The Los Angeles Roundtable For Children began in the fall of l982 with a series of informal monthly meetings convened by faculty members at the University of Southern California's School of Social Work, when child welfare leaders from the public and private sectors met to address evident deterioration of Los Angeles county's protective services. The collection contains the group's groundbreaking early volunteer research reports, designed to provide crucial missing information and recommendations for change and reform. All Roundtable reports are collected, together with "Children Now" reports published between 1989-96, reports and records of the Children's Planning Council from 1992-98, and many publications on child welfare from the city and county of Los Angeles and the State of California during this period. Also included are minutes and agendas of the Los Angeles County Commission For Children's Services from 1990-96. These materials, together with a range of miscellaneous reports on topics of concern to the Roundtable - including education, juvenile probation and protection, adolescent pregnancy prevention, and family preservation services - afford a detailed picture of child welfare services in a decade when Los Angeles County, after long neglect, attempted to provide effective protective services to its rapidly increasing juvenile population. The collection consists of reports, correspondence, and miscellaneous materials created and collected by the members of the Rountable.

The Los Angeles Roundtable for Children began in the fall of 1982 with a series of informal monthly meetings convened by faculty members at the University of Southern California's School of Social Work, when child welfare leaders from the public and private sectors met to address evident deterioration of Los Angeles County's protective services. Several instance of failure to protect abused and neglected children from further harm had prompted adverse press comment and public dismay. Roundtable members, who were committed to putting the interests of the region's children before those of their individual departments or agencies, determined that there was an extraordinary lack of basic information about the characteristics and needs of Los Angeles' two million children, and also about the complex organization and financing of the child welfare programs then in place.

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