Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-08-18
633. manual of Home Serv-
ice" Continued from yester-
day.
T RAIN ING

TRAINING
In many cities the Home Service or
the Red Cross Chapter has already
been placed under a heavy burden.
Those who have taken up this work
have been quick to see that it requires
a familiarity with new problems and
a facility in dealing with them which
ca n be acquired only through training.
They nave also been eager to be
trained, as is demonstrated by their
general response to the opportunities
offered by classes in many cities in
the spring of 1911. In these cities vol
unteers have not only attended lee
lures twice a week for six weeks or
more, but have also given as much as
three full days. a week during all OF
this period to actual service under
trained leadership in the Offices of local
social agencies and in the homes Of
families under their care.
Institutes on Home Service
In order to assure to its local leaders
the best possible opportunities for
training. the Red Cross will arrange
for series of Institutes to be given
in the fall and winter Of 1917 in each
of several cities representing every
section of the country. These 1nsti-
tutes on Home Service will be open to
the executives ard members Of Home
Service Sections, and to other qualified
volunteers. The courses at these In
stitutes will take the full time Of
those who attend for a period of six
weeks The programs of all the Instl-
tutes will be practically the same.
mill he
Cross and given under its auspices.
The course in each Institute will in
clude four hours of lectures and dis
cussion each week, certain required
reading. and the balance of the time
about twenty-five hours each week
will be spent in supervised. practical
field work in the Home Service OF the
Chapter in whose city the Institute is
held The membership of each lnsti-
tute will be limited to twenty-five to
assure adequate personal attention IN
classroom discussion and in field work
A certificate will be granted by the
American Red Cross 70 those VINO
complete the work with credit, ana
in the field work show qualities ana
aptitudas fitting them to assume re-
sponsibility in Home Service.
A full announcement of these Insti-
tutes, each of which will be affiliated.
it is hoped. with a we'll estahhsned
school or university. will be published
about September l, 1917.
Extension Courses
For those unable TO attend the 1nsti-
tutes. it is planned to arrange. in ad-
dition. a series of extension Courses IN
many cities where competent instruc-
tion and field work are available.
These courses should conform to
general standard that will be pre-
scribed and published, hut which may
readily he adapted to local conditions
and needs.
Such Extension Courses should al
vavs he related intimately to the
work of the local Chapters. Many
CHAPTERS are planning TO establish
such courses The Red Cross strongly
endorses the organization of such
courses and believes that the volun-
teers connected with Home service
Sections will stay longer and do more
if such training is given. one OF the
encouraging signs Of the times IS that
people no longer feel that their good IN
tentions are enough to see tnefn
through. They want TO do team WORK
and they want to learn how.
The DEPARTMENT of Civilian Rehe1
viii welcome correspondence regard
ing both Institutes and Extension
courses and will try to give the fuiles1
"details possible in reply.
Readinq for Home Service Workers
Those who wish to prepare for such
training. or to supplement it, Will nhu
the following books helpful and sus-
pestiVc:
Social Service and the Art Of Heal
ing. Richard c. Cabot. Moffat, Yard
and Company, $50 West Thirty-second
Street, New York. Social Diagnosis
Mary f. Richmond. Russell Sage
Founda tion. 100 East Twenty-second
street, New York. CThis is a book
particularly valuable for those who
have already had some experience or
Enowledee of work with individuals
and families)
Family and Social Work. Edward
T. Devire. The Survey Associates, ll2
Fast Nineteenth Street, New York.
How to Help. Mary Conyngton.
Street. New York.
VIVA SOCIAL w OTheIS solioulu tNii''
About Their Own Communities Mar
garet F. Byington. Russell Sage Foun-
dation. 1870 East Twentysecond Street,
New York.
The Good Neichhor. Mary f. Rich
mond J. B. Lippincott Company
Philadelphia. Pennsylvania.
Low Cost Cooking. Florence Nesbit.
American School Of Home Economics.
Chicago Illinois.
Relief. Frederick Amy. Russell
Sage Foundation. 100 East twenty
second Street, New York.
Treatment. Porter r. Lee. Russell
Sage Foundation, $50 East Twenty
second Street, New York
Social Work with Families and In
dividuals. Porter r. Lee. New York
School Of Philanthropy, los East
Twenty-second Street. New York.
The weekly issues of The Survey.
The Survey Associates, 112 East Nine
teenth Street, New York.