Social workers from around the world observe social welfare in the United States / U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Social Security Administration].

  • United States. Social Security Administration.
Date:
[1952]
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Credit: Social workers from around the world observe social welfare in the United States / U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Social Security Administration]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bigs) has Point IV and Mutual Security Programs The Act for International Development and the Mutual Security Act laid the basis for what is popularly known as The Point IV Program under which opportunity is provided to governments of less developed countries to send officials or technicians to the United States for training or observation. According to the country of origin, these specialists are referred through the field missions of the Technical Cooperation Adminis- tration of the Department of State, if they are from the Middle East or certain countries of southeast Asia; through the Mutual Security Adminis- tration if they are from the Far East or Indonesia; and through the Institute of Inter-American Affairs if they are from the other American Republics. Under the program Leaders are invited by the United States to come to this country for 3 or 4 months of intensive observation and/or study in some field related to the Point IV program in their home countries. Trainees make application through the American Embassy in the country of origin for observation and study in the United States for periods of 6 months to a year in some field related to the Point IV program in their home country. Both Leaders and Trainees are referred by the above agencies to the bureau or office competent in the particular field of interest to the visitor. Cultural Exchange Program In 1949 a Cultural Exchange Program with Germany and, later, similar programs with Japan, Austria, and the Ryukyu Islands were initiated to pro- vide opportunity to specialists to come to this country to observe in the fields of their specialties for periods of 3 to 6 months. These specialists have come from many fields, including health and social welfare. They have been financed by the United States Government either through the Department of State or through the Department of Defense. Each specialist is referred to a governmental bureau or a private organization within the field of his competence and that bureau or organization plans his program of observa- tion. Other Sponsorship Trainees in the fields of health and Welfare had been coming to the United States under suspices of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs for many years before it became a regional agency of the Point IV program. A few trainees come to the United States under the Fulbright Act and the act providing for fellowships for Finland. Nongovernmental organizations and associations in the United States have developed various kinds of international interchange, and many such voluntary sources make possible each year visits by a large number of students and observers from other countries. In most instances these vis- itors are planned for by the sponsoring agent or by some facility desig- nated by that agent. In many instances they are referred to the government bureaus for program planning.