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1997 1997 The Two Bridges Tower at 253 South Street, a residential building containing 138 units for mixed income families and 60 units for the formerly homeless opened. Two Bridges Neighborhood Council and Settlement Housing Fund built the Tower. Hamilton-Madison House has a long term lease for the second and third floors. 1997 In May 1997, a milestone is reached when HMH renowned multilingual, multicultural mental health programs centralized their services. The Chinatown Family Consultation Center, the Chinese Continuing Day Treatment Center, The Southeast Asian Unit, the Japanese Unit, the Smith Consultation Center and the Chinatown Alcoholism Services relocated their clinics to offices on the second and third floors of the new Two Bridges Tower at 253 South Street. Cabrini Hospital sub-leases half of the second floor to operate a women’s health clinic. The Korean Unit continues to operate out of its Queens location where they serve the large concentration of Korean Americans in Queens and citywide. 1997 Hamilton-Madison House’s Head Start and Day Care Centers are centralized. Almost all of the programs in the newly organized Hamilton-Madison House Childcare Center offer services from 8:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. daily. 1997 Geoffrey R. Wiener was honored for fifty years of continuous service to Hamilton-Madison House. Mr. Wiener began as Acting Head Worker (Executive Director) at Hamilton House in 1947 and continued to serve until 1954 when Hamilton House and Madison House merged. He then became the Executive Director of the merged settlement and served until 1963 while also serving on the Board of Directors. He has served since 1963 in various capacities on the HMH Board of Directors. 1997 To meet major changes in immigration policies, Hamilton-Madison House rallied to the challenges. Collaborating with the New York Association for New Americans (NYANA) and the Association of Lower East Side Settlements (ALESS), HMH began a Citizenship Clinic offering bilingual counseling to clients and providing a naturalization program. 1997 Recognizing that computer literacy is as important to survival at work and school as learning language arts skills and learning to speak and write in English, we broke new grounds for the community by establishing a Computer Center at HMH. Both children and adults are offered classes taught by professionals. 1997 In response to urgent social needs of the new tenants of the Two Bridges Tower, Hamilton-Madison House implemented immediate social service programs to help. This quick implementation avoided the conflicts that a lack of educational and recreational resources could easily engender. Concrete services help residents with economic and personal problems.
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