Title New York's Newsboys : Charles Loring Brace and the founding of the Children's Aid Society / Karen M. Staller

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xlvi, 354 pages) Summary "New York Newsboys: Charles Loring Brace and the Founding of the Children's Aid Society (CAS) investigates Brace's visionary anti-poverty work among New York's vagrant children in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Taking as its central focus the CAS's flagship program-the Newsboys' Lodging House, which opened in 1854-this book examines its experiment in incentive-based youth engagement, its connection with other CAS branches, and its overall place in a continuum of child care. Brace forged new methods based on voluntary participation, a alternative to child asylums which policed the poor. Straddling periods dubbed antebellum, Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Gilded Age, CAS took root amid racial, ethnic, religious, nativist, and class-based tensions in a city absorbing a flood of poor immigrants and housing them in squalid conditions. Youth homelessness emerged as a new social problem. Brace's plan included a central office for intra- and extra-agency referrals; outreach; schools, reading rooms, evening entertainment, Sunday meetings, lodging houses, and emigration options for fostering or employing children in the West. The plan was stunning in its size, scope, and vision. It provided for children's basic needs while offering pathways out of poverty. Brace's goals were nothing short of eradicating child poverty, reducing homelessness, reducing illiteracy, preventing juvenile delinquency, improving child and maternal health, providing employment and job training, and promoting sympathy for poor children among the wealthy. Brace's internationally recognized work had a profound impact on child well-being and offered a radical alternative to the jural, carceral, and policing tactics common in the day ""-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 09, 2020) Subject Brace, Charles Loring, 1826-1890. SUBJECT Brace, Charles Loring, 1826-1890 fast Subject Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.) Newsboys' Lodging House. SUBJECT Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.) fast Newsboys' Lodging House fast Subject Street children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 19th century Homeless children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 19th century Child welfare -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century Child welfare Homeless children -- Social conditions Street children -- Social conditions New York (State) -- New York Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019048865 ISBN 9780190886615 0190886617 9780190886622 0190886625

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