J741 USC Levy

1. Social Policy
Historical Trends and Present
Impact and Issues

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Civilian Conservation Corps of
South Carolina

10. 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?

11. African American Civil Rights
NAACP
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
• Letter from The Birmingham Jail
• www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Bi
rmingham.html

12. 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?

13. Unfinished Business
Group 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.

14. United Farm Workers
• Rural Poverty
• Agricultural Workers: Latinos as farm laborers

15. War on Poverty
The Great Society
• Current Poverty Rates:
• Source Bloomberg Business Week 9/12/12
2012 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 m
South Carolina the fourth highest poverty rate, 1st
New Mexico 22.2%

16. 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)”.

17. 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

18. Native Americans
• Sovereign Nation
Genocide
Assimilation
Inter-marriage
Who is a Native
American?
Indian Child Welfare Act