The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-11
Child Welfare Work
 In State Commended
Chief of ChIdren's Bureau Issues Report Reviewing
 Activities for Past Three Years; Workers Assigned

Praise for Connecticut's progress in developing child-welfare services was expressed today by Katharine F. Lenroot, Chief of the Children's Bureau, U. s. Department of Labor, in announcing the publication of a report entitled "Child.Welfare Ser- vices Under the Social Security Act"
 Reviewing the development of the program during the Swear per- iod lo36-38 tho report is primarily based upon material from the pub- lic-welfare agencies of 47 states, the District of Columbia, Alaska, and Hawai- which were cooperating with the Children's Bureau in ad- mlnistering child-welfare services under the provisions of title V, part 3 of the Social Security Act at the end of that period.
 States Cooperating
 Tn announcing publication of this first general report of accomplish ments Miss Lerroot points out that today all states and territories and Puerto Rico are cooperating in the program.
 "The story of the development of services for children in rural areas since February 1e38 Is @ kaleido- scopic record of rural America" the report states. Connecticuts part of this story, as indicated by the summary of the state program, Is one of real progress during these years. Connecticut, however, Is a state which had had concern Tor the welfare of children over Q per- iod of many years.
 with the initiation of It's child welfare services in 1887, Connecti- cut was enabled to extend It's pro- gram of case-work services for dc. pendent and neglected children and children in danger of becoming de- iinquent in Q limited number of rural counties.
 The Bureau Of Child Welfare, which is responsible for the admin Istration of child-welfare services investigates all cases of neglected and uncared.for children for whom commitment petitions to county homes or to the Bureau have been brought; places and supervises such committed children after find. ing suitable foster homes for them and licenses Independent boarding homes. The availability of Federal funds has made 1t possible for the Bureau to supplement It's services by assigning to { counties--Litch- field, Windham, Holland and New Lo7idon--chlld.welfare workers to deal with social problems affecting children before these problems have become 50 acute that recourse to court commitment is the only solution. Two workers have been assigned to Litchfield County These workers cooperate with town and county officials. with the diff ferent courts handling juvenile cases. and with other local health and welfare agencies in all effort to strengthen home situations SC that children may have the secur. ity which comes from maintenance of family ties.
 Health Fr0DlemB
 The report indicates that health problems in these counties vary and in counties where health con ditions are bad, they are Q con. tributing factor in many instances of social breakdown. Knowledge of statewide resources on the part of the child-welfare workers hai proved helpful in these cases, as the agencies in many of the smaller towns did not look beyond towI limits for assistance.
 The state supervisor and th' local workers have had the cooper ation of local people representing various groups in the community in meeting such problems as lack of recreaitonal facilities, inadequate relief, health services, and need 0! more adequate school facilities fol certain types of children, and bet ter social legislation. In ? counties these groups have developed intt advisory committees who meet witl