Monday's dedication was well-attended

NEWBURGH – Twenty-one Grand Street in downtown Newburgh has served the city’s poor, indigent and infirmed since the late 1800s.  In more recent times, the facility has been known as Family Counseling of Occupations, Inc. at Newburgh.

With an extensive remodeling, in large part due to funding from the Kaplan Family Foundations, the facility is now known as The Kaplan Family Center Family Counseling Services.

Occupations’ Executive Vice President and COO Amy Anderson-Winchell told a dedication ceremony Monday that the mission of the facility remains the same.

“Our work here today continues one child, one family, one person at a time,” she said, “Through our mental health treatment and our children welfare services, we continue the commitment that was started decades ago, that is to improve lives and create hope for the future.”

Mayor Nicholas Valentine said the facility fills a need in Newburgh.

“We in city government cannot provide the kind of services that Occupations does so it’s very valuable and it’s certainly very valuable for people who can walk to it.”

Family Counseling of Occupantions provides mental health and child welfare services to more than 1,100 people per year.