The New York Founding , founded in 1869 by the Roman Catholic Sisters of Charity, is one of the oldest and largest childhood welfare institutions in New York City. The Foundling operates programs in five areas in New York City, Rockland County, and Puerto Rico. Services include foster care, adoption, educational programs, mental health services, and many other community-based services for children, families and adults.
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A wave of very poor immigrants and social disorder is one of the many conditions that led to the epidemic of infanticide and neglect during the late 1860s. It was not unusual for the Sisters at St Peter's Monastery on Barclay Street to find a little boy left at the door. Sister Mary Irene FitzGibbon, from St. Peter approached Mary Jerome's mother, the Leader of the Sisters of Charity, about the need to save these children. The Archbishop (after Cardinal) John McCloskey urged the Sisters to open asylum for such children.
The Foundling Asylum (1869-1879)
The New York Founding Asylum of Sisters of Charity was founded on October 8, 1879. Shortly thereafter, Sister Irene, Sister Teresa Vincent and Ann Aloysia began operating from a rented house on 17 East 12th Street in Greenwich Village New York, where they received the baby on the first night of their operation.
Sister Irene, put the white rattan cradle right inside the front door with the aim of receiving and taking care of unwanted children and people whose parents can not care for them well. 45 more babies follow in the first month. Due to space considerations, Foundling opened a dormitory department in November and began placing children under neighboring care.
The need for this type of service was confirmed by 123 babies who were abandoned on 1 January 1870. Within a year, the children were running around buying a bigger house on 3 Washington Square. After two years, The Foundling has received 2,500 babies. The New York Historical Society has a collection of abandoned notes with abandoned babies, which are part of a collection of historic photographs larger than Foundling run by the Society. The Foundling also accepts unmarried mothers.
With the help of a state matching grant, construction began on new properties between East 68 and 69, Lexington and Third in 1972. An Adoption department was set up to search for permanent homes for children; the first placement occurred in May 1873.
"Mercy Trains", also known as Orphan Trains
The Foundling Hospital sent infants and toddlers to prearranged Roman Catholic homes from 1875 to 1919.
Parishioners in the destination areas are requested to receive children, and parish priests apply to approved families. The Foundling Hospital places their children with families who ask for a child.
In 1910, 1,000 children per year were housed with a new family. The Founder Hospital (1880-1957)
In response to the increasing need for maternal and child care skills and nursing care, The New York Foundling began providing healthcare services in addition to social services, changing its name to New York Foundling Hospital to more accurately reflect its services.
Among his medical programs are St. Ann (opened in 1880), which provides mothers unmarried with medical care; and St. John's Hospital for Sick Children (1882), who are at the forefront in developing pediatric practices and approaches to caring for children in the hospital. The intubation practice was discovered by a staff member of Dr. Drs. Joseph O'Dwyer. This method of keeping the airways open saved thousands of children from life-threatening diphtheria disease, an epidemic at the time.
In 1881, Sister Mary Irene founded one of the first child care centers for pre-school children of working mothers.
Beginning in 1945, The Foundling also operates a development clinic to observe, examine and analyze developmental norms for children. The clinic is a learning center for students from New York City's district medical schools, nursing schools and psychology departments. These programs were the beginning of, and then put in, what became Saint Vincent's Hospital in New York City.
While The Foundling provided medical care in addition to adoption and support services for mothers in need, it was not until the 1930s that the Department of Social Affairs was established to help those who could not care for their children well.
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The New York Foundling today
The New York Foundling administrative headquarters are located at 590 Avenue of the Americas, at Chelsea with additional locations in five districts of New York City, Rockland County, Westchester County, Putnam County and Puerto Rico.
In 2006, The New York Foundling received accreditation from the Council on Accreditation (COA), an independent, non-profit, and service health care and child care organization that sets standards for service delivery.
Programs, services and initiatives
Foster and adoption
The New York City Municipal Administration for Children Services (ACS) refers children to organizations such as The New York Founding for placement with foster families and for additional support services. Some foster children can be reunited with their biological parents while others may find permanent homes through placements with siblings or through adoption.
Providing care for children whose parents can not care for them has been a core component of The Foundling's mission since its inception. In recent years, nurturing practices have shifted toward evidence-based interventions that have been shown to support happy, healthy, and functioning families. Foundling's current childhood model, Child Success NYC (CSNYC), was launched in 2012 and is a multifaceted approach aimed at improving results for children.
The New York Foundling care program is responsible for about 700 children at a certain time (about 1,200 per year) and ranges from newborns to 21 years old.
Vincent J. Fontana Center for Child Protection
The Children's Protection Center Vincent J. Fontana was founded in 1998 by Doctor Vincent J. Fontana, who has served as The Foundling's medical director for over 40 years. The Fontana Center is dedicated to advancing the understanding and detection of child abuse and neglect, and for teaching prevention and treatment.
Mott Haven Academy Charter School
In 2008, The Foundling opened the Mott Haven Academy Charter School. The country's first charter school of its kind, Haven Academy uses a trauma-sensitive curriculum designed to meet the unique educational needs of children in the child welfare system. A third of the Haven Academy seats are reserved for undergraduates in foster care, and another third is provided for those who receive services to prevent them from entering care. About 23 percent of the non-foster population of the school is homeless, returning to shelter every night after school.
The Haven Academy is housed in a colorful building, with two teachers and a maximum of 26 students per class. Art, music, or dance are offered daily. There are two social workers - a behavioral specialist and outreach worker - at school. There are also leadership programs after school and summer camps offered to Haven Academy students through The Foundling.
Youth Juvenile Justice
The New York Founding has five juvenile justice programs aimed at achieving better outcomes for juvenile offenders:
- Blue Sky - An intervention strategy to treat young offenders while they stay at home and in the community
- Arrow - Serves adolescents with psychiatric disorders
- Children Experiencing Young Success (KEYS) - Functioning at teenagers at risk with family and community intervention strategies
- Rise Families - Using Functional Family Therapy for older teenagers accused of crimes to keep them from being detained.
- Returning Road - Working with parents and youth in family therapy models designed to build bridges and produce safer, more effective, and safer family environments.
Deaf Service
Family Services for Adults and Adults Children at The New York Founding is a prevention program for families where there are one or more deaf members. The program started in 1982. The staff is very fluent in American Sign Language and provides a range of home based services based on family-rated needs.
Programs for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
The New York Foundling started its program to help individuals with developmental disabilities in 1974 with the opening of a group house in Nyack, NY. Since then, The New York Foundling has grown and now provides services to nearly 300 individuals and their families each year.
Head Start Programs: Puerto Rico
Since 1984, The New York Foundling has operated the Head Start and Early Head Start programs in Puerto Rico. The goal of the program is to improve social and educational outcomes for children and families in the island's poorest areas.
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Further reading
- RenÃÆ' Â © e Wendinger. "Extra! Extras! The Orphan Train and Newsboys of New York" a complete nonfiction resource book and a pictorial history of an orphan train. ISBN 978-0-615-29755-2
- Dianne Creagh, "The Baby Trains: Catholic Foster Care and Western Migration, 1873-1929," Journal of Social History (2012) 46 # 1 pp 197-218 online
- Martin Gottlieb. The Founding: The Story of New York Founding Hospital (2001)
- Carolee R. Inskeep. New York Foundling Hospital: Index for Federal, State and Local Census Data, 1879-1925 (Baltimore, 1995)
- Sisters of Charity. New York Foundling Hospital: Founder and Its Place in the Community (1944),
External links
- The New York Founding Website
- 2007 The Founding article in The New York Times that includes historical photographs and notes left with abandoned babies
- The New York York Historical Society's archive of the New York Foundling historical image
- Article on Haven Academy
- New York Foundling 1869-2009 Hospital Notes at the New York Historical Society
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