SOCIAL WELFARE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FILES, 1964-1976

Summary: Records of the Social Welfare Research Foundation of New Jersey, Inc., the research arm of the Council of Human Services in New Jersey from its foundation in 1965 to its merger with the New Jersey Welfare Council in 1975. Document types include minutes, bylaws, correspondence, reports, financial documents (budgets, reports, ledger pages), membership lists, questionnaires, agendas, programs, press releases, newspaper clippings, and publications.

Documents the main functions of the foundation, which included the planning, execution, and evaluation of Annual Institutes or workshops for social workers; fund-raising; and research projects. Also includes routine administrative correspondence.

Of particular interest are the records of the Youth and the Law Committee, which designed and produced pamphlets for children and teenagers on New Jersey law as affecting young people. Also of interest are reference materials on projects including a report on a City of New Brunswick Board of Education initiative which developed health programs in schools for pregnant teenagers (1969).