The toll-free service also can supply locations or numbers of referral agencies. At first light of the 21st Century, the madding pace of progress continues. It still leaves in its wake the shells of the homeless, the addicted, the abused, the disabled, the despairing. Times and people change. Buildings crumble and are replaced.
Programs grow and expand.
Politicians and governments vanish. Even the climate warms. The ice caps, we are told, melt. Americans will see a new encompassing title for many of the programs developed in the last half of the century Girls and Boys Town. It embraces the deeper and expanded role that represents what once was simply Father Flanagan s Boys Home.