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A History of Helping

A History of Helping. Chapter Two. Early History: The Government. Categories for mentally ill Inquisitions Early History: Hospitals Medical services Travelers aid Insane asylums. Elizabethan Poor Laws (1601). Attack on poverty Foundation for future human services 3 features

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A History of Helping

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  1. A History of Helping Chapter Two

  2. Early History: The Government • Categories for mentally ill • Inquisitions Early History: Hospitals • Medical services • Travelers aid • Insane asylums

  3. Elizabethan Poor Laws (1601) • Attack on poverty • Foundation for future human services • 3 features • Compulsory taxation • Classification system for dependents • Family vs. government responsibility

  4. Human Services in the US • Poor relief as public responsibility • Legal residence • Family responsibilities • Apprenticed children

  5. 19th Century • Social philosophies • Probation mental illness • Child welfare • Reform movements

  6. Social Philosophies • Individualism • Laissez-faire • Social Darwinism

  7. Early History: The Church • Source of poor relief • St. Thomas Aquinas • St. Francis of Assissi • Founded institutions

  8. Reform Movements • Organized Charity Movement • Forerunner of the United Way • Settlement House Movement • Social engineering • Hull House • Beginning of social work profession • United Way

  9. Mental Health Movement • Clifford Beers • Clinical psychology profession

  10. Social Security Act (1935) • Protection from economic stability • Birth of American welfare state • Expansion of welfare activities • Assistance • Social insurance • Public assistance • Health and welfare services

  11. Public Assistance Programs • APTD • AFDC • OAA

  12. 20th Century: Mental Health • NIMH • Mental health Study Act • Community Mental Health Centers Act

  13. Johnson Administration • War on poverty • “Great Society” • Medicare • Medicaid

  14. Human Service Movement • New type of worker • Deinstitutionalization • Professional organizations

  15. Social Welfare Revisions • New Federalism • Reduction of government involvement • Department of Health and Human Services • Proposition 13

  16. Welfare Reform • PRWORA- 1996 • TANF • Emergency funds—2009-2010 • Evaluation

  17. 21st Century Changes • Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 • Centers for Faith-based and Community Initiatives

  18. Unresolved Issues • Social Security funding • Protection of civil liberties • Healthcare • War in Afghanistan

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