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First Steps in Community Center Development

Author
Clarence Arthur Perry
Ebook
Publication Date
35 pages

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A pamphlet promoting the after-class use of school buildings for recreational, social, and civic community activities.

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

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Contributions to Community Center Progress

Editor
Clarence Arthur Perry
Ebook
Publication Date
40 pages

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A report on the community center sessions at the N.E.A. Department of Superintendence meeting, Cleveland, February 1920 Published by the Department of Recreation of the Russell Sage Foundation.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Recreation, Russell Sage Foundation

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An Experiment in Mental Patient Rehabilitation

Evaluating a Social Agency Program
Authors
Henry J. Meyer
Edgar F. Borgatta
Ebook
Publication Date
120 pages

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This report of research conducted at Altro Health and Rehabilitation Services was designed to develop a comparable fund of reported experiences of evaluative studies of mental health carried out in social welfare settings. It evaluates the program at Altro from the rehabilitation of post-hospitalized mental patients, based on research and in depth analysis on the resulting data.

HENRY J. MEYER was professor of social work and sociology at the University of Michigan.

EDGAR F. BORGATTA was social psychologist at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Treatment

Methods Employed by Organized Charity in the Rehabilitation of Families
Author
Porter R. Lee
Ebook
Publication Date
19 pages

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An analysis of how organized charities can work efficiently to best treat families in need in regards to health, education, employment, recreation, and spiritual development.

PORTER R. LEE was general secretary of the Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity

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Wage-Earning Pittsburgh

Editor
Paul Underwood Kellogg
Ebook
Publication Date
741 pages

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A volume of the Pittsburgh Survey, carried out by the Russell Sage Foundation in 1914.

PAUL UNDERWOOD KELLOGG was director of the Pittsburgh Survey.

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The Pittsburgh District

Civic Frontage
Editor
Paul Underwood Kellogg
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Publication Date
691 pages

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A volume of the Pittsburgh Survey carried out by the Russell Sage Foundation in 1914, focusing on Pittsburgh's history and growth, civic conditions, and education, recreation, and institutional facilities.

PAUL UNDERWOOD KELLOGG was director of the Pittsburgh Survey.

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Housing in Springfield, Illinois

A Study by the National Housing Association
Author
John Ihlder
Ebook
Publication Date
38 pages

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A volume of the Springfield Survey published in 1914, this report presents a clear idea of the housing conditions in Springfield at the time, as well as the methods taken to keep conditions up to standard. Topics include land overcrowding, unhealthy circumstances in apartments, and housing for miners, with an argument of what the city could do to improve conditions.

JOHN IHLDER, Springfield Survey Committee

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Cover image of the book The Registration of Illegitimate Births
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The Registration of Illegitimate Births

A Preventive of Infant Mortality
Author
Hastings H. Hart
Ebook
Publication Date
25 pages

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A paper read before the American Public Health Association at Rochester, New York in 1915.

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

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The Extinction of the Defective Delinquent

A Working Program
Author
Hastings H. Hart
Hardcover
Publication Date
18 pages

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A paper read before the American Prison Association in Baltimore in 1912.

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

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How to Give Wisely

Author
Hastings H. Hart
Ebook
Publication Date
36 pages

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A paper read at the National Conference of Social Work in Milwaukee June, 1921. The paper was intended as a handbook for philanthropists.

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

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