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Saint Vincent's Services company history timeline

1906

66 Boerum Place opens as a foster home in 1906.

1923

1923 The Farmington Hills site of the Center was acquired and Villa Marillac was founded to house children.

1929

1929 The Sarah Fisher family built the Center facility in Farmington Hills to house the children.

1934

Ten cottages, designed to house 24 children, a Chapel and a playroom (where the stained glass windows were originally installed). By 1934, there were 200 children enrolled (ages 2 to 6) and a nursery school was added.

1948

1948 St Vincent’s merges with Sarah Fisher Home.

1950

1950 Infants moved from Providence Hospital to Farmington Hills.

1951

1951 House of Providence changes name to Marillac Villa, gives up responsibility for children, maintains responsibility for unwed mothers.

1953

1953 Unwed mothers leave Providence Hospital and move into Marillac Hall in Farmington Hills.

1979

1979 St Vincent and Sarah Fisher Center incorporates with responsibility for Marillac Hall occupied by unwed mothers as well as children.

1991

1991 Marillac Hall residential program for pregnant young women was discontinued and Marillac Outreach Services was established to provide counseling and referral services to young women in their homes.

1994

1994 Post adoption support services implemented.

1995

1995 The Young Fatherhood Program, opens to support teen dads in the metro-Detroit area.

1997

In 1997, St Vincent’s launched the American Dream Program (ADP), which has helped over 100 foster youth graduate from college and vocational schools since its inception.

1998

1998 Jendayi House, a group home for young mothers ages 18-21, opens in Detroit.

1999

Unrelated, but also impactful, SVS opened its first licensed Outpatient Substance Abuse Program in 1999.

2006

2006 St Vincent and Sarah Fisher Center returned to its roots and relocated back to Detroit, where it launched free children’s and adult educational programs and services.

2014

In 2014, St Vincent’s Services affiliated with HeartShare Human Services of New York, which created the third largest children’s services provider in New York City.

2014 Children’s Wing opened, doubling the capacity for both the Children and Adult programs and Adult Computer Lab was opened.

2016

Developed and led by Melody Centeno, LMSW, who herself grew up in foster case, our annual fashion show (which began in 2016) represents both a moment of transformation and celebration for our youth.

2019

2019 marked two important milestones for HSVS: our American Dream Program reached 100 enrollees and our agency celebrated its 150th birthday.

2022

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