Finding aid for the California Association for Health and Welfare records
0405
USC Libraries Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California, 90089-0189
213-740-5900
specol@usc.edu
2011 May
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
Box 1, Folder 1
Inland Empire Conference, Region XI
1962-1964
Box 1, Folder 2
State office, Regions VIII and XI
1962-1966
Scope and Content
Proceedings of institutes on 1962 Social Security Act; board meeting minutes; correspondence; regional programs.
Box 1, Folder 3
Regional vice presidents' "kit"
1962-1967
Box 1, Folder 4
54th annual conference
1964-1965
Box 1, Folder 5
Central Valley conference
1966
Box 1, Folder 6
Central Valley conference, Region VIII; East Bay conference, Region VI
1966-1967
Box 1, Folder 7
Handbook for regional vice presidents, papers
1966-1967
Box 1, Folder 8
56th annual conference
1967
Box 1, Folder 9
Statewide conference
1967
Box 1, Folder 10, Box 2, Folder 1
Regional conference planning, Central Valley, Fresno, Riverside
1967-1968
Box 2, Folder 2
Manual for regional vice presidents and regional steering committees
1968
Box 2, Folder 3-4
Statewide conference; end of the association
1968-1969
Box 2, Folder 5
Miscellaneous reports, proceedings, and publications
1938-1968
Box 2, Folder 6
California Conference of Social Work and California Conference on Social Welfare pamphlets and proceedings
1933-1950
Box 2, Folder 7
California Conference of Social Work and California Conference on Social Welfare correspondence, minutes, proceedings
1946-1952
Box 2, Folder 8
Welfare Council of Metropolitan Los Angeles
1946-1947
Box 2, Folder 9
John Muir plaque
1958-1979
Box 2, Folder 10
Photographs of various California social work leaders
1950s
Box 2, Folder 11
Letter re contribution of materials to California Social Welfare project
1982
