Timeline
History of Service in New York City
1936
Euphrasian Residence opens to provide shelter and detention to adolescent girls ages 16-21.
1947
The Sisters incorporate as Sisters of the Good Shepherd Residences and move to East 17th Street, Manhattan.
1969
Euphrasian Residence is formally reorganized and becomes the first Diagnostic Reception Center to open in NYC.
St. Helena's, a community-based, open residential treatment program for girls is initiated.
1972
Family Reception Center opens in Park Slope, Brooklyn - the first program in what has become a network of community-based programs in South Brooklyn.
Marian Hall initiated at 17th Street as a residential treatment program for adolescent girls.
The Barbara Blum Residence opens in Park Slope, Brooklyn- initially as an emergency "Crash Pad" for boys and girls- and evolves into a short-term diagnostic reception center for adolescent boys.
1976
The Human Services Workshops is established to provide training for professional personnel serving New York City's youth and families.
1978
St. Germaine's Group Residence in Corona, Queens is transferred to this agency, providing residential care for adolescent girls.
1980
South Brooklyn Community High School (SBCHS) opens as an alternative high school program for students who have been long-term absentees from John Jay High School.
1986
Crossroads begins to offer attendance improvement and dropout prevention services to students in elementary and junior high schools in Community District No. 15.
1990
Supervised Independent Living Program (SILP) develops two apartment sites to help young women make a successful transition from living in group residences to living independently.
1991
The Red Hook Community Center Beacon opens at PS 15 in Red Hook, Brooklyn to provide a range of afternoon, evening and weekend programs for young people and families in the community.
1992
The Red Hook Community Center Family Counseling Program begins to provide counseling services to at-risk families.
1993
St. Germaine's is rededicated as a group home for 12 adolescent boys involved with the juvenile justice system.
1996
Good Shepherd Services and McMahon Services for Children merge. Good Shepherd's continuum of services expands to include foster care and adoption as well as residential and community-based programs.
1998
Good Shepherd opens a new middle school, the School for Leadership in the Environment with the NYC Dept. of Education at P.S. 27 in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
1999
TASC After School Program initiated at PS 27.
Post-5 Initiative YABC begins at Sarah J. Hale High School.
2000
TASC After School Program at PS 32 opens.
Therapeutic Foster Boarding Home Program and Transitions (a family rehabilitation program) initiated.
2001
Our new building, the Good Shepherd Services Center opens in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Bronx Foster Care Office opens.
The 21st Century After-School Program at MS 293 Campus and The 21st Century After-School Program
at MS 142 Campus initiated.
2002
South Brooklyn Community High School (SBCHS) opens as a freestanding public school with an expanded student body.
2004
The Chelsea Foyer residence, a supportive, transitional housing program for young adults at high risk of homelessness opens.
Bushwick Academy opens to provide extended suspension services for adolescents.
The Barbara Blum Residence is rededicated as a group home for 11 adolescent boys, involved with the juvenile justice system.
New Crossroads attendance improvement and drop out prevention programs are launched at Lafayette, Abraham Lincoln and William E. Grady high schools.
2005
The Single Stop Service Center is launched in Park Slope, Brooklyn, to help individuals and families access public benefits for which they are eligible including public assistance, Medicaid, housing, and health care benefits.
Nelson Mandela House, a group home for 12 adolescent boys, involved with the juvenile justice system, opens in the Bronx.
Good Shepherd assumes an entire network of services in the Bronx (formerly programs of Pius XII Youth and Family Services) serving more than 6,000 people annually.
Four new Young Adult Borough Centers (YABCs) are launched to provide older adolescents with an evening program to help them earn their high school diplomas. In Brooklyn, at Lincoln High School and in the Bronx, at Grace Dodge, Stevenson and Columbus High Schools.
Learning to Work is launched to provide nearly 400 young people with job readiness assistance and placement in high quality, paid internships across the city.
Sankofa Academy opens as Good Shepherd's second suspension program for more at-risk students.
Foster care Adolescent Unit moves to Jerome Avenue in the Bronx, and the Therapeutic Foster Boarding Home Program is reinstated.
2006
A second Single-Stop Service Center opens in the Bronx.
Safe Homes Project (SHP), our multi-service domestic violence program, changes its name from Park Slope Safe Homes Project, celebrates its thirtieth anniversary and publicly announces its status as a program of Good Shepherd Services.
Good Shepherd assumes the contract for the Neighborhood Family Services Center in the Belmont/Tremont Community, doubling our family counseling work in the Bronx.
West Brooklyn Community High School (WBCHS), the first replication of our SBCHS model, opens in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Two new Young Adult Borough Centers are opened at Canarsie High School in Brooklyn and Monroe High School in the Bronx.
Access GED, a full-time citywide GED and LTW program opens in Manhattan.
2007
Bronx Community High School (BCHS) opens in September 2007.
Peter Jay Sharp House, a group home for adolescent girls involved with the juvenile justice system will opens in the Bronx.
A second Access GED program opens in Downtown Brooklyn.
Good Shepherd begins a partnership with Automotive High School in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with a new attendance improvement and dropout prevention program.
2008
Good Shepherd assumes the contract for the YABC at Automotive High School.
The Young Adult Internship Program begins in Bushwick, Brooklyn to provide youth ages 16-24, who are not in school or working, with job-readiness skills and paid internships.
Fields Foundation CS 102 Music and Art Program opens in the Bronx, infusing arts education throughout the regular school day and after-school programming.
2009
The Franklin Delano Roosevelt YABC opens in Brooklyn.
New after-school programs are launched at the School for Community Research and Learning and Grace Dodge High Schools in the Bronx, and Grady High School in Brooklyn.
2010
A second Transitions program opens in the Bronx.
