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Family Preservation and Support Services
All Children’s House Family Center at
Echo Park
ABC is dedicated to defending and strengthening needy
families so that they ultimately emerge more invigorated and
cohesive, responsible for themselves and to their
communities.
Families are given the tools that foster long-term
stability through home-based case management, parenting
classes, family counseling, advocacy, housing and
entitlement assistance.
While also responding to the immediate needs of the
family, ABC’s preventive services promote family strength
through innovative strategies such as art therapy, parent
support groups, parent-infant play groups, thematic monthly
parent education workshops, young leaders groups, an
intensive baby outreach program and an incentive program for
teens that rewards school attendance, academic performance
and program participation.
Vulnerable families who are seriously at-risk of losing
their children to foster care are helped to develop
techniques to effectively and appropriately respond to their
children ensuring that children are not abused or neglected
but rather are well cared for and protected, mitigating the
damage of homelessness, drug exposure, violence, physical
and mental illness, low birth weight and neglect.
The goal is to give families the resources to become
strong advocates for themselves so that they can break the
cycles of abuse, neglect and despair that often accompany
grinding poverty. In the last year 300 children, from 150
families, were served in the program.
Supportive Housing Services
Twenty-one years ago, in response to the growing number of
uprooted, desperate families forced either to sleep on park
benches or to seek shelter in dangerous, filthy “welfare”
hotels that were as brutally unfit for habitation as they
were expensive, ABC challenged the status quo by developing
a new standard for successfully and humanely housing
homeless families. With ABC’s transformation of a five-story
tenement building in East Harlem into Rosie and Harry’s
Place, a safe, constructive, life-affirming sanctuary for
large homeless families, a replicable model was created for
cost-effective, transitional housing. Rosie and Harry’s
Place ensured not only decent, temporary, three-bedroom
apartments with eat-in kitchens but also provided family
members the full range of supportive services necessary to
help each family regain its dignity, its footing and its
future. Today, transitional supportive housing programs
across New York State use the model that Rosie and Harry’s
Place established in the mid-1980’s and exemplified until
its closing in 2005.
The Jamie Rose
The Jamie Rose is the replicable model for permanent,
supportive housing for homeless families with AIDS.
 It sustains and strengthens families weakened by chronic
illness and crushing poverty by offering vulnerable families
bright, sunny, furnished apartments along with on-site Head
Start, case management and psychiatric, educational and
recreational services.
Many years of experience providing effective programs for
homeless children and families with HIV laid the foundation
for ABC's development of The Jamie Rose which made use of a
unique and previously untapped combination of funding
streams to create this secure home for formerly homeless
families, a model for permanent supportive housing.
A strong sense of community and fortitude
suffuse its spirit making the Jamie Rose a symbol for
triumphant survival. The Jamie Rose has apartments for 8
families.
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