Anne Ostomel papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 0600

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the papers of American social worker Anne Ostomel (1908-2003). These papers include files with reports, bibliographies, directories, speeches, correspondences, conference proceedings, training manuals, and handbooks related to Ostomel's work in New York and California. Ostomel was the program supervisor of the Public Assistance Division of the Albany, New York, County Department of Public Welfare and later a Child Welfare Specialist in the California Department of Social Welfare.

Dates

Creation: Majority of material found within 1950s-1980s

Creator

Ostomel, Anne, 1908-2003 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

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Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Biographical / Historical

Anne Ostomel (1908-2003) was an American social worker. She received her Master's in Social Work from the University of Southern California. Ostomel worked as the program supervisor of the Public Assistance Division of the Albany, New York, County Department of Public Welfare and then as a Child Welfare Specialist in the California Department of Social Welfare. She helped in the development of child welfare services in county welfare departments, licensing of adoption and child-placing agencies, and development of training programs for county welfare and probation agency personnel, as well as state legislation and regulations to cope with child abuse. She and her husband Maurice Ostomel established the Arlien Johnson Scholarship Fund at the USC School of Social Work, and following her death the University of Southern California School of Social Work established the Maurice J. and Anne M. Ostomel Scholarship Fund.