Social Policy Historical Trends and Present

Impact and Issues

Historical Paper

• Client as group member• Demographics: Age, Gender, Race, Ethnicity• Role: Parent, Student, Unemployed• Location: Hospital, Jail, Country Club, Home• Based on content from chapters 2 and 3• 5 Sources: Journal Articles, Books, Newspaper,

Oral Histories, Can include 1 interview• 5 to7 pages Due October 10

Next Week• View The People Speak

– Location: http://video.cosw.sc.edu/a/601-the-people-speak

– Or log in to cosw.sc.edu go to the icon on the bottom right video server, open, log in using the same access as your e-mail and in the center of the home page is the movie.

– There will be three questions on BB in the Discussion area. Open each question. Write a response of 150 to 200 words. Add your response via a thread, do not create a new discussion. This :web must be done by 9/27 noon.

• Respond and comment to two other students postings by 9/29 midnight for participation credit.

The Child Saving Movement

• What to do with those children running wild on the streets?– Orphanages– Apprentices– The Shakers– Charles Loring Brace and Orphan Trains• www.orphantraindepot.com

The Dichotomy of Social Work’s History

• What women noticed during the Abolitionist Movement to end slavery.

• Charity Organization Society– Mary Richmond

• Settlement House Movement– Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr

The Dichotomy of Social Work’s History

• What women noticed during the Abolitionist Movement to end slavery.

• Charity Organization Society– Mary Richmond

• Settlement House Movement– Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr

Social Work’s Role In the New Deal

• Harry Hopkins: Federal Emergency Relief Administration

• Frances Perkins: Secretary of Labor (first woman cabinet member)

• Martha Elliot: Children’s Bureau

New Deal Legislation Legacy

• The Social Security Act 1935– Spouse 1939– Survivor’s of Deceased Worker 1939

• Civilian Conservation Corps– Public Buildings– State Parks– The Arts (Eleanor’s Contribution)– Central Idea: Expansion of the Welfare State or

government’s role and responsibility to its citizens

Civilian Conservation Corps of South Carolina

WWII

• Shift in Roles based on Business Needs• Racism: separate military units• Treatment of Japanese Americans v.

German/Italian Americans

• 1944 Serviceman’s Readjustment Act GI Bill– What law or action did Pres. Obama create that

reflected on the GI Bill?

African American Civil Rights

NAACPSouthern Christian Leadership Conference

• Letter from The Birmingham Jail

• www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Comprehensive national law to protect the civil rights of all Americans

• Reflecting how the laws impact change

• What are Ron Paul (GOP presidential candidate) and Rand Paul,U.S. Kentucky Senator saying about CRA?

Unfinished BusinessGroup Breakout

• What did Poll taxes and other restrictions do to inhibit groups?

• How is the Voting Rights Act of 1965 under attack?

• What is the Lilly Ledbetter Act? What values are attached.

United Farm Workers

• Rural Poverty• Agricultural Workers: Latinos as farm laborers

War on PovertyThe Great Society

• Current Poverty Rates:• Source Bloomberg Business Week 9/12/122012 15.1 % based on official poverty line of 23,021

for a family of four.Median income: $50,054

46.2 million below the poverty line-5.9 m SNAP benefits 40.3 mSouth Carolina the fourth highest poverty rate, 1st New Mexico 22.2%

The Sanchez Family

• How do we understand the Sanchez family in the context of Worthy/Unworthy Poor?

• What impact does the War on Poverty legislation have on the Sanchez’s ?

• “What historic factors do you think contribute to the Sanchez family more willing to receive help through their church than through public social service agencies? (Chapin,2011, 56)”.

Women’s Movement

• Post Civil War• Women’s Suffrage – 19th Amendment 1920

• Title IX of the Education Amendments• Roe v. Wade• Current GOP politics and Women’s Movement

Issues

Native Americans

• Sovereign NationGenocideAssimilationInter-marriageWho is a NativeAmerican?Indian Child Welfare Act