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Catholic Guardian Services company history timeline

1913

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.

1925

The agency continued to grow in the ensuing decades, and by January 31, 1925, CHB had placed 4,764 children in free and adoptive homes.

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.

The agency witnessed great overhaul in 1925 as the St Vincent de Paul Society withdrew its sponsorship, and Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York and Diocese of Brooklyn assumed this responsibility.

1950

By 1950, Misericordia Hospital was the second largest Catholic hospital in all of New York City.

1958

1958: Rosalie Hall moves with Misericordia Hospital to its new location in the Bronx.

1968

1968: Catholic Home Bureau establishes specialized boarding homes for older youth.

1976

In 1976, Sister Una McCormack of the Dominican Sisters of Sparkill joined CHB and spearheaded an Independent Living Program geared toward helping teens care for themselves once discharged from foster care.

1978

In similar fashion, the agency again adapted its foster care services so as to be able to carefor children afflicted with HIV/AIDS in the late 1980s in its newly created Special Medical Family Foster Care Program. For example, in 1978, after the Willowbrook exposé, CGS cooperated with the New York State Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities to open a community residence for persons with profound handicaps.

1980

1980: At the request of NY State, Catholic Guardian Society begins the development of more residential programs in the eastern section of Suffolk County, Long Island.

1984

In 1984, CHB kick-started a family day care program in the Bronx to offer low cost, quality care to 275 children with working mothers.

1985

1985-88: Catholic Home Bureau begins to serve the growing homeless population of New York with the St James residence for 19 homeless pregnant women at 47 Madison Street.

1989

In 1989, in response to the AIDS crisis, CHB opened Incarnation Children’s Center in Washington Heights as a transitional residence for HIV-infected babies and young children.

1998

1998: Catholic Home Bureau establishes its therapeutic foster family program to care for emotionally disturbed children in care.

2000

2000: Catholic Guardian Society creates its first child abuse and neglect prevention programs to serve at-risk families in the Bronx.

In 2000, Incarnation Children’s Center became separately incorporated as a pediatric AIDS skilled nursing facility.

2002

2002: Catholic Guardian Society creates specialized residential treatment services to serve foster care youth with mental illness and complex behavioral issues.

2006

2006: Catholic Guardian Society merges with Catholic Home Bureau to become Catholic Guardian Society and Home Bureau (CGSHB).

After many more years of dynamic services and care, CHB underwent a major administrative change in 2006.

After the 2006 merger between CGS and CHB, the new, better-equipped agency further developed many of its services.

2008

2008: CGSHB is accredited for international adoption services by the United States State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs.

In 2008, Misericordia Hospital, then Our Lady of Mercy Hospital, joined Montefiore Medical Center.

2009

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.

Later, in 2009, the organization formed an innovative Youth Employment Services (YES) program.

2011

2011: CGSHB and Rosalie Hall integrate services for pregnant and parenting adolescents and women in need and offer an expanded array of services.

2013

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.

By 2013, 125 years after its founding, Rosalie Hall Inc. permanently merged into Catholic Guardian Services to become the Rosalie Hall Maternity Services Division within it.

2014

2014: CGS develops federally-sponsored shelter and family care programs for unaccompanied immigrant children from Central American countries in dire situations seeking asylum and family reunification.

2016

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.

2017

2017: CGS develops residential care services for young adults with developmental disabilities on the Autism spectrum.

2018

2018: CGS opens its new Family Center in the Bronx, providing trauma-focused mental and behavioral health treatment for underserved children and families.

2020

2020: CGS becomes the first foster care agency in N.Y.C. to facilitate the placement of a baby boy who had tested positive for COVID-19.

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