This book, published in 1956, is a comprehensive report of a study that was made of the needs of the elderly through a survey conducted at the Kips Bay-Yorkville Health Center in New York City. An essential need for old people, it argues, is an advisory and consulting service that would be an integral part of the official community health and welfare structure.

Bernard Kutner, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University

David Fanshel, Family and Children’s Service, Pittsburgh

Alice M. Togo, Cornell University Medical College

Thomas S. Langner, Cornell University Medical College

This book, published in 1956, is a comprehensive report of a study that was made of the needs of the elderly through a survey conducted at the Kips Bay-Yorkville Health Center in New York City. An essential need for old people, it argues, is an advisory and consulting service that would be an integral part of the official community health and welfare structure.

Bernard Kutner, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University

David Fanshel, Family and Children’s Service, Pittsburgh

Alice M. Togo, Cornell University Medical College

Thomas S. Langner, Cornell University Medical College

Material for this study was collected during the summer and early autumn of 1931, in response to a request from the President’s Organization on Unemployment Relief. Thirty communities were visited, and the reports on work relief carried out in 26 of them, chiefly situated in the middle, eastern, and southern states, can be found in Part II.

Joanna C. Colcord was director of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation. Assisted by William C. Koplovitz and Russell H. Kurtz.

Education and Training for Social Work examines vocational training in social work. The study is divided into two parts: part I, the field of social work, and part II, problems of education and training. Appendices include statistics on salaries and years of education, as well as registration statistics from institutions which offer preparation for social work.

James H. Tufts was professor of philosophy in the University of Chicago.

This book, published in 1959, examines systematic research in the field of parent education – the efforts, particularly between 1934 and 1959, designed to develop in parents a greater competence in the task of rearing their children – and describes the contributions of the social sciences to parent education theory and practice. It aims to provide a solid frame of reference against which the soundness of parent education efforts and concepts can be measured. It seeks to explore and clarify the contributions which social science theory and research have made and potentially could make to the successful planning of educational efforts directed to parents.

Orville G. Brim, Jr., was a sociologist at the Russell Sage Foundation. He taught at the University of Wisconsin and was the author of Sociology and the Field of Education.

The study reported in this 1960 book examined the process of foster home placement and the impact of this process on the foster child. It also aimed to show some of the limits and potentialities of research in an actual practicing agency. The study grew out of a Russell Sage Foundation residency held by the author during 1954–1955 at the Chicago Child Care Society.

Eugene A. Weinstein was professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University.

Published in 1962, Cottage Six documents the implementation of more effective use of the social sciences in the therapeutic program of an institution for children, particularly its Cottage 6, inhabited by adolescent boys. It analyzes the problems that confront any institution that wishes to develop an integrated clinical and therapeutic community program.

Howard W. Polsky was professor at the New York School of Social Work, Columbia University.

This 1940 volume presents a discussion of the development of civil service and social work. From the foreword: “Discussions with the Civil Service Committee of the New York City Chapter of the American Association of Social Workers resulted in a definite request from that body that the Charity Organization Department of the Foundation attempt to issue a ‘manual’ for the guidance of groups of social workers engaged in studying their local civil service problems, or participating in the processes of selection for social work positions. To undertake this task the Department was fortunate in securing Alice Campbell Klein, whose many years of experience as a worker in the fields of public health and social work, as assistant editor of the Encyclopedia of the Social Services, and later as a staff member of the Joint Vocational Service, had familiarized her with general problems in social work.”

This 1924 book documents a study on child welfare work in the District of Columbia begun in 1918 and revisited in 1922 by the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation. It aimed to develop a plan of action to improve the conditions of children in foster homes and institutions. Topics include training schools, the juvenile court, and the care of mothers with children.

Hastings H. Hart was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.