settlement house in English

noun
1
an institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community.
I taught at a community center behind the Art Gallery of Ontario where there's a settlement house .

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1. Why not establish an official school in a nearby church or settlement house?

2. In the 1920s it was the most dynamic settlement house in New York.

3. Settlement houses and settlement house workers were at the cutting edge of social change.

4. We returned to the States where he took charge of a settlement house in Brooklyn, New York.

5. These two women ran the settlement house on their block, gave them books, and liked them because they were clean.

6. Professionalism in social work - with graduate training in Casework and group work grounded in psychoanalytic theory - influenced the later generation of settlement house leaders in the 1920s and …