Children's Mission to Children (Boston, Mass.)

found: NUCMC data from Children's Hospital Boston Archives for Children's Mission to Children records, 1884-1978(The Children's Mission to Children was founded in 1849 by the generous impulse of Fannie S. Merrill, the nine-year-old daughter of a Unitarian Sunday School teacher, to help the neglected and homeless children of Boston; organization was incorporated in 1864 as the Children's Mission to the Children of the Destitute in the City of Boston; in the early years, a missionary was hired to work among the children and their families but this soon proved inadequate; money was then raised for a home on Tremont Street where abandoned children and ones whose families were unable to keep them were given shelter; the organization soon realized, however, that this type of institution was a poor substitute for a real home; beginning in 1900, children were boarded in private homes and by 1907 the home on Tremont Street was finally abandoned in favor of foster home care; in 1913 the organization changed its name to the Children's Mission to Children; the Children's Mission became affiliated with the Children's Hospital Medical Center in 1949; the name of the organization was once again changed in 1967 to the Parents' and Children's Services of the Children's Mission; by this time the focus of the organization had also shifted from providing services to families with sick or handicapped children to working with troubled and emotionally disturbed children)