Executive Council Appoints Specialized Field Service Associate
Diocesan Press Service. December 1, 1968 [71-2]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Woodrow W. Carter, veteran Negro child welfare administrator of New York City who has devoted much of his adult life to the problems of minority young people, has been appointed a senior associate for specialized field services on the staff of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church.
Mr. Carter, on leave of absence from the New York City Department of Social Services, was appointed to his post by the Rt. Rev. John E. Hines, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.
He will serve, it was announced today, as an associate of Mrs. Robert Webb, director of the Church's newly-created section for Experimental and Specialized Services, a program devoted primarily to the development of church programs of action in society and ministries to special groups.
"The appointment of Mr. Carter," Mrs. Webb said, "will strengthen the ability of Executive Council to offer mature, professional consultant services in helping Dioceses and other Church agencies to carry out programs which they believe to be important for the future of the Church in the world."
She emphasized that these programs are "their" programs and not "ours," and stressed the importance of local development and administration of social welfare programs by the Church with the national Church limiting itself to providing professional and financial assistance.
Special attention, she said, will be given by Mr. Carter to the problems of minority children, the protection of the rights of children and their parents and the development of community services for families.
Mr. Carter received an A. B. degree from Howard University and a Master's degree in social work from Hunter College, New York. He also attended the University of Michigan and American University.
For the past three years he has been an area administrator in the Bureau of Child Welfare, city of New York, and for nine years before that he was a case worker and later a supervisor in the Bureau of Child Welfare.
He has been active in his own home Parish at the Chapel of the Intercession, New York City, a chapel of Trinity Parish, where he has been a leader of young adults.
He has organized and led many Church seminars and conferences on the problems of youth and in 1965 served as the U. S. representative at a youth conference in Canada sponsored by the Canadian government and the Anglican Church of Canada.
This conference brought together French and English speaking youth of Canada and white and black youth from the United States for the purpose of deepening their understanding of racial and cultural differences.
In 1965 and 1966 he was a lecturer at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., on the subject of social problems among minorities.
Mr. Carter is also a member of the department of Christian Social Relations in the Diocese of New York and is the author of a published paper on "Group Counselling for Adolescent Foster Children. "