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Ida m Cannon
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- 2. Early years. • Idawas born in Milwaukee • She was the third of four children of Colbert Cannon and his wife Wilma. • She attended St. Paul High School she then attended University of Minnesota, where she heard a lecture by Jane Addams on “living conditions of the poor”. • Attended the Boston School of Social Work.
- 3. Career • Volunteered atthe social services for Massachusetts General Hospital. • Became head of the department of the social services for the hospital. • Worked with Dr. Richard Clark Cabot on a study that examined ways that they could present industrial diseases in Massachusetts General Hospital.
- 4. Career Continued. • Determinedto get a social worker department to be in every hospital she traveled around the whole country meeting with the hospital's staff and directors. • She developed a specialized training program that mirrored the program in Boston School of Social Work. • She authored the first text of the medical social worker field.
- 5. Social Work Contribution •She help created the American Association of Hospital Social Worker and served as the president from 1920-1922. • Cannon represented the social work profession a delegate to the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection in 1930 and in 1931. • She also expanded her belief in social work and took her plan international to the International Conference on Social Work in Frankfurt, Germany.
- 6. Social Work ContributionsContinued.. • In 1938 her efforts led to Social Workers in the medical field as profession.
- 7. Recognition • Awarded anhonorary Doctor of Science Degree from Boston University. • Awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from the University of New Hampshire. • Established what we come to know the term “social worker” with regards to being in a hospital.
- 8. Death • Ida Cannonreluctantly retired in 1945, But still remained a consultant to the hospital. • Suffered a stroke in 1957, moved into a nursing home. • Died at the age of 83.