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'''The Children's Village''', formerly the '''New York Juvenile Asylum''', is a private, non-profit<ref name="MattPerry">{{cite book|last1=Matthew|first1=Perry|title=The Fourteen Lives of Matt Perry|date=8 January 2009|publisher=AuthorHouse|isbn=9781467051835|pages=137–138|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7NsDbrg4zLMC&pg=PA138}}</ref><ref name="FastFacts">{{cite web|title=Fast Facts|url=http://childrensvillage.org/about/fast-facts/|website=The Children's Village|publisher=The Children's Village|accessdate=1 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111214065518/http://childrensvillage.org/about/fast-facts/|archive-date=14 December 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> residential treatment facility and school for troubled children. It was founded in 1851 by 24 citizens of [[New York (state)|New York]] who were concerned about growing numbers of street children in New York.<ref group=Notes>The 24 incorporators were [[Robert Bowne Minturn|Robert B. Minturn]], [[Myndert Van Schaick]], Robert M. Stratton, Solomon Jenner, Albert Gilbert, Stewart Brown, [[Francis R. Tillou]], David S. Kennedy, Joseph B. Collins, [[Benjamin Franklin Butler (lawyer)|Benjamin F. Butler]], [[Isaac Hopper|Isaac T. Hopper]], Charles Partridge, [[Luther Bradish]], Christopher Y. Wemple, [[Charles O'Conor (American politician)|Charles O'Conor]], [[John Dennison Russ|John D. Russ]], [[John Duer]], [[Peter Cooper]], Apollos R. Wetmore, Frederick S. Winston, James Kelly, Silas C. Herring, Rensselaer N. Havens, and [[John W. Edmonds]].</ref><ref name=NYT-1860>{{cite news|title=Our City Charities—No. II.; The New-York Juvenile Asylum.|author=Staff|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1860/01/31/news/our-city-charities-no-ii-the-new-york-juvenile-asylum.html?pagewanted=all|accessdate=29 January 2016|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 31, 1860}}</ref><ref name=WebsiteHistory>{{cite web|title=History|url=http://childrensvillage.org/about/history/|website=The Children's Village|accessdate=28 January 2016}}</ref> The necessity for such an institution was first proposed by the [[Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor]], which helped to get it started.<ref name="Gotham" /> |
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The '''Children’s Village''' founded by Isaac Hopper and 23 others, and is a school for both black and white kids. It was founded in Philadelphia, and was very popular with runaway slaves who had gained their freedom. The back of the Children’s Village is heavily wooded, the first official inspection of the Children’s Village was October 23, 1905 and there was 316 Children there. There is a lake at the back of the Children’s Village, and also a playground. The Children’s Village is still here to this day, and is believed to be some sort of Asylum. The facts are unclear. |
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==Purpose== |
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Hundreds of homeless and runaway children were present on the streets of New York at the time, and many of them were arrested every year.<ref name="SocialInnovation">{{cite book|last1=Hansen-Turton|first1=Tine|title=Social Innovation and Impact in Nonprofit Leadership|date=15 May 2014|publisher=Springer Publishing Company|isbn=9780826121790|pages=128–130|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q4mSAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA130}}</ref> As part of its mission "to care for, train, and morally uplift a mixed group of the City's poor children," the New York Juvenile Asylum provided housing, education, and reform for those children, and eventually placed them in apprenticeships.<ref name="SocialInnovation" /><ref name="Gotham" /> It provided a non-punitive alternative for children who had been arrested,<ref name="SocialInnovation" /> and taught disobedient or unoccupied children "self-discipline of body, mind, and heart."<ref name="Gotham" /> In its earliest days it was not particularly effective, and became primarily a place to house disruptive children.<ref name=Gotham>{{cite gotham}}, p.780</ref> |
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The mission and purpose of the Children's Village has evolved from its origins in the 1800s, and it now exists to "work in partnership with families to help society's most vulnerable children so that they become educationally proficient, economically productive, and socially responsible members of their communities."<ref name="WebsiteAbout">{{cite web|title=Mission|url=http://childrensvillage.org/about/mission/|website=the Children's Village|publisher=the Children's Village|accessdate=1 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111203221429/http://childrensvillage.org/about/mission/|archive-date=2011-12-03|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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==History== |
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The original charter for the school was drafted in 1850.<ref name=NYT-1860 /> After some initial fundraising difficulties, the school was opened in a rented building on January 10, 1853.<ref name=NYT-1860 /> Early on, the asylum was able to house 400 students, who received six hours of schooling a day, plus other types of instruction, such as vocational education.<ref name="SocialInnovation" /> The school also participated in the [[orphan train]] program between 1855 and 1903, placing 6,323 children with families throughout the Midwest, notably Illinois.<ref name="SocialInnovation" /><ref name="1881Annual" /><ref name="WebsiteHistory" /> |
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[[File:(King1893NYC) pg508 NEW-YORK JUVENILE ASYLUM, AMSTERDAM AVENUE AND 176TH STREET.jpg|thumb|Amsterdam Avenue and 176th Street, Ca 1890]] |
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In 1854 property was purchased in [[Washington Heights, Manhattan|Washington Heights]].<ref name=WebsiteHistory /> This property consisted of 23 acres,<ref name="1881Annual" /> and later expanded to 29.<ref name="SocialInnovation" /> This campus had 1,200 beds,<ref name="SocialInnovation" /> although it averaged 582 children per year between 1871 and 1879.<ref name="1881Annual" /> The original plan called for two separate facilities: a House of Reception where children would be initially sent by authorities and would be fed, bathed, and housed, while an investigation occurred to determine if there were family who would care for them, and the Asylum, where students would be housed long-term.<ref name=NYT-1860 /> A massive building of blue granite was constructed on 175th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues, and opened in 1856.<ref name=NYT-1860 /> It was described as being "somewhat too prison-like in appearance."<ref name=NYT-1860 /> An 1860 ''New York Times'' article said, "It has a front of 150 feet, two wings, each 75 feet in length and 46 in breadth, and a central extension, 82 feet deep and 43 feet in width. A brick wall incloses play-grounds for both sexes."<ref name=NYT-1860 /> |
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Children were committed to the asylum for a variety of reasons, and included children whose parents were incarcerated, whose parents considered them to be "bad" and beyond their control, who had been sustaining themselves by [[begging]], and who were [[truant]]s, homeless, or thieves.<ref name=NYT-1860 /> The asylum was designed to provide such children a home, not to be a prison.<ref name=NYT-1860 /> The facility was racially integrated in 1860.<ref name="SocialInnovation" /> |
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In 1901,<ref name="WPA">{{cite book|last1=Federal Writers' Project|title=The WPA Guide to New York: The Empire State|date=31 October 2013|publisher=Trinity University Press|isbn=9781595342300|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PabpCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT128}}</ref> in the face of rising property values, the Washington Heights site was sold and 277 acres were purchased in [[Dobbs Ferry, New York]], in [[Westchester County, New York|Westchester County]].<ref name=WebsiteHistory /> The new location was intended to be more homelike than the granite building in Washington Heights had been.<ref name=WebsiteHistory /> Instead of dormitories housing 50–75 students,<ref name=NYT-1860 /> it featured cottages arranged around a central quad.<ref name="WebsiteHistory" /> At one point there were more than 40 buildings, including not only cottages and classroom buildings, but also workshops and a printing shop.<ref name="WPA" /> This design won a gold medal for architecture at the [[St. Louis World's Fair]] in 1904.<ref name=WebsiteHistory /> |
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The new facility was designed to be a [[therapeutic community]].<ref name=WebsiteHistory /> The number of children housed and cared for was reduced from an average of 582 per year between 1871 and 1879<ref name=1881Annual>{{cite book|title=Annual Report of the Children's Village to the Legislature of the State and to the Board of Aldermen of the City of New York for the Year|date=1881|publisher=Children's Village|page=15|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mJc-AQAAMAAJ&dq=children%27s+village+juvenile+asylum}}</ref> to 300 in the new facility, where living arrangements were modeled on typical family life; married couples lived with and cared for the children.<ref name=WebsiteHistory /> It was at this time that the facility was renamed "The Children's Village".<ref name=WebsiteHistory /> Children did not stay at the facility indefinitely; after 6–12 months they were returned to their families or placed in foster care.<ref name="SocialInnovation" /> |
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There was a new focus on mental health and social work in the 1920s, with the Children's Village becoming the first residential treatment center in the country to have an on-site psychiatric clinic and a social work training school.<ref name=WebsiteHistory /> |
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The New York Juvenile Asylum and its later incarnation, the Children's Village, saw much success and praise, with many students going on to lead successful lives.<ref name="SocialInnovation" /><ref name="1881Annual" /><ref group=Notes>A ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' obituary from November 10, 1880, reprinted on page 18 of the Children's Village's 1881 annual report notes that [[Peter Walsh (Chicago lawyer)|Peter Walsh]], a "New York waif" who "knew neither father nor mother" had been sent out west by the New York Juvenile Asylum and been adopted by Dr. Porter. He went on to attend the [[University of Michigan Law School|Law School of Ann Arbor]], and served for many years as the Chicago City Attorney and prosecuting attorney.</ref> However, the Children's Village also saw criticism for its institutional model, artificial environment, and practice of mixing "virtuous" children from broken homes with children who had been arrested for criminal activity.<ref name="SocialInnovation" /> |
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In the 1970s and 1980s the racial makeup of the Children's Asylum shifted, with an increasing proportion of [[African-American]] students.<ref name="SocialInnovation" /> The median age dropped to 12, and students remained at the facility longer, often for several years.<ref name="SocialInnovation" /> |
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In the 1990s there was a rise in opposition to residential and institutional facilities nationwide.<ref name="SocialInnovation" /> Many were forced to close.<ref name="SocialInnovation" /> The Children's Village saw its funding, both from government and from private donors, decrease, and it had to tap into its [[Financial endowment|endowment]] to remain afloat.<ref name="SocialInnovation" /> The Children's Village revamped its treatment procedures in light of increased criticism of the residential model.<ref name="SocialInnovation" /> There was an increased focus on treating children's behavioral and emotional problems and preparing them for reintegration with either their families and communities, or a foster home.<ref name="SocialInnovation" /> This re-vamped model resulted in increased funding, both governmental and by private donors, and allowed the Children's Village to increase the number of children it was able to help per year from 5,000 under the old model, to 10,000 in the new one.<ref name="SocialInnovation" /> |
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==Services== |
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As of 2015, the Children's Village serves over 10,000 children per year.<ref name="FastFacts" /> 425 students are accommodated in the residential school in Dobbs Ferry, New York.<ref name="FastFacts" /> It also provides services to children in areas such as: |
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*Immigration services<ref name="FastFacts" /> |
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*Foster care<ref name="FastFacts" /> |
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*Family preservation<ref name="FastFacts" /> |
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*Short-term shelters and housing<ref name="FastFacts" /> |
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*Community outreach programs<ref name="FastFacts" /> |
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*A multi-generational community center<ref name="FastFacts" /> |
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*Summer camps<ref name="Polo">{{cite web|title=Community Center at the Polo Grounds|url=http://childrensvillage.org/nyc-based-programs/pologrounds/|website=The Children's Village|publisher=The Children's Village|accessdate=1 February 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215234129/http://childrensvillage.org/nyc-based-programs/pologrounds/|archivedate=15 February 2016}}</ref> |
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*Affordable housing<ref name="FastFacts" /> |
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*Crisis services<ref name="FastFacts" /> |
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*Day students<ref name="FastFacts" /> |
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*Daycare<ref name="FastFacts" /> |
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==References== |
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'''Explanatory notes''' |
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{{Reflist|group=Notes}} |
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'''Citations''' |
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==External links== |
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*{{Official website|http://childrensvillage.org/}} |
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The Children's Village, formerly the New York Juvenile Asylum, is a private, non-profit[1][2] residential treatment facility and school for troubled children. It was founded in 1851 by 24 citizens of New York who were concerned about growing numbers of street children in New York.[Notes 1][3][4] The necessity for such an institution was first proposed by the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, which helped to get it started.[5]
Purpose[edit]
Hundreds of homeless and runaway children were present on the streets of New York at the time, and many of them were arrested every year.[6] As part of its mission "to care for, train, and morally uplift a mixed group of the City's poor children," the New York Juvenile Asylum provided housing, education, and reform for those children, and eventually placed them in apprenticeships.[6][5] It provided a non-punitive alternative for children who had been arrested,[6] and taught disobedient or unoccupied children "self-discipline of body, mind, and heart."[5] In its earliest days it was not particularly effective, and became primarily a place to house disruptive children.[5]
The mission and purpose of the Children's Village has evolved from its origins in the 1800s, and it now exists to "work in partnership with families to help society's most vulnerable children so that they become educationally proficient, economically productive, and socially responsible members of their communities."[7]
History[edit]
The original charter for the school was drafted in 1850.[3] After some initial fundraising difficulties, the school was opened in a rented building on January 10, 1853.[3] Early on, the asylum was able to house 400 students, who received six hours of schooling a day, plus other types of instruction, such as vocational education.[6] The school also participated in the orphan train program between 1855 and 1903, placing 6,323 children with families throughout the Midwest, notably Illinois.[6][8][4]
_pg508_NEW-YORK_JUVENILE_ASYLUM,_AMSTERDAM_AVENUE_AND_176TH_STREET.jpg)
In 1854 property was purchased in Washington Heights.[4] This property consisted of 23 acres,[8] and later expanded to 29.[6] This campus had 1,200 beds,[6] although it averaged 582 children per year between 1871 and 1879.[8] The original plan called for two separate facilities: a House of Reception where children would be initially sent by authorities and would be fed, bathed, and housed, while an investigation occurred to determine if there were family who would care for them, and the Asylum, where students would be housed long-term.[3] A massive building of blue granite was constructed on 175th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues, and opened in 1856.[3] It was described as being "somewhat too prison-like in appearance."[3] An 1860 New York Times article said, "It has a front of 150 feet, two wings, each 75 feet in length and 46 in breadth, and a central extension, 82 feet deep and 43 feet in width. A brick wall incloses play-grounds for both sexes."[3]
Children were committed to the asylum for a variety of reasons, and included children whose parents were incarcerated, whose parents considered them to be "bad" and beyond their control, who had been sustaining themselves by begging, and who were truants, homeless, or thieves.[3] The asylum was designed to provide such children a home, not to be a prison.[3] The facility was racially integrated in 1860.[6]
In 1901,[9] in the face of rising property values, the Washington Heights site was sold and 277 acres were purchased in Dobbs Ferry, New York, in Westchester County.[4] The new location was intended to be more homelike than the granite building in Washington Heights had been.[4] Instead of dormitories housing 50–75 students,[3] it featured cottages arranged around a central quad.[4] At one point there were more than 40 buildings, including not only cottages and classroom buildings, but also workshops and a printing shop.[9] This design won a gold medal for architecture at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904.[4]
The new facility was designed to be a therapeutic community.[4] The number of children housed and cared for was reduced from an average of 582 per year between 1871 and 1879[8] to 300 in the new facility, where living arrangements were modeled on typical family life; married couples lived with and cared for the children.[4] It was at this time that the facility was renamed "The Children's Village".[4] Children did not stay at the facility indefinitely; after 6–12 months they were returned to their families or placed in foster care.[6]
There was a new focus on mental health and social work in the 1920s, with the Children's Village becoming the first residential treatment center in the country to have an on-site psychiatric clinic and a social work training school.[4]
The New York Juvenile Asylum and its later incarnation, the Children's Village, saw much success and praise, with many students going on to lead successful lives.[6][8][Notes 2] However, the Children's Village also saw criticism for its institutional model, artificial environment, and practice of mixing "virtuous" children from broken homes with children who had been arrested for criminal activity.[6]
In the 1970s and 1980s the racial makeup of the Children's Asylum shifted, with an increasing proportion of African-American students.[6] The median age dropped to 12, and students remained at the facility longer, often for several years.[6]
In the 1990s there was a rise in opposition to residential and institutional facilities nationwide.[6] Many were forced to close.[6] The Children's Village saw its funding, both from government and from private donors, decrease, and it had to tap into its endowment to remain afloat.[6] The Children's Village revamped its treatment procedures in light of increased criticism of the residential model.[6] There was an increased focus on treating children's behavioral and emotional problems and preparing them for reintegration with either their families and communities, or a foster home.[6] This re-vamped model resulted in increased funding, both governmental and by private donors, and allowed the Children's Village to increase the number of children it was able to help per year from 5,000 under the old model, to 10,000 in the new one.[6]
Services[edit]
As of 2015, the Children's Village serves over 10,000 children per year.[2] 425 students are accommodated in the residential school in Dobbs Ferry, New York.[2] It also provides services to children in areas such as:
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References[edit]
Explanatory notes
- ^ The 24 incorporators were Robert B. Minturn, Myndert Van Schaick, Robert M. Stratton, Solomon Jenner, Albert Gilbert, Stewart Brown, Francis R. Tillou, David S. Kennedy, Joseph B. Collins, Benjamin F. Butler, Isaac T. Hopper, Charles Partridge, Luther Bradish, Christopher Y. Wemple, Charles O'Conor, John D. Russ, John Duer, Peter Cooper, Apollos R. Wetmore, Frederick S. Winston, James Kelly, Silas C. Herring, Rensselaer N. Havens, and John W. Edmonds.
- ^ A Chicago Tribune obituary from November 10, 1880, reprinted on page 18 of the Children's Village's 1881 annual report notes that Peter Walsh, a "New York waif" who "knew neither father nor mother" had been sent out west by the New York Juvenile Asylum and been adopted by Dr. Porter. He went on to attend the Law School of Ann Arbor, and served for many years as the Chicago City Attorney and prosecuting attorney.
Citations
- ^ Matthew, Perry (8 January 2009). The Fourteen Lives of Matt Perry. AuthorHouse. pp. 137–138. ISBN 9781467051835.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Fast Facts". The Children's Village. The Children's Village. Archived from the original on 14 December 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Staff (January 31, 1860). "Our City Charities—No. II.; The New-York Juvenile Asylum". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "History". The Children's Village. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
- ^ a b c d Burrows, Edwin G. and Wallace, Mike (1999). Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-195-11634-8., p.780
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Hansen-Turton, Tine (15 May 2014). Social Innovation and Impact in Nonprofit Leadership. Springer Publishing Company. pp. 128–130. ISBN 9780826121790.
- ^ "Mission". the Children's Village. the Children's Village. Archived from the original on 2011-12-03. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ^ a b c d e Annual Report of the Children's Village to the Legislature of the State and to the Board of Aldermen of the City of New York for the Year. Children's Village. 1881. p. 15.
- ^ a b Federal Writers' Project (31 October 2013). The WPA Guide to New York: The Empire State. Trinity University Press. ISBN 9781595342300.
- ^ "Community Center at the Polo Grounds". The Children's Village. The Children's Village. Archived from the original on 15 February 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2016.