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• The Foster Boarding Home Program and Group Home Program are established
• The Little Flower School becomes a Special Education School of the New York City Public Education System

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• Little Flower establishes The Adoption Services Program
• New York State Legislature signs a bill creating the Little Flower School of Wading River, Union Free School District No. 3 Little Flower opens the first Intermediate Care Facility (ICF) for developmentally disabled adults in Brooklyn
• A fire destroys the children’s dormitories on the Wading River campus, forcing the emergency relocation of all residents

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• All children return to the rebuild campus
• McSharry’s Hope ICF, a home for 20 developmentally disabled adults, opens in Wading River
• The “Starting Over” Program, currently known as the Therapeutic Foster Boarding Home (TFBH) Program, is established to serve adolescents at risk
• The “Family Day Care Program” is established to serve children in provider homes across Suffolk and Nassau Counties and Queens

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• Little Flower Children’s Health Center opens in Brooklyn to provide medical treatment to children in care
• A new medical and respite building, “Bonnie & Betty’s House,” opens on the Wading River campus
• Two new two-bed Individualized Residential Alternative (IRA) facilities open in Jamaica, NY.
• Little Flower is awarded one of the largest contracts in NYC to serve Brooklyn youth at-risk of out-of-home placement due to their involvement with the juvenile justice system as part of the Juvenile Justice Initiative
• Little Flower establishes the ElderCare Solutions program
• The Bridges to Health (B2H) program begins serving the needs of children in foster care and their families with the goal of keeping them in the community

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• Little Flower begins a care management model, Health Homes, to help children access critical health care and services
• A new Individual Residential Alternative (IRA), opens in Valley Stream, Long Island, our first in Nassau County
• Little Flower opens its first all-female residence, Rose House, a new IRA in Bayside, Queens
• Little Flower is certified as a Sanctuary organization, aiding in the creation of a trauma-informed community
• Little Flower enters into an affiliation agreement with St. John’s Residence for Boys, which serves abused, dependent, and neglected young men in the Rockaways
• The NYC Flagship office in Brooklyn opens, placing staff from the Jamaica, Queens, and Downtown Brooklyn offices under one roof

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• Dr. Melinda Konigsberg launches Children and Family Treatment Support Services and Home and Community-Based Services programs, enabling children and youth in foster care and their families the opportunity to access high-quality preventive and therapeutic services to improve their health and well-being
• Little Flower becomes nationally accredited by the Council on Accreditation (COA), recognizing the organization for meeting national best practice standards for our work with clients, our support to our employees, and our compliance with oversight bodies
• Little Flower opens its first primary prevention program: a Family Enrichment Center in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn called the Bed-Stuy N.E.S.T.
• Little Flower makes the decision to close its nine Independent Residential Alternatives (IRAs), small group homes for adults with disabilities, and shift its focus on community-based programs for this service population
• St. John’s Residence for Boys opens three new programs to serve youth and young adults in the juvenile justice system