New Jersey Welfare Council, 1905 - 1965

File — Box: File Room: Aisle 5-7 (NJ Quasi)

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Of note, the 23 surveys by the Interracial Committee, which, provide an important picture of Black life in New Jersey in the early 1960s.

Inventory:

Focusing on common sense for common welfare, Oct 1937

Program: 1913, 1915, 1918, 1944

Courts in NJ, Apr 1934

Report of the committee on relief, 1937

Report of the NJ Resettlement Project Dec 1953-Jun 1954, digitized by Rutgers Libraries

Guidelines to the measurement of the ability to pay for health and social services, 1962

Directory of treatment resources for the narcotics addict, Oct 1, 1965

Proceedings: 1905-1908, 1910-1921, 1925

Interracial Committee Community Reports (1931-1933): #1-23: Jersey City, Montclair, Englewood, Oranges, Hackensack, Passaic and Paterson, Summit, Monmouth County, Morristown, Bayonne, Princeton, Negro family life in the Pine Belt of Burlington County, Small Negro communities in NJ, Atlantic City, North Brunswick and Perth Amboy, Cape May County, Camden, Salem County, Newark (digitized here), Plainfield, Trenton, Pleasantville, Burlington Cumberland Gloucester and Ocean Counties.

New Jersey's twentieth citizen, Nov 1932, cataloged

Negro in New Jersey, cataloged, early edition

Dates

1905 - 1965

Biographical / Historical

From Rutgers Special Collections: "The Council went through several name changes during its ninety year history. Originally known as both the New Jersey Conference of Charities and Corrections and the New Jersey State Conference of Charities and Correction, it was renamed the New Jersey Conference for Social Welfare in 1919, the New Jersey Conference of Social Work in 1925, and the New Jersey Welfare Council in 1938. In 1975, it merged with the Social Welfare Research Foundation of New Jersey and took on its name, but the following year renamed itself the Council for Human Services of New Jersey. The name was modified slightly to Council for Human Services in New Jersey in 1983"