The life of Charles Loring Brace : chiefly told in his own letters
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The Life of Charles Loring Brace: Chiefly Told in His Own Letters (1894)
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Charles Loring Brace was an American social welfare worker. He is noted for his service as a Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of the Children's Aid Society and for the reforms that he instituted in the policies and practices of the CAS.
Background
Charles Loring Brace was born on June 2, 1855, in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. He was of old New England stock, the eldest of four children of Charles Loring Brace, who had in 1853, founded the Children's Aid Society in New York City, and Letitia (Neill) Brace.
Education
Educated at Phillips Andover Academy and the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, where he received a Ph. B. degree in 1876, Brace spent most of the next thirteen years as a construction engineer for various railroads in the Middle West.
Career
On a visit home in 1889, finding his father in failing health, Charles Brace promised to continue his father's work with the Children's Aid Society; and in 1890, when his father died, he succeeded him as its secretary. The elder Brace had served in that capacity for thirty-seven years; so did his son.
The elder Brace holds an important place among the pioneers in American social welfare for having initiated the placing of homeless children in families rather than in orphanages or under a system of indenture.
Brace carried on his father's mission, rescuing homeless and neglected children from the streets of New York and transplanting them to homes in the Middle West then regarded as the land of opportunity where they might benefit by the influence of wholesome family life. Gradually, however, the placement of children away from New York declined.
In part this was because, with changing social and economic conditions, parents were becoming better able to care for their own children. But there was also a growing conviction among child-welfare workers a conviction enunciated at the first White House Conference on Dependent Children (1909), in which Brace took part that the child should not be unnecessarily deprived of his own family, and that every effort should be made to conserve his own home and family ties.
Thus the Children's Aid Society entered upon a period of transition under Brace's able guidance. The use of free homes (where the child is expected to work to pay for the care he receives) and the permanent separation of children from their families were gradually discontinued in favor of a boarding home program to place and support children in carefully selected and supervised families in or near New York.
With the availability of trained case workers, as the profession of social work developed, the assigning of children was made on the basis of careful individual study and diagnosis. Brace can be counted among those who brought about the significant change in social welfare of dealing with social problems through individualized help rather than by mass methods.
From its beginning in 1853 the Children's Aid Society had rendered services to under-privileged children remaining in their own homes, especially in the fields of education and health.
As the older foster-home program was discontinued, Brace expanded and added to these activities. The Society's work included school nurses, school lunches, playgrounds, a day school for crippled children, special classes for mentally defective children and later for cardiac children, and free dental clinics. Many of these services were eventually taken over by public agencies. Brace retired as secretary of the Children's Aid Society at the beginning of 1928 because of failing health.
After traveling abroad, he made his home in Santa Barbara, California, and it was there that he died, of generalized arteriosclerosis. He was buried in Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York.
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Politics
Brace was a Mugwump in politics.
Connections
On January 14, 1885, Charles Loring Brace married Louise Tillman Warner of New York, by whom he had five children: Dorothy, Eleanor, Charles Loring, Elizabeth, and Gerald Warner.