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Finding aid created by: MRC
Date: 12 Oct 2010
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| 11 Aug 2011 | updated separated material |
| 29 Jun 2012 | processed (MRC) |
Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Insley, Virginia. |
| Title: | Virginia Insley Papers |
| Dates: | 1949-1998 |
| Quantity: | 1.5 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | American social worker, child and maternal health advocate. Extensive published and printed material has been cataloged. Manuscript collection contains correspondence-subject files, most relating to a decade-long grant-funded project, and writings of both Insley and her colleague Kazuye Kumabe. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
Virginia Insley (1912-2003) was an American social worker known for her steadfast promotion of high standards in social work education and practice in maternal and child health programs. She worked for the U.S. Children's Bureau as chief of the medical social services section, Division of Maternal and Child Health Services, a position she held for more than 20 years.
The Virginia Insley Papers consists of correspondence-subject files and writings.
The majority of the Correspondence-subject files deal with a decade-long grant-funded project ("Project #267"), the purpose of which was to "develop a social work student training program to prepare social workers in health settings providign health services for mothers and children particularly handicapped children." This material includes grant applications, correspondence, budgets, resumes and progress reports. Other subject files deal with joint departmental work at the University of Hawaii's schools of public health and social work, correspondence regarding several publications on the subjects of maternal and child health, student practicums, and other related topics. Insley was closely involved with the project for many years, along with her colleague at the University of Hawaii, Kazuye Kumabe.
Writings are evenly divided between those by Insley and those by Kumabe, and include both published and manuscript items. Kumabi's autobiography, Rainbow on the Horizon : A Personal and Professional Journey.
Correspondence-subject files are arranged alphabetically by topic. Writings are subdivided by author and within that are arranged alphabetically by title.
Access Restrictions:
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Use Restrictions:
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
The vast majority of the printed and published items have been removed from the collection and transferred to Rare Books for cataloging. Please refer to Libraries Search and search on "Gift of Virginia Insley" to locate these items.
See also the Benjamin Spock Papers and related collections.
Persons
Baker, Edith M., 1885-1978.
Insley, Virginia .
Kumabe, Kazuye, 1922-
Corporate Bodies
United States. -- Children's Bureau -- History.
Subjects
Child welfare -- United States.
Children -- Health and hygiene.
Maternal and infant welfare.
Women -- Health and hygiene.
Genres and Forms
Books.
Correspondence.
Pamphlets.
Proceedings.
Reports.
Speeches (documents)
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Virginia Insley Papers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Gift of Virginia Insley.
Correspondence-subject files
Writings
| Correspondence-subject files | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bridging ethnocultural diversities in social work and health (book) 1985-1987 - publisher correspondence; requests for copies | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Epidemiological approach (workshop) 1986 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Ethnocultural factors in social work and health care: An annotated bibliograpy (book) - publisher correspondence; requests for copies | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Fundraising for maternal and child health (workshop) 1996 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Handbook for social work education and practice in community health settings (book) 1976-1986 - publisher correspondence; requests for copies | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Health specialization 1976 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Joint SPH/SSW planning 1971-1985 - joint departmental efforts between the School of Public Health and School of Social Welfare at the University of Hawaii | ||||||||||
| Project #267 | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | About - objectives, summary, miscellaneous | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Correspondence 1962, 1964, 1969-1987 (6 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Progress reports 1964-1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Progress reports 1969-1985 - bound volume (6 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Student practicum 1982-1985 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||
| Writings | |||||||||||
| Insley, Virginia | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Contributions of social case workers to the teaching of interns 1949 - Insley's master's thesis, University of Washington - Seattle | ||||||||||
| Current status of state-wide social services: Issues and strategies 1981 | |||||||||||
| See Miscellaneous collected writings, below | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Health services: Maternal and child health 1977 - published in National Encyclopedia of Social Work | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | A home care medical program to meet the needs of individuals and families 1951 - published in Selected Papers: National Council of Social Work | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Maternal and child health 1998 - speech to National Association of Social Workers at the 100th anniversary of the social work profession | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Prevention and publich health social work undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Program consultation 1956 - presented at Institute of Training Workshop Leaders, University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work; republished later | ||||||||||
| Program planning 1982 | |||||||||||
| See Miscellaneous collected writings, below | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Public health social work: Our heritage 1998 - presented at Fourth Annual Public Health Social Work Conference, North Carolina State University | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Research in maternal and child health care: A historical perspective 1981 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | The roots of public health social work 1994 - presented at the 50th anniversary of social service, South Carolina Dept. of Health and Environmental Control | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Sick children benefit from a city's home-care program 1953 - published in The Child, Vol. 17, No. 5; a handwritten annotation by Insley states that the paper "was butchered by the editor and illustrated unsuitably" | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Social work consultation in public health [1970?] | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Social work practice in service delivery to children with handicapping conditions: Historical overview, current and future needs 1981 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Some implications of recent legislation for social work 1964 - published in Mothers at Risk, Florence Haselkron, ed. | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Some observations on social work in health programs for families, mothers, and children undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Miscellaneous collected writings - plastic comb-bound volume; all but two appear elsewhere in the collection | ||||||||||
| Kumabe, Kazuye | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Autboiography, Rainbow on the Horizon 1997 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Cultural values affecting the fertility behavior of Hawaiians and part-Hawaiians 1970 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | An example of program consultation 1974 - presented at working conference on evaluating the impact of social work consultation, Case Wester Reserve University | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Psychological aspects of contraceptive practice 1973 - presented at Philippine Public Health Association meeting, Manila, P.I. | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Relationship between female labor force participation and fertility 1976 - research proposal to the East-West Center Population Initiative | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Report of sabbatical leave 1985 - summary of Kumabe's activities during sabbatical semester, July - Dec. | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Seminar in counseling in family planning as family life planning 1974 - presented to faculty and students at the School of Applied Sciences, Case Western Reserve University | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Sex-role attitudes in the social work profession: Implications for social work education 1980 | ||||||||||
| Other or unknown authors | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Miscellaneous - book chapter; paper on program guidance material, possibly by Insley; unidentified reference lists; paper on block grants; list of social work institute topics; article on yin-yang way to health by Wu; case study, "The transfer of the children's bureau," by E. Drexel Godfrey | ||||||||||