GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES

After more than a century of experience working with youth in residential care, Good Shepherd recognized the need to provide services and supports to vulnerable families within their own communities to avert the need for out-of-home care.  We pioneered this new approach in the Bronx more than 30 years ago at a small, green house on University Avenue, where we opened a center in the neighborhood at which social workers provided counseling to families who were struggling to stay together during tough times brought on by poverty, illness, unemployment, homelessness, and other issues.  Over the years, as we have developed additional programs in University Heights and other Bronx communities to address neighborhood needs and concerns, our counseling and family support activities have remained fundamental to our continuum of services.