Mercer County Bd Social Svcs history

President Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1933, promising a “New Deal” for the American people—a more vigorous federal government and renewed experimentation in recovery efforts.

Public agencies should provide relief to the unemployed, while voluntary family agencies should concentrate on casework services for “disorganized families” (Swift, 1934).

The Social Security Act (1935) established a federal old age insurance program and state programs, supervised and partially funded by the federal government, of unemployment insurance, public assistance, and social services.

While NASSA supported undergraduate education, the AASSW emphasized graduate education; in 1939, AASSW restricted membership to graduate programs.

In 1947, NASSA and AASSW formed the National Council on Social Work Education to explore professional unification.

Hollis, E. V., & Taylor, A. L. (1951). Social work education in the United States: The report of a study made for the National Council on Social Work Education.

The Council on Social Work Education was formed in 1952.

The post-war period was also one of significant change in US social welfare, highlighted by the establishment of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) in 1953.

The National Association of Social Workers was created in 1955 to further the professional status of social work.

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Bartlett, H. M. (1958). Toward clarification and improvement of social work practice.

The commission issued Action for Mental Health (1961), a report that called for renewed investment in mental health.

State public welfare departments separated social services from public assistance payments, reversing the logic of the 1963 Public Welfare Amendments.

President Johnson announced a launch of an “unconditional war on poverty” in January 1964.

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In 1966, the membership of NASW reached nearly 46,000, doubling its membership in its first decade.

The most significant social policy accomplishments of the Nixon Administration, however, were the Social Security Amendments of 1972, which centralized and standardized aid to disabled people and low-income elderly and indexed benefits to inflation.

The passage of Title XX of the Social Security Act in January 1975 reinforced the popular concept of federal "revenue sharing" which provided states with maximum flexibility in planning social services while promoting fiscal accountability.

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A looming crisis in the funding of Social Security and Medicare was forestalled in 1983 through modest tax increases and benefit reductions.

Katz, M.B. (1986). In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare America, New York: Basic Books

In 1988, the Director of NIMH appointed a Task Force on Social Work Research to study the status of research and research training in social work.

Wencour, S., & Reisch, M. (1989). From charity to enterprise: The development of American social work in a market economy.

Task Force on Social Work Research. (1991). Building social work knowledge for effective services and policies: A plan for research development.

At the same time, organizations such as Americorps were established in 1994 to promote greater involvement of young people in communities.

Piven, F.F. and Cloward, R.A. (1995). Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare, revised edition, New York: Vintage Press.

In 1996, the controversial welfare reform bill known as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families was passed.

Abramovitz, M. (1998). Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present, 2nd edition, Boston: South End Press

Trattner, W. I. (1999). From poor law to welfare state (6th ed.) New York, NY: Free Press.

Axinn, J. and Stern, M. (2001). Social Welfare: A History of the American Response to Need, 5th edition Boston, Allyn and Bacon.

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