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Horizons for Homeless Children is funded by the federal and Massachusetts state government, [7] as well as private and corporate donors. [7] In the past, the organization has received funding from the federal government for emergency childcare support for families experiencing homelessness in Boston.
Operated by the Robert F. Kennedy Children's Action Corps, Inc., the center was the first Massachusetts juvenile correctional facility operated by a private provider. [12] Springfield Secure Treatment Program (Springfield) [13] South Hadley Girls Treatment Program (South Hadley) [14] Youth service centers:
The clock tower was demolished in 2012, to make way for a parking lot. A replica of the clocktower was later rebuilt (in the same spot) as a tribute to the old Worcester State Hospital. The new clock tower is visible from Route 9 West in downtown Shrewsbury, MA near the Shrewsbury/Worcester town line or from Clocktower Drive in Worcester MA.
Home for Destitute Catholic Children, Boston was a temporary home in Boston, Massachusetts for destitute and neglected children, aged 4 to 12, of any race, creed, or nationality. The Home was incorporated in 1891, succeeding the Association for the Protection of Destitute Roman Catholic Children in Boston , incorporated in 1864.
Franciscan Children's was founded in 1949 through the collaboration of Archbishop of Boston Richard Cushing and the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. [3] Funded largely with a $600,000 gift by the Kennedy family, the hospital was originally named the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Memorial Hospital, [2] [5] honoring the late Kennedy who was killed during a 1944 air mission over England during World War ...
Presently, it is not affiliated with any other organization. The Floating Hospital for Children in Boston, founded in 1894, was inspired by the Floating Hospital in New York but was always a separate organization. It became a land-based acute care hospital in the 1930s and later merged with Tufts Medical Center.
The Fernald Center, originally called the Experimental School for Teaching and Training Idiotic Children, [4] [5] was founded in Boston by reformer Samuel Gridley Howe in 1848 with a $2,500 appropriation from the Massachusetts State Legislature. The school gradually moved to a new permanent location in Waltham between 1888 and 1891.
During the city-sanctioned sweep on January 12, Boston police officers logged just over $17,000 in overtime payments in one day. [49] From January 12 to October 31 of 2022, Boston placed 1,960 people in short-term substance-use treatment placements and sheltered 417 people at six low-threshold sites. [47]