The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31
 AFTER WELFARE
 OF ITS CHILDREN
Division Has I'm portant Task of Intervening
 and Protecting
Child Welfare Services

fleets the legal doctrine of parsnS patriae (the state in the position oi 1 the parent) by which society through it's laws and agencies, at tempts to provide for the specia, needs of children otherwise cared fer inadequately by the usual com munity resources of home. school recreation and health. Embodied in this doctrine is the idea of the right of the state through its courts to provide protection and to inter vene when parents have been un- willing or unable to afford suitable protection and care.
 Child welfare as a responsibility of the Territory is not a new con- cept and the First Legislature, which met in 1913, and each succeeding one has given some consideration to the needs of children. The Terri torial agency established to serve the children of Alaska by working within the present legislative frame work and with the several groups designated to plan and care for them is the Territorial Department Of Public Welfare through it's division of Child Welfare Services.
 Cooperative Plan
 The Division of Child Welfare Services is charged with the respon-
  sibility of establishing, strengthen ing and extending existing public welfare services for homeless, de- pendent, and neglected children and those in danger of becoming delin- quent.
 The plan under which the Division of Child Welfare Services operates is a cooperative one between the Territorial Department of Public Welfare and the United States Childrens Bureau.
 The plan for the present fiscal year provides for a supervisor Of Child Welfare Services and three Child Welfare Services workers who carry responsibility for the general welfare program as well as services to children in the areas which they cover. One worker covers the towns of Juneau and Douglas, one covers the Third Judicial Division and has headquarters at Anchorage. and cne covers the Fourth Judicial Di- vision and has headquarters at Far banks. The administrative cost of Child Welfare Services is borne by grant made by the United States Children's Bureau to the Territory on the basis of an approved plan. Local policies are determined by the Territorial Department of Pub lie Welfare. The total amount granted to the Territory since the inauguration of the Division of Child Welfare Services is $22, ,255.
 Works With Boards
 The Division of Child Welfare Services works directly with the Boards of Children's Guardians in each Division offering such services as are requested by them in plan ming and caring for children com mitted to them The Division works in cooperation with the United States Department of Justice in planning for children adjudged de- linquent by the courts and has ar ranged suitable care for four chil- dren during the past year. Be lieving that every child should have a chance if his own home has failed him, it has been possible to place two of the children referred to il private homes and two in specia schools. These plans have afforded real opportunity for the childrei involved which they would not haV' had had they been sent to a SO called reform school. Services ant assistance are provided for childrel whose situations require no cour action through funds appropriate for the Department of Public Wei l fare.
 As noted in the general statemen regarding the Territorial Depart ment of Public Welfare. the admin istration of the Mothers Allowanc Fund was transferred from the Gov ernor's Office to the Department c Public Welfare on February l, 194t and the report concerning chlldre benefitting through this fund Ina been compiled by the Division Child Welfare Services and Is in cluded below.
 Work Summarized
 Number of children under the Sr pervision of the Division of Chil Welfare Services, Territorial De partment of Public Welfare, Apr l, 1939 to February l. l940, and pay ments made for their care. are follows:
 No. of Amount
 Type of Care Children Expende Wards of the Boards
 of Children's Guar
 dians ........ 96s $l4,863 { Allowances to Moth
 I CTS ................. 206 3l.o93.. Payments from Re-
 lief of Destitution
 Fund ..............-..----.. 35 5,2o3.' Services Only
 No expenditure of
 Funds -.........-.....-... 125