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Time Frame

A LOOK BACK AT HISTORICAL MID-JERSEY BUSINESSES

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OPENED: 1860 LOCATION: Trenton
SIGNIFICAN
CE: Created by an act of the New Jersey
Legislature, UIH is the oldest child welfare agency in
the state.

UIH FAMILY PARTNERS

More than 100 years of working to improve Trenton

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n 1859, before the Civil War, women’s During the 1970s, the organization, creation, job search and placement, mock

rights, and other historic events, a union which began as a co-ed orphanage, interviews, interview clothing through
of Presbyterian Church ladies saw the evolved into a home for emotionally Dress2Impress, anger management

need in an increasingly industrialized disturbed boys. In the 1980s, the agency classes, inancial literacy, parenting educa-
society to establish a home for the desti-
became a residential home for teen moms tion, and Platinum Dads awards.

tute children of Trenton.
and their babies who were placed by the UIH also conducts teen pregnancy pre-
Union Industrial Home for Destitute
NJ Department of Children and Families.
vention for adolescent males in Trenton,

Children of Trenton was established The 1990s saw the addition of a New Brunswick, and Plainield using an
through an act of the New Jersey Leg- program for men created out of pilot evidenced-based curriculum called

islature in 1860, making UIH the oldest funding through the federal Parents’ Fair Making Proud Choices.
child welfare agency in the state. Its name Share Act. Operation Fatherhood was UIH Family Partners, through funding

was changed to UIH Family Partners in developed to help men get to work to pay from the Robert Wood Johnson Founda-
2007. While its venue and programs have their child support orders. For almost 23 tion, plans to increase marketing and out-

changed over time to relect changes in years, UIH has implemented programs to reach throughout greater Mercer County
society, its commitment to child and family strengthen families by empowering fathers and beyond, and aims to include Latino

well being remains steadfast.
through workforce development, resume
fathers among those it assists.

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