| 1970 |
Fairview Inn (the original name)
opens on New Year's Day, founded by Mr. John Morrell and his
wife Janice.
Opportunities for Broome is contacted for workers and help.
Several individuals throughout the community lend their
assistance; churches, AA members, clients, families, and local
unions supply materials, labor and most importantly, their
time.
Fairview becomes the first halfway house of its kind in the
area for male alcoholics. |
| July 1970 |
Fairview Inn is awarded a $30,000
grant. This is the first receipt of funding to supplement the $4
per day fee from residents. |
| Feb. 1971 |
Fairview begins the operation of an
Information & Referral Center located at 115 Susquehanna St.
staffed by two outreach workers. |
| Feb. 1971 |
State budget trimming threatens to
leave Fairview with no funding for the next fiscal year. |
| June 1971 |
A 'canister program' is implemented
to raise funds. Donation canisters are set up in establishments
that sell liquor. |
| Sept. 1971 |
A bed expansion takes place
increasing the capacity of the Halfway House from 3 to 19 beds. |
| 1972 |
The Fairview Inn is renamed and
incorporated as Fairview Halfway House to avoid a conflict with
another NYS facility with the same name. |
| 1973 |
Funding is received for Merrick
House. |
| 1974 |
Merrick House opens as a supportive
living program for "long term and chronic elderly alcoholics" |
| 1975 |
The "Sobering Up Station" opens on
March 24 at 38 Carroll Street in Binghamton and operates from
4pm to 8am - it is designed as a safe alternative to jail. |
| 1976 |
The opening of the "Sobering-Up
Station" promotes the idea that being intoxicated should not
necessarily be treated as a crime.
Funding is provided by the state Office of Mental Hygiene. |
| 1977 |
The "Sobering-Up Station" is
threatened with closure due to lack of funding from the County
Legislature.
This decision is reversed when local legislators visit the
facility and change their view of the importance of the
service. |
1979
|
Merrick House is expanded from 7 to
12 beds.
|
| 1983 |
Fairview's Information and Referral
Center is co-located with the "Sobering-Up Station" on Carroll
Street. |
| 1985 |
A 4-bed unit for "extended care" is
added to the "Sobering-Up Station" to allow individuals to
remain in care for longer periods of time pending placement at
different levels of care. |
1985
|
The Information & Referral Program
and the "Sobering-Up Station" are now referred to as the Alcohol
Crisis Center.
|
| Feb. 1995 |
The Alcohol Crisis Center is moved
from Carroll St. to a totally renovated building located at 247
Court Street - its current location. |
| 1995 |
The YWCA's ClearVisions for Women
Halfway House program is transferred to Fairview. Merrick House
now becomes a 12-bed halfway house program for women. This
change allows Fairview's 15-bed Supportive Living program to be
moved into apartments in the community. |
| 1996 |
In favor of cost effectiveness, a
decision is made to construct a new halfway house building for
men rather than renovate the old halfway house building at 5
Merrick Street. The old facility suffers from numerous building
code violations and structural deficiencies. |
| 1997 |
Fairview Halfway House Inc. changes
its name to Fairview Recovery Services, Inc. to more accurately
reflect its diversification and mission. |
| 1997 |
After a failed attempt in 1996,
Fairview receives 3 years of funding from HUD ($432,730) for a
supportive housing project. This effort allows for an expansion
of the Supportive Living program for men of 12 beds and also
provides funding for a homeless outreach worker and a vocational
counselor. |
| 1998 |
In June, the move is made to a new 9,000 square
foot facility which houses the 24-bed men's halfway house
program and administration. This move incorporates a 5-bed
expansion, intended to be used for criminal justice clients as
needed. The total capital grant for the construction project
approaches $1 million.
The 1-5 Merrick Street campus is now the site of
both the new Fairview Halfway House 24-bed men's program and
Merrick House 12-bed women's halfway house program. The "old
building" is demolished and turned into a parking lot. |
| 1998 |
A Minor Maintenance Grant of
$40,000 is received from the New York State Office of Alcoholism
and Substance Abuse Services to undertake much needed
renovations to Merrick House. |
| 1999 |
Fairview receives a HUD Shelter+
Care grant of $673,800 to be used over a 5-year period, to
provide rental assistance for 25 persons who are recovering from
alcoholism and substance abuse. |
| 1999 |
A HUD Supportive Housing project
for women and children, originally awarded to the YWCA, is
transferred to Fairview. The grant of $239,904, to be used over
3 years, will allow Fairview to develop 5 apartments for women
with children in its supportive living program.
This represents the first time that Fairview is
able to offer a full continuum of residential care for women in
recovery. |
| 1999 |
Fairview Recovery Services is
chosen by the Broome County Department of Mental Health and New
York State OASAS to develop a Case Management Demonstration
Project for the chronically chemically dependent. The two-year,
$600,000 project will allow Fairview to work with hard- to-
serve clients who have shown little sustained benefit from
traditional services. |
| 1999 |
Fairview Recovery Services receives
Reinvestment funding from the New York State Office of Mental
Health to share a staff member with the Binghamton Psychiatric
Center, to increase the agency's ability to admit and care for
clients who are dually diagnosed with mental illness and
chemical dependency. |
| 1999 |
Fairview Recovery Services is awarded a $100,000
grant from OASAS for a vocational services initiative. The
Career Choices Unlimited program is developed to provide
vocational case management and job readiness training to
individuals with barriers to employment as a result of their
history of chemical dependency.
Fairview is chosen to provide vocational and
educational (Voc/ed.) services as part of a multi-agency family
independence program, intended to remove barriers that are
preventing TANF families from becoming self-sufficient.
Fairview is now able to consolidate its three
separate Voc/Ed. Efforts - HUD, FIP, and Career Choices
Unlimited - into a Voc/Ed. division, co-located with the
Addiction Center of Broome County at 455 State Street in
Binghamton. |
1999
|
Fairview receives a $24,000 minor maintenance
grant from OASAS to correct serious drainage and erosion
problems at the Merrick Street campus. This funding also allowed
for the completion of much needed landscaping, completing the
Halfway House Capital Project.
|
| 2000 |
As part of countywide activities for April -
Alcohol Awareness Month, FRS celebrates its 30th year
anniversary with a Board sponsored ceremony and awards
presentation. Recognitions were provided to employee, James
Mannion, for his 25 year association with Fairview and to Board
members, Jim Blanche and Joe Regan for their 30 & 19 years of
service on the Board. |
| 2000 |
The Agency's HUD sponsored Men's Supported
Housing Program is renewed for an additional three years, for a
total of $431,241. |
| 2001 |
The Agency's HUD sponsored Women & Children's
Supported Housing Program is renewed for an additional three
years for a total of $246,000. |
| 2001 |
To meet the growing demand for Supportive Living
beds associated with the Women & Children's Supported Housing
Program, the Agency submitted a Certificate of Need application
in 2000, to the County and OASAS, to increase its capacity from
34 to 45 beds. Approval was received in 2001 enabling the Agency
to expand to better meet the needs of the community for
transitional housing. |
| 2001 |
The generosity of Ben Boldt results in a large
private residence at 116 Fairview Avenue being gifted to
Fairview. In addition, a contiguous tract of land directly
behind the Halfway House is purchased. The Agency's Board of
Directors unanimously agrees to develop the residence as Mannion
House to honor long time employee James Mannion. |
| 2001 |
Funding for the Agency's Addiction Case
Management Program, a highly effective demonstration program
targeted at high need/ high cost chronically addicted
individuals, is cut by $150,000. Fairview is unable to secure
funding from other sources and is forced to cut the program in
half. |
| 2001 |
Clients are admitted to the MICA
Enhanced Residential Services project, funded through the New
York State Office of Mental Health Community Reinvestment
funds. Five to ten Community Residence beds are designated for
dually diagnosed clients. A shared staff from Binghamton
Psychiatric Center is assigned to work with them here at
Fairview. |
| 2002 |
A new membership organization, Friends of
Fairview, is founded to provide opportunities for the community
to stay in touch with Fairview and support its mission through
volunteer efforts and donations. The first edition of the
Friends of Fairview Newsletter is printed to update members on
happenings at FRS. |
| 2002 |
Friends of Fairview begins work on the parcel of
land directly behind the Halfway House, received from Ben Boldt.
The land is cleared in preparation for Recovery Park, a
recreation area to include a sand volley ball court, horseshoe
pits, a playground and picnic tables. |
| 2002 |
With funding from HUD, OASAS, and Americorps (a
domestic program similar to the Peace Corps), Fairview adds a
Recreation Therapist and 2 Americorps members to the staff. This
allows Fairview to refine and expand the therapeutic recreation
activities available in all programs. Americorps funding allows
Fairview to offer two people per year the opportunity to get
on-the-job training and professional education in the field of
substance abuse treatment. |
| 2003 |
The Agency’s HUD sponsored Men’s
Supported Housing Program is renewed for a second time for an
additional three years for a total of $431,241. |
| 2003 |
Fairview is chosen by the Broome
County Homeless Coalition as the lead agency for the area’s
Homeless Management information System (HMIS) project.
Fairview’s successful application to the US Department of
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) leads to the development and
implementation of the HMIS named ShelterNet. The mission of this
countywide project is to join together the providers of
residential services to the homeless in a common,
state-of-the-art database for the purpose of collection and
analysis of data on homelessness. |
| 2003 |
The first annual Recovery Roundup,
a picnic with a Western theme, is offered in July as a way of
thanks and recognition to agency supporters including the
Friends of Fairview. |
| 2003 |
Through a Drug Court implementation
grant, funding is received that allows for a half-time case
manager to work directly with drug court clients in our
community residences. |
| 2003 |
The MICA
Enhanced Residential program is discontinued for a period of
time when shared staff contracts are cancelled by OMH, however
late in the year we are informed that the program will be
reinstated with the agency receiving OMH funding through the
County. |
| 2004 |
The Agency’s HUD sponsored Women &
Children’s Supported Housing Program is renewed for an
additional three years for a total of $246,000. |
| 2004 |
A successful application to the New
York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (NYS
OTADA) Homeless Housing and Assistance Program (HHAP) provides
funding to renovate the large private residence gifted to
Fairview by Ben Bolt in 2001. This vacant house, located
adjacent to our community residence, will have the capacity to
house six homeless men who are dually diagnosed with both
substance abuse and mental illness in our supportive living
program The residence is named Mannion House after long time
Fairview employee, James Mannion. |
| 2004 |
Fairview receives a minor
maintenance grant from OASAS totaling $149,000. This grant funds
the building of an additional staff office at the Community
Residence kitchen for the Food Service Coordinator, installation
of air conditioning in the client’s dining room, replacement of
carpet and floors at several sites, addition of an emergency
generator and installation of new windows at Merrick House. |
| 2005 |
Fairview,
partnering with the Mental Health Association, is awarded a one
time only grant of $29,623 thorough the Broome County Mental
Health Department to administer an Emergency Shelter Fund to
cover the cost of shelter for people without financial resources
to secure housing. In addition to providing shelter for many
homeless people, the grant allowed for the collection of very
useful data. |
| 2005 |
The HMIS project, ShelterNet, continues to be implemented with
the Addictions Crisis Center going live in July converting most
client records from paper to electronic. A website,
www.shelter-net.org is created and the matching funds
requirement is surpassed with $74,700 in generous donations made
by local foundations. These include The Dr. G. Clifford and
Florence B. Decker Foundation, The Stuart W. and Wilma C. Hoyt
Foundation, The Verizon Foundation, The Unitized Way of Broome
County Venture and Special Assistance Grant Program, The Bernice
Gould Memorial Fund, The Victor and Esther Rozen Foundation, and
The Gannett Foundation. |
| 2006 |
Mannion House, a
renovation project funded by the NYS Office of Temporary and
Disability Homeless Housing and Assistance Program, opens in
November. This OASAS licensed Supportive Living Program,
named after the late James Mannion, serves six homeless men
recovering from both addiction and the mental health issues that
often accompany addiction. |
2007 |
Three HUD sponsored projects are renewed; The Men's Supported
Housing Program for an additional three years for a total of
$431,241, the Homeless Management Information System,
ShelterNet, for an additional three years for a total of
$273,000 and the Shelter Plus Care rent assistance program for
one year for a total of $147,288. |
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