Ideas for child welfare innovations

In description of Children's Aid Society, on wiki, there is interesting excerpt, listing innovations in child welfare introduced along the way of CAS work:
* some of the first industrial schools
* the first parent-teacher associations
* the first free school lunch programs
* the first free dental clinics for children
* the first day schools for handicapped children
* the first kindergarten in the United States
* the first foster homes
* the first �fresh air� vacations, in which urban children visit host families in the country for the summer.