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__ HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT TIMELINE:

The Settlement opens one of New York City's earliest playgrounds in Henry Street's backyard to provide a safe environment for children forced to play in crowded and unsafe city streets. The salary for the first public school nurse in New York City is paid by Henry Street. Her success prompts the Board of Education to appoint nurses in schools. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] 1893 ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * Lillian Wald "settles in" on the Lower East Side to care for the poor. Wald's philosophy establishes Henry Street as a national leader in service to children, families, and the poor. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] 1895 ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * Wald moves to 265 Henry Street during the summer. The building is a gift from Jacob Schiff, who purchased the property earlier that spring and arranged for its repair and furnishing. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] 1902 ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * The Settlement adds buildings at 299, 301, and 303 Henry Street, which includes a gymnasium.
 * The Settlement adds buildings at 299, 301, and 303 Henry Street, which includes a gymnasium.
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] 1908-9 ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * The Settlement opens its first summer camps: Camp Henry for boys and Echo Hill Farm for girls. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] 1915 ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * The Lewisohn sisters build The Neighborhood Playhouse, one of the first "Little Theaters" in New York City. Between 1915 and 1927, the theater presents plays by Shaw, Joyce, and Dunsany. Now called the[|Harry De Jur Playhouse], the theater continues to showcase many Settlement arts programs. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] 1927 ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * The [|Henry Street Music School] opens. Through the years it has hosted and produced hundreds of concerts and operas and trained thousands of musicians. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] 1930 ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * Lillian Wald retires and becomes Director Emeritus of Henry Street Settlement. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] 1933 ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * Helen Hall, former Director of the University Settlement in Philadelphia, succeeds Lillian Wald as Director. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] 1937 ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * To combat the loan shark racket, Settlement members start the Credit Union. To date, neighborhood residents have received over $3 million in loans. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] 1940 ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * The Homeplanning Workshop is founded to help residents of the newly built Vladeck Housing projects and other community members repair furniture and appliances, make clothes, and mend shoes. One of the earliest programs in a public housing facility in New York City, the Workshop continues to serve the neighborhood today. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] 1944 ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * The Visiting Nurse Service of the Settlement separates from Henry Street to become the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] 1946 ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * Now called the [|Community Consultation Center] (CCC), Henry Street's Mental Hygiene Clinic, one of the first of its kind in the country, is founded to bring psychiatric help to the community. The CCC currently serves more than 500 people each year. ||


 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1952** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * Henry Street alumni create the [|Good Companions Senior Program] in order to provide companionship and activities for the elderly. In 1967, the program becomes a Federal Government pilot project to determine the effectiveness of multipurpose senior centers. As a result of the project, federal legislation is passed to fund nutrition centers for the elderly throughout the country. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1957** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * Henry Street helps create the experimental Mobilization for Youth, which brings together Lower East Side resources to attack juvenile delinquency. It provides the foundation for future federal poverty programs during the 1960s. ||

In order to learn about urban issues, United Parcel Service (UPS) managers from across the country begin to live and work at the Settlement through the UPS Community Internship Program. The Program celebrated its 25th Anniversary in 1992. Bertram Beck succeeds Helen Hall as Director of Henry Street Settlement. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1967** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * Operation Athlete is founded. The program helps young men and women enter college through academic preparation and access to athletic scholarships. Since its inception, more than 1,000 young people have participated in the program.

The alumni group of the Settlement, the Henry Street Oldtimers, celebrate their 30th Anniversary by honoring songwriter Sammy Cahn (a former Settlement participant) in a dinner at the Hilton Hotel. Jack Benny acts as master of ceremonies in an evening which featured such guests as Red Buttons, Johnny Carson, Warren Beatty, Julie Stein, and Senator Jacob Javits. The Pioneer Counselor in Training Program is founded at Camp Henry, an all boys camp. Leadership, community service, and job training skills are taught as part of a year-round comprehensive youth development program. || || **1969** || Henry Street receives its first housekeeping contract from the New York City Department of Social Services, allowing the Settlement to provide homemaker assistance to Medicaid clients who are homebound, infirm, and handicapped in the borough of Manhattan. ||  ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1968** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * Henry Street Settlement's [|Day Care Center] opens to serve the culturally diverse families of the Lower East Side with learning and enrichment for very young children.
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * The Settlement's [|Housekeeping Service] is established to assist the frail elderly and disabled in maintaining their independence. In 1991, the program will expand to serve people with HIV/AIDS.

The Discovery Room, an after-school program that offers homework assistance, tutoring, and recreational activities, is initiated. A similar leadership program for girls between the ages of fourteen and sixteen is also launched. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1972** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * The [|Urban Family Center], one of the first transitional housing facilities for homeless families, is founded. To date, it has helped more than 8,000 families move into permanent housing.


 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1974** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * Henry Street launches its [|Summer Youth Employment Program]. The program offered work experience, labor market orientation, and work-based learning projects to 100 youth aged 14 to 21. Today, the program trains and finds employment for more than 600 young people every summer. ||

The [|Artist-in-Residence] program begins providing five visual artists space to create new work. Some of the work is shown in a year-end exhibit. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1975** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * The Arts for Living Center (now called the [|Abrons Arts Center]) opens. First Lady Betty Ford, Mayor Abraham Beame, former Mayor Robert F. Wagner, and the National Endowment for the Arts Chair Nancy Hanks attend the dedication ceremony. The Center is one of the first arts facilities in the nation designed for a predominantly low-income population.

The [|Community Consultation Center's Day Treatment Program], one of the first programs to treat the de-institutionalized, is established. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1976** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * 263, 265 and 267 Henry Street, the Settlement's original home, are declared national historic landmarks.


 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1977** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * Henry Street Settlement opens one of the first publicly funded battered women's shelters in New York City. ||

The [|Arts-in-Education] program begins serving students throughout the New York City area. The program sends artists into schools and provides curriculum-related performances to support the educational goals of schools in diverse neighborhoods. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1978** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * [|Youth Employment Services] is implemented to give young people aged 18-25 work readiness skills, on the job training, and job placement services.

The CCC develops the first onsite nursery for staff children, which is later used as a prototype by corporations for childcare. ||
 * || [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1981** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * The Family School is founded to provide specialized day care services for Urban Family Center pre-school residents.
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1982** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * The CCC successfully challenges the New York City Department of Mental Health for one hundred percent funding of its mental health facility, and paves the way for all other settlements' mental health clinics to be one hundred percent funded. ||


 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1983** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * The CCC develops a transitional treatment model, which successfully moves clients from inpatient psychiatric care to outpatient after care, dramatically decreasing the clinic's recidivism rate to one of the lowest in New York City. ||


 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1984** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * Florence Samperi, Associate Director of the CCC, delivers her paper "The Adaptation of the Milan Approach in a Publicly Funded Clinic" at the American Association for Marital and Family Therapy in San Francisco, California. ||

Daniel Kronenfeld is appointed Executive Director of the Henry Street Settlement. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1985** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * The Self Help Program is developed to provide peer support for [|Urban Family Center] residents and alumni. Through weekly support groups, parents share resources and assist each other with the transition from temporary to permanent housing. Case aides and former residents also help families adjust to their new communities.

Henry Street Settlement Mail Presort (now [|Henry Street HandMailers]) is created to provide structured work experiences and employment preparation skills for Urban Family Center residents, and to serve as a revenue generating business in order to pay the interns and staff salaries. Three agencies collaborate to provide youth employment services that include work readiness, internship, education, and counseling services in a service named the Lower East Side Action Program. Girls Operation Athlete is created. In the program, at risk urban girls use their athletic abilities to leverage scholarships and receive financial assistance to enter secondary education/college. Henry Street's literacy program is founded, providing classes to 18-25 year olds. The program is later expanded to include all adults. Establishment of the [|Unlimited Boutique], one of the first supported employment demonstration projects in the state of New York funded by the New York State Office of Mental Health. The American Association for Marital and Family Therapy invites CCC Director Larraine Ahto and CCC Co. Director Florence Samperi present their paper on the Milan Approach with Chronic Young Adults at the Orlando, Florida conference. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1986** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * The Shelter Management Training program (now the Center for Training) opens to bring the Urban Family Center's experience with current and formerly homeless families to workers in shelters. In 1991, the program expands to serve managers of public housing facilities.

The CCC's [|AIDS Clinic] starts the first school-based bereavement and support groups for non-infected children of parents who died of AIDS. The CCC's [|AIDS Clinic] brings to national attention the plight of AIDS orphans and develops a unique "Three Generational Clinical Model" in working with the child, HIV infected parent, grandparents and extended family to assure the physical and psychological survivorship of orphaned children within their extended families. This groundbreaking AIDS work is instrumental in influencing AIDS public policy, which leads to the legislative expansion of care and services to families affected by AIDS. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1987** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * Arts for Family presents theater, dance, music performances, and visual arts workshops for children ages 4-12 and their families on the weekends, and for school groups. || [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1988** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * The [|Senior Companions Program] is established. A partnership of Henry Street Settlement and the National Senior Services Corporation of the Corporation for National Service, the program prepares senior volunteers to help frail and isolated elderly clients located throughout the New York City area to maintain independent lives in their own residencies.


 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1989** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * Diana, the Princess of Wales, visits the Urban Family Center during a visit to New York City. The Princess singles out the Center as one of the most effective programs for homeless families. Her visit brings international attention to Henry Street. ||  ||   ||   ||

The AIDS Education Theatre Project begins empowering high risk adolescents to become peer educators. Urban Force, a program that involves work based learning projects and environmental concerns, commences. The program includes Recycle-a-Bicycle, which becomes Youth Services first social entrepreneurship project. The Asian-American Outreach Program funded by the Rockefeller Foundation enables many people in the growing Asian community of the Lower East Side to be introduced to the Abrons Arts Center through visual arts exhibits and performances. Actor Luis Guzman works for Youth Services as a case manger. || CCC Co-Director Florence Samperi is invited by the First International Conference on the Bio-psychosocial Aspects on AIDS held in Amsterdam to present her paper "AIDS and Survivorship: A Three Generational Approach." ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1990** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * The Expanded Horizons Program is initiated to give young people access to the guidance and assistance needed to gain entry to college.
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1991** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * [|Helen's House] opens as a sixteen-unit facility to reunite homeless mothers with their children. The building is named in honor of Helen Hall who followed Lillian Wald as Head Worker of Henry Street Settlement between 1933 and 1934.

Henry Street becomes one of the first home care agencies in the City of New York to service clients diagnosed with AIDS/HIV. The [|Cultural Harmony Theatre Project] is initiated. The program is a creative way of teaching conflict resolution skills and fostering mutual respect among young people from varying religious, ethnic and/or racial backgrounds. Henry Street's [|Summer Arts Camp] for 100 children ages 6-12 is founded. The Camp provides dance, music, theater, and visual arts activities for five weeks, culminating in a performance created by the teaching artists and the children. The CCC is the recipient of the "No Time To Lose" award given by the New York State Department of Social Services for outstanding program commitment in providing psychological treatment and services for children and parents with AIDS/HIV. The CCC is awarded a prestigious Special Project of National Significance grant by the federal government's Health and Human Services Department to implement the Three Generational Model and undertake research to determine its ability to be replicated on a national level. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1992** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * On July 13th, Governor Bill Clinton visits Henry Street. He mentions his visit to the Settlement on national television later that week as he accepts the Democratic Party's presidential nomination at Madison Square Garden.

The CCC is designated the official provider of AIDS Mental Health Services for the Lower East Side by New York City's Department of Mental Health. Restoration of 265 Henry Street's lower floors is completed, and the building is dedicated as Lillian Wald House. Abrons Arts Center presents a retrospective highlighting 75 years of performances produced and presented by Henry Street Settlement, including work from the Neighborhood Playhouse, Alwin Nikolais, and the New Federal Theater. The Nations of New York Arts Festival celebrates the diversity of artists and audiences served by the Abrons Arts Center through a presentation of dance, music, theater, and exhibits. United Neighborhood Houses honors the CCC AIDS Team with the Exemplary Employees Award for its innovative work with individuals living with HIV/AIDS. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1993** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * Henry Street Settlement celebrates 100 years of innovation and service. Executive Director Daniel Kronenfeld is named a "Face of Hope" by President Bill Clinton and attends the inauguration.

Abrons Arts Center receives a major Lila Wallace //Reader's Digest//Community Arts Education grant to greatly expand training and performance opportunities for people of all ages and skill levels in dance, music, theater, and the visual arts. The New York City Department of Mental Health honors the CCC by presenting it with the Creative Connections and Systemic Award for its pivotal role in advancing New York City's system of mental hygiene care. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1994** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * Henry Street Settlement [|NORC/Vladeck Cares] Supportive Services Program becomes the first NORC (Naturally Occurring Retirement Community) Program in public housing as a federal demonstration project.

Abrons Arts Center's Charles F. Culpeper Gallery opens displaying solo photography exhibits and providing exposure to culturally diverse photographers. CCC AIDS work is featured in a video titled "Mommy Who Will Take Care Of Me," and its companion book, //Forgotten Children of the AIDS Epidemic.// ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1995** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * The New York State Legislature authorizes funding for continuation of the NORC Program.

Painter Vincent Smith's "Riding on a Blue Note" exhibit is shown at the Abrons Arts Center. || || **1997** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1996** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * Henry Street Settlement assumes the management of the Third Street Women's Residence, which was initially built to serve seventy-nine pregnant homeless women. Since 1998, the Residence has served single homeless women. The shelter provides temporary housing along with onsite social services.
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * CCC Director Larraine Ahto, Co-Director Florence Samperi, and Senior Social Worker Yolanda Kinsella present their paper "The Milan Approach in the Context of Managed Care" at the 25th Anniversary of the Milan School of Family Therapy in Lake Orta, Italy. ||

Henry Street Settlement assumes responsibility for the former Boys Brotherhood Republic, renames it the [|Boys and Girls Republic], and transforms it into a comprehensive, co-ed youth program. The Republic's self-government tradition, which is tailored after New York City governmental structure, remains intact. The [|Parents Resource Center] opens to provide employment and educational services to parents of children in District 1. The Nikolais/Louis Dance Company celebrates its 50th Anniversary in the Harry De Jur Playhouse with a performance of work originally created by Alwin Nikolais when he was the theater's Artistic Director. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1998** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * The NORC/Vladeck Cares Supportive Service Program contracts with the New York City Department for the Aging to expand and ensure the continuation of the program.

Day Care Services becomes part of the Youth Services Division, whose services now expand north of Delancey Street. EarnFair, a job training and placement program that aims to prepare both public assistance and non-public assistance recipients for successful long-term employment, is launched. ||  ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || **1999** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * The New York City Landmark Commission designates 281 East Broadway as a historic architectural landmark.

The [|Housekeeping program]is expanded to Brooklyn, where it begins serving Russian-speaking clients. Russian-speaking administrative staff and home care workers are hired to serve about 400 Russian-speaking clients. Child Health Plus is introduced in the State of New York. Henry Street assists in health insurance enrollment for children ages 1-19. Following Workforce Investment Act laws passed by the Clinton administration, Henry Street Settlement provides employment services to Lower East Side public assistance recipients through its EarnFair program. The program is based on the successful Youth Employment Services model Henry Street developed to serve youth in the community since the 1970s. The [|Community Consultation Center] receives the William Charet Award from the New York City Department of Mental Health for its excellence and leadership. || The Settlement makes a rapid and compassionate response to the events of 9/11, playing a key role in sustaining its community through the tragedy and its aftermath. Services range from immediate emergency help to longer-term assistance with employment and health needs. Disaster Relief Medicaid is created due to the 9/11 disaster. The State of New York assigns Henry Street as a site where people who have lost their health insurance from the tragedy can come and apply for Disaster Relief Medicaid. Henry Street establishes the Workforce Development Center, whose primary mission is to help community residents achieve self-sufficiency through work-readiness training, adult basic education, job placement and retention services, and case management and supportive services. The Settlement receives additional funding to serve young adults as a member of the STRIVE New York Network, a nationally recognized employment service model with historic roots at Henry Street. With combined funding resources, Henry Street is positioned to pursue adult employment services in earnest. Settlement buildings are included in the newly designated Lower East Side Historic District. The [|Urban Youth Theater]is the subject of the documentary//Bones of Our Ancestors//, produced by ROJA Productions and broadcast on WNET. The show is based on the original UYT musical //Don't See My Bones and Think I'm Dead//. In response to 9/11, Henry Street is contracted to assist displaced workers in finding training and job opportunities. Henry Street develops a pilot project to serve Chinese immigrants who previously worked in the city's defunct garment factories. The collaboration between Home Care Services and Workforce Development Center, to train displaced workers to become certified housekeepers, is immediately successful and is integrated into ongoing program offerings. Henry Street Settlement [|Music School]presents the American premiere of Mozart's //Il Sogno di Scipione//, the first production of the Henry Street Settlement Chamber Opera. Larraine Ahto, CCC Clinic Director, receives the New York State Office of Mental Health Lifetime Achievement Award. ||
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 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || ** 2001 ** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||

Family Health Plus is initiated. The program provides free health insurance for people ages 19-65 who live in the State of New York, have no health insurance, and have an income above Medicaid but less than the eligibility income. Daniel Kronenfeld retires after 17 years as Executive Director and 30 years of service at Henry Street Settlement. He is succeeded by Verona Middleton-Jeter, former Chief Administrator of the Urban Family Center. Arts in Education coordinators receive the Coming Up Taller Award from the President's Committee of the Arts and Humanities in Washington, D.C., for Abrons Arts Center's Architecture and Design/Community Arts Project. Henry Street teaching artists and PS 20 teachers are included by the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum to act as facilitators for their National Design Institute.
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || ** 2002 ** ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10393.gif width="430" height="1"]] ||

Showcasing the recognition Henry Street has received for its work with the Chinese immigrant community, CCC Co-Director Florence Samperi presents "Culture, Care and Resources in mental Health Care for Immigrants" at an October workshop of the American Psychological Association. ||

Henry Street officially opens the [|Workforce Development Center] at 99 Essex Street. The state-of-the-art facility offers a one-stop location for comprehensive employment services and adult basic education. It features a conference room, classrooms with audio-visual tools, a career resource center with research resources and tools for client job searches, a 12-station computer lab and a video studio. ||
 * [[image:http://www.henrystreet.org/images/content/pagebuilder/10392.gif width="15" height="13"]] || ** 2003 ** ||
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The CCC establishes the [|Parent Center], a resource and support network for neighborhood families. The Center is an educational environment for parents of children up to age 3, concentrating on areas including pre-natal and early childhood development, post-partum fitness, nutrition and health, life skills, time and stress management. Henry Street Settlement's walk-in service, the [|Neighborhood Resource Center], opens at the CCC to serve clients impacted by 9/11 and to offer accessible and concrete housing, financial, legal, crisis counseling and advocacy services. The Arts in Education Director is invited to serve throughout 2003 and 2004 on the committee that developed the New York City Department of Education's "Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts," which has become the citywide standard.
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The New York State Council on the Arts select Arts in Education leaders to make a presentation at their conference at the Brooklyn Museum for all Empire State Partnership grantees on how the Architecture and Design Project has developed a model for sustained arts-in-education programs in elementary schools. In September, Wayne Casimir, a summer youth employment participant sponsored by the New York Times neediest Cases Fund, leads California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on a tour through Harlem's PS 129, an after-school site. The Workforce Development Center receives recognition from one of its primary training partners, NPower NY, "for consistent and ongoing support of its Technology Service Corps," which helps community residents access internship and employment opportunities in the field of information technology. Florence Samperi, Co-Director of the CCC, and former Henry Street colleague Irene Chung publish "An East-West Approach to Serving Chinese Immigrants in a Mental Health Setting" in a 2004 edition of Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Services. ||

The Neighborhood Resource Center moves to its present location at 281 East Broadway. Selected as an EarnBenefits core site, WDC now connects clients to a range of income supports and entitlements to help them move toward self-sufficiency. "9/11: The Great Equalizer," an essay by NRC Director Vita Iacovone is featured in On the Ground after September 11: Mental Health Responses and Practical Knowledge Gained, released in September as part of the fourth anniversary of the terrorist attacks. The WDC serves as a Volunteer Income Tax Preparation site for the first time, preparing tax returns and conducting Earned Income Tax Credit screenings for close to 200 of its working clients. Harlem Legal Services and Legal Services of New York on September 20, 2005, names the Community Consultation Center as an "outstanding community partner" for its work in the Lower East Side through the Neighborhood Resource Center. The WDC is officially dedicated with a ceremony for Rita Abrons Aranow, with her family in attendance, marking the first presentation of the "Pathways to Self Sufficiency" award presented to former clients who have successfully carved a path to independence. ||
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** 2006 ** The Settlement’s first ever Strategic Plan was initially implemented. The five-year plan is designed to strengthen and improve the agency’s infrastructure, increase investment in staff and consolidate and streamline services. Henry Street reorganized and consolidated its services, offering all programs under the umbrella of four clusters: Health and Wellness, Youth and Workforce Development, Transitional and Supportive Housing and Visual and Performing Arts (Abrons Arts Center). The first season of the reinvigorated Abrons Arts Center featured such performers as Debra Winger, hosted entries from the New York Fringe Festival and presented a series of concerts in collaboration with the cutting-edge music venue, Tonic, and Danspace Project, Performance Space 122, Franklin Furnace and the Public Art Fund. ** 2007 ** Henry Street received a new contract, enabling the Agency’s housekeeping services to hire a new staff of registered nurses to visit clients to assess their needs and help connect them to needed services. Henry Street opened a new supported permanent housing residence at 290 East Third Street. The newly constructed building has 52 efficiency apartments for single adults, 43 of which are occupied by individuals with a long history of homelessness and mental health issues, many of whom have never before lived on their own. (Nine are occupied by low-income neighborhood residents.) The new facility is operated in conjunction with the Community Consultation Center, Henry Street’s state-certified mental health clinic. It provides on-site case management and supportive services, including recreation and group activities and referrals to the full range of Settlement services. ** 2008 ** The Art Show, an essential fundraiser for the Settlement, celebrated its 20th birthday and brought in more than $1.5 million to support Henry Street programs. The show, organized by the Art Dealers Association, was held at the Park Avenue Armory in February. Henry Street and its founder Lillian Wald were featured in The Jewish Americans, a documentary that aired on PBS. In addition to historical coverage, the film included present-day footage of Settlement programs. All of the nearly 100 high school seniors served by Henry Street’s Expanded Horizons program were admitted to college—many at their first choice school and with generous financial aid packages. Henry Street received more than 500 pairs of new shoes, courtesy of Malaak Compton-Rock, Erica Reid and Liz Claiborne, Inc. The distribution of the shoes to Henry Street clients appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Henry Street was awarded the home-delivered meals contract for Manhattan Community Districts 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6. Beginning in January 2009, Henry Street will being preparing and delivering 13,000 meals per day to the homebound elderly. Henry Street Settlement and United Parcel Service celebrated the 40th anniversary of the UPS Community Internship Program. This unique collaboration brings UPS managers from rural and suburban communities to the ethnically diverse Lower East Side of Manhattan. During their internship, the UPS managers live at Henry Street and work in one of the Settlement’s programs where their skills are put to use. In turn, they learn about contemporary urban problems and how social service agencies like Henry Street formulate innovative responses.