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I am not sure if this helps but here is a page I
found on it.
Kathy Austin
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 5:09
PM
Subject: Re: Historical Child Welfare
Question
Director Sobsey
Not sure is this will be
helpful but this was an old community welfare organization in NY. Here is the
reference
State Communities Aid Association
Records.
(1872-1972). 47 boxes.
Collection Call Number: SC19816
Annual reports, minutes of the Board of Managers and various committees,
investigation reports and photographs of the SCAA. Also included are several
publications, many of them rare and possibly unique. A large series of
constitutions, annual reports, minutes and reports of the County Public
Welfare Committees of the SCAA offers a local view of the welfare problem in
the state in the mid-20th century. Subject files about topics from abortion to
welfare provide broad coverage of the issues of concern to SCAA. The State
Community Aid Association was founded in 1872 by Louisa Lee Schuyler and
others to further public health and social reform. The Association founded the
first training school for nurses in the United States at Bellevue Hospital,
was an early provider of adoption and foster care services, and was
instrumental in establishing county tuberculosis hospitals. Finding aid
available.
At 11:51 AM 5/7/2007
-0600, you wrote:
I am hoping that someone with a
knowledge of Child Welfare History can help me. I am currently doing
research on studies of "degenerate families" of the late 1800s and early
1900s in New York State. There is frequent mention of a child welfare
organizations that are referred to only by abbreviations such as "C.A.S."
for Children's Aid Society and K.I.H. Kingston Industrial Home, but there is
an abbreviation that I can't decode, S.C.A.A.
for example:
He
took a wife to care for the children so the S.C.A.A. agent will leave him
alone.
I am hoping that some can help me decode
S.C.A.A.
Thanks
dick sobsey
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