Fonds consists of records of the department created through the performance of the following activities:<ul>;<li>administration and provision of social allowance, income support and other public welfare programs;<li>administration of provincial pension programs;<li>provision of child welfare services;<li>licensing of day care facilities;<li>supervision of foster care homes;<li>fulfilling the responsibilities of the Minister and department under the <em>Juvenile Delinquents Act</em>;<li>operation of single men's hostels;<li>hearing appeals of decision regarding various social services programs;<li>administration of adoptions;<li>provision of child and adult guardianship services;<li>public awareness campaigns;<li>program planning and development;<li>social services program delivery through regional offices;<li>support and development of Metis colonies;<li>planning and policy development for the health care system in Alberta;<li>health care and hospital program development;<li>administration of provincial psychiatric institutions;<li>provision of medical treatment programs;<li>public health inspection and municipal consulting services;<li>consulting services to and oversight of health units;<li>administration of mental health programs;<li>administration of operating and capital grants to hospitals;<li>administration of federal-provincial agreements regarding the provision of health care and mental health programs;<li>administration of programs for mentally and physically handicapped adults;<li>administration of municipal nursing programs;<li>operation of the provincial emergency air ambulance program;<li>administration of nursing aide training programs;<li>administration of the provincial vital statistics program;<li>communications and public relations;<li>financial and human resources administration for the department;<li>participation in inter-departmental and inter-governmental boards, councils and committees related to health care.</ul>;The fonds consists of executive, administrative and operational records of various divisions, branches and facilities of the Department. The fonds contains records of Deputy Ministers, Assistant Deputy Ministers, provincial hospitals and affiliated care centres, Baker Memorial Sanatorium, Beulah Home, Rosecrest Home, Rosehaven Home for the Aged, Woodside Home, Youngstown Home, departmental clinics, and regional social services offices.<br>;The fonds contains a wide variety of types of case files, correspondence, minutes, agendas and reports of various branch, departmental, and interdepartmental committees and appeal boards, policy and procedures documents, reports and statistics, applications and licenses, nominal rolls, patient files and day books from various facilities, hospital annual returns and Board minutes, vital statistics registers, financial records and budget submissions, blueprints, maps, and photographs. The records have been arranged into the following series:<ol><li>Provincial Mental Hospital Ponoka administrative and operational records from 1914 to 1982<li>Emergency air ambulance records from 1958 to 1971<li>Provincial Mental Institute Edmonton administrative records from 1938 to 1974<li>Nursing aide training records from 1946 to 1974<li>Adult wardship case files<li>Alberta Institute for Girls case files<li>Appeal committees operational records;<li>Appeals panels decision case files<li>Arthritis clinic records<li>Baker Memorial Sanatorium administrative and operational records<li>Baker Memorial Sanatorium patient case files<li>Beulah Home client case files<li>Cemetary licensing records<li>Cerebral palsy treatment programs records<li>Child welfare administrative and operational records;<li>Child welfare and wardship operational records;<li>Child welfare case files;<li>Child Welfare Commission records;<li>Child welfare juvenile delinquency case files;<li>Child welfare placement administrative and operational records;<li>Child welfare programs administrative records;<li>Children's mental health programs administrative records;<li>Claresholm and Raymond Care Centres operational records;<li>College of Physicians and Surgeons correspondence;<li>Community health nursing reports;<li>Community Resource Centre Medicine Hat administrative and operational records;<li>Community social services programs operational records;<li>Day care licensing records;<li>Day care programs administrative and operational records;<li>Department administrative records;<li>Department and program financial records;<li>Department executive records;<li>Department financial records;<li>Department general administrative records;<li>Disability pension operational records;<li>District offices general ledgers;<li>Drug abuse programs operational records;<li>Edmonton regional office administrative records;<li>Edmonton regional office services for the handicapped program records;<li>Education programs for the handicapped administrative records;<li>Emergency health services operational records;<li>Environmental health programs administrative records;<li>Family planning program records;<li>Federal grant programs records;<li>Foster care home records;<li>Half Breed Commission records;<li>Handicapped registry;<li>Health protection and promotion operational records;<li>Health services executive records;<li>Health services programs administrative records;<li>Health unit finance records;<li>Health unit liaison records;<li>High Prairie district office records;<li>Hospital finance operational records;<li>Hostels and institutions operational records;<li>Lethbridge district office administrative records;<li>Lethbridge district office services for the handicapped program records;<li>Management support records;<li>Mental health executive records;<li>Mental health general operational records;<li>Metis development programs operational records;<li>Municipal engineering records;<li>Municipal nursing operational records;<li>Northern Alberta health services records;<li>Notifiable diseases physicians' reports;<li>Occupational health and safety executive records;<li>Parents resources programs administrative and operational records;<li>Pension case files;<li>Personnel operational records;<li>Planning and policy development records;<li>Poison control programs records;<li>Preventive social services programs records;<li>Program planning administrative records;<li>Rehabilitation programs administrative and operational records;<li>Rheumatic fever treatment program records;<li>Rocky Mountain House region operational records;<li>Rosecrest Home administrative and operational records;<li>Rosehaven Home for the Aged administrative records;<li>Rosehaven Home for the Aged daily patient change reports;<li>Rosehaven Home for the Aged patient records;<li>St. Paul regional office operational records;<li>Service delivery administrative and operational records;<li>Single men's hostels registration records;<li>Social allowance programs case files;<li>Social allowance, maintenance and recovery and pension case files;<li>Social assistance questionnaires;<li>Social care facilities licensing records;<li>South regional office records;<li>Vital statistics certificates;<li>Volunteer services administrative records;<li>Volunteer services project records;<li>Woodside Home patient case files;<li>Youngstown Home nominal rolls</ol>
Alberta. Department of Social Services and Community Health