Leadership of NYC Settlement Houses
By Nancy Wackstein, MSW, Executive Director, United Neighborhood House
Settlement houses, many of which were founded at the turn of the last century, helped give birth to the profession of social work in the early l900s. What are the values of social work that help me and other settlement house leaders do our jobs as Executive Directors? |
By Verona Middleton-Jeter, CSW, ACSW, Executive Director, Henry Street Settlement & Staff
Founded in 1893 by Lillian Wald as the Nurses Settlement, and succeeded in 1934 by Helen Hall, these two pantheons shaped not only the history of the HSS but that of the whole settlement house movement in this country.
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Forging Relationships for Community Action
Michele Buono, CSW, Goddard Riverside Community Center
A look at Goddard Riverside Community Center's program called “Connections”, a model of community-based practice, unique to settlement house social work. |
Social Worker Executive Directors: Embodying the Spirit of their Communities
We asked eight Executive Directors from different Settlement Houses to answer,
what makes your settlement house unique and what do you personally bring as a social worker to further your mission?
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Honoring Our Roots in Settlement Today
Suzy E. E. Edelstein, MSW, Deputy Director, United Neighborhood Houses and Irma Rodriquez, MSW, Assoc. Exec. Director, Forest Hills Community House
In social work curricula these days, settlement houses often rate no more than an entry in a bibliography. They are depicted in social work journals as benchmarks of the past, a guidepost for measuring how far we've come. . .
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Reclaiming Our Past-Affirming Our Future
By Bernard J. Wohl, MSW, Retired
Reclaiming our past is not simple. From the distance of over a hundred years, the accomplishments and contributions of settlement houses seems hallowed and inevitable, as though honored from their very beginnings, without vitriolic attack and threats of reprisal and loss of support. |
