Gateway Longview history

1904 Buffalo Deaconess Home of the Methodist Episcopal Church takes in its first child.

1912 A generous bequest from a supporter named Elizabeth Sheldon enables the Buffalo Deaconess Home of the Methodist Episcopal Church to purchase a 66-acre farm in Williamsville, New York, and build the facilities needed to house the growing number of orphaned children placed in care.

1917 The Protestant Home for Unprotected Children is formed.

1964 Lynde School is built on the Williamsville, New York, Campus.

1967 Buffalo Deaconess Home of the Methodist Episcopal Church is renamed Gateway (Methodist Home for Children). Simultaneously, the Protestant Home for Unprotected Children opens Camp Cummings, a summer camp, for its residents and a group home for young men named Hughson House.

1971 The Protestant Home for Unprotected Children opens its Niagara Day Care Center.

1975 The Protestant Home for Unprotected Children is renamed Longview Niagara.

1979 Longview-Niagara begins serving children at the St John’s North and South Agency Operated Boarding Homes.

1982 Gateway’s Lynde School is expanded to provide comprehensive elementary and secondary education.

1987 Gateway begins offering Day Treatment at its Lynde School for students with educational, as well as emotional, social and behavioral challenges.

1990 Gateway opens a Therapeutic Preschool and begins offering adoption services for children in care.

1991 Gateway launches its Supervised Independent Living Program, or SILP, for teens and young adults, too old for foster care and too young to care for themselves.

1994 Gateway begins offering Preventive Respite services for children and families in need of temporary care and assistance.

1996 Gateway and Longview Niagara merge to become Gateway-Longview.

1998 The Gateway Longview Foundation is formed to provide financial support to sustain the agency’s programs and services.

1999 Gateway Longview’s Community Services department moves from the Ellicott Square Building in downtown Buffalo, New York, into the Gateway Longview facility at 605 Niagara Street to consolidate programming.

2002 Gateway Longview opens its Mother/Baby Group Home.

2003 Gateway Longview adds Tradition Preventive Respite services to its Preventive Services programs.

2004 Gateway Longview begins serving youth classified as hard to serve through its Changing Attitudes and Behaviors, or C.A.B., program.

2005 Gateway Longview launches its Wrap Around program, with the addition of the Care Coordination program.

2006 Gateway Longview moves its corporate headquarters from the Williamsville Campus into the City of Buffalo to better serve children and families.

2007 Gateway Longview opens the Family Resource Center at 347 East Ferry Street in Buffalo, New York.

2008 The organization breaks ground on a state-of-the-art Residential Treatment facility designed to house children placed in its Changing Attitudes and Behaviors (CAB) program.

2010 Gateway Longview opens a state-of-the-art Residential Treatment facility to house children placed in its Changing Attitudes and Behaviors (CAB) program.

2011 The mission cut the ribbon on the new Michel T. Dwyer Cottage located on our Main Campus in Williamsville, New York.

2012 Gateway Longview opens a new Behavioral Health Clinic to serve children and families in the community.