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Finding aid for the California Association for Health and Welfare records 0405
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  • Title: California Association for Health and Welfare records
    Collection number: 0405
    Contributing Institution: USC Libraries Special Collections
    Language of Material: English
    Physical Description: 0.83 Linear feet 2 boxes
    Date (bulk): Bulk, 1962-1968
    Date (inclusive): 1933-1982
    Abstract: The California Association for Health and Welfare records consist of executive committee minutes, planning materials and reports from regional and statewide conferences, newsletters, and miscellaneous Association publications. The majority of the material documents the planning of the Conference's annual organizational meetings held across the state, including the meeting held to discuss the fate of the organization in 1969. There are also materials produced by the California Conference of Social Work and the California Conference on Social Welfare.
    creator: California Association for Health and Welfare.

    Conditions Governing Access

    Advance notice required for access.

    Conditions Governing Use

    The use of archival materials for on-site research does not constitute permission from the California Social Welfare Archives to publish them. Copyright has not been assigned to the California Social Welfare Archives, and the researcher is instructed to obtain permission from the copyright holder to quote from or publish manuscripts in the CSWA's collections.

    Preferred Citation

    [Box/folder# or item name], California Association for Health and Welfare records, Collection no. 0470, California Social Welfare Archives, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

    Historical note

    California Association for Health and Welfare was the name adopted in 1958 by the former California Conference of Social Work, which had been an important and highly influential assembly of professional social workers and lay members dedicated to public service. The group began in 1901, as the California Conference of Charities and Corrections, with the initial goal of promoting legislation to establish a state department supervising the state's welfare activities. After the California State Department of Charities and Corrections (later the Department of Social Welfare) was finally set up in 1903, the Conference played major roles in the development of the state's juvenile courts, in the reform of county hospitals, in pioneering state aid for needy children and the aged, and in the registration and certification of social workers. It also developed an effective legislative advocacy arm, first flexed during assaults on state social services launched by the legislature during the 1930s. At its height in the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Conference had a membership of over 3,000 and would often host 1,000 or more attendees at its annual conferences. The bulk of the collection reflects the condition of the Association from 1965 to 1969, when membership had sunk to around 600 and was in an apparently irreversible decline leading to dissolution of the group in February 1969.

    Scope and Content

    The California Association for Health and Welfare records consist of executive committee minutes, planning materials and reports from regional and statewide conferences, newsletters, and miscellaneous Association publications. The majority of the material documents the planning of the Conference's annual organizational meetings held across the state, including the meeting held to discuss the fate of the organization in 1969. There are also materials produced by the California Conference of Social Work and the California Conference on Social Welfare.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    California Association for Health and Welfare. -- Archives
    California--History--Archival resources
    Correspondence
    Minutes
    Reports
    Social advocacy--California--Archival resources