RG 019, Department of Social Services Inventory of Records


Overview of the Collection
Repository:	Connecticut State Library
Creator:	Connecticut. Dept. of Social Services
Title:	Department of Social Services records
Dates:	1775-1959
Quantity:	9.5 cubic feet
Abstract:	The Department of Social Services provides a broad range of services to the elderly, persons with disabilities, families, and individuals who need assistance in maintaining or achieving their full potential for self-direction, self-reliance and independent living.
Identification:	RG019
Accession:	Multiple
Language:	The records are in English.

Historical Note

The Department of Social Services provides assistance to families and individuals through programs such as child-care block grants, energy assistance, vocational rehabilitation, refugee assistance, programs for the elderly, temporary assistance for needy families, food stamps, Section 8 housing vouchers, and the state child support enforcement plan. The Department has evolved through several titles that reflect the changes in public policy toward those citizens in need: State Board of Charities was established in 1873; name changed to Commission on Public Welfare in 1919; in 1921 name changed to Department of Public Welfare; 1935, name changed to Public Welfare Council; Office of the Commissioner of Public Welfare was established in 1935; 1953, name changed to State Welfare Department and the Welfare Commissioner; 1975, name changed to Department of Social Services; in 1979 Social Services split in two. The direct successor agency is the Department of Income Maintenance, which retains the same Commissioner and Statutory authority as Social Services. The other is the Department of Human Resources. In 1993 the Department of Social Services reformed by merger of: Department of Income Maintenance, Department of Human Resources, and Department on Aging.

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Scope and Content

Series 1. State Board of Charities contain letter books, 1883-1901, and registers of state paupers accounts that predate the board, 1809-1824 and ledgers created by the Board and subsequent agencies, 1877-1917. Series 2. Public Welfare Council contains one report to the General Assembly, 1947. Series 3. Welfare Department contains minutes of meetings of the boards through the public welfare council, 1893-1951; a secretary's diary, 1893-1922; several reports and a Master's thesis, and records of the Litchfield County Temporary Home, 1908-1915; and the New Haven County Temporary Home, 1899-1890, 1910-1916.

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Arrangement

Arranged into six series:

Series 1. Pauper Accounts, 1809-1917

Series 2. State Board of Charities Letterbooks, 1883-1909

Series 3. Minutes, 1893-1951

Series 4. Secretary's Diary, 1903-1922

Series 5. Reports and Reference Material, 1923-1959

Series 6. Temporary Homes, 1889-1916

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Restrictions

Restrictions on Access

These records are stored at an off-site facility and therefore may not be available on a same-day basis.

See the Rules and Procedures for Researchers Using Archival Records and Secured Collections policy.

Restrictions on Use

See the Reproduction and Publications of State Library Collections policy.

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Related Material

RG 008 Office of the State Comptroller for pauper records.

RG 061 County Governments for temporary home records.

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Index Terms

Organizations:

Connecticut. Board of Charities

Connecticut. Dept. of Social Services

Connecticut. Public Welfare Council

Connecticut. State Welfare Dept.

Subjects:

Children -- Institutional care -- Connecticut

Connecticut. Board of Charities -- Records and correspondence

Connecticut. Dept. of Social Services -- Records and correspondence

Connecticut. Public Welfare Council -- Records and correspondence

Connecticut. State Welfare Dept. -- Records and correspondence

Public welfare -- Connecticut

Document Types:

Account books

Correspondence

Minutes

Reports

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Container List


Series 1. Pauper Accounts, 1775-1917, Accession: 1954-001, 8 volumes
	1775-1777, 1809-1815, 1 volume		Item 1
		Book in reverse contains a list of payments by the State of Connecticut to the "Port of New London" and the "Coast Guards" for the support and maintenance of troops and fortifications at New London, Stonington and Groton, Oct. 1775 - Jan. 1777.
	1815-1824, 1 volume		Item 2
	1877-1883, 1 volume		Item 3
	1883-1887, 1 volume		Item 4
	1887-1896, 1 volume		Item 5
	1897-1906, 1 volume		Item 6
	1906-1910, 1 volume		Item 7
	1910-1917, 1 volume		Item 8


Series 2. State Board of Charities letterbooks, 1883-1909, Accession: 1972-001, 10 volumes
	1883 May 18-1883 December 11, 1 volume	Unnumbered volume
	1885 September 1-1897 April 12, 1 volume	Volume 1
	1897 April 15-1898 May 9, 1 volume	Volume 2
	1898 May 13-1899 April 18, 1 volume	Volume 3
	1899 April 21-1900 April 2, 1 volume	Volume 4
	1900 April 3-1902 January 24, 1 volume	Volume 5
	1902 January 24-1903 July 30, 1 volume	Volume 6
	1903 August 3-1905 May 10, 1 volume	Volume 7
	1905 May 10-1907 August 8, 1 volume	Volume 8
	1907 August 10-1909 May 13, 1 volume	Volume 9


Series 3. Minutes, 1893-1951, Accession: 1972-002
			Box	Folder
	State Board of Charities minutes, 1893-1921 June 17		1	1-8
	Department of Public Welfare minutes, 1921 July 16 - 1937 January 24			9-19
	Public Welfare Council minutes, 1937 July 8 - 1951 May 23		2	1-5
	Department of Public Welfare special meeting minutes, 1921-1928			6-8
		Reverse chronological order
	Supervisor meeting minutes, 1903-1910			12


Series 4. Secretary's Diary, 1903-1922, Accession: 1972-002
	Secretary's diary, 1903-1922	2	10-14


Series 5. Reports and Reference Material, 1923-1959
	Accession: 1972-002					2
		Child welfare
			Public foster care for dependent and neglected children in Connecticut: a report submitted to the faculty of the School of Social Service Administration in candidacy for the degree of Master of Arts, University of Chicago / by Ruth Catlin Dana, 1946 March, typescript				15
			Child welfare reports, 1923-1957				16
				Child and the law in Connecticut / Mary Selina Foote, 1923 January			16
				History of the development of the program for the supervision of neglected and uncared for children in the state of Connecticut, circa 1954, 3 leaves, typescript			16
				Background history of the Connecticut Child Welfare Association, 1957 August, 2 leaves, typescript			16
		Corrected report of the Public Welfare Council, 1946 June 30, manuscript					17
		Management study of welfare administration in Connecticut, 1935, typescript					18
		Organization, structure, and legislation
			Legislation, 1937-1939				19
				Reorganization bills affecting departments and institutions, 1937			19
				Act concerning the Department of Welfare, 1939			19
				Act concerning the Department of Welfare, 1939, typescript			19
			Legislation reports				20
				Report of the Governor's Committee on Welfare Legislation, 1938 December 16			20
				Report of the Governor's Committee on Welfare Legislation, 1938 December 16, typescript			20
				Report of the legislative council, 1952 December 7			20
					Public document 96
			Organizational reports, 1938, 1949				21
				Organization and administration of the Office of the Commissioner of Public Welfare and the Public Welfare Council State of Connecticut, 1938 / by Carl E. McCombs and L.S. Timmerman, 1938, typescript + photocopy			21
				Commission on State Government Reorganization final report, Welfare Survey Unit NO. 12, 1949 December			21
			Papers, 1938-1959				22
		Report of the Emergency Relief Commission to the Governor, January 1933-June 1934, 1935, typescript					23-24
		Resignation letter of George C.F. Williams as member of Dept. of Public Welfare, 1933					25
		Services to Indians, 1936-1953, undated					26
		Special report on relief and reemployment, circa 1938					27
	Accession: 2002-021
		Collections for care in state mental institutions in Connecticut, 1947, 1 folder				shared box
				Report to the 1947 General Assembly by the Public Welfare Council


Series 6. Temporary Homes, 1889-1916, Accession: 1972-002
	Litchfield County Temporary Home, Board of Management, record of meetings, 1908 January 7 - 1915 October 8			3	1
	New Haven County Temporary Home, 1889-1916
		Record book, 1889-1916, 1 volume			2
			Labelled "Volume 7"
			Contains secretary's diary, notes, correspondence, etc.
		Minutes, 1910-1916, 1 volume			3

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