The social settlement reform movement originated in England in 1884. The first famous settlement house in the United States was the Hull House on Halsted Street on the west side of Chicago, founded in 1889 (Addams, 1910; Davis, 1959). As part of this movement, the educated reformers from the upper class, who were called “residents” or “settlement workers,” actually moved into working class neighborhoods in the congested cities (Davies, 1959) where they actively promoted community development through regularly visiting homes …showed first 75 words of 1235 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1235 total…provisions, home-community visits by their very nature did not focus on the child alone but instead effectively reached out to support the whole family and the community. References Addams, Jane (1910). Twenty years at Hull House. New York: Macmillan Davis, Allen F. (1959). Spearheads for reform: The social settlements and the Progressive Movement, 1890-1914. (Doctoral dissertation, University of Wisconsin 1959). Woods, Robert A., & Kennedy, Albert J. (1922). The settlement horizon: A national estimate. N ew York: Russell Sage Foundation.