What can stake and ward welfare committees do to help families?

Answer:

Stake and ward welfare committees meet regularly to consider the needs of members and how to resolve them. Because key stake and ward leaders attend the meetings, these committees can coordinate efforts to find the needy, identify resources to meet needs, and plan ways to teach and strengthen families. Welfare specialists can be called to help in such things as finding employment, improving nutrition and sanitation, storing food, obtaining health care, improving literacy, managing finances, meeting social and emotional needs, or any other welfare needs.

"The family . . . seeks first to solve its own problems, seeking assistance, when necessary, through the priesthood quorum, the Relief Society, and the ward. When each of these units has exhausted its ingenuity and resources, the reserves of the stake are utilized" (Henry D. Moyle, Improvement Era, Dec. 1937, 787).