Child Welfare Services

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The Term topic I chose to research about is Child Welfare Services. This topic has a variety of different regulations and forms that makes this program run. Child Welfare Services have been around for quite some time and has been helping out as much as they are allowed to. This program has a time line of many important events that all build up the Child Welfare program.
First off in 1909 the white house had the first national Conference on the Care of Dependent Children (Child Welfare League of America, n.d.). These were actually seven different conferences that went on from 1909 to 1970 in Washington, D.C. The purpose to these conferences was to positively develop children’s lives across the nation. These conferences covered, “Democracy highlighted the democratic values, services, and environment necessary for the welfare of children”(Chandler, n.d.). In 1912 is when the Federal government established the U.S Children’s Bureau. The Children’s Bureau wasn’t an easy process to get going. It took nine years for organizations and individuals to convince congress that the nation needed to focus more on children’s lives. The things that the Children Bureau did were, “Collecting and analyzing data on infant and maternal mortality and morbidity” (Brown n.d.). Meaning they were developing plans and studies on maternity and infants to investigate the problems with these children. After they investigated them they would then report these issues. In the 1920’s in when the Child Welfare League of America was found. The CWLA occurred or during the same time as the progressive era. This program was designed to establish national policies and to spread program materials to associate members by raising the child services all over the nation (So...

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