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For over 90 years, our agency has embodied itself in our mission to serve those living in Madison County. The timeline below touches on some key moments in our history of caring.
| 1916 | A group of civic-minded individuals create a family oriented agency named Alton Public (Welfare) Council with a mission to help impoverished mothers care for their own children, and provide care to people in their homes. |
| 1923 | Alton Visiting Nurse Association (which began in 1917) merged with our organization as a result of struggles for both to raise money. The two organizations formed Associated Charities . |
| 1931 | With the onset of the depression, staff from Associated Charities were "loaned" to the Illinois Emergency Relief Commission. The agency set up a warehouse to distribute clothes, shoes, and blankets to area families. Near the end of the depression, in 1936, staff returned to Associated Charities and resumed visiting nurse and visits to mothers of newborn children. |
| 1954 | We changed our name to Family Service and Visiting Nurse Association to more accurately reflect services given. |
| 1978 | We began providing counseling to adolescents and their families under contract with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, which has evolved into Transitions Counseling. |
| 1983 | We became the grantee for Madison County Head Start services, which originally served 8 communities and 380 families. |
| 1987 | We became a United Way member agency to provide mental health Transitions Counseling services on a sliding-fee scale. |
| 1992 | We began a federal comprehensive child development program serving children from birth to three years of age, including pregnant mothers that evolved as an expansion to Head Start. |
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As part of a strategic direction change, we sold the VNA and transferred primary health programs to another area non-profit. This led to our current focus on child development, family strengthening and counseling services. Also in 1997, we began offering what is today Family Foundations. |
| 2000 | We changed our name to Riverbend Head Start & Family Services to better reflect our focus. |
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Special thanks to our 2010 Circle of Care Corporate Sponsors
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