Baby Week Campaigns Suggestions For Communities Of Various Sizes Prepared By Grace S Meigs

Author : United States Children's Bureau
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334757891
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Baby-Week Campaigns written by United States Children's Bureau and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-24 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Baby-Week Campaigns: Suggestions for Communities of Various Sizes One of the developments of the profound and growing interest in the welfare of babies during the past few years is the Baby Week. The baby-week campaigns, which have been held in many cities, are primarily educational; their purpose is twofold - first, to give to the parents of a community the opportunity of learning the facts with regard to the care of their babies; second, to make known to a com munity the importance of its babies, the special facts relating to the babies of the community, and the need of permanent work for their welfare. These purposes it carries out in various ways - by news paper and advertising publicity, by meetings and entertainments, and by such activities as a program of daily events, an infant - welfare ex bibit, a baby health conference, plays, etc. In addition, there has been included in some cities the third purpose of gathering funds for infant-welfare work. The first Baby Week, which was held in Chi cago in April, 1914, was of this type; also that of Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1915. The conditions and needs for securing money for infant-welfare work and the methods applicable vary so greatly in communities of various sizes that it has been thought best not to con sider this type of campaign in the present general bulletin, which will deal only with Baby Weeks whose purpose is solely educational. A Baby Week having the purpose of making known to parents and to the whole community facts which they should know about babies may be held successfully in communities of all sizes. The form that such a Baby Week may take will, however, vary greatly in different places. A rural community will probably not wish to carry out the elaborate program which would seem necessary in a big city to reach all the people. On the other hand, many large cities may not be ready at a certain time to carry on an elaborate program which will demand considerable expense and the constant labor of many people, but may be anxious nevertheless to bring the subject of babies to the attention of the public to an extent which will achieve substantial results. This bulletin, therefore, will give suggestions for a Baby Week of two different types. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.