Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Exceptional Children's Foundation
- Abstract:
- In 1946, a small group of parents in Los Angeles pooled their resources to create a daycare program for their children with developmental disabilities. The following year, the Exceptional Children's Foundation was incorporated with its mission as providing the highest quality services for children who are challenged with developmental, learning, and emotional disabilities--empowering them to reach their greatest potential. Over the years, the mission and vision of the Foundation expanded to include adult services, with many service sites throughout Los Angeles County and specializing in early education, art centers, adult residential services, and mental health services. The Foundation's headquarters is currently in Culver City. This small collection of official records consists chiefly of Board meeting minutes and annual reports mainly from the 1970s through 2002, with a few earlier documents from its first few decades of existence.
- Extent:
- 1.75 Linear Feet 3 boxes
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Box/folder# or item name], Exceptional Children's Foundation records, Collection no. 0494, California Social Welfare Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Background
- Processing information:
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The collection is unprocessed.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Children -- Services for -- California -- Archival resources
Mental retardation -- Archival resources
Social service -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Social work with people with mental disabilities -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Annual reports
Minutes
Newsletters - Names:
- Exceptional Children's Foundation -- Archives
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Advance notice required for access.
- Terms of access:
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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:
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[Box/folder# or item name], Exceptional Children's Foundation records, Collection no. 0494, California Social Welfare Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
- Location of this collection:
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Special CollectionsDoheny Memorial Library, Room 209Los Angeles, CA 90089-0411, US
- Contact:
- (213) 740-5900