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Neighborhood Youth Association (Los Angeles, Calif.)

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Family Service of Los Angeles Area and Welfare Planning Council scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: 0426
Abstract This collection of scrapbooks originated with Family Service of Los Angeles Area and the Welfare Planning Council. The albums contain clippings regarding adoption; materials on the activities and functions of the Southeast Advisory Council of Family Service; the Welfare Planning Council; and the Neighborhood Youth Association of the Episcopalian Church. Also included is an album celebrating Evelyn Davis' nomination and reception of the Koshland Award. The dates of the scrapbooks' material...
Dates: 1940s-1960s

Neighborhood Youth Association records

 Collection
Identifier: 0416
Abstract The Neighborhood Youth Association began as charitable organization under the aegis of the Episcopal Church in 1914. Using a settlement house approach, the Association's oiginal goal was to acculturate immigrants to Los Angeles' West side neighborhoods to American culture and values. Over the years the Association has broadened its mission to include providing social services and counseling for poor families and teenaged children in the areas around Venice, California, and the Los Angeles...
Dates: 1954 - 1991

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Adoption -- California -- Archival resources 1
Ephemera 1
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- Archival resources 1
Memorandums 1
Minutes (administrative records) 1