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The document discusses the origins of several social movements including the Young Men's Christian Association in 1844 in London, female led prayer and training movements in 1855 in England, the settlement movement founded by Jane Addams and the Hull House in Chicago in 1889 focusing on causes of poverty, and the playground movement beginning with a sand park in Boston in 1885 chosen as a movement in social group work.

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History

The document discusses the origins of several social movements including the Young Men's Christian Association in 1844 in London, female led prayer and training movements in 1855 in England, the settlement movement founded by Jane Addams and the Hull House in Chicago in 1889 focusing on causes of poverty, and the playground movement beginning with a sand park in Boston in 1885 chosen as a movement in social group work.

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such group setting to other draper shops or other young men, thereby giving birth

to London’s Young Men’s Christian Association in 1844.

In England, similar movements, having less association with the church,


originated in 1855 simultaneously in two places, these were directly led by women

1. Emma Roberts, who started a prayer union among her friends


2. Mrs. Arthur Kennard, who started the General Female Training Institute in
London for the nurses returning from Crimean war.

Moreover, the settlement movement owes its origin to Jane Addams, the founder
of the Hull House in Chicago in 1889. The movement focused on the causes of poverty
and functioned through three thrust areas (“three R’s”) –

1. Research
2. Reform
3. Residence.

Jane and the other pioneers, who believed in the group approach, set the
objectives of the movement as follows:

1) The residents of the area could share their learning of cultural and religious
among the needy.

2) The identification of settlement workers with the local area

3) The responsibility of the group for social reform.

In 1868, the first church of Boston came up with a vacation play ground, while
the Washington Park in Chicago was opened for team games in 1876. But it was in 1885,
with the beginning of a sand park in Boston by Marie Zakrzewska, that the play ground
was chosen as a movement in the history of social group work.

Soon playgrounds and summer camps mushroomed under the initiative of


settlements, churches and schools. It is the success of play ground movements and the
need for more tax supported play grounds that resulted in the beginning of the
Playground and Recreation Association of America in 1906.

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