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- 1. The Children Aids Society By: Akeba Ibrahim
- 2. Charles Loring Brace • Studied theology in new York in 1848 • Saw that children lived in alley, or abandoned buildings or and under stairways • Children were bootblacks, beggars and prostitutes • Founded Children Aids Society in 1853 • Address problem such as abuse, homelessness and neglect • Orphan Train Movement
- 3. Orphan Train Movement • held between 1853- 1929 • Children from New York City was taken from their homes to farm families • Children were given to shopkeepers, carpenters, blacksmiths and farmers. • 75 years the Children’s Aid Society used the Orphan Trains to take over 105,000 children to all of the contiguous forty-eight states except Arizona • Ended in 1929 during the depression
- 4. Anna May Potthoff Keeton And William James Potthoff Kimmel • Staten Island • Parents were William and Anna White Potthoff • On July 6, 1909 Anna and William were put in the Five Points House of Industry in New York City because no sign of family • January 10, 1911 they were sent to The Children Aids Society still no family • went on Orphan Train to Oskaloosa, Kansas on January 17, 1911 where they stood with their new family which was the Louis and Margaret Kimmel family
- 5. Children Aids Society Now • Serve for over 160 years now • foster care program finds homes for more than 500 children each year • The foster care program also provides services like Family Foster Care, Medical Foster Care, Therapeutic Foster Care • afterschool program/summer programs, • adolescent pregnancy prevention program, • nutrition program and health services, • juvenile justice program • Educational Program • financial literacy • community base programs • teen talk • Free lunch program that provide low income students a hot meal • Employment
- 6. Funding Not enough funding to keep it open