Series VI. State Child Care Committee , 1942-1944 .

Containers:

Box 182-187

Extent:

Extent: 2.1 cubic feet (6 boxes).

Scope and content:

This series is housed in 6 boxes and is arranged alphabetically. These files include incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda, minutes, news clippings, publications and reports. Some publications in the series pre-date 1942, but were collected after 1942. Topics may include, but are not limited to: child care (facilities, training, operation), child welfare during wartime, counseling, day care and nursery schools for children of working mothers, extended school services, federal funds, surveys, and workshops.

The State Child Care Committee was organized under the Virginia Office of Civilian Defense to stimulate interest and understanding of child care needs in Virginia; to assist localities in planning a comprehensive program of services for the care of children; and to foster and promote the coordination of efforts among public and private agencies dealing with child care, particularly in those areas in which the needs have grown as a result of the increased employment of women. The establishment of a state child care committee was a prerequisite to obtaining federal funds to care for the children of employed mothers. The committee was tasked with determining the needs for child care; reviewing and passing local plans concerned with child care where federal funds were used from the the President's Emergency Fund; assisting in the organization of local child care committees under the local defense councils; serving as a clearinghouse for information on child care throughout the state, and interpreting and disseminating this information; and preparing plans and suggestions to promote the proper use of existing facilities to meet the increasing demand of proper child care for children during war time.

Members of the State Child Care Committee included: R.N. Anderson, State Dept. of Education; May O. Hankins, Children's Bureua of the the Dept. of Public Welfare; Dr. Lorin A. Thompson, State Planning Board; John Hopkins Hall, Labor Commissioner; Dr. A. L. Carson, Jr., Dept. of Health; Maude Wallace, VPI Extension Service; Frank A. Cavedo, U.S. Employment Office; and Mary V. Marks, State Office of Civilian Defense and Supervisor for Civilian Mobilization. Etta Rose Bailey, State Board of Education, served as the Executive Officer of the Committee. Others who were highly involved with the Committee include: M. Frances Cromwell, State Supervisor of Extended School Services; Ruth Henderson, Supervisor of Elementary Education for the State Board of Education; and Dr. Dabney s. Lancaster, Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State Board of Education.

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