Gateway-Longview has a rich history of caring for the children and families of Western New York. In the beginning, there were two separate agencies: the Buffalo Deaconess Home of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Protestant Home for Unprotected Children. Each cared for the poor and orphaned children of the community. This is our history.
1890
Buffalo Deaconess Home of the Methodist Episcopal Church is formed.
1904
Buffalo Deaconess Home of the Methodist Episcopal Church takes in its first child.
1912
A generous bequest from a supporter named Elizabeth Sheldon enables the Buffalo Deaconess Home of the Methodist Episcopal Church to purchase a 66-acre farm in Williamsville, New York, and build the facilities needed to house the growing number of orphaned children placed in care.
1917
The Protestant Home for Unprotected Children is formed. Later that same year, the Protestant Home for Unprotected Children takes in its first orphaned child‚ Baby Grace‚ and purchases the Letchworth Mansion at 605 Niagara Street in Buffalo, New York, thanks to generous donations.
1964
Lynde School is built on the Williamsville, New York, Campus.
1967
Buffalo Deaconess Home of the Methodist Episcopal Church is renamed Gateway. Simultaneously, the Protestant Home for Unprotected Children opens Camp Cummings, a summer camp, for its residents and a group home for young men named Hughson House.
1971
The Protestant Home for Unprotected Children opens its Niagara Day Care Center.
1975
The Protestant Home for Unprotected Children is renamed Longview Niagara.
Meanwhile, Gateway launches its Community Services Foster Care Program in Rochester and Jamestown, New York.
1979
Longview-Niagara begins serving children at the St. John's North and South Agency Operated Boarding Homes.
1982
Gateway's Lynde School is expanded to provide comprehensive elementary and secondary education.
1987
Gateway begins offering Day Treatment at its Lynde School for students with educational, as well as emotional, social and behavioral challenges.
1990
Gateway opens a Therapeutic Preschool and begins offering adoption services for children in care.
1991
Gateway launches its Supervised Independent Living Program, or SILP, for teens and young adults, too old for foster care and too young to care for themselves.
1994
Gateway begins offering Preventive Respite services for children and families in need of temporary care and assistance.
1996
Gateway and Longview Niagara merge to become Gateway-Longview.
1998
The Gateway Longview Foundation is formed to provide financial support to sustain the agency's programs and services.
1999
Gateway-Longview's Community Services department moves from the Ellicott Square Building in downtown Buffalo, New York, into the Gateway-Longview’s facility at 605 Niagara Street to consolidate programming. Mother/Baby SILP is added to better serve teenage mother and their children.
2002
Gateway-Longview opens its Mother/Baby Group Home. Meanwhile, Gateway-Longview's Elementary Day School/Treatment program moves into the Sacred Heart School.
2003
Gateway-Longview adds Tradition Preventive Respite services to its Preventive Services programs. Additionally, Families United, a teen parenting program, joins forces with Gateway-Longview. Finally, Gateway-Longview's group home in Williamsville, New York, officially becomes an Ed Block Courage House.
2004
Gateway-Longview begins serving youth classified as hard to serve through its Changing Attitudes and Behaviors, or C.A.B., program. At the same time, Gateway-Longview launches its Vendor Services program.
2005
Gateway-Longview launches its Wrap Around program, with the addition of the Care Coordination program. At the same time, Gateway-Longview's Ed Block Courage House becomes a Respite Home.
2006
Gateway-Longview moves its corporate headquarters from the Williamsville Campus into the City of Buffalo to better serve children and families.
2007
Gateway-Longview opens the Family Resource Center at 347 East Ferry Street in Buffalo, New York.
2008
The organization breaks ground on a state-of-the-art Residential Treatment facility designed to house children placed in its Changing Attitudes and Behaviors (CAB) program.
2009
Gateway-Longview and the Lt. Col. Matt Urban Center partner together to construct a new apartment complex to mentor, support, and house teens and young adults who have aged out of foster care.
Today
Gateway-Longview provides a comprehensive continuum of care for almost 850 children and families with a network of almost 400 caring professionals.
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