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The Children’s Home of Pittsburgh, established in 1893, is an independent non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote the health and well-being of infants and children through services which establish and strengthen the family. These services include: Adoption, Child’s Way, and a Pediatric Specialty Hospital. In March 2007, The Children’s Home moved into its new home on Penn Avenue in the Friendship neighborhood of Pittsburgh. It added ‘Lemieux Family Center’ to its name in recognition of ongoing support from The Mario Lemieux Foundation and to highlight the shared philosophy that families are the focus of both organizations. == History == The Children’s Home began in 1893 as The Pennsylvania Children’s Home Society and was founded to care for orphaned children and find them permanent homes. The first Children’s Home was located on Penn Avenue in the Wilkinsburg neighborhood of Pittsburgh. In 1935, after several location changes, The Society settled in the Shadyside neighborhood and officially changed its name to The Children’s Home of Pittsburgh. After moving one more time in 1969, the organization now resides on Penn Avenue in the neighborhood of Friendship. In the 1980s and 1990s, two distinct medical programs were introduced. The first was the Transitional Infant Care hospital (T.I.C.), which opened in 1984 and the second was Child’s Way, which opened in 1998, as the first pediatric extended care center in the state of Pennsylvania. In the early 2000s, demand continued to grow for The Children’s Home’s services and the opening of the new location provided the space necessary to continue to further develop these programs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Children's Home of Pittsburgh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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