Part Of

Jewish Child Welfare Association fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

Series

Fonds

86

Series

15

Material Format

textual record

Date

1935-1942

Physical Description

4 cm of textual records

Admin History/Bio

The Welfare Council of Toronto and District was Toronto's first community-wide social planning body. It was involved with other community, religious and labour groups in advocating for unemployment insurance, affordable housing, health insurance, public pensions, minimum wage levels, family support services and other social programs. Prior to its creation, multiple social welfare councils existed in Toronto under the Federation for Community Service; including the Child Welfare Council of Toronto. In 1925 the Family Welfare Association of America conducted an audit of the welfare agencies in Toronto and recommended the creation of a community-wide Council of Social Agencies. The formation of the Toronto Department of Public Welfare further heightened the need for a total Community Council, which would ensure joint planning and cooperation between the new municipal department and Toronto’s welfare agencies. Discussions for such a council began in 1934 and the Welfare Council of Toronto and District was created in 1937. Upon its creation, the Child Welfare Council ceased to function and many of its concerns were inherited by the new Council.

By the 1950s, the Welfare Council was involved in coordinating the many social and charitable services in the fields of health, welfare and recreation, through its member agencies. In the 1940s the United Community Chest was created as an outgrowth of the Council, but in 1956, when its name changed to the United Community Fund, the two entities decided to function as separate, independent agencies. In 1957, the Welfare Council’s name was changed to the Social Planning Council of Metropolitan Toronto.

Scope and Content

Series consists of textual records documenting the JCWA's professional membership with the Welfare Council of Toronto, involvement on its various committees, and participation in its various projects and studies. Included is correspondence, reports, meeting notices and minutes, statistics, forms, and questionnaires. Some records are of the Child Welfare Council of Toronto, an agency that ceased to exist upon the Council's formation in 1937 and whose activities were absorbed by it.

Access Restriction

Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director and the head of Jewish Family and Child prior to accessing some of the records.

Related Material

See also the Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds 87, series 18, particularly files 4 and 15.

Accession Number

2004-1-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Child Welfare Association fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

86

Series

15

File

1

Material Format

textual record

Date

1935-1938

Physical Description

4 cm of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of meeting notices and correspondence documenting the JCWA's participation on the Welfare Council of Toronto's Illegitimacy Committee. Participation with the Committee originated with the Jewish Children's Bureau and was continued by the JCWA. The bulk of the records are of the Welfare Council of Toronto's predecessor, the Child Welfare Council of Toronto.

Related Material

See also the Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds 87, series 18, file 1.

Accession Number

2004-1-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Child Welfare Association fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

86

Series

15

File

2

Material Format

textual record

Date

1935-1938

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of meeting notices, correspondence and one completed questionnaire documenting the JCWA's participation in a study conducted by the Welfare Council of Toronto's Committee on the Study of Feeble-Minded Child. Participation in the study originated with the Jewish Children's Bureau and was continued by the JCWA.

Notes

2/1/2018: File missing. When labeling and segragating restricted files, this file was identified as missing.

Access Restriction

Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director and the head of Jewish Family and Child prior to accessing the records.

Related Material

See also the Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds 87, series 18, file 3.

Accession Number

2004-1-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Child Welfare Association fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

86

Series

15

File

3

Material Format

textual record

Date

1936-1937

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of meeting notices, correspondence and meeting minutes documenting the closure of the Child Welfare Council of Toronto and formation of the Welfare Council of Toronto.

Related Material

See also the Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds 87, series 18, file 6.

Accession Number

2004-1-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Child Welfare Association fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

86

Series

15

File

4

Material Format

textual record

Date

1936, 1939-1940

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of textual records documenting the JCWA's participation in special meetings of the Welfare Council of Toronto regarding the Department of Public Welfare's relationship with social welfare agencies in the City and its provision of City grants. Included is correspondence, meetings notices, meetings minutes, and a questionnaire completed by the JCWA on City Grants. Some records are of the Welfare Council of Toronto's predecessor, The Child Welfare Council of Toronto.

Related Material

See also the Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds 87, series 18, file 5 and file 13.

Accession Number

2004-1-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Child Welfare Association fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

86

Series

15

File

5

Material Format

textual record

Date

1938-1941

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of meeting notices, minutes and correspondence of the Welfare Council of Toronto's Community Health Committee.

Accession Number

2004-1-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Child Welfare Association fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

86

Series

15

File

6

Material Format

textual record

Date

1939

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of meeting minutes of the Welfare Council of Toronto's Records Committee.

Accession Number

2004-1-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Child Welfare Association fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

86

Series

15

File

7

Material Format

textual record

Date

1939-1940

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of correspondence and meeting minutes of the Welfare Council of Toronto regarding the establishment of a Referral Bureau for soldiers' dependents.

Accession Number

2004-1-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Child Welfare Association fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

86

Series

15

File

8

Material Format

textual record

Date

1939-1941

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of correspondence and meeting notices and minutes of the Welfare Council of Toronto's Case Work Committee.

Accession Number

2004-1-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Child Welfare Association fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

86

Series

15

File

8

Material Format

textual record

Date

1936-1942

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of general correspondence between the JCWA and the Welfare Council of Toronto regarding various projects and committes of the Council. Included is correspondence regarding foster day care, day nurseries, the development of a community chest, the Committee on Child Protection, interpretation and publicity, Committee on Diets, and the effect of the war on the JCWA.

Access Restriction

Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director and the head of Jewish Family and Child prior to accessing the records.

Related Material

See also the Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds 87, series 18, file 4.

Accession Number

2004-1-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

Series

Fonds

87

Series

18

Material Format

textual record

Date

1931-1942

Physical Description

8 cm of textual records

Admin History/Bio

The Welfare Council of Toronto and District was Toronto's first community-wide social planning body. It was involved with other community, religious and labour groups in advocating for unemployment insurance, affordable housing, health insurance, public pensions, minimum wage levels, family support services and other social programs. Prior to its creation, multiple social welfare councils existed in Toronto under the Federation for Community Service; including the Child Welfare Council of Toronto. In 1925 the Family Welfare Association of America conducted an audit of the welfare agencies in Toronto and recommended the creation of a community-wide Council of Social Agencies. The formation of the Toronto Department of Public Welfare further heightened the need for a total Community Council, which would ensure joint planning and cooperation between the new municipal department and Toronto’s welfare agencies. Discussions for such a council began in 1934 and the Welfare Council of Toronto and District was created in 1937. Upon its creation, the Child Welfare Council ceased to function and many of its concerns were inherited by the new Council.

By the 1950s, the Welfare Council was involved in coordinating the many social and charitable services in the fields of health, welfare and recreation, through its member agencies. In the 1940s the United Community Chest was created as an outgrowth of the Council, but in 1956, when its name changed to the United Community Fund, the two entities decided to function as separate, independent agencies. In 1957, the Welfare Council’s name was changed to the Social Planning Council of Metropolitan Toronto.

Scope and Content

Series consists of textual records documenting the JFWB's professional membership with the Welfare Council of Toronto, involvement on its various committees, and participation in its various projects and studies. Included is correspondence, reports, meeting notices and minutes, statistics, forms, and questionnaires. Some records are of the Child Welfare Council of Toronto, an agency that ceased to exist upon the Council's formation in 1937 and whose activities were absorbed by it.

Access Restriction

Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director and the head of Jewish Family and Child prior to accessing some of the records.

Related Material

See also the Jewish Child Welfare Association fonds 86, series 15.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

87

Series

18

File

1

Material Format

textual record

Date

1931-1942

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of meeting notices and minutes of the Welfare Council of Toronto's Illegitimacy Committee and its various sub-committees. Some records date back to the Council's predecessor, the Child Welfare Council of Toronto.

Related Material

See also the Jewish Child Welfare Association fonds 86, series 15, file 1.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

87

Series

18

File

2

Material Format

textual record

Date

1935-1936

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of a meeting notice and correspondence from the Child Welfare Council of Toronto's Joint Committee on Child Health Protection.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

87

Series

18

File

3

Material Format

textual record

Date

1935-1938

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of textual records documenting the JFWB's liaison with the Welfare Council of Toronto's Committee on the Study of the Feeble Minded. Included is correspondence, a completed questionnaire, and meeting notices and minutes. Some records are of the Council's predecessor agency, the Child Welfare Council of Toronto.

Access Restriction

Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director and the head of Jewish Family and Child prior to accessing the records.

Related Material

See also the Jewish Child Welfare Association fonds 86, series 15, file 2.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

87

Series

18

File

4

Material Format

textual record

Date

1935-1942

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of textual records documenting the JFWB's cooperation with the Welfare Council of Toronto in developing a foster day care programme in Toronto, particularly in the West End Creche. Included are minutes of case conferences between the JFWB and the Jewish Child Welfare Association, meeting notices and minutes of the Welfare Council of Toronto, staff memos, correspondence, reports, lists of Jewish children in foster care, newsclippings and statistics.

Access Restriction

Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director and the head of Jewish Family and Child prior to accessing the records.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

87

Series

18

File

5

Material Format

textual record

Date

1936

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of meeting minutes for a special committee meeting of the Child Welfare Council of Toronto on city grants.

Related Material

See also the Jewish Child Welfare Association fonds 86, series 15, file 4.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

87

Series

18

File

6

Material Format

textual record

Date

1936-1937

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of meeting notices and minutes of the Child Welfare Council of Toronto regarding the establishment of a Council of Social Agencies for Toronto, which later became the Welfare Council of Toronto.

Related Material

See also the Jewish Child Welfare Association fonds 86, series 15, file 3.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

87

Series

18

File

7

Material Format

textual record

Date

1937

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of textual records documenting the JFWB's involvement on the Welfare Council of Toronto's Committee on Low Wages. Included is correspondence, client lists and meeting notices and minutes.

Access Restriction

Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director and the head of Jewish Family and Child prior to accessing the records.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

87

Series

18

File

8

Material Format

textual record

Date

1938

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of textual records documenting the JFWB's cooperation with the Welfare Council of Toronto regarding the problem of providing relief to transients and non-residents. Included are reports, notes for the Sub-Committe on Rowell Commission brief, examples of non-resident cases handled by various Toronto social work agencies, and notices for the Welfare Council of Toronto meetings.

Access Restriction

Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director and the head of Jewish Family and Child prior to accessing the records.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

87

Series

18

File

9

Material Format

textual record

Date

1938-1940

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of textual records documenting the JFWB's involvement on the Welfare Council of Toronto's Committee on the Cost of Living. Included is one study on the cost of living in Toronto, correspondence, and meeting notices.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

87

Series

18

File

10

Material Format

textual record

Date

1938

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of correspondence and reports of the Welfare Council of Toronto's Committee on Resident Homemakers Service.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

87

Series

18

File

11

Material Format

textual record

Date

1939

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of correspondence, meeting notices, and a committee membership list documenting the JFWB's involvement on the Welfare Council of Toronto's Mac-Pap Committee.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

87

Series

18

File

12

Material Format

textual record

Date

1939

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of meeting notices and minutes for special meetings of the Welfare Council of Toronto's Board Members Committee regarding establishing a Bureau for the Placement of Volunteers.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

87

Series

18

File

13

Material Format

textual record

Date

1940-1942

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of textual records documenting the JFWB's relationship with the Welfare Council of Toronto's Public Welfare Committee. Included is correspondence, memos, a speech, and meeting notices.

Related Material

See also the Jewish Child Welfare Association fonds 86, series 15, file 4.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

87

Series

18

File

14

Material Format

textual record

Date

1941

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of textual records documenting the JFWB's participation in the Welfare Council of Toronto's Study of the Home Service Association regarding Toronto's black population. Included is correspondence, a copy of the study, and notes on black families studied by the JFWB staff for the project.

Access Restriction

Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director and the head of Jewish Family and Child prior to accessing the records.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds

Welfare Council of Toronto series

Level

File

Fonds

87

Series

18

File

15

Material Format

textual record

Date

June 1942

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of textual records documenting the JFWB's participation in the Welfare Council of Toronto's Health Insurance questionnaire. Included is correspondence, the questionnaire, and the JFWB's answers to the questionnaire which were compiled in conjuction with the Jewish Child Welfare Association.

Source

Archival Descriptions