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PRE -HISTORICAL (HOSPITAL ESTABLISH)

1565- First hospital established in the Philippines was the one founded by Don Miguel Lopez de
Legaspi in Cebu.
1571- It was transferred to Manila and called the “Hospitalito de Santa Ana” in -
1578- Under the supervision of the Franciscans. When the Americans arrived, it was renamed
Sternberg General Hospital founded in 1596 are reported to have originated from this hospital.
Other Hospital were soon established.
1587- San Gabriel.
1602-Hospital de Aguas Santas in Los Banos.
1612- Hospital Real.
1630- The Hospital of the Sangleys for the Chinese.
1645- Nueva Caceres in Naga.
1742- Hospital for Convalescent in Bagumbayan (Hospital de Zamboanga).
1850- The Lepers Hospital in Cebu.
1870- The Sta. Cruz Infirmary in Laguna for convalescent missionaries.
1o873- The Lepers Hospital in Naga ..

ASYLUMS AND ORPHANAGES

1594- La Real Casa Miserricordia
1611- Venerable Third Order to Sampaloc.
1655- Archicofradia de Nuestra Padre Jesus Nazareno de Recoleros..
1699- Real Y. V. O.T de Santo de Domingo .
1868- The Founding Hospital of San Jose for the mentally ill the Venerable Congregacion de
Sacerdotes de San Pedro Apostol .
1885 – The Asilio de Sab Vicente de Paul, an asylum for girls, was established , offering
religious instruction, and training in housework to its immates.
SCHOOLS
1565- The first school established was on the Parochial School of Cebu.
1589- The Colegio de San Ignacio
1595- TheIIdefoso College
1601- Colegio de San jose
1717 The Colegio dde San Felipe
1754-The Artillery School
1859- The Jesuits opened the Ateneo de Manila out of the original Charity School called The
Obras Pias established in 1817.

For the Girls

1694- The Santa Isabel
1750- Santa Rosa
1696-The Sta. Catalina
1580s- Public Schools started to be put up in the country.
1867- there was 593 primary schools with a total enrollment 1388, 990
12/30/1897- Dr. Jose Rizal was executed.
1899- The National Association of the Red Cross was organized.
THE AMERICAN PERIOD
1899- An introduced a new educational system, new health methods, and religious freedom.
1908- The Philippine General Hospital was established.
2/5/1915- The American government created the Public Welfare Board with the passage of
Legislative Act No. 2510.
1/ 1917- A government orphanage was set up in Makati, Rizal, the first government entity to
operate as a welfare agency, and an initial step in child welfare services.
1900- Some attempt was made to alleviate the condition of deaf children at the Philippines
Normal School.
1910- A school for the deaf and blind was organized.
1917- The Associated Charities of Manila was founded by a group of civic-spirited Americans
and Filipinos, having in mind the concept of a Community Chest.
1919- 1921- The Associated Charities was fused with the American Red Cross (Philippine
Chapter), but the arrangement caused administrative problems and had to be give up.
1907- The La Gota de Leche was established to furnish child-caring institutions with fresh cow
milk from a dairy farm in Pasay, Manila.
1910- The Philippine Anti- Tuberculosis Society was organized, the following the first meeting of
the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine in Manila.
1913- The Association de Damas Fiipinas was organized by civic- spirited women to help
destitute mothers and their children, using funds obtained from membership fees, and later
funds granted by the Public Welfare Board.
1921- The Office of the Public Welfare Commissioner was created under the supervision of the
Department of Interior.
1926- The association founded a Settlement House on Rizal Avenue. Manila.
1922- The office of the Public Welfare Commissioner prepared solicitation forms which it
required the public to demand of any person.
1933- This practice, however, was not legally sanctioned when a law was passed required” any
person, corporations for the charitable or public welfare progress.
1924- The Associated Charities had become an independent agency under the supervision of
the Public Welfare Commissioner, and was being partly financed by the government, and partly
by private contributions. The Philippine Legislature passed a (Philippine Legislative Act No.
3203)
1926- Some of the children in the government orphanages in Makati were transferred to
Welfarevillea fifty- hectare age in Makati were transmitted.
1933- The administration of the Social Welfare in the Philippines was marked by significant
development when Frank Murphy in Governor- General.
1930- Created serious economic problem. The Association Charities are unstable to cope with
number of the servant.

THE COMMON WEALTH PERIOD

1940- the Office of the Commission of health and Public Welfare (the office which took charge
of health and welfare services between 1930 and 1940) was abolished and replaced by a
Department of Health and Public Welfare.

THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION

1942- 1944- The Social World War brought death immeasurable suffering to the country’s
population was to last for three years.
THE POST- WAR YEARS
1946- The Bureau of Public Welfare re-opened
10/4/1947- Recognizing the need for a more centralized and better integrated social welfare
program.
8/1948- President Quirino created the President’s Action Committee on Social Amelioration
(PACSA) which was charged with “duty of giving relief assistance to the hungry, the homeless
and the sick … to victims of dissident depredation and violence”.

THE SOCIAL WELFARE ADMINISTRATION

1/3/1951- The Social Welfare Commission and the President’s Action Committee on Social
Amelioration were fused into one agency called the Social Welfare Administration.
9/5/1951- The Division of Rural Welfare in the Social Welfare Administration was created by
Administrative Order No. 7 to deal with the mounting social problems in the rural areas.
1954- The Division was entrusted with the study of rural conditions as basis for determining
services, of establishing and areas for victims of dissidence of disaster.
1965-mid-sixties was the passage an important development of the Republic Act 4373 “An Act
to Regulate the Practice of Social Work and the Operation of Social Work Agencies in the
Philippines”
1968- President Ferdinand E. Marcos signed Republic Act 5416, known as the Social Welfare
Act, elevating the SWA into a Department.

THE SEVENTIES
9/21/1972-President Ferdinand E. Marcos declared Martial Law and set up a crisis government.
This was the period of the First (1960s) and Second (1970s) United Nations-declared
“Development Decades”.

9/8/1976-The Department of Social Welfare became the Department of Social Services and
Development shifting emphasis from the traditional, often institution-based social welfare to
community -oriented program and services which underscored peoples own capacities for
problem-solving.

6/2/1978- President Marcos issued Presidential Decree NO. 1397, providing for the conversion
of departments into ministries, to adopt to the requirements of the change from a presidential to
a parliamentary form of government.

THE EIGHTIES
1/30/1987-President Corazon C. Aquino signed Executive Order No. 123, reorganizing the
MSSD and renaming it Department of Social Welfare and Development. The Department was”
Evolving from mere welfare or relief agency the greater task of development.”

THE NINETIES/EARLY2008
10/10/1991- R.A.7160, otherwise known as the Local Government Code, was passed. The
DSWDD along with other national agencies had to “shift gears” it had to devolve its
implementing functions together with its programs and services, direct service workers, budget
corresponding to salary and funds pf the programs, and assets and liabilities to staff and to the
local government units starting in 1992.

NON – GON=VERNMENT ORGANIZQTIONS (NGOs)

February 1999- The country’s NGO (Non- Government Organization) networks launched the
Philippine Council for NGO Certification (PCNC), envisioned as self -regulatory body which,
though a memorandum of agreement with Department of finance will be authorized to certify
NGO’s applying fir done institution status based on specific based.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION IN THE PHILIPPINES

1917 - The Associated Charities which was founded as a family welfare agency is generally
considered as the “mother” of the social work profession in the Philippines. This agency was the
first to use casework as a method of helping people, the first to use social workers as full-time,
paid employees, and the first to hire a trained social worker as its executive secretary.
1930- The Associated Charities was already employing college graduates as home visitors, who
were provided some kind of in-service training. Non-degree social work courses were then
being offered at the University of the Philippines, and shortly before the outbreak of World War
II, a civil service examination was given to social workers.
1946- The establishment of the War Relief Office to provide relief and rehabilitation services to
war victims resulted in the employment of more social workers, with full or little college
education. The Bureau of the Public Welfare, re- opened in 1946, but lack of funds greatly
limited its operations.
1948- President Quirino created the President’s Action Committee on Social Amelioration
(PACSA) which was charged with “duty of giving relief assistance to the hungry, the homeless
and the sick … to victims of dissident depredation and violence”.
July 1961- The big boost to the professionalization of social work was the launching of the
UNICEF-Assisted Social Services Project of the Social Welfare Administration.
6/19/1965- Republic ACR No 4373 was passed, regulating the practice of social work and the
operations of social work agencies (R.A. 4373)
March, 1967- The last item was to be demonstrated later through a series of national
workshops on social work education, the first of which held.
November, 1969- To study and deliberate on immediate curricular and organizational issues
that was to become formally organized into a Schools of Social Work Association of the
Philippine pin.

THE PHILIPPINE ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS (PASWI)

12/12/1947- The Philippine Association of Social Workers is the national organization for
professional Social Workers in the country was founded was incorporated on April 18,1948, and
re-incorporated with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 18, 1988
11/24/1964- Adopted the Philippine Social Work Code of Ethics and revised it in November
1998
1965- Nominated to the President members of the Association who qualify to be members of
the Board for Social Workers.
1968- Supported the passage of the Social Welfare elevating the Social Welfare Administration
a Department of Social Welfare.
1971- Submitted proposals the Constitutional Conventional
1980- Campaigned for opposition to the government initiated proposal to merged the DSWD
and the Department of Health.
4/11/2007- R.A. 9433 Supported the passage of the Magna Carta for Public Social Workers.
ASSOCIATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
(NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL WORK
EDUCATION. INC)
1965- The Social Work Law (R.A. 4373) was passed, a re-assessment of the content of both
undergraduate and graduate social work curricula become necessary since the law establish
the former as the educational preparation required for social work practice.
March, 1967- Resulted in the Formation of an Ad Hon Committee.
1969- The Formal Organization took place, with the PASW turning over the functions of its own
Social Work Education Committee to the newly formed group which decided on the name
Schools of Social Work Association of the Philippines.
1970-The holding of three International Conference in Manila
1971- The Department of Education of an updated social work undergraduate curriculum.
1972,1976, and 1979- The holding of three more national workshop social work education.
1971- The participation in the First South East Asia Regional Seminar for Social Work
Educators in Bombay India.
1972-1977- IASWW-initiated project for the integration of Population Education and Family
Planning the social work curricula.
December, 1990- The SAWAP was registered and incorporated with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, and assume a new name, the National Association for Social Work
Education.
9/11/2003- The Resolution, signed by the three PRC commission and the members of the PRCs
Board for Social Workers took effect after its publication in the Republic of the Philippines
Official Gazette.