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Julia Lathrop was an advocate for people who were mentally ill, immigrants, equal rights for women, social reform and child welfare.

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Lathrop, Julia Clifford. (2019, January 10). Retrieved February 8, 2019, from https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/federal/lathrop-julia-clifford/

Peabody, H. (n.d.). Lathrop, Julia. Retrieved February 8, 2019, from https://www.learningtogive.org/resources/lathrop-julia

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President Taft appointed Julia Lathrop as the first woman bureau chief in the federal government.  Her focus in the Children's Burea was child labor laws and juvenile delinquency.  In the first two years the Bureau handed out pamphlets for pregnant women and the care of infants.
The Children's Bureau today is a result of something that Julia Lathrop did and protects children from neglect, abuse and offers family services such as adoption and foster care.

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*First Chief of the Children's Bureau
*Advocate for Enactment of the Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act of 1921
*Pivotal agent in the reformation of the juvenile judicial system.  She helped create a separate court system for juveniles.  The first juvenile court system in the country.
*Helped set up a psychiatric clinic to help rehabilitate young offenders and raised money to pay the first probation officers.
*Taught occupational therapy courses for attendants of the mentally ill. Which drew national attention.

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Traveled with Ellen Gates Starr and Jane Addams to Rockford Seminary to promote the Hull House Settlement.  Julia was inspired after their presentation and she joined the Hull House in 1890.  With the Hull House she became a volunteer visitor for the Cook County Charities.  She became the first resident of the Hull House to receive a state position to the Illinois Board of Charities. Julia spent 22 years at the Hull House.

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Julia Lathrop was born in Rockford, Illinois. Her father William Lathrop was a lawyer and politician who helped to establish the Republican Party. He served on the state legislature and was elected to Congress. Julia's mother was Sarah Adeline and she was an abolitionist and suffragette and an advocate for the creation and maintenance of art. Julia was the oldest of five children. After attending Rockford Female Seminary and then Vassar College she became a personal secretary and law assistant for her dad and then her life changed during 1888-1889 where she went to the Hull House.

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Julia took part in creating so many different programs and benefits to the country that still exist today. The Children's Bureau which is supporting children and their families in in place because of Julia. She helped to pave the way for juveniles to have fair treatment and to not be tried in adult court. She made funds for our very first probation officers. Julia Lathrop advocated for our went and their rights but also for our other groups that typically did not receive the same treatment or equal treatment.

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Julia advocated that separate facilities should be set up for the different groups such as for the mentally ill, aged, sick or disabled.