{"id":3343,"date":"2018-05-14T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ssw100-history\/?page_id=3343"},"modified":"2018-07-10T15:14:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T15:14:30","slug":"found-of-school-for-social-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ssw100-history\/found-of-school-for-social-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Founding of the School for Social Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When the United States entered WWI in 1917, folks at Smith College began to debate the best way\u00a0<\/span>for the school\u00a0<\/span>to contribute to the war effort. Colloquial French? Nurse training?<\/span><\/h2>\n

At the same time, social worker Mary Jarrett\u00a0<\/span>at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital\u00a0<\/span>was developing a plan that might just be what Smith College was looking for.\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

Explore the timeline below to see how the two came together to create something wonderful.<\/p>\n

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The founders faced many practical and theoretical obstacles, including these questions:<\/p>\n

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  • Would psychiatrists recognize the validity of the training and employ the graduates?<\/li>\n
  • Would introducing a “vocational” training program change the nature of a liberal arts institution?<\/li>\n
  • Would the Surgeon General give its stamp of approval before the school started?<\/li>\n
  • Would women be able to handling traveling into the dark recesses of the human brain or were they too delicate?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    You can explore how the founders faced these obstacles in the timeline below.<\/p>\n

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