This book was published in 1963 as an account of the successes and difficulties encountered in the experimental introduction of a social science research service into an ongoing health and welfare agency, specifically the recounting of the development of the Social Research Service of the State Charities Aid Association, a voluntary organization with the goal of social reform.

ROLAND L. WARREN was professor of sociology at Alfred University.

This book, published in 1955, is a successor to Joanna C. Colcord's Your Community: Its Provision for Health, Education, Safety, and Welfare, published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 1939. It is designed as a broadly conceived working manual of community study aimed at not just social workers, like its predecessor, but a more varied group of citizens. It details procedures for conducting the survey, both in its organizational and methodological aspects.

ROLAND L. WARREN was professor of sociology at Alfred University.

Address delivered in 1911, before the Principals' Association of Graded Schools.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

Presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1921, this report details the treatment of persons awaiting court action and misdemeanant prisoners. It argues that these prisoners are the most likely to reform because they include those who are imprisoned for the first time, and it presents a particular way of treatment towards them in the prison system.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

All the reports presented at the fifty-first Annual Congress of the American Prison Association. 

HASTINGS H. HART was president of the American Prison Association.

This paper, read before the New York State Conference of Charities and Correction in 1913, is concerned with the best way to help people with mental deficiencies and what roles they have in society. It estimates annual costs of care in the state of New York.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

This monograph is a volume of the Round Table Plan, a series by the Russell Sage Foundation to assist boards of trustees of institutions caring for dependent children in their administrative duties. Published in 1916, it details the proper protocols in admitting and discharging children from an institution, decisions that will affect the entire future development of children involved. The importance of admission policy concerns making sure that the resources of a foundation are not wasted upon those who do not need them or who might be better off somewhere else. Proper placing-out and supervision of the discharge process is discussed. The book also describes the legal and moral responsibilities that face an institution when caring for children who are its wards.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping at the Russell Sage Foundation.

"The yearly army that drops out of line -- standards too high and teaching too dull." A report published by the Foundation's Department of Child Hygiene in 1910.

LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

Broken Homes attempts to analyze the causal factors that lead husbands and fathers to desert their families. It asks why men desert their wives and children and what steps can be taken for both preventative and corrective treatment. Published in 1919, this book is a careful examination of relationships and the motives behind marriage, detailing the history of desertion laws and providing additional strategies for social workers in assisting deserted families.

JOANNA C. COLCORD was superintendent of the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York.

A 1913 survey of the status of hospital social work, Social Work in Hospitals is born of the evident need for exchange of experience among hospitals around the country, as well as a desire for a more conscious and consistent effort to establish standards for social work in hospitals. Topics reported include the mentally unbalanced, employment for the handicapped, single mothers, organization of social workers, and the future of hospital social service.

IDA M. CANNON was head worker of the Social Service Department at Massachusetts General Hospital.