CHILD & FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER
"We strengthen families..."
6424 N. 9th ST.
Tacoma, WA 98406
(253) 565-4484
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History: Brief Timeline of Child & Family's Legacy in Tacoma
When
the doors of Associate Charities opened in 1895, no one
could have imagined the impact the organization would have had on thousands
of lives over the century to come. The Center started with services to help
families struggling to survive the greatest economic depression of the 19th
century in Pierce County.
1921: Associated Charities became the Family Welfare Association, focusing on work with unwed & abandoned mothers.
1941:
Agency focuses its efforts on the growing
problem of domestic abuse and child neglect in wartime Tacoma.
1967: The Agency is renamed Family Counseling Service, to reflect the nature of work with low-income families and children throughout Tacoma & Pierce County.
1990: Our current central facility, Wiegman Family Center, is built in the north end of Tacoma.
1997: Child Guidance Clinic merges with the agency to become the Child & Family Guidance Center (CFGC).
2005:
Tacoma Learning Center
merges with and becomes a significant program of Child &
Family Guidance
Center, adding the experience of this pioneer in Pierce County Early
Childhood Education to the agency's mission of strengthening families.
2006: Children's Wing is completed and christened in February, expanding the capacity of Child & Family Guidance Center to serve a broken generation of children in Tacoma & Pierce County.
