Some History

Macro practice may be seen as early as the 1800s with most people that provided some kind of services seeming as though they had other ideas in mind such as recruiting. The reason I say this is because they seem mostly to be religious people who gave you things and prayed for you making it seem as though it was only for whatever religion they followed. After massive immigration industrialization and urbanization the growth of "poor, helpless people" only grew which was obvious that something needed to be done. 

Public Charities used early methods of approaches to make charity a more hands on approach to help people do better not to just give people what they need and make them needy. They did not want to have social Darwinism which "made" people dependent on the system. At this point taking the help was looked at as completely negative but we have made strides because of events like the Great Depression which most people relied on charity. It was not until 1898 that official Social Work classes were given at Columbia University.

There many programs here in the United States today that help people in need such as those that churches administer and those that are done by the government. A few that are implemented by the government are WIC which is food assistance, Section 8 which is help for housing and Social Security which may be gone soon.

Elizabeth Gurney Fry is one of the earliest people to be involved in social work practice. It is impressive not only because of the fact that she made strides for the whole jail/prison but she was a female at a time where we viewed women as much less. She started off by helping people in the community and taught poor kids at an early age and then eventually seen what prisoners had to deal with and made sure they made changes.





References

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