Organizing the Community: A Review of Practical PrinciplesCentury Company, 1922 - 260 páginas |
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Organizing the Community: A Review of Practical Principles Bessie Averne McClenahan Visualização integral - 1925 |
Organizing the Community: A Review of Practical Principles Bessie Averne McClenahan Visualização integral - 1922 |
Organizing the Community: A Review of Practical Principles Bessie Averne McClenahan Visualização integral - 1922 |
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administration agricultural American Red Cross association Board of Charities Board of Public boys Bulletin Camp Fire Girls central chapter Charity Organization Society child welfare church citizens civic Clark County community club community council community organization community program community study conduct coöperation coördination county board division economic effort employment extension fact farmer financed funds ganization girls home service section individual institutions interest Iowa Plan juvenile court Kansas labor largely mass-meeting meeting membership ment methods Missouri Plan mittee neighborhood organiza plan of organization playground possible projects promote public health nurse public welfare recreation relief representative result rural community rural districts sanitation secured small town social center social problems social service social survey society spirit supervision supervisors surveyor tion trained social worker unit University of Iowa village volunteers Welfare Board women York
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Página 6 - ... neighborhood.' A neighborhood is simply a group of families living conveniently near together. The neighborhood can do a great many things, but it is not a community. A true community is a social group that is more or less self-sufficing. It is big enough to have its own centers of interest — its trading center, its social center, its own church, its own schoolhouse, its own grange, its own library, and to possess such other institutions as the people of the community need.
Página 161 - In counties where there are cities which already have a local board of welfare or other social agencies, or which may wish to establish such, the governing bodies of such cities may make such arrangements with the County Commissioners to consolidate the work under the authority and supervision of the County Child Welfare Board as may be mutually agreed upon with such division of expenses as may be equitable. The governing bodies of such cities and the County Commissioners are hereby authorized to...
Página 30 - A county library with branch libraries at the centers of population, the public schools to be used as distributing centers. 7. Community organization with the school as the intellectual, industrial, and social center. 8. A high-school education for all country boys and girls without severing home ties in obtaining that education. 9. Such readjustment and reformation of the course of study in elementary and secondary rural schools as will adapt them to the needs of rural life. 10. Federal cooperation...
Página 4 - community" signifies a population-group which has become socially conscious and is working together as one body to satisfy common needs or ambitions. The real community is one that has organized its population, invented efficient social machinery, and has trained effective social engineers to make use of all its available resources for all the people within the community.1 In short, a com1 Edwin L. Earp, "The Rural Church Serving the Community,
Página 160 - The county welfare board shall make such visitations and reports as the state commission may request, and act in a general advisory capacity to the county and municipal authorities in dealing with questions of dependency and delinquency, and social conditions generally.
Página 3 - a body of people having common organization or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations.
Página 29 - Teacher's home and demonstration farm of 5 or more acres as a part of the school property. 5. An all-year school session adapted to local conditions. 6. A county library with branch libraries at the centers of population, the public schools to be used as distributing centers. 7. Community organization with the school as the intellectual, industrial, and social center.
Página 159 - To study the subjects of non-employment, poverty, vagrancy, housing conditions, crime, public amusement, care and treatment of prisoners, divorce and wife desertion, the social evil and kindred subjects and their causes, treatment and prevention, and the prevention of any hurtful social condition.
Página 41 - A social survey may therefore be defined as a stock taking of social factors that determine the conditions of a given community, whether that be a neighborhood, village, city, county, state or nation, with a view to providing adequate information necessary for the intelligent planning and carrying out of constructive and far-reaching social reforms.
Página 168 - March, 1910, this body was enlarged to five members and given broad powers to devise and execute plans to fulfill the duties of the city toward all the poor, the delinquent, the unemployed, the deserted and unfortunate classes in the communtiy, and to supervise the private agencies which solicited money from the public for these purposes.