| | | Whitney
Young was originally founded in 1958 by executive director, Rosie Lee Williams,
as the Christian Welfare Society, Inc., a community service center in Bayview
/ Hunters' Point with two divisions; the Neighborhood Home and Health Care program
and the Growth and Development Center. For 20 years the agency acted as a relentless
advocate for the community's poor and disadvantaged and is recognized as becoming
the first school in the nation for low-income handicapped children. In 1977, in
dedication to the late, Whitney M. Young, Jr., the agency
changed its name and launched a unique and innovative children's program under
the executive directorship of Careth B. Reid. Under Reid's direction, Whitney
Young would become the model of some renown for urban childcare programs. This
award winning children's program would set new expectations in the role of child
development centers. Whitney Young has become well known for its use of specialists,
artists, therapists and other instructors in addition to regular teaching staff. | |
