title: Serving the urban poor: a study of child welfare preventive services.
abstract: This summary, for journal publication, of a study whose full details are being published in book form, brings the welfare field up-to-date on what began as a precedent-setting agency. The Lower East Side Family Union, in New York City, has provided many years of service, and has justifiably drawn national attention from its inception, when prevention was more talked about than funded. The lessons to be drawn from its work and the example it has set grow more timely every year.
authors.affiliation: Columbia University School of Social Work, New York, NY.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fanshel
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Finch
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Grundy
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001722:Birth Order; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D002669:Child Welfare; D005581:Foster Home Care; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006302:Health Services Research; D006798:Housing / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D009519:New York City / Q000453:epidemiology; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D012307:Risk Factors; D015406:Single Parent