Social workers employed in schools organize as the National Association of Visiting Teachers. Many local societies change their names to Family Welfare Agency. The National Alliance for Organizing Charity is renamed the American Association for Organizing Family Social Work. The National Conference of Catholic Charities is established. The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives women the right to vote.
Unemployment insurance is established in Great Britain and Austria.
Federal funds are granted to state health departments to provide for the pre- and postnatal health care of needy mothers and infants. Nearly 3,000 child and maternal health centers are established nationwide, and the nation's infant and maternal mortality rates drop significantly. Nevertheless, the program is dropped in 1929. Japan's Women's College establishes that nation's first school of social welfare. Clara Kaiser begins teaching the first social work course in social group work at Western Reserve University in Cleveland.