Children's Center of Metropolitan Atlanta records
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records from Atlanta Child’s Home (ACH) and Child Service Association, Inc. (CSA) as well as the organization they merged to form, Children’s Center of Metropolitan Atlanta, Inc. (CCMA). There is also material from associated organizations such as Community Chest of Atlanta, Child Welfare League of America (CWL), Community Council of the Atlanta Area, and Family Counseling Center. The collection documents the merger, development of a group foster home, advocacy work, legal and licensing issues, public relations, and reaccreditation. Papers include financial records such as budgets; institutional records such as executive reports and committee minutes; publications and marketing ephemera; newspaper clippings; and correspondence. Of particular note are blank adoption and foster forms and requirements, service reports with placement data, and studies on social blight that have census tracts, statistics, and maps of Atlanta.
Dates
- 1930-1976, undated
Creator
- Children's Center of Metropolitan Atlanta (Organization)
- Atlanta Child's Home (Ga.) (Organization)
- Child Service Association (Atlanta, Ga.) (Organization)
Restrictions on Access
This collection is open for research.
Restrictions on Use
Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. All requests to publish, quote, or reproduce must be submitted through the Kenan Research Center.
Biographical / Historical
The Atlanta Child’s Home (ACH) opened in 1907 when Laura Robinson (1853-1947) began caring for orphaned children in her home. ACH was incorporated in 1915 and operated on Angier Avenue until moving in 1923 to Hightower Road in northwest Atlanta. Robinson served as its director until her death, after which an elected board of trustees oversaw operations. The Child Welfare Association, Inc. (CWA) was organized in 1930 as an outgrowth of the Georgia Children’s Home Society. CWA facilitated collaboration between orphanages and child welfare organizations in Atlanta, Fulton County, and DeKalb County, including ACH, the Carrie Steele Pitts Home for Negro Children, and the Florence Crittendon Home. In 1951 CWA reorganized as the Child Service Association, Inc. (CSA). It expanded to include Cobb County in 1959, and Clayton and Gwinnett Counties in 1962. On March 26, 1964, ACH merged with CSA to become the Children’s Center of Metropolitan Atlanta, Inc. (CCMA), thereby expanding its reach and increasing services.
Extent
2.5 linear ft. (six document cases)
Language
English
Arrangement
This collection is arranged alphabetically according to titles supplied by staff.
Acquisition Information
Gift, 1984
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Processing Information
This collection was reprocessed in 2023.
- Adoption -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Social conditions
- Atlanta Child's Home (Ga.)
- Boling, Catherine
- Carrie Steele Pitts Home for Negro Children (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Child Service Association (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Child Welfare Association (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Child Welfare League (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Child mental health -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Child welfare -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Children -- Institutional Care -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Children's Center of Metropolitan Atlanta
- Community Chest of Metropolitan Atlanta
- Community Council of the Atlanta Area
- Community Council of the Atlanta Area
- Family Counseling Center (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Family services -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Florence Crittenton Home (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Foster home care -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Georgia. State Department of Family and Children Services
- Group homes for children -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Hillside Cottages (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Jewish Children's Service (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Leonard Street Orphans' Home (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Lobbying -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Orphanages -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Peachtree Christian Church (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Social service -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Unmarried mothers -- Services for -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Urban renewal -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Women -- Georgia -- Social conditions
- Title
- Children's Center of Metropolitan Atlanta records
- Author
- Emily J. Curl
- Date
- June 2023
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center Repository