1979

• Carolyn McLaughlin joins CAB as executive director.

1984

• CAB’s services are expanded to cover Bedford Park, which experienced an influx of low-income residents and immigrants during the early 1980s.

1985

• CAB is spun off from the Community Council of Greater New York.

1986

• CAB incorporates and receives tax-exempt status.

1988

• CAB establishes one of the city’s first AIDS education and prevention outreach programs.
• Programs for domestic violence victims, homeless assistance, and immigration services are created.

1989

• CAB opens the Avenue St. John office in CD 2 to provide services to previously homeless families relocated to permanent housing.

1990

• CAB establishes a Service for Seniors office to provide minor repair, information and referral, and crime prevention services to Bronx seniors.
• The Townsend Avenue office opens in CD 4 to serve families in the New Settlement Apartments complex.
• CAB opens its first after-school program at the Avenue St. John office.

1991

• CAB establishes two United Way supported dropout prevention programs at Taft High School.
• We assume sponsorship of the Morris Senior Center in Morris Heights.

1992

• CAB joins United Neighborhood Houses (UNH), the umbrella organization for the city’s settlement house system.
• We begin operations of the Homelessness Prevention Program (HPP), the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program, the Nelson Avenue Family Residence, and sponsorship of the E. Roberts Moore Senior Center.

1993

• Discussions for a merger between CAB and the Girls Club of New York begin. CAB assumes responsibility of Girls Club programs for young people and the Girls Club building at 1130 Grand Concourse, which becomes the CAB Community Center. Board members from both organizations agree to form one board in 1994. The merger is finalized in 1995.

1994

• CAB assumes sponsorship of the Heights Senior Center in University Heights.

1995

• CAB assumes sponsorship of the Jackson Avenue Family Residence in Mott Haven.
• We begin operating the Homeless Outreach Team, which works with homeless adults on Bronx streets.
• The Family Childcare Provider Training Program is established.

1996

• CAB assumes responsibility for the management of the United Way of New York’s hotline service. It receives thousands of calls until the service ends in June 2000.

1997

• CAB launches two major programs, the Living Room drop-in center for homeless adults and the Higher Visions youth development program, which uses a model developed by Dr. Michael Carrera of the Children’s Aid Society.

1998

• In collaboration with Seedco/NPAC, CAB launches workforce development initiatives at the Bronx Works job center on the 149th Street Hub.

1999

• CAB launches two new initiatives, the Family Enrichment preventive services program and The After-School Corporation (TASC) funded Express to Success after-school program at PS 130.

2000

• CAB begins outreach campaigns to help individuals with questions regarding managed health care services, including Child Health Plus.

2001

• The Higher Visions youth development program completes its first five-year cycle, with 82 percent of its graduating seniors accepted into college.

2002

• CAB partners with New Visions for Public Schools and the New York City Board of Education to create the Community School for Social Justice.
• The TASC-funded Star Reach after-school program is started at PS 90.

2003

• With the United Way of New York City, CAB begins the Food Card Access Project.
• The Single Stop program begins at the CAB Community Center.
• The HIV Prevention Program for teens is started.
• A Section 8 Eviction Prevention Program is created.

2004

• CAB opens the Early Childhood Learning Center on the first floor of the Community Center.
• HomeBase, major homelessness prevention program targeting Bronx Community Board 1, is launched.
• Bronx Works is selected by Public/Private Ventures to participate in its Workforce Leaders Academy.
• CAB is awarded the contract to operate the East Concourse Senior Center.

2005

• CAB opens the Willow Avenue Family Residence in the Port Morris section of the Bronx.
• A second Single Stop site is established at the Burnside walk-in office.
• The Even Start family literacy program begins operations at the Community Center.
• The Academy for Success after-school program is established at PS 62 in the southeast Bronx.
• CAB partners with the Food Bank for New York City to establish the Kids Café nutrition education program at the Community Center.

2006

• The Community School for Social Justice graduates its first senior class.
• The Even Start Family literacy program is selected by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and United Neighborhood Centers of America for the Family Strengthening Award.
• The New York City Department of Homeless Services begins negotiations with CAB to establish the Intake and Prevention Center for homeless adults.
• The Karen Hagerty Memorial Playground is opened at the Jackson Avenue Family Residence.
• An after-school teen program is established at MS 22.
• The NYC Works program for out of school youth begins operations at the CAB Community Center.

2007

• The New York City Department of Education awards CAB a contract to establish the Jill Chaifetz Transfer School in September.
• With the support of the New York State Music Fund, CAB begins a musician residence program at three elementary schools in collaboration with the Caribbean Cultural Center.
• A Young Adult Internship Program is established at the Bronx Works office.
• English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) services are expanded to include classes at the CAB Community Center and Davidson Community Center.
• A Service Learning school-to-work transition program is established at the Community School for Social Justice.
• IBM donations upgrade the Community Center computer lab.

2008

• CAB partners with Fordham University and the New York City Department of Homeless Services (DHS) to help oversee the Homeless Outreach Population Estimate (HOPE) count in the Bronx.
• As a result of the work of CAB’s Living Room drop-in center and Homeless Outreach Team, the count documents a 52 percent reduction in the borough’s street homeless population since 2006. DHS Commissioner Robert V. Hess cites CAB’s work with the street homeless as “the best in the country” at CAB’s March board meeting.
• Through the collaboration with IBM, participants in CAB’s ESOL and Even Start programs begin the use of Reading Companion software, an online literacy development application for adult English language learners and early learners.
• The Food Bank for New York City approves the establishment of a second Kids’ Café location at CAB’s Willow Avenue Family Residence.

2009

• CAB is named a finalist in the New York Times Company Nonprofit Excellence Awards.
• Citizens Advice Bureau changes its name to BronxWorks.
• BronxWorks moves all of its administrative operations into a new three-story building on East Tremont Avenue.