Report of Ad Hoc Committee on Public Welfare to The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare September 1961 66 AD HOC COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WELFARE Revised September 26, 1961 September 6, 1961 Chairman Sanford Solender Executive Vice-President National Jewish Welfare Board 145 East 32nd Street New York 16, N. Y. Secretary Harleigh B. Trecker School of Social Work University of Connecticut Consultant Wayne Vasey Dean Graduate School of Social Work Rutgers University New Brunswick, N. J. Members Joseph P. Anderson James R. Dumpson Loula Dunn Fedele Fauri Very Rev. Msgr. Raymond Gallagher Dorothy Height Raleigh C. Hobson Dr. Trude W. Losh Norman V. Lourie Judge Justine W. Polier Joseph H. Reid Mrs. Pauline Ryman John W. Tramburg Dr. William J. Villaume Dr. Ellen B. Winston Dr. Ernest F. Witte Dr. Whitney M. Young, Jr. The Ad Hoc Committee on Public Welfare, appointed in May 1961, is pleased to present its report to you herewith. In response to your charge to the committee, its recommendations are formulated in the following two closely related areas: Immediate Steps, which include proposals on aid to dependent children (ADC), illegitimacy, work relief, residence requirements, child welfare, aid to permanently and totally disabled (APTD), voucher payments, earnings of youth; and Proposals for Further Action, which deal with assistance and rehabilitative services to families, improvements in the training of personnel to render these services, needed research and demonstration, and child welfare. The committee expresses its appreciation to the Field Foundation whose generous support has enabled it to carry out its work. It is grateful as well to staff members of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, who supplied the committee with needed information its requested, and to the many individuals and organizations who so generously gave the committee the benefit of their experience and counsel. Special acknowledgement is due Wayne Vasey, Dean of the School of Social Work of Rutgers University, for his skilled and indefatigable service as consultant to the committee; and Mrs. Virginia Doscher, who assisted in the preparation of the committee's final document. It is the hope of the Ad Hoc Committee that this report will aid you in your commendable desire to strengthen public welfare in America. The committee stands ready to be of any future assistance you may ask of it in the furtherance of this objective. Members of this committee have served as individuals. Titles are listed above for identification purposes only. 9- 29-O 81108 BRIEF SUMMARY Public The nation's people are its most important resource. welfare's function in society is to aid in preserving and strengthening these human resources by the most efficient and economical means. In a fast-changing world it is essential that there be periodic review and revision of public welfare programs and operations. If public welfare is to fill its role in the nation effectively, its policies and practices must be responsive to changing conditions. This report contains proposals for adapting public welfare to the needs and problems of the 1960's. It projects recommendations for meeting currently pressing needs, and for more major revisions to be undertaken at the earliest possible date. Immediate Steps 1. 2. Rehabilitative Services to Strengthen Aid to Dependent Accelerated and intensified rehabilitative services aimed Page 13 ADC Legislation - Recent Amendments and Proposals for Extend present provision related to unemployed parents and Page 14 |