Protestant Home for Babies
- Protestant Home for Babies
Protestant Home for Babies was located in the lavish and historic Garden District of New Orleans, Louisiana. It was established in 1926 by community women seeking to provide a shelter for destitute infants. In 1959, maternity services were added to provide short-term shelter for pregnant young women. The shelter continued to provide for adoptable and homeless infants. By 1974 the community's needs for maternity home services decreased and the Board of Directors discontinued the maternity and infant shelters. A group home was established for adolescent girls in need of a nurturing home environment. In 1979, the agency's name was officially changed from Protestant Home for Babies to Raintree Services.
Raintree Services is a non-sectarian social service organization still operating today at the same location and provides assistance to more than 400 children each year.
Today, many adoptees and birth-families from the Protestant Home for Babies, and all over Louisiana, search for each other on the Internet.
External links
* [http://www.protestanthomeforbabies.com/ Protestant Home for Babies]
* [http://www.raintreeservices.org/ Raintree Services]
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