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Yorkville, where Rosalie Hall made its new home. By the turn of the century, the Misericordia Sisters had given free service to almost 1,000 young mothers. In 1904, the Sisters altered their charter to accommodate for all those in need of medical attention, not simply young mothers. With this fundamental change in their services, they changed the name of their home to Misericordia Hospital in 1905.
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Guardian Societies and Home Bureau and Rosalie Hall integrated services for pregnant and parenting adolescents in foster care and women in need. 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.
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Maternity Services (community outreach, case management services, pre- and post-natal care with visiting nurse services, mentoring and peer-to-peer counseling, parenting resource center with evidence-based parenting skills training, parenting options counseling, Hague-accredited domestic
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Northeast in states such as New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Vermont, and Indiana. 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.
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Archdiocese of New York summoned five Misericordia Sisters from Montreal, Canada to provide care for the growing number of unmarried pregnant women in New York. The Sisters arrived on Staten Island and established the New York Mothers’ Home. Soon they moved to Harlem and later purchased land
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Directors Monsignor Edmund Fogarty and layman Mr. James P. O’Neill contributed to the evolution of the agency with the additions of the Agency Operated Boarding Home Program, Group Home Program,
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Independent Living Program geared toward helping teens care for themselves once discharged from foster care. 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. In the mid to late 1980s,
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Catholic foster home agency in the United States, marking the official recognition of foster home care by Catholics in America. The agency was founded to provide safe Catholic homes to institutionalized orphans to relieve overcrowded conditions
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Guardian Services is the product of three separate organizations, with discrete histories but similar missions. Each had the common goal of helping disadvantaged people and communities of New York City. The history of Catholic Guardian Services contains several narratives that eventually
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Catholic Guardian Society (CGS) of the Archdiocese of New York was founded in 1908 by Father Samuel Ludlow and later incorporated in 1913. The fledgling agency offered aftercare services, providing for hundreds of children, particularly those of immigrants, discharged from institutional care.
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unaccompanied minors to accommodate to migrant children fleeing dire circumstances in Central America. Today, Catholic Guardian Services offers all of the care once offered separately by Catholic Guardian Society, Catholic Home Bureau, and Rosalie Hall Inc.
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