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day and residential care for drug addicted infants

Hale House, as far as is known, is the only program in the United States specifically designed to deal with infants born passively addicted to heroin. Hale House offers the addicted mother the opportunity of placing her child in a drug-free environment during her own participation in a drug rehabilitation program. 

Founded by Mrs. Clara Hale, a widowed mother with three children of her own, in Harlem in 1940, as a home for infants of working or unwed mothers. Hale House saw the graduation from college of all forty-three of the "Hale House members." Hale House now concentrates on children born addicted to drugs. The present maximum number of infants which Hale House can safely accommodate in a family atmosphere is forty-seven; however, due to the demand for service, expansion is planned. 

An infant entering Hale House is introduced to an environment stressing self-reliance and self-identification within the family concept. The child's parents concurrently undergoing drug rehabilitation, are encouraged to visit as often as they are able; for the ultimate goal is to reunite parents and children in a healthy, drug-free family environment. 

Hale House is located in a one-family, five-floor brownstone at 154 West 122nd Street, New York City, and services the entire Central Harlem area, north-south between 145th Street and 110th Street and east-west between Fifth and St. Nicholas Avenues. Facilities at Hale House allow for care of children from infancy to seven years of age, the most important period of physical and emotional development. 

The new Hale House which will be located in a brownstone on W. 122nd Street has been given guidance and help by many but the real story of Hale House is the work of Lorraine and Clara Hale with adopted children and a real friend like Mrs. Hilda E. Stokley, who on meeting the Hales has dedicated her life and efforts to helping the Hales. 

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