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Social Welfare History Project (2011). Mary Ellen Richmond (1861-1928) – Social work pioneer, administrator, researcher and author. Social Welfare History Project. Retrieved October 1, 2021, from http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/social-work/richmond-mary/

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NASW pioneers biography index. NASW Foundation. (n.d.). Retrieved October 1, 2021, from https://www.naswfoundation.org/Our-Work/NASW-Social-Work-Pioneers/NASW-Social-Workers-Pioneers-Bio-Index/id/477.

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Also, her looking at how a person may be impacted by their environment influenced the development of systems theory around 50 years later (1917 Mary Ellen Richmond).

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Because of this rapport, she was able to speak about the importance of training young social workers and "establish networks of social workers and a method by which they did their work" (Social Welfare History Project, 2011).

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She also took a strengths-based approach with clients, instead of blaming them, and then included the community to be a resource to help the client (Social Welfare History Project, 2011).

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While growing up, she was also taught about the impact of poverty, which contributed to her work in the "[modernizing] and [professionalizing] of care for the poor" (1917 Mary Ellen Richmond).

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Mary Ellen Richmond worked at the Baltimore Charity Organization Society, the Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity, and the Charity Organizational Department of the Russel Safe Foundation, after growing up and learning about the importance of discussion of racism, suffrage, and more (Social Welfare History Project, 2011).

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While working in these organizations, she built career qualities that helped build her rapport with the social work community at that time (Social Welfare History Project, 2011).

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Mary Allen Richmond is known as the mother of social casework (1917 Mary Ellen Richmond). Per the Social Welfare History Project (2011), she looked at how a person's environment might have an impact on a person, looking at social problems first at the individual or family, then looking at the social environment.

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According to the NASW Foundation, Mary Ellen Richmond "defined casework as 'those processes which develop personality through adjustments consciously effected, individual by individual, between men and their social environment." This is how she was able to develop "social diagnosis" (1917 Mary Ellen Richmond).

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1917 Mary Ellen Richmond the founding mother of social casework. History of social work. (n.d.). Retrieved October 1, 2021, from https://www.historyofsocialwork.org/eng/details.php?cps=7.

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Probably one of her biggest impacts on the social work field is her writing of her book Social Diagnosis (1917), which was the first introduction to casework that applied theory and practical application (Social Welfare History Project, 2011).