Includes the bylaws, fact sheets, history, organizational charts, and annual reports. In addition there are records of the Board of Directors: lists of board members, orientation materials from the federal agency or earlier boards, as well as minutes of meetings (1965-1982, with gaps).

Comprised of the various director's planning reports to the federal agency, grant proposals and awards, other fundraising material of a more local nature, correspondence with the federal agency, Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and Office for Children material, job descriptions, employee union and health plan material, staff orientation and salary information, as well as program directors' meeting minutes. There is also a section of legal documents related to the agency: legal correspondence, agreements, and lawsuits. Here (Box 11) are also some records of the Hampshire (County) Council of Social Agencies and HCAC's part in that coordinating group, which evolved from a loose confederated to a more formal organization with a Hampshire County Coordinator of Human Services at the head.

In alphabetical order.

Includes material related to the sub-agencies administering the programs, from the Alcohol Prevention Program through the Youth Employment Service Program. Within each program can be found correspondence, and financial and legal records.

Contains the agency newspaper, County Voice, Noticiero Latino, 1971-1980, as well as a set of mounted newspaper clippings from Massachusetts newspapers in 1968-1969. These clippings reflect the 1968-1969 public welfare program statewide including strikes by recipients for more aid, and letters to the editors criticizing public welfare programs.