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The settlement houses offered schooling, nursing, and other kinds of help to those in need.
The settlement house, an approach to social reform with roots in the late 19th century and the Progressive Movement, was a method for serving the poor in urban areas by living among them and serving them directly. As the residents of settlement houses learned effective methods of helping, they then worked to transfer long-term responsibility for the programs to government agencies. Settlement house workers, in their work to find more effective solutions to poverty and injustice, also pioneered the profession of social work.
to provide immigrants job and educational opportunities
Alaska has two members in the Senate and one member in the House of Representatives.