Evening star., 1938-08-03
CHILD WELFARE
EXPERT NAMED
Cleveland Social Worker to
Serve With Citizens
Committee Here.

Miss Dorothy D. Henry, Cleveland
social work expert, was selected by the
Commissioners today to serve as con-
sultant with the citizens advisory
group named recently to plan future
methods and facilities for Washing
tons child welfare agencies.
The survey. inspired by the bitter
dispute in Congress over the unsuc.
cessful efforts Of some House leaders
to close the National Training School
for Girls and the Receiving Home for
Children. will be started tomorrow
morning with the arrival Of Miss
Henry.
Elwood Street, director Of the Board
Of Public Welfare, said he would meet
with Miss Henry and Paul Kirby,
assistant welfare director, and then
would confer with Miss Katharine
Lenroot, director Of the Children's
Bureau Of the Labor Department, who
made the survey possible by advancing
funds necessary for the experts
services. The Advisory Committee,
Mr.. Street said, would be called into
session within q few days.
The recommendations and findings
OF the expert and committee must be
filed with the Commissioners by Sep
tember IS. Miss Henry will be paid at
the rate Of $500 a year and her work
will last nearly six weeks
Detention Home Head.
Appointment of Miss Henry was
recommended by Miss Lenroot and Mr.
Street. She has been in social work
and Government positions since 1918.
She is now superintendent Of the
Juvenile Detention Home of Cuyahoga
County, Ohio. an institution providing
temporary care for delinquent or de-
pendent children up to the age Of IL
years. She has obtained leave from
that post for her services here.
Miss Henry began her welfare
career with the Cleveland Humane So
ciety and since then has been afiliated
with the United States Employment
Service, the Girls Bureau of Cleve-
land, the Department of Public We'll
fare of Detroit. the Cleveland Chill
dren's Bureau and the Charity Organ
izations Society Of Akron, Ohio.
Miss Henry also served with the
Women's Bureau of the Cleveland
Police Department from 1924 to 1880
and during that time established the
Cleveland Women's Detention Home.
Later she was attached to the Girls
Industrial School at Delaware. Ohio
an agency which Mr.. Street compared
with the National Training School for
Girls here.
Advisory Committee.
Members OF the Advisory Committee
are j. Wilmer Latimer, former Judge
of Juvenile Court; James E. Collifiower,
Mrs. Joshua Evans. jr.; John B. COL
poys, United States marshal; Mrs. r.
Gordon Wagenet of the League OF
Women Voters, Maj. Campbell john
son. representing colored welfare So
cieties: George O. Vass. banker; Mark
Lansburgh, merchant. and three men,
bers of the Board Of Public Welfare.
Mrs. Milton w. King, Daniel w.
O'Donoghue, jr., and Mfs. Spencer
Gordon.
The expert and the committee will
study all available survey reports on
operation of various District govern
ment child welfare agencies and sub
NIT findings and recommendations
suggesting a new child welfare pro-
gram. This may involve changes in
institutions, proposed appropriations
for building programs and possibly
necessary changes in the statutes to
permit any proposed changes in meth
DDS Of operation.