Published in 1912, this paper addresses what must be done to establish a social center in an existing school, particularly by developing community interest in such an endeavor and by appointing a proper director or leader with a set of demonstrated qualifications. Details are provided in how to organize the agency, as well as a number of legal obstacles that have to be overcome.
CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation
This pamphlet, published in 1910, aims to serve as a guide for a better and more beneficent organization of social service work in the United States, combating the neglect of bad social conditions and aimless charitable activity. It provides a detailed analysis of social conditions in smaller cities, with a wealth of practical advice and illustration.
FRANCIS H. McLEAN was field secretary of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation.
This report presents data related to the casework service of medical social work departments of New York City hospitals in 1945, with topics related to staff turnover, casework process, and staff size relative to hospital size.
RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.
Presented before the Children's Section of the National Conference of Charities and Correction in 1915, this paper examines part of a study through the Boston Children's Aid Society that aimed to state the services of a child-placing society in certain exact terms, with the hope of establishing certain standards to measure this sect of social work. By measuring the society's standards, it also looks to determine what might be failing and provide possible solutions.
RUTH W. LAWTON was research worker, Boston Children’s Aid Society.
J. PRENTICE MURPHY was general secretary, Boston Children's Aid Society.
A history of the organization, the scope of the foundation's library collection and its use to social workers, with suggestions for other sources of information available to social workers and researchers in New York City in 1917.
FREDERICK WARREN JENKINS was librarian at the Russell Sage Foundation.
Planned to supplement a more extensive 1941 study of salaries of child welfare workers, this 1944 report notes what was then a trend of salaries of member agencies of the Child Welfare League of America moving generally and substantially upward. It sets out to present and interpret these results.
RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.
This 1943 study examines the salaries of the paid professional workers at the Young Women's Christian Associations throughout the United States in the month of October 1942. Its purpose is to examine some of the chief characteristics of this group of social work personnel, particularly to understand how these factors influence the salaries these workers receive.
RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.
Published in 1943, this study was made to reveal the salaries of professional and houseparent workers in child welfare agencies, with a look into the tendencies affecting these salaries. It was undertaken at the request of the Child Welfare League of America, and the results are descriptive of agencies that were specifically associated in the League.
RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.
A volume of the Correction and Prevention series prepared for the Eighth International Prison Congress.
CHARLES RICHMOND HENDERSON was professor of sociology in the University of Chicago and commissioner for the United States on the International Prison Commission.
Addresses and discussions of the Child Welfare Conference in Richmond, Virginia, May 1911.
ROY K. FLANNAGAN was president of the State Conference of Charities and Corrections of Virginia.
