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Montana Social and Rehabilitation Services, Community Services Division records, 1966-1984

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Montana. Social and Rehabilitation Services.
Title
Montana Social and Rehabilitation Services, Community Services Division records
Dates
1966-1984 (inclusive)
Quantity
2.8 linear ft
Collection Number
RS 495 (Formerly RS 460)
Summary
This collection is a sub-subgroup (former Division) of the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services records. The Community Services Division formerly operated within the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, predecessor agency to DPHHS. Please see the primary finding aid for more Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services records. This collection consists of subject files, with topics including budgets and cutbacks, and district and regional offices.
Repository
Montana Historical Society, Library & Archives
Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives
225 North Roberts
PO Box 201201
Helena MT
59620-1201
Telephone: 4064442681
Fax: 4064445297
mhslibrary@mt.gov
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
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Historical Note

The Legislature established the Department of Public Welfare in 1937, consolidating state welfare activities. The Department was responsible for the administration of all forms of public assistance, including general relief programs and supervision of institutions caring for the dependent, delinquent, or mentally or physically handicapped. In 1971 the Department of Public Welfare was abolished and its functions assumed by the newly created Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services (SRS). The SRS assumed the functions of various state agencies, including functions pertaining to vocational rehabilitation and education; the Commission on Aging; and the Council on Human Resources. The SRS administered all forms of public assistance, child protection, and child welfare; gave consultant service to private institutions providing care for the needy, indigent, handicapped, or dependent; developed provisions for services to the blind; supervised county boards of public welfare; and administered all funds allotted for public welfare activities. State government reorganization in 1995 combined the SRS with portions of the Department of Health and Environmental Sciences to form the Department of Public Health and Human Services.

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Content Description

This collection is composed of the records of the Community Services Division of the Social and Rehabilitation Services, which are comprised of subject files. Subjects include division and bureau budgets and cutbacks; services for the aging; child care; district and area office records and communications; administrative rule changes; communications with committees, organizations, and other SRS offices; contracts and funding; a strike plan; and county Departments of Public Welfare.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The Montana Historical Society is the owner of the materials in the Library & Archives and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the Library & Archives before any reproduction use. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.

Preferred Citation

Item description and date. Collection Title. Collection Number. Box and Folder numbers. Montana Historical Society Library & Archives, Helena, Montana.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in a single series

Location of Collection

42:2-3

Processing Note

In 2024, the various collections of the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services were integrated under one collection identifier, RS 495, in order to help facilitate access, reduce redundancy in the Montana Historical Society catalog, and to follow best archival practices.

Collections from Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services' various Divisions and Bureaus that were previously treated as separate entities are now integrated into this collection, RS 495. Rather than reprocessing over 100 linear feet of DPHHS materials, MTHS staff decided to keep the past arrangement of those collections/finding aids, and provide access to them via links through the central finding aid. This decision has allowed the MTHS archival staff to maintain intellectual control over the collection, while removing the need to reprocess it. It also keeps State Agency finding aids at manageable sizes. Please read the scope and content note carefully to determine if this subgroup/sub-subgroup pertains to your research needs.

Acquisition Information

Acquisition information available upon request

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Subject files

    • Description: Community Services Division (general correspondence)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 1
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Federal cutbacks
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 2
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Aging Services Bureau
      Dates: 1980-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 3
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: AoA (Aging materials)
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 4
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Aging: budget and statistics, including legislature
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 5
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Grants (including Advocacy Assistants requests for funding)
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 6
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: National Association of State Units on Aging
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 7
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: White House Conference on Aging
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 8
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Governor’s Advisory Council (Aging meeting June 26)
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 9
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Aging Services State Plan Amendment Hearings (reorganization)
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 10
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Montana Inter-Tribal Policy Board
      Dates: 1980-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 11
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Child and Youth Development Bureau
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 12
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Old 4C’s file
      Dates: 1974-1975
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 13
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Social Services Bureau
      Dates: 1980-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 14
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Social Services Bureau (day care)
      Dates: 1980-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 15
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Evaluation Bureau
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 16
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Billings District
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 17
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Butte District
      Dates: 1980-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 18
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Deer Lodge County (impact of Anaconda Company closure)
      Dates: 1980-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 19
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Glasgow District
      Dates: 1980-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 20
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Great Falls District
      Dates: 1980-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 21
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Helena District
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 22
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Kalispell District
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 23
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Miles City District
      Dates: 1980-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 24
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Missoula District
      Dates: 1980-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 25
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Strike material
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 26
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: SRS legislature
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 27
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Administrative rule changes
      Dates: 1980-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 28
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: SRS Aging Services Bureau
      Dates: 1970-1980
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 29
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: SRS Budget materials
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 30
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: SRS Executive Planning Process (Child and Youth Development Bureau)
      Dates: 1979
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 31
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: SRS EPP (Social Services Bureau)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 32
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Legislative audit
      Dates: 1980-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 33
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Executive Planning Process (total agency, file #1)
      Dates: 1979-1980
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 34
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Executive Planning Process (total agency, file #2)
      Dates: 1979-1980
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 35
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Director’s Office
      Dates: 1980-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 36
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Centralized Services Division
      Dates: 1980-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 37
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Developmental Disabilities Division
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 38
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Economic Assistance Division
      Dates: 1980-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 39
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Personnel System
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 40
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: WIN Program
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 41
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: DCA, transfer of Community Services Division
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 42
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Department of Health and Human Services
      Dates: 1980-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 43
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Regional memoranda, Department of Health and Human Services
      Dates: 1980-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 44
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: APWA (American Public Welfare Association)
      Dates: 1980-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 45
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: County Directors Association, minutes
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 46
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Interagency Committee for Handicapped Children
      Dates: 1980-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 47
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Child Welfare League
      Dates: 1979-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 1
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Social Worker Examination Development Committee
      Dates: 1980
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 2
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Personal Care Task Force
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 3
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Emotionally Disturbed Children’s Committee
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 4
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Community Support Services Project Advisory Committee
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 5
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Newspaper clippings (Montana)
      Dates: 1980-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 6
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Area directors and quarter assessments (schedules)
      Dates: 1979
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 7
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Area agency assessments
      Dates: 1980
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 8
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Monthly activity reports
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 9
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Program performance reports
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 10
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Legal developer
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 11
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: FM1 contracts
      Dates: 1979-1982
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 12
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Social Services: systems and delivery on Montana Indian reservations
      Dates: 1975-1976, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 13
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Information and handling of matching funds (Title XX)
      Dates: 1976-1977
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 14
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Title III funds
      Dates: 1979
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 15
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Area II
      Dates: 1978-1980
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 16
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Area IV
      Dates: 1976-1980
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 17
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Microdata Sampling System (MSS)
      Dates: 1976
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 18
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Financial reports
      Dates: 1972-1976
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 19
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: State and area plans
      Dates: 1980-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 20
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Financial reports: Area I
      Dates: 1979-1980
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 21
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Financial reports: Area V
      Dates: 1976-1979
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 22
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Financial reports: Area VI
      Dates: 1977-1979
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 23
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Area I
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 24
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Fiscal Bureau correspondence
      Dates: 1980
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 25
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Bureau memos
      Dates: 1980-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 26
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Financial reports and correspondence (Aging Services; Tribal Elders)
      Dates: 1979-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 27
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Area III (Aging)
      Dates: 1980
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 28
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Big Horn County DPW
      Dates: 1973-1980
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 29
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Blaine County DPW
      Dates: 1977-1980
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 30
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Broadwater County DPW
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 31
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Cascade County DPW
      Dates: 1975-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 32
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Custer County DPW
      Dates: 1971-1980
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 33
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Dawson County DPW
      Dates: 1970-1983
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 34
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Deer Lodge County DPW
      Dates: 1973-1980
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 35
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Fergus County DPW
      Dates: 1966-1980
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 36
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Flathead County DPW
      Dates: 1972-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 37
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Gallatin County DPW
      Dates: 1977-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 38
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Glacier County DPW
      Dates: 1971-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 39
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Golden Valley DPW
      Dates: 1976-1980
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 40
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Hill County DPW
      Dates: 1972-1980
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 41
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Lake County DPW
      Dates: 1973-1980
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 42
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Lewis and Clark County DPW
      Dates: 1973-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 43
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Lincoln County DPW
      Dates: 1973-1979
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 44
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Mineral County DPW
      Dates: 1982
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 45
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Missoula County
      Dates: 1980
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 46
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Missoula County DPW
      Dates: 1972-1980
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 1
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Park County DPW
      Dates: 1978-1980
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 2
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Phillips County DPW
      Dates: 1973-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 3
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Pondera County DPW
      Dates: 1980-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 4
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Ravalli County DPW
      Dates: 1979
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 5
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Richland County DPW
      Dates: 1974-1980
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 6
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Rosebud County DPW
      Dates: 1973-1982
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 7
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Sanders County DPW
      Dates: 1973-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 8
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Silver Bow County DPW
      Dates: 1972-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 9
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Sweet Grass County DPW
      Dates: 1973-1979
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 10
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Teton County DPW
      Dates: 1974-1980
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 11
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Valley County DPW
      Dates: 1973-1978
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 12
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Yellowstone County DPW
      Dates: 1973-1982
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 13
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: SRS Billings District Office
      Dates: 1978-1982
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 14
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: SRS Butte District Office
      Dates: 1975-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 15
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: SRS Glasgow District Office
      Dates: 1978-1983
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 16
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Great Falls District
      Dates: 1972-1983
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 17
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Helena District
      Dates: 1973-1982
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 18
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Kalispell District Office
      Dates: 1977-1982
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 1
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Miles City District Office
      Dates: 1972-1983
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 2
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Missoula District Office
      Dates: 1971-1983
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 3
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Walsh memos for follow-up
      Dates: 1982
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 4
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Social Work Supervision, by Leon K. Wicks, D.S.W.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 5
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: “Norma’s memos completed by Pearl”
      Dates: 1982-1984
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 6
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Requests for clarification/interpretation
      Dates: 1980
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 7
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Miscellaneous correspondence
      Dates: 1983-1984
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 8
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Legal definitions (reports to court)
      Dates: 1980
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 9
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Director’s Office responses
      Dates: 1981-1982
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 10
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: “Director’s memos for follow-up”
      Dates: 1981-1983
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 11
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: CSD forms
      Dates: 1982, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 12
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Correspondence to field
      Dates: 1983-1984
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 13
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Centralized Services correspondence
      Dates: 1978-1983
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 14
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: “Charlie’s misc. filing”
      Dates: 1981-1984
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 15
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Bureau memos
      Dates: 1981-1983
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 16
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Budget
      Dates: 1983-1984
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 17
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Reports (domestic violence; SAV/WIN)
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 18
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: “Gary’s typing assignments”
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 19
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Montana Rosebud County: Northern Cheyenne Child Abuse and Neglect Demonstration Project
      Dates: 1975-1978
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 20
      Location: Subject files
    • Description: Child and Youth Development quarterly report (October-December)
      Dates: 1980
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 21
      Location: Subject files

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Subject Terms

  • Aging
  • Aid to families with dependent children programs
  • Child abuse
  • Child welfare
  • Children with disabilities
  • Family violence
  • Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation (Mont.)
  • Public welfare
  • Strikes and lockouts

Finding aid prepared by Kathryn Kramer; Updated by Lindsey Mick
2013; 2025

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