Its mission was to prevent female travelers from falling victim to white slavery by providing social work to them at train stations and piers. The Travelers’ Aid Society of New York (TAS) was founded in 1907 as an antiwhite slavery organization.

the coercion of European and Euro-American (“white”) women into prostitution. To combat prostitution, reformers launched a variety of campaigns in both the United States and Europe, one of which targeted a practice known as“white slavery,” i.e. Moral reformers believed that vices such as prostitution were wreaking havoc on individuals, communities, and, consequently, on the national fabric. Travelers’ aid was part of a larger movement for moral reform that arose as a response to social problems unleashed by industrialization, urban growth, and mass immigration. This dissertation examines the travelers’ aid movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through a case study of the Travelers’ Aid Society of New York. These two data points suggest local churches can positively impact stability and retention levels of foster parents through the CompaCare System of Compassion.

In addition, the number of foster parents who were determined to drop out in the upcoming year was reduced from 14% to 0% after support methods were applied. The results seem to indicate that Journey Church used this system with positive results after twelve months of implementation and experienced a positive shift in the overall satisfaction of the foster care ministry by 25%. Therefore, the CompaCare Compassionate Care System of support was installed and studied at Journey Church with pre-study and post-study surveys. When Kenosha County leaders in the judicial, legal, and social services sector were recently asked how the church could help with foster care, they agreed that recruiting and supporting foster parents were the two largest needs.

The New Testament Church has a history of leading the way with innovative solutions to rescue orphans, and today, the church once again has the opportunity to lead the way in foster care solutions. The need for this program was found to be in alignment with the mission of God as seen in Isaiah 1:17, Acts 6, Romans 8, and James 1:27. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a new foster parent wraparound program at Journey Church in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline