1981
The Family School is founded to provide specialized day care services for Urban Family Center pre-school residents. The CCC develops the first onsite nursery for staff children, which is later used as a prototype by corporations for childcare.

	1982
The CCC successfully challenges the New York City Department of Mental Health for one hundred percent funding of its mental health facility, and paves the way for all other settlements' mental health clinics to be one hundred percent funded.

	1983
The CCC develops a transitional treatment model, which successfully moves clients from inpatient psychiatric care to outpatient after care, dramatically decreasing the clinic's recidivism rate to one of the lowest in New York City.

	1984
Florence Samperi, Associate Director of the CCC, delivers her paper "The Adaptation of the Milan Approach in a Publicly Funded Clinic" at the American Association for Marital and Family Therapy in San Francisco, California.

	1985
The Self Help Program is developed to provide peer support for Urban Family Center residents and alumni. Through weekly support groups, parents share resources and assist each other with the transition from temporary to permanent housing. Case aides and former residents also help families adjust to their new communities. Daniel Kronenfeld is appointed Executive Director of the Henry Street Settlement.

	1986
The Shelter Management Training program (now the Center for Training) opens to bring the Urban Family Center's experience with current and formerly homeless families to workers in shelters. In 1991, the program expands to serve managers of public housing facilities. Henry Street Settlement Mail Presort (now Henry Street HandMailers) is created to provide structured work experiences and employment preparation skills for Urban Family Center residents, and to serve as a revenue generating business in order to pay the interns and staff salaries. Three agencies collaborate to provide youth employment services that include work readiness, internship, education, and counseling services in a service named the Lower East Side Action Program. Girls Operation Athlete is created. In the program, at risk urban girls use their athletic abilities to leverage scholarships and receive financial assistance to enter secondary education/college. Henry Street's literacy program is founded, providing classes to 18-25 year olds. The program is later expanded to include all adults. Establishment of the Unlimited Boutique, one of the first supported employment demonstration projects in the state of New York funded by the New York State Office of Mental Health. The American Association for Marital and Family Therapy invites CCC Director Larraine Ahto and CCC Co. Director Florence Samperi present their paper on the Milan Approach with Chronic Young Adults at the Orlando, Florida conference.

	1987
Arts for Family presents theater, dance, music performances, and visual arts workshops for children ages 4-12 and their families on the weekends, and for school groups.  1988 The Senior Companions Program is established. A partnership of Henry Street Settlement and the National Senior Services Corporation of the Corporation for National Service, the program prepares senior volunteers to help frail and isolated elderly clients located throughout the New York City area to maintain independent lives in their own residencies. The CCC's AIDS Clinic starts the first school-based bereavement and support groups for non-infected children of parents who died of AIDS. The CCC's AIDS Clinic brings to national attention the plight of AIDS orphans and develops a unique "Three Generational Clinical Model" in working with the child, HIV infected parent, grandparents and extended family to assure the physical and psychological survivorship of orphaned children within their extended families. This groundbreaking AIDS work is instrumental in influencing AIDS public policy, which leads to the legislative expansion of care and services to families affected by AIDS.  1989 Diana, the Princess of Wales, visits the Urban Family Center during a visit to New York City. The Princess singles out the Center as one of the most effective programs for homeless families. Her visit brings international attention to Henry Street.