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Maurice Ostomel papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0496
Abstract
Maurice Ostomel was the assistant director of the Welfare Planning Council of Metropolitan Los Angeles from 1945 to 1957. While there, he helped form a community committee on the aging and wrote a number of reports on public assistance in California that laid the foundation for state laws. In 1957 he accepted a post as executive director of the Jewish Home for the Aged, where he served until retiring in 1977. During his career, he served on the California State Board of Social Work Examiners...
Dates:
1942 - 1975
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Sanville Institute records
Collection
Identifier: 0616
Scope and Contents
The Sanville Institute for Clinical Social Work (formerly the California Institute for Clinical Social Work) was a non-profit educational organization dedicated to deepening the practice and values of the social work profession among practitioners and the public. From 1974 to 2018 the Institute operated a state-approved graduate program in California, offering a PhD in clinical social work. The Sanville Institute records consist of documents relating to the organization's early history,...
Dates:
1974 - 2021
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Winifred Smith papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0497
Abstract
Winifred Smith was the coordinator of Field Instruction and a lecturer in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Los Angeles, during the 1960s and 1970s. The small collection consists of copies of Smith's lectures and unpublished papers in the field of social work, in addition to those of other authors and lecturers. Subjects range from psyciatric consultation in social work agencies to models for field instruction; and curricula design in schools of social work. ...
Dates:
1946-1976
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
The Lens, the newsletter of the American Association of Social Workers, Los Angeles Chapter
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0462
Abstract
This small collection contains 19 issues (an incomplete run) of "The Lens", the newsletter of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Association of Social Workers. The newsletters contain general information of interest to the chapter's members, including profiles of various Los Angeles social agencies and schools; brief announcements of lectures and other events of interest; essays on various social work topics; notes on activities of sister agencies; and lists of members.
Dates:
1926 - 1937
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections