Editing Jane Addams (section)

===Emphasis on children===
[[File:In the Hull House Music School.gif|thumb|In the Hull House Music School. ''Source'' Addams: ''Twenty Years at Hull House'' (1910), p. 383]]
[[File:Sick Mother & Children.gif|thumb|In a Tenement House, Sick Mother and Children. ''Source'' Addams: ''Twenty Years at Hull House'' (1910), p. 164]]
Hull House stressed the importance of the role of children in the Americanization process of new immigrants. This philosophy also fostered the play movement and the research and service fields of leisure, youth, and human services. Addams argued in ''The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets'' (1909) that play and recreation programs are needed because cities are destroying the spirit of youth. Hull House featured multiple programs in art and drama, kindergarten classes, boys' and girls' clubs, language classes, reading groups, college extension courses, along with public baths, a gymnasium, a labor museum and playground, all within a free-speech atmosphere. They were all designed to foster democratic cooperation, collective action and downplay individualism. She helped pass the first model tenement code and the first factory laws.

Along with her colleagues from Hull House, in 1901 Jane Addams founded what would become the [[Juvenile Protective Association]]. JPA provided the first probation officers for the first Juvenile Court in the United States until this became a government function. From 1907 until the 1940s, JPA engaged in many studies examining such subjects as racism, child labor and exploitation, drug abuse and [[prostitution]] in Chicago and their effects on child development. Through the years, their mission has now become improving the social and emotional well-being and functioning of vulnerable children so they can reach their fullest potential at home, in school, and in their communities.<ref>{{cite web|title=Juvenile Protective Association :: About|url=http://jpachicago.org/about|publisher=[[Juvenile Protective Association|JPA]]|access-date=September 30, 2016}}</ref>