Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-12
OFFER SUMMER COURSE IN
EMERGENCY SOCIAL SERVICE
Rcd Gross and school OF Social Economy
Pinn TO Train Workers for
Special Needs.

The women OF America are every.
where asking what they can do TO hell
! Win the war. Few of them arc able
TO SO overseas There is work to be
done at home. however. which will ar.
lord many of them an opportunity &c
do their part. Among the most i'm.
portant OF these lines OF service open
TO women OF special training ID war
time social work. To enable women u
qualify themselves in the bricfcs,
period of time for this war service al
homo the Department of Civilian Re
lief OF the Red Cross and the School of
social Work and Public Health in
Richmond have organized summer
course OF six weeks in emergency So
cidl service which will begin June "A.
Red Cross home service of civilian
relief work is one of the most import
ant of the varied forms OF social ser
vice which has arisen out OF the war
The purpose of home service work is
TO give service assistance, and en-
couragcmcnt TO the families of soldiers
and sailors who may be III need. This
Kind Of work is of direct military value
through its effect on the morale of the
lighting troops. Soldiers worried about
conditions al home and about the well
fare of their families and friends are
to the extent poorer soldiers. They
have been attacked al their weakest
polnt-thoir morale. To prevent this
tho Red Cross has developed this new
est aspect OF its work-home service.
The war has also increased the Sc
riousncss of the problem of Juvenile
delinquency. The Juvenile Court of
Richmond and other large cities in the
South and elsewhere report the need
for more effective child welfare work
II the war is TO be made safe for child
hood.
The development OF protective work
for girls result of the war has also
given rise TO an increasing demand for
workers, especially in the South. where
most OF the cantonmcnts are located,
and where adequate provisions for re-
formatory treatment of delinquent
girls was not maintained before the
war.
The great increase in the employ
mcnt of women and girls since the war
has given rise to another form of social
work for girls-wclfare work in NUM-
ton factories and other Industrial es-
adjustments making war supplies.
The problem of the health of the
civil population during the war is also
a serious ono, especially in view of the
large number of doctors called into
military service form their regular
work OF caring for the health Of the
population at home. Workers are need
ed TO assist in caring for tho sick. but
] particularly TO teach the principles OF
disease prevention. thus reducing the
amount of sickness to be cared for by
/ the doctors who remain. and increasing
| the staying power of the nation.
The war has also Increased the Sc
/ robustness OF those social problems that
/ existed before tho war. and which will
remain with us long after the war is
I over. Tho combination OF the creation
Z OF now problems and tho increasing
seriousness of tho old has led during
/ our first year of war to an unprccc-
/ denied demand for social workers
Courses Will he offered in the sum
MGR course IN tb Red Cross home ser
vice, 90 juvenile delinquency in wal
4 time. go protective work for girls, e
/ Socia! service in war time. and 90
| technique Of social case work The
! headquarters of the school Will be in
tho Juvenile Court Building. me cap
/ itol street, Richmond. Full inforina-
I ton VIII he sent upon request of the
Z director. Or II. II. Hibbg. Jr.. and OF
J the director Of civilian relief OF the
/ Potomac division of the Red Cross in
/ Washington, II. =.