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1. SUBMITTED BY:
NITESH
ROLL NO. : 18
MSW Ist sem.

2.  Social work is a practice-based profession that
promotes social change, development, cohesion and
the empowerment of people and communities.
 Social work practice involves the understanding of
human development, behavior and the social,
economic and cultural institutions and interactions.
 Social work professionals working with families and
institutions have helped to provide and advance the
following social impacts:

3. • Civil Rights
• Unemployment Insurance
• Disability Pay
• Worker’s Compensation
• Reduced Mental Health Stigma
• Medicaid and Medicare
• Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention

4.  “Social work is a practice-based profession and an
academic discipline that promotes social change
and development, social cohesion, and the
empowerment and liberation of people. Principles
of social justice, human rights, collective
responsibility and respect for diversities are central
to social work. Underpinned by theories of social
work, social sciences, humanities and indigenous
knowledge, social work engages people and
structures to address life challenges and enhance
wellbeing.”
_ IFSW JULY,2014

5.  Social work has developed through centuries
like any other discipline.
 This discipline attained a professional status
very recently.
 It was developed through the practice of
charity, social service, welfare measures, etc.
 The earliest forms of social work activities were
started in the USA from time immemorial. The
history of social work in the USA can be
divided into the following stages.

6. i. The Colonial Period (1620-1776)
ii. The civil war and Industrial Revolutions (1776-
1860)
iii. The Industrialization -The human side (1860-
1900)
iv. Social work, seeking professional
characteristics (1900-1930)
v. Highly professionalized discipline(1930-
onwards)

7. • 1624: Virginia Colony institutes laws providing
for the needs of disabled soldiers and sailors.
• 1642: Plymouth Colony, based on the
Elizabethan Poor Law, enacts the first such
legislation in the “New World”.
• 1650: The “Protestant Work Ethic”,
emphasizing self-discipline, frugality, and hard
work becomes prominent, justifying those who
adopted its view to look down upon people who
are unemployed or dependent on others.

8. • 1692: Massachusetts introduces indentured
servitude, providing that homeless children
could be placed with other families who could
require them to work for a period of time to pay
for their care.
• 1776: The U.S. Declaration of Independence is
signed, promoting freedom for everyone but
the slaves.

9. • 1787: The U.S. Constitution is adopted to
“promote the general welfare”, moving social
welfare into American political discourse.
• 1813: Child labor laws are passed in
Connecticut, requiring that factory owners
teach reading, writing, and arithmetic to
children working for them.
• 1830: The National Negro Conventions meet to
begin discussions about civil rights, health, and
welfare for people of color and women.

10. • 1843: The New York Association for Improving the
Condition of the Poor is established, and thereafter
imitated in its emphases on abstaining from alcohol,
becoming self-disciplined, and developing a work ethic
as ways to end poverty.
• 1848: Feminists meet to begin establishment of
women’s rights to vote and receive equal opportunities
for education and employment.

11.  In the half century after the Civil War, rapid industrial
expansion produced a dramatic increase in individual
and community needs. The most notable social
changes of this period included a series of economic
depressions (known then as "panics") and their
consequences; new manifestations of racism following
the end of Reconstruction in 1876; and a dramatic
increase in immigration from Southern and Eastern
Europe.
 Using concepts derived from business and industry,
reformers attempted to respond to some of these
developments by regulating public relief distribution
through so-called "scientific charity. this period is
divided into three social movement which is as follows;

12.  In 1877, the first American Charity Organization
Society (COS) based on such principles was
founded in Buffalo, New York.
 The New York Charity Organization Society
made revolution in the field of organized
charity work within 15 years by extending its
activities to 92 American cities.

13.  The charity organization societies started in
Boston and Philadelphia in 1878 operated on
the following principles:
• i. Detailed investigation on applications for
charity.
• ii. A central system of registration to avoid
duplication.
• iii. Co-operation between various relief
agencies.
• iv. Extensive use of voluntary friendly visitors

14.  Rapid urbanization, industrialization and immigration
produced social settlement movement in the USA.
 The first US settlement, the Neighborhood Guild in
New York City, was established in 1886. Three years
later, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr founded Hull
House in Chicago, which became the most famous
American settlement.
 settlements focused on the environmental causes of
poverty and expanding the working opportunities of the
poor. They conducted research, helped establish the
juvenile court system, created widows pension
programs, promoted legislation prohibiting child labor,
and introduced public health reforms and the concept
of social insurance.

15.  The settlement house workers established
neighborhood centers and offered services such
as citizenship training, adult education,
counseling, recreation and daycare.
 • The social group work, social action and
community organization methods have
emerged from Settlement House Movement.

16.  • The rapid growth of manufacturing
industries aggravated the pathetic condition of
children, so Children Aid Society (1853) and
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children (1857) were started in New York City.
 • This led to the formation of Child Welfare
Movement. The aim of the agencies was to
rescue children from inadequate homes and
from the streets.

17. • 1895: Chicago’s School of Social Economics,
often recognized as the founding center for
modern social work, begins offering lectures to
persons working with the poor.
• 1900: The term “social workers” is coined by
Simon Patten, who disputes with Mary
Richmond whether their major role should be
social advocacy or the delivery of individual
services.

18.  The employment of paid staff and their
training by Charity Organization Societies
(COS) facilitated a shift from the unorganized
charity and social service to the beginning of an
organized and systematic social work.
 The first such training center organized by
New York Charity Organization Society
(NYCOS) in 1898 is currently known as the
Columbia University.

19.  Hospital based training and social work
services were also initiated around the same
time at Boston Hospital.
 World War I provided unique opportunities for
social case workers to prove the necessity of
their skills.
 Thus the prestige of social work rose up in war
related activities such as the Red Cross home
services
 . Jane Addams was one of the first social
workers in the US.

20. When she was 27 years old, she visited the Toynbee Hall
settlement house in London, and she developed an
aspiration to open a similar house in Chicago. In 1889, she
partnered with her friend Ellen Starr to set up a settlement
house called the Hull-House .
 After two years, the Hull-House was providing
assistance to around 2,000 people every week.
As she became more famous in Chicago, she
began to take on greater civic responsibilities,
such as founding a school of philanthropy,
conducting investigations on social problems,
and campaigning for peace.

22.  In the National Conference on Charities and
Corrections held at Toronto, she advocated the
establishment of training schools for professional
social workers (1897).
 The book 'Social Diagnosis' by Mary Richmond in
1917 is considered as the foundation for the
theoretical basis of social work.
 Chicago School and Boston school formed the
second and third schools of social work in the USA
respectively.
 The American Association of Schools of Social
Work was founded in 1919 to facilitate
communication among the schools.

23.  In a quest for professional unity, several social
work organizations merged in 1955 to form the
National Association of Social Workers
(NASW). With a membership of in excess of
100,000 NASW is currently the main social
work organization in the world.
 The Council of Social Work Education (CSWE)
shaped in 1952 became the standard-setting
organization for social work education.

24. • 1933: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
proclaims a “New Deal” for Americans, establishing
major social welfare programs responding to
poverty and unemployment.
• 1950: The Social Security Act of 1935 is amended
to include children and relatives with whom needy
children are living, and to aid permanently and
totally disabled people.
• 1955: Rosa Parks, a black woman, refuses to
move to the back of a bus in Montgomery,
Alabama, sparking the modern civil rights
movement.
• 1960: The NASW adopts its first code of ethics.

25. • 1964: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes
the “Great Society” programs, and the Civil Rights Act
makes racial discrimination in public places illegal.
• 1965: More “Great Society” programs, providing for
medical care, the needs of older Americans, and
children’s education, are established.
• 1990: The Americans with Disabilities Act makes it
illegal to discriminate against disabled people in any
business employing more than 15 persons.

26. • 1990: The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS
Resources Emergency Act provides funding
for prevention, intervention, treatment, and community
planning in relation the HIV/AIDS.
• 1996: President Clinton signs into law the Personal
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation
Act, restricting or eliminating many entitlement
programs for poor people, and replacing them with
more temporary aid designed to promote
independence.