Series XII - Records of Other CAS Programs and Services, 1874-1947, inclusive

The Children's Aid Society provided free dental care in its industrial schools beginning in 1906. The subseries consists of 23 folders, arranged chronologically. The first 2 folders contain pamphlets from 1910 and circa 1912-1913. The following folder contains correspondence 1931-1932. The remaining 20 folders contain reports on CAS dental services 1931-1939 and undated, and including a few responses by CAS secretaries Owen Lovejoy and Arthur Huck and President William Church Osborn.

The subseries consists of 10 volumes related to the Family Emigration Program of the Children's Aid Society, arranged chronologically. Additional records of the Family Emigration Program may be found in the Company Books and Record Books of Series XI.4.

Beginning in 1874, the CAS initiated a "family emigration" program, providing train tickets for entire families to leave the city together, to rejoin a breadwinner or pursue other opportunities. Families traveled on the same trains as companies of children and are included in the "Company Books" and the "Record Books" in subseries XI.4. However, families were never included in the case files of the Emigration Department; the CAS did not provide additional social work care for them or track their progress. Although some information about families is contained in Emigration Department Record Books, other records of Family Emigration were kept separate, in volumes that are arranged in this series.

The subseries consists of 5 folders, arranged chronologically, related to the Housekeeper (aka Homemaker) Service program operated by the Children's Aid Society and the Junior League. The purpose of the program was to provide temporary housework and childcare help to families when a mother was in the hospital or otherwise convalescing. The first three folders contain Minutes of the Housekeeper Service Committee 1933-1941. The remaining two folders contain bound reports distributed to the public in 1935 and 1937, on the work of the Housekeeper Service of the Junior League in Cooperation with the Children's Aid Society.

The Children's Aid Society operated a Sandlot Baseball League from 1933 to at least 1947, with teams from each of the Children's Centers. In 1933, 12 games were played at Yankee Stadium. The subseries consists of three folders, containing one broadside (undated, circa 1933-1934), two tickets to 1934 games at Yankee Stadium, and four official programs from 1938, 1939, 1941, and 1947, from the Sandlot Baseball Program.

The Service Bureau for Negro Children originated in 1936 when the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies and the Welfare Council identified the need to improve foster placement resources for African American children referred by the Department of Welfare and the courts. Originally called the Negro Child Placing Bureau, the program aimed to place about 300 Negro children in Negro foster homes or institutions within three years, after which time the program would be evaluated and, if successful, extended. The Children's Aid Society agreed to administer the program. Dorothy Straus was the Chairman of the Board of the Advisory Committee, and Helen Cole of the CAS supervised the program. By 1939, a combination of public and private funds were procured. In three years, the Service Bureau placed 354 children in foster homes. The project was discontinued at the end of 1942. The project was notable in that it drew upon public subsidies for foster care, which had previously been paid for exclusively by private funding.

The subseries consists of 8 folders of Minutes and By-Laws, arranged chronologically 1936-1942, followed by 9 folders of correspondence, memos, and reports, arranged chronologically 1938-1945.

The U.S. Committee for the Care of European Children was founded in 1940 out of a desire to provide temporary foster homes for European refugee children during World War II. Eleanor Roosevelt was the Honorary President, Marshall Field was President, and Agnes King Inglis was Secretary of the organizataion. The Children's Aid Society was one agency authorized to investigate potential foster homes and provide follow-up supervision of the children placed in these homes. The Children's Aid Society was wary of the project. CAS Executive Director Arthur Huck believed the children would be better off in Europe and CAS President William Church Osborn noted that international transfer of children was a serious business. Ultimately, rather than sending the children to foster care, a group of British children was housed in the former home of Charles E. Mitchell in Tuxedo New York, under the care of Mrs. H.C. Sonne whose husband bought the house and provided funding to sustain the children. Contributions for what became known as The Children's House were sent to CAS and processed through CAS accounts. CAS then paid bills and salaries to support the endeavor.

The subseries consists of 5 folders of correspondence and memos, arranged chronologically, followed by 1 folder of press clippings.