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Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University"},{"label":"Language","value":"eng"},{"label":"Collection Location","value":"Workman Family Papers CSLA-9, Series 2: Margaret Workman, Box 20, Folder 13"},{"label":"Subject","value":"Community welfare councils--History--California--Los Angeles; Social history--California--Los Angeles; "},{"label":"Object Identifier","value":"LML_CSLA-09-00017"},{"label":"Physical description","value":"6 leaves ; 28 cm"},{"label":"Names","value":"Welfare Planning Council, Los Angeles Region--History; Welfare Council of Metropolitan Los Angeles--History; Welfare council of metropolitan Los Angeles. Research dept.--History; Alliance of Social Agencies (Los Angeles, Calif.)--History; Council of Social Agencies (Los Angeles, Calif.)--History; Associated Charities (Los Angeles, Calif.)--History; "},{"label":"Note","value":"The Welfare Planning Council for the Los Angeles Region was originally formed in 1914, under the name of the Los Angeles Council of Social Agencies.  During its earliest years, the Council's activities were focused on providing relief for the unemployed during the Great Depression, and then during World War II, on caring for children of working mothers.  In 1944, the Council officially incorporated under the name of the Welfare Council of Metropolitan Los Angeles.  The organization remained under this name until 1953, when it divided up into six different branches and moved to a more decentralized, community-based model, becoming the Welfare Planning Council, Los Angeles Region."},{"label":"Title Alternative","value":"Welfare planning council, Los Angeles Region, October 24, 1961"},{"label":"Description","value":"A 6-page typewritten narrative on the history of the Welfare Planning Council of Metropolitan Los Angeles, later renamed the Welfare Planning Council, Los Angeles Region.  The history begins with the first charity founded in Los Angeles in 1854 and continues through a restructuring of the Council in 1961. Includes listings of the Council's accomplishments, several of the Council presidents, social research projects undertaken by the Council's Research Department, and explanations for the Council's reorganizations."},{"label":"Title","value":"Welfare Planning in Los Angeles"},{"label":"Date","value":"D:24 M:10 Y:1961"},{"label":"Type","value":["Manuscripts"]},{"label":"Rights","value":"https://library.lmu.edu/archivesandspecialcollections/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/"},{"label":"Location","value":["Los Angeles (Calif.)"]}],"description":"Welfare Planning in Los Angeles","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/lmudigitalcollections/iiif/bc3bda87-d7b3-4cbe-8dd1-74fd75e39f52/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"LML_CSLA-09-000170001","height":6000,"width":4628,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/lmudigitalcollections/iiif/e6ced9a5-511b-4941-ace9-9602c9e0e673/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/tif","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/lmudigitalcollections/iiif/e6ced9a5-511b-4941-ace9-9602c9e0e673","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":2048,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":6000,"width":4628},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/lmudigitalcollections/iiif/bc3bda87-d7b3-4cbe-8dd1-74fd75e39f52/canvas/_1","metadata":[{"label":"Sponsorship","value":"Funding for a portion of this collection came from a Local History Digital Resource Project grant . The Local History Digital Resource Project is supported by the U. S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. For more information, please visit: http://www.califa.org/lhdrp.php"},{"label":"Transcription","value":"WELFARE PLANNING COUNCIL, LOS ANGELES REGION  October 24, 1961  Welfare Planning in Los Angeles    Early History  In 1850, when California was admitted to the Union, the little pueblo of Los Angeles, with a population of 1,600, was characterized by lawlessnes and violence; marauding Indian tribes; epidemics; droughts; and floods. Fam-ilies needing help were segregated on \"\"Charity Street,\"\" now North Spring Street. The poor were helped with \"\"bread, money and wine\"\" from the generosity of individual citizens.    The year 1854 marked the establishment of the first organized charity, the Hebrew Benevolent Society, whose aim was to \"\"alleviate want, not only of Jews but of other creeds as well.\"\" Two years later, the Sisters of Charity arrived in Los Angeles, after a perilous five months' journey from New York, to care for  orphan children.    In the succeeding years, the increase in population brought radical changes to the structure of the community. The first hospital, now known as St. Vincent's, was established. The Public Library was organized, the first railroad was incorporated, and the first bank opened. THe Hebrew Ladies Benevolent Society was the original central charity bureau and served in that capacity until 1893 when the Associated Charities was established to \"\"secure cooperation among the different charities of Los Angeles, to pre-vent pauperism, promote thrift and relieve the worthy poor.\"\"    In 1898, the first municipal nurse was employed by the City of Los Angeles - in fact, the first in the United States. The first attempt to approach the idea of a council of social agencies for social planning for the whole "},{"label":"Source","value":"Department of Archives & Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University"},{"label":"Digital Identifier","value":"LML_CSLA-09-000170001"},{"label":"Title","value":"Page 1"},{"label":"Object identifier","value":"LML_CSLA-09-00017"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/lmudigitalcollections/iiif/e6ced9a5-511b-4941-ace9-9602c9e0e673/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/lmudigitalcollections/iiif/bc3bda87-d7b3-4cbe-8dd1-74fd75e39f52/canvas/_2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"LML_CSLA-09-000170002","height":6000,"width":4636,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/lmudigitalcollections/iiif/d10d78ee-1d94-4af8-a21e-6c6157d25ab6/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/tif","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/lmudigitalcollections/iiif/d10d78ee-1d94-4af8-a21e-6c6157d25ab6","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":2048,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":6000,"width":4636},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/lmudigitalcollections/iiif/bc3bda87-d7b3-4cbe-8dd1-74fd75e39f52/canvas/_2","metadata":[{"label":"Sponsorship","value":"Funding for a portion of this collection came from a Local History Digital Resource Project grant . The Local History Digital Resource Project is supported by the U. S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. For more information, please visit: http://www.califa.org/lhdrp.php"},{"label":"Transcription","value":"Page 2    community was made in 1908 when the Charity Conference Committee was organ-ized. Two years later, the Los Angeles Conference of Social Workers, a con-tinuation of the Charities Conference Committee, was formed. During that period, the Associated Charities ceased functioning and the County Department of Outdoor Relief, formed in 1913, consolidated city and county public relief activities.     Council of Social Agencies  The Welfare Planning Council was originally formed in 1914, under the name of the Los Angeles Council of Social Agencies. It antedated the Community Chest by ten years, and remained independent until 1930 when it became a division of the Welfare Federation of the Los Angeles Area.    The first Executive Secretary of the Council of Social Agencies was Mrs. Van Wyck; Mrs. George Herbert Clarke was its first president, and I. Irving Lipsitch its second president. Other presidents included Joseph Bonapart, 1936-1938; Gardner Bullis, 1938-1941; and Olin Wellborn III, 1941-1944.    Mary Stanton became Executive Secretary of the Council in 1935 and continued until her resignation in 1941. The early days of the Council were shadowed by the depression. The State Relief Administration was created and relief for the unemployed was a major problem. The Council initiated its Research Department in 1936, and it was during this period that a \"\"self-study\"\" was begun which later led to a broadening of the base of membership.    In 1942, C.W. Pfeiffer became the Council's Executive Secretary. World War II was coloring every activity, with particular emphasis on care of children of working mothers. The Council initiated the first of a series of Conferences on Childhood and Youth in Wartime; a study of family agencies relief practices was made; new and creative neighborhood approaches in working with delinquency were developed through the Youth Project; and legislation was initiated re- "},{"label":"Source","value":"Department of Archives & Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University"},{"label":"Digital Identifier","value":"LML_CSLA-09-000170002"},{"label":"Title","value":"Page 2"},{"label":"Object identifier","value":"LML_CSLA-09-00017"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/lmudigitalcollections/iiif/d10d78ee-1d94-4af8-a21e-6c6157d25ab6/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/lmudigitalcollections/iiif/bc3bda87-d7b3-4cbe-8dd1-74fd75e39f52/canvas/_3","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"LML_CSLA-09-000170003","height":6000,"width":4632,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/lmudigitalcollections/iiif/a1322db8-7c59-4b26-9432-6d9c3e4df074/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/tif","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/lmudigitalcollections/iiif/a1322db8-7c59-4b26-9432-6d9c3e4df074","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":2048,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":6000,"width":4632},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/lmudigitalcollections/iiif/bc3bda87-d7b3-4cbe-8dd1-74fd75e39f52/canvas/_3","metadata":[{"label":"Sponsorship","value":"Funding for a portion of this collection came from a Local History Digital Resource Project grant . The Local History Digital Resource Project is supported by the U. S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. For more information, please visit: http://www.califa.org/lhdrp.php"},{"label":"Transcription","value":"Page 3    garding charitable tax exemptions.    Welfare Council of Metropolitan Los Angeles  It was in 1944 that the Council of Social Agencies officially became the Welfare Council of Metropolitan Los Angeles. It broadened its base of member-ship and community members were admitted.    Presidents during that period were: Mrs. Sumner Spaulding, 1944-1947; Bryant Essick, 1947-1949; Mrs. Rollin Brown, 1949-1952; and Walter S. Hilborn, 1952-1955.    In 1947, the Volunteer Bureau was established; continuation of the Child Care Center Program was supported; a study of camping facilities was initiated; and special needs of single men were studied.    Outstanding events of these years were the initiation of the District Planning Department, which later became the Welfare Federation's Department of Associated Cities; a Directory of Health and Welfare Agencies was published; a workshop on Human Needs During Reconversion was held to emphasize the problems growing out of the post-war period; the Sorenson study of recreation facilities was made; and the Veterans Service Centers were established. As a result of the Council's Adoption Study, some dramatic changes in the pol-icies and practices of public and private adoption agencies were made in the early '50's.    Separation from the Welfare Federation  A Citizen's Study Committee, with R.L. Minckler, chairman, was created by the Welfare Federation in 1950 to make a study of the Federation and the Council. The Committee's recommendations called for a) separation of the Council and Federation and b) creation of a Program and Agencies Division in the Feder-ation. The reasons for separation were: "},{"label":"Source","value":"Department of Archives & Special Collections, William H. 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The Local History Digital Resource Project is supported by the U. S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. For more information, please visit: http://www.califa.org/lhdrp.php"},{"label":"Transcription","value":"Page 4    1. Overall planning should be conducted in a neutral setting; it was inappropriate for the Federation to have a planning department re-sponsible for overall community planning of both Chest and non-Chest agencies. Separation would encourage broader participation of non-Chest agencies.  2. The creation of six major divisions in the Welfare Federation includ-ing a Program Division and Agencies Division would result in a clar-ification of responsibility and authority within that organization.  A Joint Steering Committee, comprised of representatives from the Federation and the Council, worked out the details for carrying out the recommendations. It suggested the creation of a Joint Policy Committee to adjudicate problems of relationship between the Federation and the new planning organization.    Welfare Planning Council, Los Angeles Region  After months of study, the Organizing Committee, under the chairmanship of Walter S. Hilborn, presented By-Laws for the new planning organization which were approved by the Joint Steering Committee. Representatives of the County Board of Supervisors, Board of Education, City Council, private non-Chest agencies, State Departments, and other Councils in the county were added to the Organizing Committee to help make the new organization the kind of plan-ning body needed in Los Angeles. Its \"\"region\"\" would be county-wide. The new planning organization was officially incorporated in November, 1953, under the name of the Welfare Planning Council, Los Angeles Region.    Under the newly organized Council, the Board of Directors were delegated representatives of member organizations, both public and private, fund raising bodies, and the general public. A Committee on Geographic Cooperation was established to act as liaison between local Chests, Councils, Coordinating Councils and other groups and the central organization of the Welfare Plan- "},{"label":"Source","value":"Department of Archives & Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University"},{"label":"Digital Identifier","value":"LML_CSLA-09-000170004"},{"label":"Title","value":"Page 4"},{"label":"Object identifier","value":"LML_CSLA-09-00017"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/lmudigitalcollections/iiif/e1bc2879-f8b2-43f9-ab65-983efe41e2d4/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/lmudigitalcollections/iiif/bc3bda87-d7b3-4cbe-8dd1-74fd75e39f52/canvas/_5","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"LML_CSLA-09-000170005","height":6000,"width":4640,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/lmudigitalcollections/iiif/6908789b-79b9-4e38-8fa7-e0360b2bdee3/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/tif","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/lmudigitalcollections/iiif/6908789b-79b9-4e38-8fa7-e0360b2bdee3","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":2048,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":6000,"width":4640},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/lmudigitalcollections/iiif/bc3bda87-d7b3-4cbe-8dd1-74fd75e39f52/canvas/_5","metadata":[{"label":"Sponsorship","value":"Funding for a portion of this collection came from a Local History Digital Resource Project grant . The Local History Digital Resource Project is supported by the U. S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. For more information, please visit: http://www.califa.org/lhdrp.php"},{"label":"Transcription","value":"Page 5    ning Council, Los Angeles Region.    The first step toward decentralization was taken with the establishment of the Harbor Area Welfare Planning Council in 1954. That same year, staff was assigned to the San Fernando Valley and West Los Angeles areas. During 1955-56, South Central and East Central Areas laid plans for init-iating their Area Councils in the fall.    Mrs. John W. Eagle was president from 1955 to 1957. Under her leadership, the Administrative Study Committee did an intensive evaluation which re-sulted in important changes in staff structure, emphasis on Area planning extension and more focus on planning projects of greatest concern to the total community. Other presidents were: Robert J. Felixson, 1957-1958; Edward E. Tuttle, 1958-1960; and Lawrence T. Cooper, 1960-1962.    Following the retirement of C.W. Pfeiffer as Executive Director in December  1956, Chester L. Bowers was appointed his successor and served in that position until his resignation in August 1959. During that period, the Welfare Information Service and the Volunteer Bureau, because of the nature of their direct services to Chest agencies, withdrew from the Council and became independent agencies. In 1958, the Welfare Plan-ning Council moved out of the Welfare Federation Building to new head-quarters at 733 1/2 South Hope Street.    A three-year county-wide Mental Health Survey was launched in 1957. Under the chairmanship of Lawrence T. Cooper and the direction of Dr. Wayne McMillen, the study involved cooperation from citizens and agencies of more than 100 local communities, as well as many divisions, departments and Area Councils of the Regional Council. A report of the Survey's 99 findings and recommendations was published in the fall of 1960; and "},{"label":"Source","value":"Department of Archives & Special Collections, William H. 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The Local History Digital Resource Project is supported by the U. S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. For more information, please visit: http://www.califa.org/lhdrp.php"},{"label":"Transcription","value":"Page 6    a Mental Health Development Program was launched in 1961 to carry out these recommendations.    During this period, other important Council projects included the West Area Council's Sawtelle Urban Renewal Project; Health Education in Schools; Camp Bureau study of facilities in the area; and the Child Welfare Division gave direction to establishment of the Homeaker's [sic] Service of Los Angeles.    Realignment of Council Structure  George E. Wyman, former director of the California State Department of Social Welfare, was appointed Executive Director in March, 1960. Following a report from Lyman Ford, Executive Director of United Community Funds and Councils of America, early in 1960, the Board created a Policy Committee whose report \"\"Mapping New Directions\"\" was adopted in October, 1960.    This called for major policy changes in the Council's structure and activities. Major changes were: elimination of divisional structure; a non-delegated Board of Directors; a broader citizen based membership; task-centered pro-jects with definite time limits; and focusing on area-wide problems where results provide community directions for several years.    The By-Laws to reflect these principles were amended by the Board on April 12, 1961 and approved at the Annual Meeting on June 14, 1961. "},{"label":"Source","value":"Department of Archives & Special Collections, William H. 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