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Catholic Charities of StatenIsland history
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John Christopher Drumgoole originally founded the Mission in 1871.
1887: Five Misericordia Sisters are summoned by Archbishop Michael Corrigan to provide help for the growing number of unmarried pregnant women in New York City.
At the time of his death in 1888, the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin had two residences, the City House at the corner of Great Jones and Lafayette Streets in Manhattan and the farm at Mt.Loretto, the largest farm in the State of New York.
1899: Catholic Home Bureau is founded by members of the St Vincent de Paul Society as the first Catholic family foster care agency in the United States for the placement of children in homes rather than institutions.
1908: Catholic Guardian Society is founded by Father Samuel Ludlow to offer casework services for the many abandoned and neglected children of immigrants and young children leaving institutional care and returning to city life at a time when no other after-care services were offered.
1909: The Catholic Home Bureau Board of Directors are invited to the first White House Conference on Dependent Children initiated by President Theodore Roosevelt to marshal government support for the protection of the nation's children against institutionalization and neglect.
1913: Father Ludlow secures stable funding for CGS at the rate of $2.50 per year per child receiving care, and Catholic Guardian Society is incorporated.
Later, these groups drew strength by standing together, incorporating The Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New York by a Special Act of the New York State Legislature in 1917.
1925: Catholic Home Bureau establishes its Maternity Services Program to assist women facing unplanned pregnancies, and begins working under the auspices of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York.
A small group of nuns opened Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Services in East Harlem in 1958.
1958: Rosalie Hall moves with Misericordia Hospital to its new location in the Bronx.
1968: Catholic Home Bureau establishes specialized boarding homes for older youth.
Covenant House opened its doors in 1969 on Manhattan’s Lower Eastside to help homeless and runaway youth.
1978: In light of the Willowbrook exposé, Catholic Guardian Society opens its first community residence for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
1984: Catholic Home Bureau adapts to changes in the working behavior of families by implementing a family day care program in the Highbridge section of the Bronx, offering quality, low cost care to 275 children with working mothers.
Project Irish Outreach formed after the first national legalization for undocumented immigrants in 1986.
1989: When the AIDS crisis hits New York, Catholic Home Bureau responds by opening Incarnation Children's Center in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan as a transitional residence for HIV-infected babies and young children.
2000: Catholic Guardian Society creates its first child abuse and neglect prevention programs to serve at-risk families in the Bronx.
2006: Catholic Guardian Society merges with Catholic Home Bureau to become Catholic Guardian Society and Home Bureau (CGSHB).
2009: CGSHB develops its innovative Youth Employment Services (YES) program, immersing foster children in professional work experience and preparing them for the challenges of adulthood.
2013: Catholic Guardian Society and Home Bureau changes its name to Catholic Guardian Services (CGS) to convey its longstanding commitment to serving those with special needs.
2016: CGS develops its Children’s Health Home Care Management Program to deliver comprehensive, wrap-around care management for poor, underserved children and families with chronic health conditions.
2018: CGS opens its new Family Center in the Bronx, providing trauma-focused mental and behavioral health treatment for underserved children and families.
When the worst fire in three decades in the city struck a Bronx apartment building in early 2022, killing 17, among them eight children, our agency POTS (Part Of The Solution) and Catholic Charities New York responded with financial assistance and supportive services.
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