March is Women’s History Month. A northern Illinois musician shares her special ties to a Rockford area pioneer.

Scales stated that historically, women were on the front lines of social work, while the head social workers or supervisors at the top were men, but she believes that this has improved in recent ...

Social work is a field of study and profession aimed at addressing ... but increasingly social reform was moving in a secular direction. Hull House, founded by Jane Addams in 1889, was Chicago’s most ...

A notable early example was Jane Addams and her work at Hull House at the turn of the century ... creating rich learning opportunities for residents and making advances in social knowledge. Indeed, ...

A graduate of Jane Addams School of Social Work with over 20 years of multi-cultural counseling experience with adolescents, adults and families. This evidence based practice, uses questionnaires ...

March is Women’s History and Awareness Month, and to celebrate, Booth Library hosted an exhibit tributing American activist ...

The Jane Addams Center For Civic Engagement ... The mother of social service is an inspiration for the center’s work. They held the R-U Green Challenge for Earth Day, encouraging people to ...