The centennial anniversary offers a valuable opportunity to look back and reflect on the Children’s Bureau’s impressive history. An engaging e-brochure, interactive timeline, commemorative e-book, and other resources help tell the Children’s Bureau’s story and feature the key issues, laws, and leaders that shaped that story.
On April 9, 1912, President William Howard Taft signed the Children’s Bureau into law and created the first government agency in the world focused solely on the needs of children. Over the next 100 years, the Children’s Bureau played a critical role in improving the lives of children and their families.
Throughout its history, the Children's Bureau has broken new ground on a range of social issues.
While priorities and trends have changed over time, the Children’s Bureau's work has reflected:
Through engaging text and historical images, the Story of the Children's Bureau highlights key activities and accomplishments in each of these areas "then" and "now".
Coming Soon: An interactive timeline of key events that shaped the course of the Children's Bureau history.
Take a detailed look at 10 decades of Children’s Bureau leadership and accomplishments presented within the context of changing world events and social movements. This commemorative e-book will be available in late 2012.
Dr. Cecelia Tichi presents a captivating account of Julia Lathrop and her groundbreaking efforts as the first chief of the Children’s Bureau. Access the full online transcript, PDF (157 KB), and audio mp3 (9.01 MB) of the 2007 presentation.
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Read about highlights from each decade of the Children's Bureau's first 100 years:
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