Children’s Home Society of North (CHS) is blessed to have been established and operating in North Carolina since 1902. CHS provides families with the support and resources they need to be a forever family. With services ranging from infant and older child adoption to our youth education programs to support children in foster care and post-adoption support for families, CHS has transformed the lives and futures of countless children and families throughout North Carolina.
Over the years as the organization grew, CHS has amassed a large archive of photographs, documents, records, and personal correspondence detailing the history of the organization.
In 2019, CHS began working on a historical account of the organization resulting in the publication of The Promise of Family in summer 2025. This 200+ page book details the rich history of CHS throughout the last century and relied on the archival material to validate and illustrate the book.
Currently, the archival materials are housed in an array of boxes, cabinets, and file cabinets with little organization or plan for safe, archival storage for the future. CHS is seeking a student or students to help with the intellectual and physical control of these materials as well as assist with organizing and storing the items in the appropriate way to preserve them. Activities students could expect in this project include - inventorying the collection; creating a finding aid including descriptions of the collection; selecting items for public display in CHS properties; rehousing and organizing materials in appropriate archival storage displays, boxes, and folders.
This is a locally based project requiring the student (s) to work out of the CHS office located at 604 Lindsay Street in Greensboro, NC. This project would be appropriate for a master’s student with an interest in archives and special collections work seeking a practicum or capstone project.
This project could be performed by one student or multiple students working in tandem, and it could be spread across multiple semesters. Work would be ready to begin as early as Fall 2025 and could continue through Spring 2026, Summer 2026, with completion in Fall 2026.
For more information please contact Colin Post - Assistant Professor, Information, Library, and Research Sciences; University of North Carolina at Greensboro; ccpost@uncg.edu or Becky Alley - Chief Marketing Officer; Children’s Home Society of North Carolina; balley@chsnc.org.
