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[vc_row el_id=”history” css=”.vc_custom_1650848008307{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”OUR HISTORY” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:40px|text_align:left|color:%23102f40|line_height:46px” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”text-uppercase line-bottom line-bottom-theme-colored1″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1650848033894{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1663709794392{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”2\/5″][vc_single_image image=”18428″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/5″][vc_column_text]The story of SPCC began in 1875 with the plight of a small girl named Mary Ellen who lived with abusive caretakers in New York City. Neighbors of Mary Ellen\u2019s family suspected she was being abused and joined forces to identify an organization to help her. To their amazement, they found none existed. Nonetheless, with commitment and great diligence, they continued their efforts to help Mary Ellen. They eventually gained an audience with a man named Henry Bergh who had become well known for his work to protect animals from cruelty and who had created the first Society for The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Mr. Bergh agreed to help Mary Ellen and in so doing, the first child protection case in our nation\u2019s history began.<\/p>\n

Through Mr. Bergh\u2019s efforts, the first Society for The Prevention of Cruelty to Children was incorporated in New York City. Eventually, the case was brought before the courts where Mary Ellen was found to be an abused child and was removed from her home.<\/p>\n

Original court documents from Mary Ellen\u2019s case indicate that the judge\u2019s intent was to place Mary Ellen in the home of a new family – away from New York City\u2026wherein his words \u2013 Mary Ellen could \u201cgo to charming birthday parties, make mud pies and live where there were plenty of green things growing\u201d. That place was Rochester, New York. So began the SPCC of Rochester – the second oldest SPCC chapter in the world.<\/p>\n

Mary Ellen lived the remainder of her life here in Rochester. She married and had two daughters who also lived out their lives in Rochester. One of Mary Ellen\u2019s daughters, Florence Brasser, was a career schoolteacher whose outstanding work was memorialized by the Gates-Chili School District, who named one of their grammar schools after her. Mary Ellen was the first of thousands of children served by SPCC.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1663709879335{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]SPCC has always been a champion of children\u2019s rights. It was volunteers of our organization that advocated for the creation of the first Children\u2019s Court – now known as Family Court, here in Monroe County. They were the first to provide child protective services and to organize foster care for abused children.<\/p>\n

In 1994, the agency changed its name from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children to the Society for the Protection and Care of Children, and is now known simply as “SPCC”. Currently, SPCC operates 7 programs which together serve over 7,000 individuals a year, including the Finger Lakes WIC program serving clients in Eastern Monroe, Wayne, Ontario, Yates and Seneca counties.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row section_typo=”section-typo-light” content_alignment=”center” full_width=”stretch_row” content_placement=”middle” parallax=”content-moving” parallax_image=”17909″ css=”.vc_custom_1554753713019{padding-top: 60px !important;padding-bottom: 60px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Upcoming Events” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:40px|text_align:left|color:%23102f40|line_height:46px” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”text-uppercase line-bottom line-bottom-theme-colored1″ css=”.vc_custom_1554134391542{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”]\r\n\t

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