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The collection includes historical summaries and other materials (1948-1960) from the United Temperance Movement, the predecessor to MCAP. Minnesota Council on Alcohol Problems records include records of incorporation, financial statements, and MCAP administrative files (annual meetings, photos, correspondence, copies of speeches, and special project files).

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The collection consists of volumes from the Minnesota Department of Human Services Library covering social work and social services, public policy, psychology and sociology.

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The collection contains newsletters, clippings, and positions papers about public assistance, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, and flat grant programs. Also included are documents concerning a dispute over enumeration of welfare recipients by social security number.

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Included in the collection are administrative records, including minutes, financials, correspondence, membership lists, committee notes, by-laws,articles of incorporation, and a history of the organization.

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The Minnesota Social Service Association records, most of which date from the 1930's to the 1970's, document the association's changing focus on social conditions, programs, and legislation. The records include conference proceedings (dating back to the 1890's); minutes of the board of directors, executive committee, and delegate assembly; minutes, reports, and working files of committees; administrative working files; financial records; newsletters; and photographs.

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Collection contains correspondence, administrative files and meeting files for the Minnesota Society for Clinical Social Work (MSCSW).

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Records from the YWCA of Mount Vernon, New York. Committee minutes, correspondence, newsletters, and scrapbooks trace the association's responses to the Depression, World War II, the movement for racial equality, and the War on Poverty.

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The collection consists of the records related to Northside Settlement Services, Inc. of Minneapolis and its predecessors, Wells Memorial House and Unity House. Hansen servied a president of Unity House. The merger of the two neighborhood centers is the major focus of the papers.

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Consists of reports and other documents from state agencies with emphasis on quantifiable data.

Abstract Records of the National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work (NADD), a professional association of heads of accredited graduate social work programs founded in 1986. NADD promotes social work education, research and policy. Contains minutes, programs, background materials, and selected papers from annual meetings; officers' correspondence files; committee and task force reports and minutes; by laws; annual audits; and a member survey. The records document NADD's...

Abstract The National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the membership organization for professional social workers in the United States, was established in October, 1955. Included in the collection are the records of seven predecessor organizations – American Association of Social Workers (AASW), American Association of Medical Social Workers (AAMSW), National Association of School Social Workers (NASSW), American Association of Psychiatric Social Workers (AAPSW), American Association of Group...

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The collection includes records of the chapter's various committees, councils, and divisions. Project files and records documenting the chapter's legislative activities are also included.

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Transcripts of interviews with social workers Harriett Bartlett, Arthur Dunham, Arlien Johnson, Gisela Konopka, Inabel Lindsay, Helen Harris Perlman, Gladys Ryland, and Gertrude Wilson are included.

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The collection includes project files, project reports, training exercises, indexes, abstracts. Resources include a collection of bound materials by other organizations and 11 films and a videotape on a variety of topics.

Abstract The collection consists of minutes, administrative correspondence, memoranda, and reports, fund-raising files, publicity/public relations materials that include publications, photographs, films, slides, audio and video cassettes, conference materials, and files on local chapters and relations with other organizations. These records relate to all aspects of the NCPCA's efforts to stimulate greater public awareness of the need to prevent child abuse and to encourage the development of public...

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The National Conference of Christians and Jews records include annual reports, conference and institute proceedings, Brotherhood Week materials, speeches, pamphlets, correspondence, and the speeches, articles and correspondence of Everett R Clinchy, who was the founding director of the organization.

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Published material relating to NCSW's annual conferences make up the majority of this collection. Minutes and supporting documents from boards of directors and various committee meetings are also included.

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Records include the project's publications, administrative files, correspondence, dealings with foundations, working papers, and tape recordings and papers presented at discussion seminars.

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The records comprise audio cassettes of speeches or papers presented at annual meetings of the National Council for Adoption (formerly the National Committee for Adoption) and personal files of the Council's founding president, Dr. William Pierce.

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Records of the department document efforts to develop among churches a sensitive approach to the social welfare field and to provide leadership for individual church members entering the social work profession. Included are records of committees, of relations with other organizations, of conferences to study specific issues, and of efforts to develop position statements. Originals remain with the National Council of Churches.

Abstract The National Council of Family Relations (NCFR) records document the Council's efforts to promote consultation and cooperation among professional family life workers, including clergymen, counselors, educators, home economists, nurses, physicians, lawyers, social workers, and psychologists. Included in the collection are files on annual meetings, correspondence with state and regional family relations councils, financial records, membership cards, recordings of conference presentations,...

Abstract National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers records consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, financial records, photographs, and other documents from the National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers, now United Neighborhood Centers of America. The Federation, which was founded in 1911, included local settlement houses and neighborhood centers from across the United States and Canada. The records document the programs, methodology, member...

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The collection consists of documents related to the first and third annual meetings of the National Federation of Student Social Workers held in 1967 and 1969.

Abstract The National Florence Crittenton Mission (NFCM) was chartered by Congress in 1898. Florence Crittenton homes were maternity homes and hospitals established in cities throughout the U. S. and Canada to provide residential care for unmarried mothers and their children and to undertake preventive and protective work for young girls. Documents include board of trustees and committee records, reports and other publications, financial records, and files on Crittenton homes in approximately 60...

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The National Guild of Community Music Schools records include correspondence, memoranda, studies, project reports, and concert programs, most of which date from 1946 to 1965.

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Included are reports from state and local health councils; materials gathered for the 1945 Gunn-Platt report (published as Voluntary Health Agencies, Ronald Press), which pointed to gaps in existing health care services; and records of the Health Careers Horizons Project, designed to familiarize young people with opportunities in the health care field.

Abstract Record of the National Housing Conference, Inc. founded at the Public Housing Conference in New York City in 1932. The collection consists of board of directors and committee minutes and supporting material, administrative correspondence, annual reports, notes to organizational representatives and membership newsletters, annual conference proceedings and supporting material, position papers and speeches on housing, NHC staff publications, proposed and pending housing legislation, statements...

Abstract The National News Council was created in 1973 in New York City upon the recommendation of an independent task force of the Twentieth Century Fund, a research foundation. Concieved as a private, nonprofit organization, the council began operation with two basic objectives: to consider complaints brought against the media, whether by individual citizens or organizations, concerning alleged misstatements, inaccuracies, or unfairness; and to study possible infringements on the freedom of the...