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Title: United Community Services: Planning Department Collection Type : Records Date : 1946-1977 Size : 46 linear feet ID #: 420-a OCLC: ©Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs HEFA.01d.update |
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Scope & Contents
In 1951, the Council of Social Agencies and the Community Chest of Metropolitan Detroit merged to form United Community Services (UCS). The new organization, a federation of public and private social service agencies, was responsible for planning and research to determine the social welfare and health care needs of Detroiters and the allocation of charitable contributions collected by Detroit’s federated charitable campaign, the Torch Drive. To achieve its planning mission, UCS established planning committees to investigate and improve health and welfare services and recreational opportunities for metro Detroiters.
The United Community Services Planning Department identifies community problems, proposes and secures action on solutions, serves as an advocate on public policies which affect health and human services, and brings together individuals and organizations whenever answers to particular problems require coordinated approaches.
The records of the United Community Services Planning
Department consist of correspondence, reports, minutes, publications, research
studies and other material documenting health and human services in
metropolitan Detroit.
Adoption--Michigan--Detroit
Aged--Michigan--Detroit
Child welfare--Michigan--Detroit
Children--Institutional care--Michigan--Detroit
Community centers--Michigan--Detroit
Community development, Urban--Michigan--Detroit
Community organization--Michigan--Detroit
Detroit (Mich.) riot, 1967
Detroit (Mich.)--Charitable and social work
Detroit (Mich.)--Race relations
Detroit (Mich.)--Social policy
Detroit (Mich.)--Social problems
Detroit Suburban Area--Human services
Detroit Suburban Area--Social problems
Drug abuse--Michigan--Detroit
Family services--Michigan--Detroit
Human services--Michigan--Detroit
Human services--Health aspects--Michigan--Detroit
Juvenile delinquency--Michigan--Detroit
Poor--Michigan--Detroit
Recreation and juvenile delinquency--Michigan--Detroit
Rural-urban migration--Michigan--Detroit
Social work with youth
Unmarried mothers--Michigan-Detroit
Youth--Services for--Michigan--Detroit
Frank W. Harris
Thomson Heinrichs
Richard F. Huegli
Ebed W. Martin
Sidney Newhouse
Norbert Reinstein
Transferred
A few photographs received with the collection have been placed in the Archives Audiovisual Collection.
United Community Services Collections
45 Storage Boxes
Series I, Administrative and Subject Files, 1953-1977, Boxes 1-9, To Series
Index
Series II, Geographic Divisions, 1949-1972, Boxes 9-12, To
Series Index
Series III, Child and Family Welfare, 1946-1976, Boxes 13-29, To Series
Index
Series IV, Group Work and Recreation, 1948-1976, Boxes 29-36, To
Series Index
Series V, Health Care, 1953-1977, Boxes 37-46, To
Series Index