 1971 | ||||||||||
13 | Press Releases, 1963 | ||||||||||
14 | Projects for Foundations, 1963 | ||||||||||
15 | Public Relations and Publicity, 1963 | ||||||||||
16 | Public Relations Committee, 1963-1966 | ||||||||||
17 | Resolutions, 1963-1965 | ||||||||||
18 | Special Finance Committee, 1963 | ||||||||||
19 | Treasurer's Reports, 1963-1964 | ||||||||||
20 | United Community Funds and Councils of America, 1963-1967 | ||||||||||
21 | Youth Commission Correspondence, 1963 | ||||||||||
22 | Annual Meeting, 1964 | ||||||||||
23 | Board, Actions Taken by, 1964-1965 | ||||||||||
24 | Board of Trustees—Agendas, 1964 | ||||||||||
25 | Board of Trustees—Correspondence, 1964 | ||||||||||
26 | Board Listings, 1964-1965 | ||||||||||
27 | Budgets, 1964 | ||||||||||
28 | Business and Industrial Coordinating Committee, 1964-1968 | ||||||||||
29 | Community Councils Directory, 1964-1966 | ||||||||||
30 | Community Services Council—the Oranges and Maplewood, 1964 | ||||||||||
31-32 | Conference, 1964 | ||||||||||
33 | Executive Director's Correspondence, 1964 | ||||||||||
34 | Finance Committee, 1964 | ||||||||||
35 | Lists of Members and Organizations, 1964 | ||||||||||
36-37 | Membership Committee, 1964 | ||||||||||
38 | Narcotic Addiction Program, 1964 | ||||||||||
39 | National Association of Social Workers—North New Jersey Chapter, 1964 | ||||||||||
40 | New Jersey Sponsoring Committee, National Conference on Social Welfare, 1964-1965 | ||||||||||
41 | New Jersey Youth Commission, 1964 | ||||||||||
42 | Nominating Committee, 1964-1965 | ||||||||||
43-44 | President's Correspondence, 1964 | ||||||||||
45 | Press Releases, 1964-1966 | ||||||||||
46 | Special Finance Appeal, 1964 | ||||||||||
47 | Speeches, 1964 | ||||||||||
48 | Treasurer's Reports, 1964 | ||||||||||
49 | United Fund Project—Fair Share Plan, 1964-1965 | ||||||||||
50 | Annual Meeting Committee, 1965 | ||||||||||
51 | Board Correspondence, 1965 | ||||||||||
52 | Calendar, 1965 | ||||||||||
53-54 | Committee for State Tax Reform, 1964-1965 | ||||||||||
55 | Community Chests and Councils, 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
56 | Conference—Audio Visual Aids Committee, 1965 | ||||||||||
57 | Conference Planning, 1965 | ||||||||||
58 | Conference Program—Draft, 1965 | ||||||||||
59 | Correspondence, 1965 | ||||||||||
60 | County Welfare Boards—Membership Correspondence, 1965-1967 | ||||||||||
61 | Executive Committee—Minutes and Correspondence, 1965 | ||||||||||
62 | Executive Director's Correspondence, 1965-1967 | ||||||||||
63 | Greater Newark Council of Churches, 1965 | ||||||||||
64 | Group Services Division Committee, 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
65 | Health, Education and Welfare Demonstration Project—Grant Proposal, 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 1 | Inter-Agency Committee on Education for the Handicapped, 1965-1966 | |||||||||
2 | Legislative Discussion Meeting, 1965 | ||||||||||
3 | Membership Correspondence, 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
4 | National Conference on Social Welfare—New Jersey Sponsoring Committees, 1965 | ||||||||||
5 | Nominating Committee, 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
6 | Treasurer's Reports, 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
7 | Annual Meeting, 1966 | ||||||||||
8 | "Arden House" Proposal, 1966 | ||||||||||
9 | Board of Trustees—Correspondence, 1966 | ||||||||||
10 | Boggs Testimonial Dinner, 1966-1967 | ||||||||||
11 | Budgets and Treasurer's Reports, 1966-1967 | ||||||||||
12 | Committee Reports, 1966-1967 | ||||||||||
13 | Conference—Central Planning and Board Involvement Committees, 1966 | ||||||||||
14 | Conference—Central Planning Committee, 1966 | ||||||||||
15 | Conference—Daily Bulletin and Press Releases, 1966 | ||||||||||
16 | Conference—General Sessions, 1966 | ||||||||||
17 | Conference—Newspaper Clippings, 1966 | ||||||||||
18 | Conference Program Planning, 1966 | ||||||||||
19 | Conference—Session Hostess' Reports, 1966 | ||||||||||
20 | Conference Session—Title XIX (Medicaid Assistance), 1966 | ||||||||||
21-22 | Conference Sessions—Correspondence, 1966 | ||||||||||
23 | Conference—Welfare Association of Southern New Jersey—Correspondence, 1966 | ||||||||||
24 | Conference—Jerry Wurt Address, 1966 | ||||||||||
25 | Directory Information, 1966 | ||||||||||
26 | Executive Director's Correspondence, 1966 | ||||||||||
27 | Galloway Lecture, 1966 | ||||||||||
28-29 | Institute Evaluations, 1966 | ||||||||||
30 | Institute Papers (House Parents and Probation), 1966 | ||||||||||
31 | Institutes—Planning Committee and Evaluations, 1966 | ||||||||||
32 | Institutes Program, 1966 | ||||||||||
33 | Lists of New Jersey Social Service Associations, 1966 | ||||||||||
34 | Narcotic Addiction Institute, 1966 | ||||||||||
35 | New Jersey Consumer Conference, 1966-1967 | ||||||||||
36-37 | Nominating Committee, 1966-1967 | ||||||||||
38 | Personnel Committee, 1966-1968 | ||||||||||
39 | Speeches, 1966 | ||||||||||
40 | State Board of Control—Services to Children, 1966 | ||||||||||
41 | Tax Status, Committee to Obtain, 1966-1967 | ||||||||||
42 | United Fund—Correspondence, 1966-1968 | ||||||||||
43 | Annual Meeting, 1967 | ||||||||||
44 | Board Listings, 1967 | ||||||||||
45-46 | Board of Trustees Correspondence, 1967-1968 | ||||||||||
47-48 | Conference—Correspondence, 1967 | ||||||||||
49 | Conference—General Correspondence, 1967 | ||||||||||
50 | Conference—Miscellany, 1967 | ||||||||||
51 | Conference—Planning, 1967 | ||||||||||
52 | Conference—Planning Committee, 1967 | ||||||||||
53 | Conference—Section Meetings, 1967 | ||||||||||
54 | Conference—Session Reports, 1967 | ||||||||||
55 | Conference Attendance and Income, 1967 | ||||||||||
56 | Conference Planning, 1967 | ||||||||||
57 | Conference Publicity, 1967 | ||||||||||
58 | Conference Section Meeting Committee, 1967 | ||||||||||
59 | Conference Sessions—Special Education, 1967 | ||||||||||
60 | Councils, Mailings to, 1967 | ||||||||||
61 | Directories, 1967-1969 | ||||||||||
62 | Financial Statements and Correspondence, 1967 | ||||||||||
63 | Galloway Lecture, 1967 | ||||||||||
64 | General Correspondence, 1967 | ||||||||||
65 | Information for Board Members, 1967 | ||||||||||
66 | Inter-Agency Committee on Education for the Handicapped, 1967-1968 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 1 | Joint Meeting with Social Welfare Research Foundation, 1967-1968 | |||||||||
2 | Membership Correspondence, 1967 | ||||||||||
3 | Annual Meetings, 1968-1969 | ||||||||||
4 | Board Rosters, 1968-1969 | ||||||||||
5 | Bond Issues, 1968 | ||||||||||
6 | Committee on Local Planning Councils, 1968 | ||||||||||
7 | Conference—Biographical Information on Participants, 1968 | ||||||||||
8 | Conference—Correspondence, 1967-1968 | ||||||||||
9 | Conference—Finances, 1968 | ||||||||||
10 | Conference—General Sessions, 1968 | ||||||||||
11 | Conference Planning Committee, 1968 | ||||||||||
12 | Conference—Publicity, 1968 | ||||||||||
13 | Conference—Session Meeting Information, 1968 | ||||||||||
14 | Conference—Session Reports, 1968 | ||||||||||
15 | Conference Speakers—Correspondence, 1968 | ||||||||||
16 | Conference—Testimonial Dinner, 1968 | ||||||||||
17 | Conference—Totals, 1968 | ||||||||||
18 | Correspondence re. "A Moral Recommitment for New Jersey," 1968 | ||||||||||
19 | Dingley Report, 1968 | ||||||||||
20 | Financial Statements, 1968-1969 | ||||||||||
21 | General Correspondence, 1968-1969 | ||||||||||
22 | Membership Correspondence, 1968-1970 | ||||||||||
23 | National Conference of Social Welfare, 1968-1974 | ||||||||||
24 | Nominating Committee, 1968 | ||||||||||
25 | Organization Memberships, 1968-1969 | ||||||||||
26 | President's Correspondence, 1968-1970 | ||||||||||
27 | Programs—Other Welfare Organizations, 1968 | ||||||||||
28 | Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work Advisory Council, 1968 | ||||||||||
29 | Annual Meeting, 1969 | ||||||||||
30 | Bulletin, 1969 | ||||||||||
31 | Conference—Biographical Information on Speakers, 1969 | ||||||||||
32 | Conference—General Sessions, 1969 | ||||||||||
33 | Conference Planning Committee, 1969 | ||||||||||
34 | Conference Planning—General, 1969 | ||||||||||
35 | Conference—Section Committee, 1969 | ||||||||||
36 | Miscellaneous, 1969-1971 | ||||||||||
37 | New Jersey Council on Social Issues, 1969 | ||||||||||
38 | Nominating Committee, 1969 | ||||||||||
39 | Financial Reports, 1970-1971 | ||||||||||
40 | Conference—General Sessions, 1970 | ||||||||||
41 | Conference Planning Committee, 1970 | ||||||||||
42 | Conference—Session Information, 1970 | ||||||||||
43 | Development, 1970 and 1972-1974 | ||||||||||
44 | Galloway Memorial Fund, 1970 | ||||||||||
45 | Inter-Agency Committee on Education of the Handicapped, 1970-1972 | ||||||||||
46-47 | Membership Campaign, 1970 | ||||||||||
48 | New Jersey Welfare Council-Social Welfare Research Foundation Coordination, 1970 | ||||||||||
49 | Annual Meeting, 1971 | ||||||||||
50 | Board of Trustees—Correspondence and Reports, 1971 | ||||||||||
51 | Conference—General Sessions, 1971 | ||||||||||
52 | Conference—Planning Committee, 1971 | ||||||||||
53 | Conference—Publicity, 1971 | ||||||||||
54 | Conference—Sections, 1971 | ||||||||||
55 | Correspondence, January-June, 1971 | ||||||||||
56 | Correspondence, July-September, 1971 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 1 | Correspondence, October-November, 1971 | |||||||||
2 | Correspondence, December, 1971 | ||||||||||
3 | Councils—Other States, 1971 | ||||||||||
4 | Development, 1971-1972 | ||||||||||
5 | Directory Project, 1971-1973 | ||||||||||
6 | Directory Project—Grant Application and Administration, 1971 | ||||||||||
7 | Legislation, 1971-1974 | ||||||||||
8 | Membership, 1971-1974 | ||||||||||
9 | Membership Correspondence, 1971-1972 | ||||||||||
10 | National Assembly for Social Policy and Development, 1971 | ||||||||||
11 | National Association for State-wide Health and Welfare, 1971 | ||||||||||
12 | National Conference on Social Welfare, 1971 | ||||||||||
13 | Organizations—Miscellaneous, 1971 | ||||||||||
14 | Personnel Committee, 1971-1972 | ||||||||||
15 | Social Welfare Organizations—Correspondence, 1971 | ||||||||||
16 | Treasurer's Reports, 1971 | ||||||||||
17 | United Funds and Councils, 1971 | ||||||||||
18 | 1973 Annual Conference (Regional), 1972 | ||||||||||
19 | Board of Trustees—Correspondence, Minutes, Miscellaneous, 1972-1974 | ||||||||||
20 | Child Coalition, 1972-1975 | ||||||||||
21 | Colleges: Ohio State Study, 1972 | ||||||||||
22 | Conference—Arrangements and Exhibits, 1972 | ||||||||||
23 | Conference—Publicity, 1972 | ||||||||||
24 | Conference—Sections, 1972 | ||||||||||
25 | Correspondence, 1972-1974 | ||||||||||
26 | Finance, 1972-1974 | ||||||||||
27 | Financial, 1972 | ||||||||||
28 | Information Centers, 1972 | ||||||||||
29 | Membership Campaign, 1972 | ||||||||||
30 | Membership Committee Lists, 1972 | ||||||||||
31 | Memberships, 1972-1973 | ||||||||||
32 | Miscellaneous, 1972-1992 | ||||||||||
33 | New Jersey Welfare Council Annual Conference, 1972 | ||||||||||
34 | Personnel, 1972-1973 | ||||||||||
35 | 1974 Annual Conference, 1973 | ||||||||||
36 | Basic Information, 1973 | ||||||||||
37 | Correspondence with Other Organizations, 1973 | ||||||||||
38 | Finances, 1973 | ||||||||||
39 | Legislative Forum, 1973 | ||||||||||
40 | Membership, 1973 | ||||||||||
41 | Membership Committee Meeting, 1973 | ||||||||||
42 | National Conference on Social Work Forum, 1973 | ||||||||||
43 | Regional Conferences, 1973 | ||||||||||
44 | 1975 Conference Planning, 1974 | ||||||||||
45 | Executive Committee, 1974 | ||||||||||
46 | Financial, 1974 | ||||||||||
47 | Miscellaneous, 1974-1976 | ||||||||||
48 | Organizational Membership, 1974 | ||||||||||
49 | Annual Spring Conference, 1975 | ||||||||||
50 | Correspondence—Post-Conference, 1975 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
11 | 1 | Directory, 1975 | |||||||||
2 | Financial Reports, 1975-1976 | ||||||||||
3 | Hudson County Chapter, 1975 | ||||||||||
4 | Joint Planning Committee—New Jersey Welfare Council and Social Welfare Research Foundation, 1975 | ||||||||||
5 | Membership by Division, 1975 | ||||||||||
6 | Miscellaneous, 1975-1976 | ||||||||||
7 | Section Planners and Participants/New Jersey Welfare Council Conference, 1975 | ||||||||||
8 | Social Welfare Research Foundation—Board Membership Directory, 1975-1976 | ||||||||||
9 | State-Wide Advisory Committee, 1975-1976 | ||||||||||
10 | Annual Institutes, 1976 | ||||||||||
11 | Annual Institutes and Workshops—Planning Committee, 1976 | ||||||||||
12 | Bicentennial Conference, 1976 | ||||||||||
13 | Bicentennial Conference—Citizen Advisory Groups; Communications Workshop; Developmental Disabilities, 1976 | ||||||||||
14 | Bicentennial Conference—Correspondence, 1975-1976 | ||||||||||
15 | Bicentennial Conference—Health Services Delivery Systems; Social Services Delivery Systems, 1976 | ||||||||||
16 | Bicentennial Conference—Participants, 1976 | ||||||||||
17 | Bicentennial Conference—Planning Committee, 1976 | ||||||||||
18 | Bicentennial Conference—Professionalism; Renewal and Rebirth, 1976 | ||||||||||
19 | Bicentennial Conference—Resources and Priorities; Services Integration, 1976 | ||||||||||
20 | Bicentennial Conference—"Revenue Sharing: Block Grants," 1976 | ||||||||||
21 | Bicentennial Conference—Volunteerism, 1976 | ||||||||||
22 | Comic Books, 1976 | ||||||||||
23 | Committees, 1976 | ||||||||||
24 | Financial Records, 1976 | ||||||||||
25 | Miscellaneous, 1976 | ||||||||||
26 | Unpaid Bills, 1976-1980 | ||||||||||
27 | Board Members, 1978-1985 | ||||||||||
28 | Fall Conference Report, 1982 | ||||||||||
29 | Correspondence, 1983-1984 | ||||||||||
30 | Finances, 1983-1985 | ||||||||||
31 | Membership Committee, 1983-1984 | ||||||||||
32 | Miscellaneous, 1983 | ||||||||||
33 | Financial, 1986 | ||||||||||
34 | Workshop, 1986 | ||||||||||
35 | Correspondence and Miscellany, 1987-1988 | ||||||||||
36 | Financial, 1987 | ||||||||||
37 | Financial, 1988 | ||||||||||
38 | Correspondence and Miscellany, 1989 | ||||||||||
39 | Correspondence and Miscellany, 1990 | ||||||||||
40 | Correspondence and Miscellany, 1991 | ||||||||||
41 | Correspondence and Miscellany, 1992 | ||||||||||
42 | Honorary Life Membership, undated | ||||||||||
43-46 | Membership Lists, undated |
COMMON SENSE APPEAL FILES, 1937-1938 (.6 cubic feet) | |||||||||||
Arrangement: Grouped into subject and county files and arranged alphabetically within each sequence. Some cities have their own folders, but are filed after their county, e.g., Englewood file is after Bergen County file. | |||||||||||
Summary: The series documents the "Common Sense Appeal" fund-raising drive. | |||||||||||
Document types consist mostly of correspondence received and copies of correspondence sent. Also included are press releases, financial statements, and a "Spear Head of Social Progress," a chart in the form of a spear, depicting the progression of legislative achievements of the Council. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
11 | 47 | Booklet, 1937 | |||||||||
48 | Chairmen—City and County, 1937 | ||||||||||
49 | Contributions: Morris County, Elizabeth, Princeton, Montclair, 1938 | ||||||||||
50 | Finance, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||
51 | Form Letters, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||
52 | General, 1937 | ||||||||||
53 | Dr. Kingdon's Radio Address, 1937 | ||||||||||
54 | Luncheon at Athletic Club, Newark, September 27, 1937 | ||||||||||
55 | Mimeographed Letter, 1937 | ||||||||||
56 | Newspaper Releases, 1937 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
12 | 1 | Potter, Mrs. J.H.N., Morris County, 1937-1938 | |||||||||
2 | Reports, 1938 | ||||||||||
3 | "Spear Head of Social Progress"—Graphic, circa 1938 | ||||||||||
4 | Sponsoring Committee, 1937 | ||||||||||
5 | Statistics, 1938 | ||||||||||
6 | Atlantic County, 1937 | ||||||||||
7 | Bergen County, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||
8 | Englewood, 1935-1938 | ||||||||||
9 | Burlington County, 1937 | ||||||||||
10 | Camden County, 1937 | ||||||||||
11 | Cape May County, 1937 | ||||||||||
12 | Cumberland County, 1937 | ||||||||||
13 | Montclair and Vicinity, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||
14 | Newark, etc., Essex County, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||
15 | Newark Committee, 1937 | ||||||||||
16 | Newark Prospect List and Correspondence, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||
17 | The Oranges, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||
18 | Gloucester County, 1937 | ||||||||||
19 | Hudson County, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||
20 | Hunterdon County, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||
21 | Mercer County, 1937 | ||||||||||
22 | Middlesex County, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||
23 | Monmouth County, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||
24 | Morris County, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||
25 | Ocean County, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||
26 | Passaic County, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||
27 | Salem County, 1937 | ||||||||||
28 | Somerset County, 1937 | ||||||||||
29 | Sussex County, 1937 | ||||||||||
30 | Union County, 1937 | ||||||||||
31 | Elizabeth, Union County, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||
32 | Plainfield, Union County, 1937 | ||||||||||
33 | Summit and Springfield, Union County, 1937 | ||||||||||
34 | Rahway and Westfield, Union County, 1937 | ||||||||||
35 | Warren County, 1937 |
CHRONO FILE ["DATE FILE"], 1963-1969 (0.8 cubic feet) | |||||||||||
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically. | |||||||||||
Summary: Primarily carbon copies of correspondence sent out by the President, Executive Director, and Administrative Secretary, as well as a few copies of correspondence received and enclosures such as lists of members. | |||||||||||
Documents daily workings of the Council, primarily routine matters such as sending out publications, receipt of membership dues, and answers to requests for information. Also documents conference planning, relations with other organizations such as the New Jersey United Funds and Councils (later the United Way), fund-raising and the formation of committees. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
12 | 36 | August, 1963 | |||||||||
37 | September, 1963 | ||||||||||
38 | October, 1963 | ||||||||||
39 | November, 1963 | ||||||||||
40 | December, 1963 | ||||||||||
41 | January, 1964 | ||||||||||
42 | February, 1964 | ||||||||||
43 | March, 1964 | ||||||||||
44 | April, 1964 | ||||||||||
45 | May, 1964 | ||||||||||
46 | June, 1964 | ||||||||||
47 | July, 1964 | ||||||||||
48 | August, 1964 | ||||||||||
49 | September, 1964 | ||||||||||
50 | October, 1964 | ||||||||||
51 | November, 1964 | ||||||||||
52 | December, 1964 | ||||||||||
53 | January, 1965 | ||||||||||
54 | February, 1965 | ||||||||||
55 | March, 1965 | ||||||||||
56 | April, 1965 | ||||||||||
57 | May, 1965 | ||||||||||
58 | June, 1965 | ||||||||||
59 | July, 1965 | ||||||||||
60 | August, 1965 | ||||||||||
61 | September, 1965 | ||||||||||
62 | October, 1965 | ||||||||||
63 | November, 1965 | ||||||||||
64 | December, 1965 | ||||||||||
65 | January, 1966 | ||||||||||
66 | February, 1966 | ||||||||||
67 | March, 1966 | ||||||||||
68 | April, 1966 | ||||||||||
69 | May, 1966 | ||||||||||
70 | June, 1966 | ||||||||||
71 | August, 1966 | ||||||||||
72 | September, 1966 | ||||||||||
73 | October, 1966 | ||||||||||
74 | November, 1966 | ||||||||||
75 | December, 1966 | ||||||||||
76 | January, 1967 | ||||||||||
77 | February, 1967 | ||||||||||
78 | March, 1967 | ||||||||||
79 | April, 1967 | ||||||||||
80 | May, 1967 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 1 | June, 1967 | |||||||||
2 | July, 1967 | ||||||||||
3 | August, 1967 | ||||||||||
4 | September, 1967 | ||||||||||
5 | October, 1967 | ||||||||||
6 | November, 1967 | ||||||||||
7 | December, 1967 | ||||||||||
8 | January, 1968 | ||||||||||
9 | February, 1968 | ||||||||||
10 | March, 1968 | ||||||||||
11 | April, 1968 | ||||||||||
12 | September, 1968 | ||||||||||
13 | October, 1968 | ||||||||||
14 | November, 1968 | ||||||||||
15 | December, 1968 | ||||||||||
16 | January, 1969 |
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND AGENDAS, 1915-1986 (2.4 cubic feet) | |||||||||||
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically (with gaps). | |||||||||||
Summary: Papers and agendas from the Council's annual conference. Document types include conference programs or agendas, copies of papers delivered, and published and unpublished conference proceedings, some of which have annotations. | |||||||||||
Of particular interest are the conference papers, which reveal issues of concern to social workers during this period, as well as describing the work of various agencies and programs and the effect of legislation. Speakers included state and federal officials, heads of private agencies and volunteer groups, clergy, and academics. In the 1920s, topics included the relationship between basic industries (farms, factories, and transportation) and social welfare; community standards for social service, health, and recreation programs; and child welfare. In the early 1930s, topics included public health, mental hygiene, industrial disease, prisons, foster homes, migratory children, and unemployment. Of particular interest is a paper on mental health and the foreign born in relation to case work (1930). In the late 1930s, social work education, the impact of the federal Emergency Relief Administration, and the effects of the Social Security Act (1935) were frequently discussed. | |||||||||||
In the 1940s, the influence of the Second World War can be seen in papers on the costs of government, the problems of prostitution and alcoholism at military bases, and the difficulties of displaced persons. In the 1950s, topics included the treatment of children in hospitals; the care of the chronically ill, aged and developmentally disabled; housing; and standards for social workers. In the 1960s, important concerns were the Aid for Dependent Children program, which became the responsibility of the counties in 1960; juvenile delinquency; mental health; rehabilitation of the elderly and disabled; and prisoners' services. Of particular interest is a paper on the adoption of African-American children (1960). Conferences were initially held yearly in November or December, but in the 1960s were moved to late April or early May. An additional conference on child welfare was held in spring 1931. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 17 | Programs, 1915-1939 | |||||||||
18 | Programs, 1940-1948 | ||||||||||
19 | Programs, 1951-1965 | ||||||||||
20 | Programs, 1966-1969 | ||||||||||
21 | Programs, 1970-1986 | ||||||||||
22-23 | Papers, 1922 | ||||||||||
24 | Papers, 1926 | ||||||||||
25 | Papers, 1929 | ||||||||||
26 | Papers, 1930 | ||||||||||
27 | Papers—Child and Health Protection, 1931 | ||||||||||
28-30 | Papers, 1931 | ||||||||||
31 | Papers, 1932 | ||||||||||
32 | Papers, 1933 | ||||||||||
33 | Papers, 1934 | ||||||||||
34-35 | Papers, 1936 | ||||||||||
36-37 | Papers, 1937 | ||||||||||
38 | Papers, 1938 | ||||||||||
39-40 | Papers, 1939 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
14 | 1 | Papers, 1940 | |||||||||
2 | Papers, 1941 | ||||||||||
3 | Papers, 1942 | ||||||||||
4 | Papers, 1943 | ||||||||||
5 | Papers, 1944 | ||||||||||
6 | Papers and Other Materials, 1948 | ||||||||||
7 | Papers, 1949 | ||||||||||
8-12 | Papers, 1950 | ||||||||||
13-14 | Papers, 1951 | ||||||||||
15 | Proceedings, 1951 | ||||||||||
16-17 | Papers, 1952 | ||||||||||
18 | Papers, 1953 | ||||||||||
19-20 | Papers, 1954 | ||||||||||
21 | Papers, 1955 | ||||||||||
22-24 | Papers, 1956 | ||||||||||
25 | Papers, 1957 | ||||||||||
26-27 | Papers, 1958 | ||||||||||
28-29 | Papers, 1959 | ||||||||||
30 | Papers, 1960 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
15 | 1-2 | Papers, 1960 | |||||||||
3-4 | Papers, 1961 | ||||||||||
5 | Galloway Lecture, 1963 | ||||||||||
6 | Papers, 1965 | ||||||||||
7 | Speaker's Papers, 1966 | ||||||||||
8 | Speaker's Papers, 1967 | ||||||||||
9 | Papers, 1968 | ||||||||||
10-13 | Recorded Proceedings, 1969 | ||||||||||
Four audiotapes on 7-inch reels. | |||||||||||
14 | Papers, 1969 | ||||||||||
15 | Papers, 1972 | ||||||||||
16 | Papers, 1973 | ||||||||||
17-18 | Papers, undated |
LEGISLATIVE FORUM FILES, 1956-1969 and 1973-1975 (8 folders) | |||||||||||
Arrangement: Grouped alphabetically by document type and thereunder arranged chronologically. | |||||||||||
Summary: Documents planning, execution, and aftermath of yearly one-day conference on legislative issues organized by the Council's Committee on Legislation. State legislators and representatives of state agencies discussed health and welfare bills currently before the Legislature. Document types include correspondence, agendas, programs, papers, proceedings, press releases, minutes, reports, notes, bills, flyers, and newspaper clippings. | |||||||||||
Subjects discussed include legislation pertaining to housing, public health, child welfare, mental health, and juvenile delinquency. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
15 | 19 | Correspondence, 1956-1957 | |||||||||
20 | Correspondence, 1958 | ||||||||||
21 | Correspondence, 1960-1962 | ||||||||||
22 | Correspondence, 1965 | ||||||||||
23 | Correspondence, 1966 | ||||||||||
24 | Correspondence, 1967 | ||||||||||
25 | Correspondence, 1969 | ||||||||||
26 | South Central Division, 1973-1975 | ||||||||||
27 | Programs and Proceedings, 1956-1964 |
COMMITTEE FILES, 1927-1974 (4 cubic feet) | |||||||||||
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by file heading. | |||||||||||
Summary: Documents generated by committees and subcommittees of the Council for Human Services in New Jersey. | |||||||||||
Document types include minutes, correspondence received, copies of correspondence sent, resolutions, reports, memoranda, committee membership lists, pamphlets, copies of actual and proposed legislation, news clippings, and agendas. | |||||||||||
Subjects covered include adoption, child welfare, juvenile delinquency, rehabilitation of the elderly and the handicapped, drug addiction, civil rights, public health, public assistance, and migratory labor. | |||||||||||
The Mental Health Committee (1944) was created to help coordinate mental health activities throughout the state, leading to the organization of the New Jersey Association for Mental Health in 1948. The Committee on Rehabilitation (1955) was concerned with assisting the physically and mentally handicapped. The Committee of Individual Services (1960-1967) was charged with representing the Council at public hearings and developing long range programs with public and private agencies. The Committee on Rural Problems (1967-1968) was formed to make the public aware of the needs of rural areas and worked with the Governor's Task Force on Migratory Labor and the Consumers League of New Jersey. The Public Welfare Committee (1949-1964) was formed to keep abreast of current legislation concerning public assistance. It was also charged with educating the public and promoting reorganization of public assistance. The Human Rights and Human Relations Committees (1948-1953, 1962-1963) were concerned with civil rights and conducted a study of hiring practices and democratic attitudes in private social agencies. The Committee on the Aged (1952-1954) was concerned with custodial care, housing, and employment opportunities for the elderly. The Child Welfare Committee files (1941-1956) contain material concerning adoption, licensing of foster homes, illegitimacy, vocational facilities for retarded children, and employment of minors. The Child Neglect Law Committee (1956) was formed to study the 1944 amendments to the Child Neglect Law of New Jersey. The Family Court Committee (1959) was set up to study the feasibility of establishing a family court system in New Jersey. | |||||||||||
Of particular interest are the files of the Interracial Committee (1932), which was set up to conduct a "Survey on Negro Life in New Jersey" in cooperation with the New Jersey Department of Institutions and Agencies, and includes survey material and several reports. Also of interest is the Displaced Persons Committee (1949-1953) which concerns immigration to New Jersey from Europe during and after World War II, leading to the establishment of the New Jersey Resettlement Project for Eastern European Refugees. The Narcotics Addiction Committee (1959-1968) contains material concerned with efforts to combat rising drug use. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
15 | 28 | Adoption Committee [Originally a Subcommittee of Child Welfare], 1946-1957 | |||||||||
29 | Alexander Commission Reports, 1961 | ||||||||||
30 | Bergen County Committee, 1927-1932 | ||||||||||
31 | Child Neglect Law Committee, 1955-1956 | ||||||||||
32 | Child Neglect Law Committee, 1957-1958 | ||||||||||
33 | Child Welfare Committee, 1941-1944 | ||||||||||
34 | Child Welfare Committee, 1945-1947 | ||||||||||
35 | Child Welfare Committee, 1948-1949 | ||||||||||
36 | Child Welfare Committee, 1948-1951 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
16 | 1 | Child Welfare Committee, 1952-1954 | |||||||||
2 | Child Welfare Committee, 1955-1956 | ||||||||||
3 | Child Welfare Committee: Subcommittee on Day Care Services, 1949-1950 | ||||||||||
4 | Child Welfare Committee: Subcommittees Miscellaneous, 1950-1956 | ||||||||||
5 | Child Welfare Committee: Subcommittee on Standards and Practices, 1949 | ||||||||||
6 | Civil Service Study Committee, 1963-1965 | ||||||||||
7 | Committee on Corrections and Penal Affairs, 1957 | ||||||||||
8 | Committee on Delinquency Prevention and Correction, 1953-1954 | ||||||||||
9 | Committee on Divorce and Reconciliation, 1956-1957 | ||||||||||
10 | Committee on Individual Services, 1960-1964 | ||||||||||
11 | Committee on Individual Services, 1965-1967 | ||||||||||
12 | Committee on Juvenile Delinquency Legislation, 1955 | ||||||||||
13 | Committee on Local Councils, 1965 | ||||||||||
14 | Committee on Privileged Communications, 1953 | ||||||||||
15 | Committee on Public Medical Care, 1956-1957 | ||||||||||
16 | Committee on Recreation for the Handicapped, 1957 | ||||||||||
17 | Committee on Regional Conferences, 1927-1933 | ||||||||||
18 | Committee on Rehabilitation, 1955-1957 | ||||||||||
19 | Committee on Relationship between the School and Social Agency, 1947-1948 | ||||||||||
20 | Committee on Residency Laws, 1961-1963 | ||||||||||
21-22 | Committee on Rural Problems, 1967-1968 | ||||||||||
23 | Committee on Rural Problems: Self Survey for Rural Counties, 1958 | ||||||||||
24 | Committee on Standards in Child Placement and Adoption, 1928-1933 | ||||||||||
25 | Committee on the Aged, 1952-1961 | ||||||||||
26 | Committee on Youth and Children, 1958-1961 | ||||||||||
27 | Committee to Study Alexander Commission Report: Study of the Organization of the Department of Institutions and Agencies, 1960 | ||||||||||
28 | Community Integration Committee, 1945 | ||||||||||
29 | Community Integration Committee: Subcommittee on Streamlining Public Assistance in New Jersey, 1946-1948 | ||||||||||
30 | Community Problems Committee, 1971-1973 | ||||||||||
31 | Coordinating Committee on Housing for the Elderly, 1955 | ||||||||||
32 | Coordinating Committee on Legislation Pertaining to the Education of the Emotionally Disturbed Child, 1956-1957 | ||||||||||
33 | Coordinating Committee on Legislation Pertaining to the Education of the Emotionally Disturbed Child, 1957-1959 | ||||||||||
34 | Displaced Persons Committee, 1949-1953 | ||||||||||
35 | Displaced Persons Committee, 1953-1954 | ||||||||||
36 | Drug Addiction Study Committee, 1966-1967 | ||||||||||
37 | Fair Share Committee on United Funds and Councils, 1964-1965 | ||||||||||
38 | Family Court, 1957 | ||||||||||
39 | Family Court Committee, 1959 | ||||||||||
40 | Family Life Committee, 1952-1953 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
17 | 1 | Fees for Service Committee, 1957 and 1962-1963 | |||||||||
2 | Fees for Service Committee, 1965-1970 | ||||||||||
3-4 | Fees for Service Committee: Survey Forms, 1965 | ||||||||||
5 | Fees for Service Committee: Questionnaire on Revising Guidelines, 1965 | ||||||||||
6 | Group Services Division, 1959-1963 | ||||||||||
7 | Group Services Division, 1964-1967 | ||||||||||
8 | Group Services Division: Questionnaires to other State Councils, 1963 | ||||||||||
9 | Group Services Steering Committee, 1963-1965 | ||||||||||
10 | Group Work and Recreation, 1955-1956 | ||||||||||
11 | Guidelines for Committees, 1957 and 1960 | ||||||||||
12 | Health Committee, 1941 and 1944-1945 | ||||||||||
13 | Health Committee, 1943 | ||||||||||
14 | Health Committee, 1946-1949 | ||||||||||
15 | Health Committee, 1948-1949 | ||||||||||
16 | Health Committee, 1950-1955 | ||||||||||
17 | Health Committee: Health Insurance Subcommittee, 1949 | ||||||||||
18 | Health Committee: Miscellaneous, 1943-1944, 1959 and undated | ||||||||||
19 | Health Committee: Subcommittee on the Furtherance of Education on Problem Drinking, 1951 | ||||||||||
20 | Health Committee: Subcommittee on Health Examinations in County Jails, 1949-1950 | ||||||||||
21 | Health Committee: Subcommittee on the Long Term Patient, 1947-1948 | ||||||||||
22 | Health Committee: Subcommittee on the Long Term Patient, 1952-1953 | ||||||||||
23 | Health Committee: Subcommittee on Nursing, 1949 | ||||||||||
24 | Health Division, 1955-1956 | ||||||||||
25 | Health Division, 1959-1960 | ||||||||||
26 | Health Division, 1961-1963 | ||||||||||
27 | Housing Committee, 1949 | ||||||||||
28 | Human Relations, 1962-1963 | ||||||||||
29 | Human Rights Committee, 1948-1953 | ||||||||||
30-31 | Human Rights: Questionnaires—Policies and Practices in Private Agencies, 1953 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
18 | 1 | Industry and Labor Committee, 1937-1938 | |||||||||
2 | Integration of Public Assistance Committee, 1948 | ||||||||||
3 | Integration of Public Assistance Committee, 1949 | ||||||||||
4 | Interracial Committee, 1929-1933 | ||||||||||
5 | Interracial Committee, 1932 | ||||||||||
Includes Summary and Recommendations of Survey. | |||||||||||
6 | Interracial Committee: Survey of Negro Life, 1931-1933 | ||||||||||
7 | Interracial Committee: Survey of Negro Life in New Jersey—Reports—Bayonne, Camden, Englewood, New Brunswick, Perth Amboy, Oranges, 1932 | ||||||||||
8 | Interracial Committee: Survey of Negro Life in New Jersey—Reports—Montclair, Princeton, Monmouth County, 1932 | ||||||||||
9 | Interracial Committee: Survey of Negro Life in New Jersey—Reports—Passaic and Paterson, Jersey City, Trenton, 1932 | ||||||||||
10 | Interracial Committee: Survey of Negro Life in New Jersey—Reports—Salem County, Hackensack, Pleasantville, Summit, 1932 | ||||||||||
11 | Interracial Committee: Survey of Negro Life in New Jersey—Miscellaneous Documents, 1931-1933 | ||||||||||
MOLD ALERT: File has been treated for mold. Should avoid file if sensitive to mold. | |||||||||||
12 | Juvenile Delinquency Committee, 1940-1941 | ||||||||||
13 | Legislative Committee, 1961-1962 | ||||||||||
14 | Legislative Committee, 1964 | ||||||||||
15 | Legislative Committee, 1966-1967 | ||||||||||
16 | Licensing Committee, 1964 | ||||||||||
17 | Long-Term Patient Committee, 1946 and 1949 | ||||||||||
18 | Medical Care Committee, 1955 | ||||||||||
19 | Mental Deficiency, 1954-1957 | ||||||||||
20 | Mental Health Committee, 1944-1949 | ||||||||||
21 | Mental Health Committee, 1951 | ||||||||||
22 | Mental Health Committee, 1952 and 1955-1957 | ||||||||||
23 | Mental Health Committee: Material on Planning, 1964 and undated | ||||||||||
24 | Narcotics Addiction, 1961-1963 | ||||||||||
25 | Narcotics Addiction, 1964 | ||||||||||
26 | Narcotics Addiction, 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
27 | Narcotics Addiction, 1966 | ||||||||||
28 | Narcotics Addiction, 1967-1968 | ||||||||||
29 | Narcotics Addiction, 1968 | ||||||||||
30 | Narcotics Addiction: Correspondence, 1961-1966 | ||||||||||
31 | Narcotics Addiction: Directory of Resources for Narcotics Addicts, 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
32 | Narcotics Addiction: Institute, 1967 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
19 | 1 | Narcotics Addiction: News Clippings, 1963-1965 | |||||||||
2 | Narcotics Addiction: News Clippings, 1964-1966 and undated | ||||||||||
3 | Narcotics Addiction: Publications, 1960, 1963 and undated | ||||||||||
4 | Narcotics Addiction: Self Evaluation Questionnaire, 1965 | ||||||||||
5 | Neighborhood Centers Committee, 1973-1974 | ||||||||||
6 | Neighborhood Services, 1973 | ||||||||||
7 | New Jersey Resettlement Project Committee, 1954 | ||||||||||
8 | Planning Committee on Public Welfare and Child Welfare, 1955 | ||||||||||
9 | Problems of Youth Committee, 1944 and 1946-1948 | ||||||||||
10 | Public Assistance, 1951 | ||||||||||
11 | Public Welfare Committee, 1949-1951 | ||||||||||
12 | Public Welfare Committee, 1952-1953 | ||||||||||
13 | Public Welfare Committee, 1955 | ||||||||||
14 | Public Welfare Committee, 1965 | ||||||||||
15 | Public Welfare Committee, 1966 | ||||||||||
16 | Public Welfare Committee, 1967 | ||||||||||
17 | Recreation Committee, 1949 | ||||||||||
18 | Regional Development Committee, 1963 | ||||||||||
19 | Rural Health Committee, 1955-1956 | ||||||||||
20 | Rural Health Committee, 1956 | ||||||||||
Includes survey forms. | |||||||||||
21 | Rural Health Committee, 1957 | ||||||||||
22 | Rural Health Committee, 1958-1961 | ||||||||||
23 | School of Social Work Committee, 1951 | ||||||||||
24 | Section Meeting Planning Committee, 1966 | ||||||||||
25 | Statistical Committee, 1930-1932 | ||||||||||
26 | Steering Committee on the Needs of Families and Children—Division of Individual Services, 1962 | ||||||||||
27 | Study Committee on Report of Supreme Court's Committee on Conciliation and Reconciliation, 1963-1964 | ||||||||||
28 | Subcommittee on Divorce and Reconciliation, 1956 | ||||||||||
29 | Subcommittee on Medical Care, 1949 | ||||||||||
30 | Subcommittee on School Health, 1947 | ||||||||||
31 | Subcommittee on Unmarried Mother and Her Child, 1950 | ||||||||||
32 | Training Committee, 1932-1933 |
SUBJECT FILES, 1931-1983 (3.5 cubic feet) | |||||||||||
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by subject heading and thereunder chronologically. | |||||||||||
Summary: Reference material concerning areas of investigation and advocacy by the Council for Human Services in New Jersey and other organizations. | |||||||||||
Document types include correspondence received, copies of correspondence sent, pamphlets, surveys, news clippings, minutes, newsletters, statements, conference materials, copies of actual and proposed legislation, and reports. Subjects covered include aging, child welfare and protection, civil rights, community home care, compulsory health insurance, crime and corrections, the developmentally disabled, housing, juvenile delinquency, mental health, migratory education and labor, narcotics and addiction, public health, reconciliation of married couples, residency laws for public assistance, slum clearance, the state budget, and the role and purpose of the Council. | |||||||||||
Documents projects in which the Council was involved, often in conjunction with other agencies, such as the Advisory Committee on Migrant Education of the Migrant Labor Board, in which Consumers League of New Jersey participated, the Warren County Health Survey (1958), with local agencies, and reform of public assistance regulations (1951-1952) with the New Jersey League of Women Voters. An early project of note was a study sponsored by the Department of Institutions and Agencies on poor relief in Newark (1931). | |||||||||||
Of particular interest is an incident in 1950 where the Board of Directors of the Council passed a controversial resolution advocating Compulsory Health Insurance, where many members felt the Board had overstepped its authority. Also of interest are the Mental Health files (1957-1978) which include material generated by the New Jersey State Commission on Mental Health (1961-1963), created to revise laws affecting the mentally ill and disabled; and documentation of the Public Policy Forum on Civil Disorders (1968), which contains reports on the racial uprisings of the late 1960s. | |||||||||||
Also includes reports from many state public and private agencies such as the Morrow Association on Correction, the Central New Jersey Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, a Construction Report from the Newark Housing Authority (1956), extolling public housing in Newark, and a study of poverty in Somerset County (1965). | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
19 | 33 | Ad Hoc Committee of Statewide Organizations—New Jersey Report on Planning, 1965 | |||||||||
34 | Aging, 1971 | ||||||||||
35 | Aging: Conference Materials, 1959 and 1965 | ||||||||||
36 | Aging: Newsletters and Miscellany, 1969-1973 | ||||||||||
Includes The Key: Newsletter of the Camden County Office on Aging. | |||||||||||
37-38 | Aging: Seminar on Basic Considerations in State Planning for Older People, 1962 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
20 | 1 | Aging: Seminar on Basic Considerations in State Planning for Older People, 1962 | |||||||||
2 | Aid to Families of Dependent Children: Grossi Commission, 1963 | ||||||||||
3 | Broad Base State Tax: "A Study of the Efforts from 1947 to 1962 to Obtain a Broad-Based Tax for New Jersey," 1962 | ||||||||||
4 | Capital Punishment and Corrections, 1955 | ||||||||||
5 | Child Labor Laws, 1957-1959 | ||||||||||
Includes Fuld Neighborhood House Summer Camp Program report for 1957. | |||||||||||
6 | Child Welfare Board of New Jersey, 1950-1957 | ||||||||||
7 | Children and Youth, 1959-1963 | ||||||||||
8 | Children and Youth, 1973-1974 | ||||||||||
9 | Children: Governor's Committee on Youth, undated; Recommendations of White House Conference on Children in a Democracy, 1940 | ||||||||||
10 | Children: Governor's Committee on Youth—"Preparing New Jersey Children for a Creative Life in a Changing World," 1960 | ||||||||||
11 | Children's Services, 1951-1962 | ||||||||||
12-13 | Children's Services: Newsletters and Miscellaneous Printed Material, 1971-1975 | ||||||||||
Includes newsletters of the Child Service Association (Newark) and the Family Children's Society (Elizabeth). | |||||||||||
14 | Civil Rights, 1947-1949 | ||||||||||
15 | Civil Rights, 1961 | ||||||||||
16 | Civil Rights and Liberties, 1972-1973 | ||||||||||
17 | Community Home Care Programs, 1960 | ||||||||||
18 | Community Organization: Papers and Booklets, 1955 and undated | ||||||||||
19 | Community Services of Pennsylvania, 1955-1960 | ||||||||||
20 | Comprehensive Health Planning, 1967-1968 | ||||||||||
21 | Compulsory Health Insurance, 1949-1950 | ||||||||||
22 | Conference: Eastern Regional Workshop on Future Role of State Conferences on Social Welfare in Continuing Education, Social Planning and Legislative Action, 1967 | ||||||||||
23 | Conference: Paper on Tax Assets and New Jersey by John F. Sly of Princeton University, 1964 | ||||||||||
24 | County Welfare Bill, 1931 | ||||||||||
25 | Crime and Correction, 1971-1972 | ||||||||||
26 | Developmental Disabilities, 1970-1974 | ||||||||||
27 | Drug Abuse and Narcotic Control, 1971 | ||||||||||
28 | Drug Abuse and Narcotic Control, 1972-1974 | ||||||||||
29 | Drug Addiction: Pamphlets and Printed Material, 1963 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
21 | 1 | Eastern Regional Conference on Health Careers, 1963 | |||||||||
2 | Essex County White House Conference on Children and Youth, 1950 | ||||||||||
3 | Family Assistance, 1969-1972 | ||||||||||
4 | Family Planning, 1966-1968 | ||||||||||
5 | Group Work, 1956 | ||||||||||
6 | Health, 1971 | ||||||||||
7-8 | Housing, 1936-1938 | ||||||||||
9 | Housing, 1949-1956 and 1961 | ||||||||||
10 | Income Maintenance, 1972-1975 | ||||||||||
11 | Interstate Compacts on Juveniles and Mental Health, 1957 | ||||||||||
12 | Juvenile Delinquency, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||
13 | Juvenile Delinquency, 1938 and 1960 | ||||||||||
14 | Juvenile Delinquency, 1957-1959 | ||||||||||
15 | Mental Health, 1957 | ||||||||||
16-17 | Mental Health, 1961-1963 | ||||||||||
18 | Mental Health: Abstracts of Final Reports on Special Grants Projects, 1962-1963 | ||||||||||
19 | Mental Health: Newsletters and Miscellaneous, 1968-1978 | ||||||||||
20 | Mental Retardation, 1971 | ||||||||||
21 | Michigan League for Human Services, 1981 | ||||||||||
22 | Migrant Education, 1961-1963 | ||||||||||
23 | Migrant Labor, 1958-1960 | ||||||||||
24 | Migrant Labor, 1971-1975 | ||||||||||
25 | Miscellaneous Unfiled Material, 1951-1968 | ||||||||||
26 | Movement for a Democratic Society: Pamphlets, circa 1969 | ||||||||||
27 | Narcotics Addiction: Essex County Committee, 1965 | ||||||||||
28 | National Conference on Social Welfare: Correspondence and Miscellany, 1963-1965 | ||||||||||
29 | New Jersey Association for Mental Health, 1963-1964 and 1968 | ||||||||||
30 | New Jersey Commission on Aging: Report, 1959 | ||||||||||
31 | New Jersey Department of Human Services: Publications, 1982-1983 | ||||||||||
32 | New Jersey Department of Institutions and Agencies: Correspondence, 1960 | ||||||||||
33 | New Jersey Health Careers: Newsletters and Miscellany, 1962-1963 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
22 | 1 | New Jersey Resettlement Project (Displaced Persons), 1954-1955 | |||||||||
2 | New Jersey State Commission on Mental Health: Hearing Reports, 1958-1959 | ||||||||||
3 | New Jersey State Commission on Mental Health: Reports, 1959 | ||||||||||
4 | New Jersey State Commission on Mental Health: Second Public Hearing, 1957 | ||||||||||
5 | Newspaper Clippings, 1932 | ||||||||||
6 | Older Americans: Legislation, 1962 and 1965 | ||||||||||
7 | Other Projects, 1966-1969 and undated | ||||||||||
8 | Planning, 1952-1964 | ||||||||||
9 | Poor and Alms Department of Newark, New Jersey—Survey, 1931 | ||||||||||
10 | Poverty, 1965 | ||||||||||
11 | Poverty: United Community Funds and Councils of America, 1964 | ||||||||||
12 | Protective Services for Children, 1954-1962 | ||||||||||
13 | Public Medical Care, 1960 | ||||||||||
14 | Public Policy Forum on Civil Disorders, 1968 | ||||||||||
Forum held at Rutgers University. | |||||||||||
15 | Public Welfare, 1949-1951 | ||||||||||
16-17 | Public Welfare, 1952-1968 | ||||||||||
18 | Public Welfare Code Bill, 1951 | ||||||||||
19 | "Public Welfare in New Jersey": Report, 1949 | ||||||||||
20 | Public Welfare Legislation, 1957 | ||||||||||
21 | Reconciliation: New Jersey Supreme Court Report, February 14, 1956 | ||||||||||
22 | Reconciliation: New Jersey Supreme Court Report, April 14, 1960 | ||||||||||
23-24 | Residency Laws, 1958-1961 | ||||||||||
25 | Role of Council—Booklets, 1958-1963 and undated | ||||||||||
26 | Role of Council—Reports and Miscellany, 1960-1964 and undated | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
23 | 1 | School of Social Work, 1952 | |||||||||
2 | School of Social Work—Rutgers University, 1955-1956 | ||||||||||
3 | Social Security, 1936 | ||||||||||
4 | State Budget, 1957 and 1962 | ||||||||||
5 | State Mental Health Planning Conference, 1965 | ||||||||||
6 | State Study Committee: Juvenile Justice, 1960 | ||||||||||
7 | War on Poverty, 1965 | ||||||||||
8 | Warren County Health Survey, 1956-1958 | ||||||||||
9 | Welfare, 1971 | ||||||||||
10 | Welfare Law Bulletin, New York University, 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
11 | Welfare Service for Children, 1958 | ||||||||||
12 | White House Conference on Children and Youth in New Jersey: Conference Materials, 1950 |
HISTORICAL FILES, 1906, 1912 and 1925-1986, bulk 1930-1946 (2 folders) | |||||||||||
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically. | |||||||||||
Summary: General documents concerning history of the Council for Human Services in New Jersey. | |||||||||||
Document types include correspondence received, copies of correspondence sent, bulletins, newspaper clippings, press releases, financial statements, and miscellaneous printed materials. | |||||||||||
Includes material concerning Council finances, a chronology of Council activities, and correspondence and statements concerning the Council's history and the history of specific campaigns such as the licensing of foster homes. Of particular interest is an early history of the Council by Hugh Fox (1912). | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
23 | 13 | 1906, 1912 and 1925-1939 | |||||||||
14 | 1940-1986 |
PUBLICATIONS, 1924-1983, bulk 1928-1975 (1.5 cubic feet) | |||||||||||
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically. Publications of the Council for Human Services in New Jersey. | |||||||||||
Summary: Document types include newsletters, subject-oriented publications, pamphlets, programs, and miscellaneous printed matter. | |||||||||||
The series includes the Council's Bulletin (1928-1983, with gaps). The Legislative Information Bulletin (1954-1975) was published as needed to keep members abreast of current legislation and the Council's position, as well as that of other organizations, regarding it. | |||||||||||
Of particular interest is The Negro: New Jersey's Twentieth Citizen (1932), an overview of the African-American population of New Jersey in the 1930s, and a series of pamphlets for teenagers, including The Law—Get with It and The Law—For Real. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
23 | 15 | Bulletin, 1928-1933 | |||||||||
16 | Bulletin, 1929-1931 | ||||||||||
17 | Bulletin, 1932-1934 | ||||||||||
18 | Bulletin, 1934-1936 | ||||||||||
19 | Bulletin, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||
20 | Bulletin, 1935-1937 | ||||||||||
21 | Bulletin, 1938-1939 | ||||||||||
22 | Bulletin [bound volume], 1939-1941 | ||||||||||
23 | Bulletin, 1940 and 1946 | ||||||||||
24 | Bulletin, 1947-1948 | ||||||||||
25 | Bulletin, 1949-1951 | ||||||||||
26 | Bulletin, 1952-1954 | ||||||||||
27 | Bulletin, 1955-1956 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
24 | 1 | Bulletin, 1957-1958 | |||||||||
2 | Bulletin, 1959-1961 | ||||||||||
3 | Bulletin, 1962 | ||||||||||
4 | Bulletin, 1963, 1967-1968, April 1982 and April 1983 | ||||||||||
5 | Conferences and Institutes: Pamphlets and Miscellany, 1924, 1927-1928, 1931, 1968-1978 and undated | ||||||||||
6-7 | Directory of Social Welfare and Health Services in New Jersey, 1973 | ||||||||||
8 | Guidelines to the Measurement of Ability to Pay for Health and Social Services, 1962, 1971 and 1973 | ||||||||||
9 | Legislative Information Bulletin, 1954 | ||||||||||
10 | Legislative Information Bulletin, 1955 | ||||||||||
11 | Legislative Information Bulletin, 1957 | ||||||||||
12 | Legislative Information Bulletin, 1960 | ||||||||||
13 | Legislative Information Bulletin, 1961 | ||||||||||
14 | Legislative Information Bulletin, 1962 | ||||||||||
15 | Legislative Information Bulletin, 1963 and 1965 | ||||||||||
16 | Legislative Information Bulletin, 1966 | ||||||||||
17 | Legislative Information Bulletin, 1967-1968 | ||||||||||
18 | Legislative Information Bulletin, 1969-1970 | ||||||||||
19 | Legislative Information Bulletin, 1971-1972 | ||||||||||
20 | Legislative Information Bulletin, 1973-1975 | ||||||||||
21 | Miscellaneous, 1933, 1940, 1963, 1967 and undated | ||||||||||
22 | Narcotics Addiction: Addiction - Drugs + Treatment = Maturity; The Law—Get With It; The Law—For Real, 1966-1967 and 1970 | ||||||||||
23 | The Negro: New Jersey's Twentieth Citizen, 1932 | ||||||||||
24 | New Jersey Welfare Council Newsletter; Legislative Close Up, 1957, 1964 and circa 1975 | ||||||||||
25 | Social Planning Organizations in New Jersey, 1965 | ||||||||||
26 | Towards Better Care of the Mentally Ill and the Mentally Retarded: Action Kit, 1961 |
SOCIAL WELFARE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FILES, 1964-1976 (1 cubic foot) | |||||||||||
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by subject and thereunder chronologically. | |||||||||||
Summary: Records of the Social Welfare Research Foundation of New Jersey, Inc., the research arm of the Council of Human Services in New Jersey from its foundation in 1965 to its merger with the New Jersey Welfare Council in 1975. Document types include minutes, bylaws, correspondence, reports, financial documents (budgets, reports, ledger pages), membership lists, questionnaires, agendas, programs, press releases, newspaper clippings, and publications. | |||||||||||
Documents the main functions of the foundation, which included the planning, execution, and evaluation of Annual Institutes or workshops for social workers; fund-raising; and research projects. Also includes routine administrative correspondence. | |||||||||||
Of particular interest are the records of the Youth and the Law Committee, which designed and produced pamphlets for children and teenagers on New Jersey law as affecting young people. Also of interest are reference materials on projects including a report on a City of New Brunswick Board of Education initiative which developed health programs in schools for pregnant teenagers (1969). | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
24 | 27 | Annual Institutes, 1966 | |||||||||
28 | Annual Institutes, 1967 | ||||||||||
29 | Annual Institutes, 1968 | ||||||||||
30 | Annual Institutes, 1969 | ||||||||||
31 | Annual Institutes, 1970 | ||||||||||
32 | Annual Institutes, 1971 | ||||||||||
33 | Annual Institutes, 1972 | ||||||||||
34 | Annual Institutes, 1973 | ||||||||||
35 | Annual Institutes, 1974 | ||||||||||
36 | Annual Institutes Evaluations, 1974 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
25 | 1 | Annual Institutes, 1975 | |||||||||
2 | Board Directory, 1967/1968 and 1974/1975-1975/1976 | ||||||||||
3 | Board of Directors Committees, 1975-1976 | ||||||||||
4 | Bylaws, 1965, 1975 and undated | ||||||||||
5 | Correspondence, 1965-1968 | ||||||||||
6 | Correspondence, 1972-1973 and 1975-1976 | ||||||||||
7 | Correspondence—Fund Solicitation, 1971-1976 | ||||||||||
8 | Correspondence—Personal, 1975 | ||||||||||
9 | County Welfare Boards—Lists of Directors, 1975 | ||||||||||
10 | Financial Records, 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
11 | Financial Records, 1967 | ||||||||||
12 | Financial Records, 1968 | ||||||||||
13 | Financial Records, 1969 | ||||||||||
14 | Financial Records, 1970 | ||||||||||
15 | Financial Records, 1971 | ||||||||||
16 | Financial Records, 1972 | ||||||||||
17 | Financial Records, 1973 | ||||||||||
18 | Financial Records, 1974 | ||||||||||
19 | Financial Records, 1975 | ||||||||||
20 | Legislative Bulletin—Articles Used and Questionnaire, 1974-1975 | ||||||||||
21-22 | Membership, 1975 | ||||||||||
23 | Membership Kits, 1975 | ||||||||||
24 | Membership Reports, 1975-1976 | ||||||||||
25 | Minutes, 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
26 | Minutes, 1967 | ||||||||||
27 | Minutes, 1968 | ||||||||||
28 | Minutes, 1969 | ||||||||||
29 | Minutes, 1970 | ||||||||||
30 | Minutes, 1971-1972 | ||||||||||
31 | Minutes, 1973 | ||||||||||
32 | Minutes, 1974 | ||||||||||
33 | Minutes, 1975 | ||||||||||
34 | Miscellaneous, 1970-1976 | ||||||||||
35 | Objectives and Mission Statement, 1975 | ||||||||||
36 | Personnel Policies and Practices, 1964 and 1975-1976 | ||||||||||
37 | Persons and Organizations Interested in the Foundation, 1974 | ||||||||||
38 | Project Suggestions, 1964-1967 and undated | ||||||||||
39 | Reorganization, 1975 | ||||||||||
40 | Teen-Age Pregnancy; Family Learning, circa 1969 | ||||||||||
41 | Caroline Bayard Wittpenn, 1968 and undated | ||||||||||
Includes correspondence with Archibald S. Alexander. | |||||||||||
42 | Youth and the Law: Education Project, 1965-1968 | ||||||||||
43 | Youth and the Law, 1971-1973 |
PHOTOGRAPHS, 1964-1973 (10 folders) | |||||||||||
Arrangement: Grouped by subject. [Located within a manuscript box in box 26.] | |||||||||||
Summary: Photographs of the annual conference of the Council and portraits of speakers. All photographs are in black-and-white. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
26 | 1 | 64th Conference, 1965 | |||||||||
2 | 65th conference, 1966 | ||||||||||
3-6 | Conference, 1965-1967 | ||||||||||
7 | Conference, 1972 | ||||||||||
8 | Legislative Forum, 1969 | ||||||||||
9 | Portraits of Speakers, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1973 and undated | ||||||||||
10 | Public Relations Committee, 1966 |
MEMBERSHIP CARD FILE, 1928-1972, bulk 1948-1972 (.25 cubic feet) | |||||||||||
Arrangement: Arranged in three chronological and three alphabetical sequences. [2 small boxes] | |||||||||||
Summary: Cards used for maintaining the membership records of the Council for Human Services in New Jersey. | |||||||||||
Each card documents the name, institutional affiliation, and address of each member, as well as the date joined and the amount of dues paid each year. | |||||||||||
The three alphabetical sequences consist of individual members, association members and individuals in arrears in 1970. The chronological sequences, arranged by the month each member joined, include both individual and association members. There is some overlap between sequences. | |||||||||||
Box | |||||||||||
26 | Membership Card File (2 small boxes in box 26) |
PUBLICATIONS INDEX, 1937-1963 (.2 cubic feet) | |||||||||||
Arrangement: Grouped chronologically. [in enclosure] | |||||||||||
Summary: File cards indexing Council publications originally used in the Newark office. | |||||||||||
Of interest because although the locations are no longer relevant, the index lists individual articles in each issue of the Bulletin (1928-1963), documenting subjects which concerned the Council. | |||||||||||
Box | |||||||||||
26 | Publications Index (in enclosure in box 26) |
SCRAPBOOKS, 1921-1957 (4.5 cubic feet) | |||||||||||
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically. | |||||||||||
Summary: Scrapbooks documenting activities of the Council for Human Services in New Jersey. Document types within the scrapbooks include newspaper clippings, bulletins, conference programs, leaflets, cards, press releases, publications, correspondence, and buttons. | |||||||||||
Most scrapbooks pertain to particular years, while a few are based on a subject such as one documenting the Common Sense Appeal (1937-1938). | |||||||||||
Of particular interest is the 1929 scrapbook, which includes press releases on subjects discussed at the conference such as probation, child welfare and community health. Also of interest is the 1936 scrapbook, which includes material related to the demobilization of the New Jersey Emergency Relief Administration in that year, such as a list and analysis of qualifications of social workers available for employment, and a newspaper clipping about two babies who died of malnutrition after their relief was cut off. | |||||||||||
Many of the newspaper clippings cover the Council's yearly conference, but there are also clippings concerning issues such as child welfare, foster homes, mental illness, and social work training. Documents printed or duplicated for the Council frequently include notes regarding their creation, distribution, and cost. | |||||||||||
Box | |||||||||||
27 | 1921-1936 | ||||||||||
Conference Press Releases, 1929 | |||||||||||
1930 | |||||||||||
New Jersey Conference on Child Health and Protection, 1931 | |||||||||||
1932 | |||||||||||
1933 | |||||||||||
1934 | |||||||||||
1935 | |||||||||||
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28 | 1926-1933 | ||||||||||
1930-1936 | |||||||||||
1936 | |||||||||||
Common Sense Appeal, 1937-1938 | |||||||||||
1937 | |||||||||||
1938 | |||||||||||
1939 | |||||||||||
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29 [phase box] | 1940 | ||||||||||
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30 [phase box] | 1941 | ||||||||||
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31 [phase box] | 1942-1943 | ||||||||||
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32 [phase box] | 1944-1947 | ||||||||||
Box | |||||||||||
33 [phase box] | 1948 | ||||||||||
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34 [phase box] | 1949 | ||||||||||
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35 [phase box] | 1950 | ||||||||||
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36 [phase box] | 1951 | ||||||||||
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37 [phase box] | 1952 | ||||||||||
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38 [phase box] | 1953 | ||||||||||
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39 [phase box] | 1954 | ||||||||||
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40 [phase box] | 1955-1957 |