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1936, after the
Depression and governmental reform, Winston and Forsyth County
began to take over emergency relief and Associated Charities
moved toward family rehabilitation. Counseling
services were offered as hasty marriages of the war years
and layoffs in defense related industries after WWII brought
a rising rate of family disruption. |
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1940, the agency name changed
to Family Service Agency of the Associated Charities.
The agency assumed primary responsibility for handling
adoption requests and finding temporary
foster homes for abused and neglected children. The Children's
Division was established and in 1943, the
name of the agency changed to Family and Child Service
Agency of the Associated Charities. |
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1950s, the children's program
grew and a community survey indicated the need for the agency
to continue emergency relief. Other social service agencies
merged with the Agency, and counseling became more publicly
acceptable. |
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In the late 1950s, James Gordon
Hanes took a leading role in helping Family Services find
a new facility. And in 1958, the James Gordon
Hanes Community Center was dedicated. |
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1965, because of its counseling
programs, working with neglected and abused children and running
daycare centers, the Agency launched Head
Start, a program to prepare underprivileged children as
young as 3 with the socialization and other skills they would
need for kindergarten. |
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1967, the new name Family
Services, Inc., became the name that has remained through
today. |
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1970s saw the importance of
counseling strengthen and programs that focused on the entire
family and new modalities such as "group" therapy
became more common. |
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1984, the Agency officially
acquired the Battered Women's Shelter, as well as the Rape
Response program (that began as a separate agency in 1978).
Groundbreaking for renovated facilities, following a successful
capital campaign, was August, 1989. These
programs, plus an abuser treatment program became Violence
Response. |
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2001, CONTACT
Hopelines, a 24/7 phone support and crisis service merged
with Family Services, Inc. The Ways
to Work program, which allows families to maintain stability
by securing inexpensive bank loans for their transportation
needs, also became part of the agency. |
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2005, the Agency celebrated
its 100th Anniversary. |
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2006, 2nd
Century Capital Campaign launched to construction of a
new building at the city's Southeast Gateway. |
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2008, FAMILY SERVICES, INC. HAS RELOCATED TO A NEW "GREEN" BUILDING AT 1200 S. BROAD STREET IN WINSTON-SALEM. |
