person who helps, and the person who is helped, struggle through mistake after mistake to achieve but a modicum of what they had hoped. Yet, despite all this there are successes, successes that more than justify faith in social case work as a method of helping people out of trouble, and as a key to the secret of a happier association with our fellows.
In the preparation of this book I have been helped by many persons, but particularly by my associates in the Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity. Their insight and understanding, their experience and their skill are the inspiration of much that appears in the pages which follow.
