History

1940

Counseling (based on Freudian principles) and casework are the agency's primary services (approximately 75% of clients need help with personal and family problems, 25% need direct financial or tangible aid in 1941). War-effort industries provide employment but the agency sees substantial increases in marital and family discord. Problems of returning veterans and "war marriages" add to the case load.
1941 — The agency hires a consultant psychiatrist to assist case workers.
1942 — Family Society takes on the caseload of Japanese Community Services when the Community Fund stops its allocation to JCS.

The Lake Washington floating bridge opens as the world's first floating bridge and leads to booming expansion in the Eastside suburbs.
The attack on Pearl Harbor and U.S. enters into World War II.
Relocation of 12,000 local Japanese-Americans to internment camps.
SeaTac airport opens.