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| 1984 |
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| Surplus
Food Distribution Program begins serving 60,000
households every three months. ~ Home Equity
Program begins. |
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| 1986 |
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Head Start receives state supplemental funding. ~
Department of Day Care Services established to expand
neighborhood and Head Start-based day care programs. |
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| Jesse
Jackson at the 1986 Community Awards Dinner |
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| 1988 |
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| Proposal
submitted to state Board of Regents to establish higher
degree granting institution at ABCD – the Urban
College of Boston. Jessie B. Cox Charitable Foundation
provides three-year start-up grant of $250,000 for
Urban College. ~ ABCD Housing Services opens “housing
search” program to aid welfare families who are
homeless and living in hotels. |
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1985 |
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| Housing
Services Program established. ~ Foster Grandparents
Program receives state supplemental funding. |
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1987 |
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Massachusetts Immigration and Refugee Assistance
(MIRA) coalition established and based at ABCD
to assure that immigrants rights are protected.
~ Urban College Program holds symposium on access
to higher education for low-income learners. ~
Ford Foundation and Public Private Ventures, Philadelphia,
give ABCD special award for its Summer Training
and Education Program (STEP) to combat high school
dropout problem. |
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1989 |
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| ABCD
Head Start opens special Parent Child Center for
infants and toddlers who are HIV positive. ~ Day
Care Department opens South Cove Teen Parent Program
for infants and toddlers and their teenage parents.
~ ABCD is lead agency in new Boston Initiative
for Teen Pregnancy Prevention. |
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ABCD History 1990-1995 >>
