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CSWA celebrates California’s long-serving social welfare insitutions.
CSWA congratulates McKinley Youth, Family & Community
for 125 years of service to Los Angeles.
Since its founding in 1900, references to McKinle Youth, Family & Community can be found in several of our archives.
Since its founding in 1900, references to McKinle Youth, Family & Community can be found in several of our archives.
Below is a photo entitled, “Staff of the McKinley Industrial Home for Boys, Los Angeles Cal, May 27, 1933”
CSWA collection #0421 [All Nations Church and Foundation].
From the book, The Better City in 1907, by early Los Angeles social worker, Dana Bartlett. Bartlett heralds McKinley’s innovative and humane approach away from the cruelties of the “orphan asylums” to the “cottage” model that was structured more like a family home - a “group home” as we might call them today.
Dana Bartlett, 1960-1942, is a CSWA Hall of Distinction Honoree.
Bartlett, D. (1907) A Better City: A Sociological Study of a Modern City
Los Angeles: The Neuner Company Press.
Pictured at left is a first edition located in the LA Central Library.
It’s also available via Internet Archive. Click on any of the photos to the right to read the whole book!
