Founded as \u201cJuvenile Assistance of McLean” in 1972, we served young people for more than four decades as \u201cAlternative House.\u201d Our programs grew and changed over the years as we adapted to meet the needs of the young people in our programs. Eventually our name didn\u2019t feel like it fit us anymore, so we decided to refresh. In 2017 we changed our name to \u201cSecond Story.\u201d<\/p>\n
1971<\/strong><\/span> 1972<\/strong><\/span> 1973<\/strong><\/span> 1974<\/strong><\/span> 1975<\/strong><\/span> 1976<\/strong><\/span> 1980<\/strong><\/span> 1984<\/strong><\/span> 1989<\/strong><\/span> 1989<\/strong><\/span> 1990<\/strong><\/span> 1994<\/strong><\/span> 1997<\/strong><\/span> 1998<\/strong><\/span> 1998<\/strong><\/span> 2000<\/strong><\/span> 2001<\/strong><\/span> 2002<\/strong><\/span> 2004<\/strong><\/span> 2006<\/strong><\/span> 2009<\/strong><\/span> 2012<\/strong><\/span> 2013<\/strong><\/span> 2014<\/strong><\/span> 2017<\/strong><\/span> 2022<\/strong><\/span> Founded as \u201cJuvenile Assistance of McLean” in 1972, we served young people for more than four decades as \u201cAlternative House.\u201d Our programs grew and changed over the years as we adapted to meet the needs of the young people in our programs. Eventually our name didn\u2019t feel like it fit us anymore, so we decided […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":1741,"menu_order":94,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"about","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"sidebar-content","footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nlt-tech.org\/2s_30apr24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nlt-tech.org\/2s_30apr24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nlt-tech.org\/2s_30apr24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nlt-tech.org\/2s_30apr24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nlt-tech.org\/2s_30apr24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nlt-tech.org\/2s_30apr24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13344,"href":"https:\/\/nlt-tech.org\/2s_30apr24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1828\/revisions\/13344"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nlt-tech.org\/2s_30apr24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nlt-tech.org\/2s_30apr24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA \u201ccoffee house\u201d project was started on \u201can experimental short-term basis\u201d at McLean Baptist Church, as reported in the 1971 Annual Report for local group SHARE, Inc. This coffee house provided interaction between adults and youth. Youth in crises began interacting with local adults, prompting the adults to seek a way to help them.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cJuvenile Assistance of McLean\u201d starts offering safe housing to teens in a trailer on the grounds of Lewinsville Presbyterian Church, calling it \u201can Alternative House.\u201d Jan Rochelle is the director of Alternative House.<\/p>\n
\nThe annual budget of Alternative House in 1973 is $71,675.<\/p>\n
\nAlternative House was already handling \u201cthousands of emergency telephone calls,\u201d according to the Youth Committee Report in 1974. Joe Fidelli becomes the director of Alternative House.<\/p>\n
\nAlternative House is described as \u201ca three-phased program consisting of preventative counseling, temporary in-house residence, and follow-up\u201d in the SHARE, Inc. newsletter.<\/p>\n
\nNearly 300 youth were served in 1976, and counselors conducted 1,500 individual and 250 family sessions, according to the annual report.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe staff at Alternative House consists of a director, four full-time counselors, a night resident counselor, administrative coordinator, a family counselor, and a volunteer coordinator who supervises 30 volunteers from the local community,\u201d according to an Alternative House brochure.<\/p>\n
\nJuvenile Assistance of McLean formally changes its name to \u201cAlternative House,\u201d its most popular program. The Executive Director is Robb Hasencamp.<\/p>\n
\nJim Warwick becomes the Executive Director of Alternative House.<\/p>\n
\nWhat was then called \u201cthe Emergency Shelter for Teenagers\u201d (now Second Story for Teens in Crisis) moves from its former location at 2009 Gallows Road to its current location at 2100 Gallows Rd, Vienna, Virginia.<\/p>\n
\nAlternative House begins its Street Outreach Program to reach out to young people in crises in Fairfax County, beginning its Community-Based Services program with just three counselors in the Culmore, Springfield, and Route 1 areas offering food, clothing, supplies, counseling, and support.<\/p>\n
\nKaleidoscope, a 90-day residential program for children ages five to 12 who experienced severe abuse, opens its doors. It was an effort to reach children who by their profile and experiences were more likely to come to the Emergency Shelter as they got older.<\/p>\n
\nThe first Transitional Living Program for young people experiencing homelessness, 16 to 21 years old, opens.<\/p>\n
\nJudith Dittman becomes the Executive Director of Alternative House.<\/p>\n
\nAlternative House expands its Community-Based programs by opening the Culmore Teen Center to provide recreational and educational services to young people in the 7th through 12th grade.<\/p>\n
\nThe first Transitional Living Program closes due to a loss of funding.<\/p>\n
\nHome Aid is established in Northern Virginia by the Northern Virginia Building Industry Association. Their first project is a major renovation of Alternative House\u2019s Emergency Shelter for Teenagers. Home Aid completely remodeled the interior of the home which was deteriorating after 20 years of hard use. They also doubled the square footage of the house and added a basement to store needed supplies. Following the renovation we were able to house two young people in each a room instead of four youth in each small bedroom.<\/p>\n
\nAlternative House opens a new transitional living program, Assisting Young Mothers (now Second Story for Young Mothers), and begins providing safe havens, support, and services to pregnant and parenting young women, ages 16-24, experiencing homelessness.<\/p>\n
\nThe Culmore Safe Youth Project opens to provide drop-in after-school services to youth in grades four to six.<\/p>\n
\nThe Annandale Safe Youth Project opens to provide drop-in after-school services to youth in grades four to six.<\/p>\n
\nThe Homeless Youth Initiative (now part of Second Story for Homeless Youth) opens in partnership with Fairfax County Public Schools to help homeless high school students who are without the support of a parent or guardian.<\/p>\n
\nThe second Transitional Living Program opens in 2012, expanding the Homeless Youth Initiative so that young people ages 18-22 can get the support they need to walk the path to productive adulthood.<\/p>\n
\nCulmore and Springfield Neighborhood Initiatives contracts awarded, expanding the services available to families and communities in Culmore and Springfield.<\/p>\n
\nSpringfield Safe Youth Project opens to provide drop-in after-school services to youth in grades four to six.<\/p>\n
\nAlternative House changes its name to \u201cSecond Story\u201d and begins writing a new narrative to expand upon its mission of serving youth in need.<\/p>\n
\nSecond Story celebrates 50 years of second stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"