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The first meeting for the YWCA is held in Binghamton. Young women were coming into the city to work in the factories, and citizens were alarmed that there were no safe places for them to live. Three town hall meetings were held over a few months.
The Binghamton YWCA begins to convert the Victorian Hotel into facilities for the organization.
YWCA begins to offer classes to women with a focus on physical fitness. The Binghamton YWCA builds the first integrated swimming pool in the area which starts a new era of young children learning to swim.
The YWCA becomes the first national organization to adopt an interracial charter.
The Binghamton/Broome County YWCA helped over 150 young women entering the workforce through the new Federal Training Program called the Job Corps. Over the next few years the Interfaith Shelter and other shelters were opened as well.
The Binghamton YWCA opens the Center for Women Alcoholics and Clear Vision, a halfway house for recovering alcoholic women. This program was expanded to include women recovering from any substance abuse.
A dramatic, two year, tenants-in-place gut renovation was completed that created 54 efficiency apartments for women and children and new, expanded early childhood classrooms.
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