ss."

[Illustration: DIAGRAM OF FORCES WITH WHICH THE CHARITY WORKER MAY
CO-OPERATE

A. Family Forces B. Personal Forces C. Neighborhood Forces D. Civic
Forces E. Private Charitable Forces F. Public Relief Forces

A.--_Family Forces._
Capacity of each member for
Affection
Training
Endeavor
Social development.
B.--_Personal Forces._
Kindred.
Friends.
C.--_Neighborhood Forces._
Neighbors, landlords, tradesmen.
Former and present employers.
Clergymen, Sunday-school teachers, fellow church members.
Doctors.
Trade-unions, fraternal and benefit societies, social clubs,
fellow-workmen.
Libraries, educational clubs, classes, settlements, etc.
Thrift agencies, savings-banks, stamp-savings, building and
loan associations.
D.--_Civic Forces._
School-teachers, truant officers.
Police, police magistrates, probation officers, reformatories.
Health department, sanitary inspectors, factory inspectors.
Postmen.
Parks, baths, etc.
E.--_Private Charitable Forces._
Charity organization society.
Church of denomination to which family belongs.
Benevolent individuals.
National, special, and general relief societies.
Charitable employment agencies and work-rooms.
Fresh-air society, children's aid society, society for protection of
children, children's homes, etc.
District nurses, sick-diet kitchens, dispensaries, hospitals, etc.
Society for suppression of vice, prisoner's aid society, etc.
F.--_Public Relief Forces._
Almshouses.
Outdoor poor department.
Public hospitals and dispensaries.]

Ten years later a group of members in the National Conference of Social
Work formed a division under the title "The Organization of the Social
Forces of the Community." The term community, in connection with that of
social forces, suggests that every community may be conceived as a
definite constellation of social forces. In this form the notion has
been fruitful in suggesting a more abstract, intelligible, and, at the
same time, sounder conception of the community life.

Most of the social surveys made in recent years are based upon this
conception of the community as a complex of social forces embodied in
institutions and organizations. It is the specific task of every
community survey to reveal the community in its separated and often
isolated organs. The references to the literature on the community
sur