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Social service -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Los Angeles Board of Social Service Commissioners annual reports

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 0476
Abstract

This small collection consists of annual reports issued by the City of Los Angeles Board of Social Service Commissioners, whose responsibilities lay in the regulation of fund raising for charitable uses. The reports contain statements of accounting, information about solicitation of funds, and summaries of the commission's actions. Present are the reports for 1939, 1940, and 1949-1969.

Dates: 1939 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1969
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Los Angeles County Department of Community Services collection of pamphlets and publications

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 0422
Abstract

Publications--booklets and pamphlets--issued by the Los Angeles County Department of Community Services, either independently or in conjunction with other agencies. These publications consist of studies, annual reports, conference proceedings, and general reports that were published in the 1950s and 1960s.

Dates: 1956 - 1965
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Los Angeles County Department of Health and Los Angeles County Department of Health Services reports, manuals, and other material

 Collection
Identifier: 0425
Abstract

This collection consists of reports, plans, manuals, informational bulletins, and miscellaneous unpublished papers issued by the Los Angeles County Department of Health and Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. The latter agency was created in 1972, and the Department of Health was incorporated into Health Services.

Dates: 1941-1999, undated
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission collection of surveys, reports, and other material

 Collection
Identifier: 0427
Abstract

This collection consists of various publications issued by the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations, as well as other Los Angeles County agencies, eg, the now defunct Public Welfare Commission, during the 1960s and 1970s.

Dates: 1952 - 1992
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Los Angeles Florence Crittenton Home records

 Collection
Identifier: 0415
Abstract The Los Angeles Florence Crittenton Home records consists of correspondence, meeting notes and minutes, photographs, publications and newspaper clippings related to the history and development of the Los Angeles Florence Crittenton Home. Apart from the photographs and clippings, the greatest concentrations of material are from 1906-1915, 1947-1955, and the 1990s. The photographic collections span the period between the 1920s and the 1950s, and include many photographs of staff and board...
Dates: 1892-1999
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Jacquelyn McCroskey papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0614
Abstract Jacquelyn McCroskey is the John Milner Professor of Child Welfare in the Suzanne Dworack-Peck School of Social Work at USC, where she also directs the Children's Data Network, and focuses on structure, financing and performance improvement in the child welfare, juvenile justice, and early care and education systems in Los Angeles County. She is a member of the LA Roundtable for Children. She worked on LA County's first Children's Budget, helped create the LA County Children's Planning...
Dates: 1984 - 2022
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Midnight Mission and Tom and Mary Liddecoat papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0413
Abstract The papers of the Midnight Mission and of Tom and Mary Liddecoat consist of material that documents the personal and business history of the Liddecoat family, the Midnight Mission, and various other charities and individuals associated with the Liddecoat family; specifically, the collection documents two generations of the Liddecoat family and their involvement in charitable organizations such as the Midnight Mission, the Gospel Foundation of America, and charitable organizations on the...
Dates: 1899 - 2005
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

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
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

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

Recreation and Youth Services Planning Council reports and studies

 Collection
Identifier: 0477
Abstract The Recreation and Youth Services Planning Council records consist of correspondence, memorandums, meeting minutes, and reports created and compiled by the Los Angeles Metropolitan Recreation and Youth Services Council from its formation in the late 1940s through the early 1970s (the organization's name was changed to the Recreation and Youth Services Planning Council in 1964). The records document the founding of this organization as a result of the "Recreation for Everybody" report; the...
Dates: 1945 - 1972
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections
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