Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-284) and index.
Table of Contents; Adoption; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Chapter 1: The Infants Home, 1875-1890; The development of social services in nineteenth-century Toronto; Baby farms; The founding of the Infants' Home; Staffing; Medical care; Admissions and discharges; Breast-feeding; Life at the Infants Home; Advocacy and community development; Funding; Chapter 2: A Society to Protect Children, 1891-1919; John Joseph Kelso; Kelso's campaign against child labour; The Humane Society of Toronto is established; Children's Protection Act, 1888; The origins of the children's aid movement
Reform at the CASJohn Kidson MacDonald resigns; Bob Mills; ""From a jail to a home""; Administrative restructuring; The move to Charles and Isabella streets; Protection work; The development of boarding home care at the CAS; Financial stability; The Infants' Home's work with unmarried mothers; Adoption Act, 1921; The end of the Kelso era; Chapter 4: War and its Aftermath, 1940-1949; Canada at war; British ""war guests""; ""Our boys in the King's Forces""; Services to soldiers' families; Post-war staffing challenges; Foster home shortage and a new Receiving Centre
Retirements of Vera Moberly and Bob MillsBelle Carver and Stewart Sutton; Chapter 5: Amalgamation and Growth, 1950-1964; Toronto at mid-century; Amalgamation of CAS and Infants' Homes; The challenges posed by amalgamation; A new Child Welfare Centre; Expansion to the suburbs; Stewart Sutton resigns; Lloyd Richardson; Child Welfare Act, 1954; ""Changing the course of human life""; Protection work; Work with unmarried parents; Adoption; Foster family and group home care; Institutional care; The Receiving Centre; Moberly House; The society's busiest year; Chapter 6: The Golden Years, 1965-1977
The founding of the Children's Aid Society of TorontoJohn Kidson MacDonald; The Children's Charter; Kelso as superintendent of neglected and dependent children; The children's shelter; Life at the shelter; ""It is less expensive to save children than to punish criminals""; Summer camp; Substitute family care; Managing the work; Funding the work; Conflict and concern; Chapter 3: The Growth of Professionalism, 1920-1939; Life in early-twentieth-century Toronto; Vera Moberly; Institutional care to boarding home care; The closing of the Infants' Home shelter; Stable funding for the Infants' Home
Toronto in the 1960s and 1970sThe role of children's aid societies; Child Welfare Act, 1965; The agency reorganizes; Prevention and early intervention; Family services; Community development; Homemaker service; Alternate care; Services to youth; Child abuse and neglect; Services to children in care; Homefinding; Foster family care; Foster Parent Association; Residences; Adoption; Medical services; Volunteers; Lloyd Richardson retires and is succeeded by Ed Watson; Pressures for accountability, productivity and efficiency; The society's response to provincial expectations; Union certification
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Created in 1891, the Childrens Aid Society of Toronto is the largest child welfare agency in North America.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Security.
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